--- In [email protected], Talmadge C 'TC' Carr <group_l...@...> wrote: > > My olllldddd sore is the song and dance that ALL REAL PSNGR CARS ARE > 85 FOOT LONG. > NOT TRUE!!! > Sorry for yelling but I know about the prototypes for the AM cars. > BUT; that does not mean that all cars were 85 feet long and anything > shorter is not "full length". It might not be, BUT it just might be. > The AM cars are a case of the High-Rail Market being larger than the > Scale Market. > > On Dec 24, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Richard Karnes wrote: > > > TC et al -- > > > > You have opened an old sore; I cannot remain silent. The specific > > prototypes for the AM Budd cars are the 85-foot Empire State Express > > (NYC) cars, built in 1941. Except that AM made them too short by > > over two inches. There is no 72-foot prototype for these cars. In > > fact, no other road had copies of these cars. > > > > Dick Karnes > > Talmadge C 'TC' Carr > Sn42 and Hn42 somewhere in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest > group_l...@... >
None the less, the AM Budds are nice cars. And they don't look too bad on curves to those of us not blessed with large radius curves: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S- Scale/photos/album/1126764727/pic/1754980814/view? picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S- Scale/photos/album/1126764727/pic/1140283602/view? picmode=large&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc I've been enjoying my AM Budds for years. My only wish is that AM would've done a vista-dome. Rich G. ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
