If you want one of these models made why don't you take some of your money and have molds made and produce it. People like you always want to spend other peoples money. So put up or shut up. If people were interested in your ideas they would have gone to your web page and because they didn't you are trying to ram it down their throats. Thank you Larry Jackman Boca Raton FL [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was born with nothing and I have most of it left
On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:47 AM, John Degnan wrote: > I'm sure you didn't... but I'm positive I could care less about > ANYTHING you have to say... JACK. > > > John Degnan > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > We have the LEGAL right to say anything we choose to in this country, > But we have the MORAL responsibility not to say some of those things. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: John Degnan > Cc: [email protected] ; ctxmf74 > Sent: July 14, 2007 9:32 AM > Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Evans Auto Rack WEB SITE REVISITED!!! > > Maybe the most of us did not want to read what you posted on your web > site.8>) > Thank you > Larry Jackman > Boca Raton FL > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I was born with nothing and > I have most of it left > > > > > On Jul 14, 2007, at 11:20 AM, John Degnan wrote: > > > O.k, folks... since so few of you have apparently taken time to > > either visit the web page I built for this project or actually > > bothered to READ what I wrote on the page, I'll reproduce it here > > so that MAYBE everyone can see my reasoning for picking this > > "shorty" auto-carrier as the project car... > > > > "QUOTE" > > Along about the year 1954 the New York Central Railroad converted > > one of its 53' 6" flat cars (possibly a GSC flat car) into an open- > > side auto carrier capable of carrying 6 automobiles. The > > conversion utilized a modified version of the "Auto-Loader" rack > > system built by the Evans Products Co. which was typically used > > inside of boxcars. The main problem with the Evans rack inside box > > cars was the slow process of loading each boxcar individually since > > the ramps inside every boxcar had to be lowered and raised to get > > the cars onto the top row. This auto-carrier solved that problem > > by having open sides for drive-on loading and open ends with drop- > > ends that enabled ALL of the connected carriers to be loaded by > > lowering the ramp on only the end car in a string, much the same > > way it is done today with modern cars. > > > > Unfortunately, and for whatever reason, the NYC apparently wasn't > > sold on the idea, and only ONE of these cars was built. The Union > > Pacific Railroad had some similar cars, but they were not the same > > as the NYC car. > > > > S-Helper Service already offers a GSC 53' 6" flat car that is IDEAL > > (bordering on PERFECT) for a model of this car. I have not been > > able to verify if the NYC car that was used in this conversion was > > a GSC flat, but it was the exact same length and had a very similar > > side and overhead profile. I have talked with Don at SHS about > > offering their GSC flat car with this Evans rack as an add on part, > > but he believes there would not be enough interest in such a car to > > justify production of just the rack system to go with the already- > > existing flat car model. So I have thrown this web page together > > to try and determine if, indeed there is enough interest in it to > > see it done. Since the SHS flat would be the base model for the > > auto-rack, the model would be compatible with BOTH HI-RAIL and > > SCALE track and models. > > > > So my fellow S scalers... this is where you come in. If you would > > like to see a model of this car done, all you have to do is contact > > Don at SHS and let him know that you'd like one... or two, or five > > or MORE! Yes, only ONE prototype of this car was ever built, but > > unless you're a prototype modeler, there is no reason this should > > prevent us from having more than one model of the car. I am, in > > fact, a prototype modeler, and a SCALE ONLY modeler, but since I > > have decided to model a fictitious road in freelance fashion, if a > > model of this car gets produced, I would just pretend that my > > fictitious road had a fleet of them. > > > > Check out the following photos and concept/patent drawings of this > > car : > > > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoLoaderArticle > > (Small).jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoLoader.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack00.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack01.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack02.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack03.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack04.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack05.jpg > > http://www.trainweb.org/seaboard/EVANS/EvansAutoRack06.jpg > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > > > > Yahoo! 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