From: Alan Lambert Tom, Thanks for that info. This has been my way to promote the car. Now we know the the Sal car was just about everywhere.Being in Fort Worth, Texas, I only saw MP now Union Pacific, but never paid attention to cars, Juat the big engines. Thanks, Alan
--- On Tue, 4/19/11, Thomas Baker <[email protected]> wrote: From: Thomas Baker <[email protected]> Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} Re: (ADDENDUM) on the SAL Boxcar To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 4:00 AM Certainly, they got on the ATSF. During the Fifties when I rode the CGW between Minneapolis and Marshalltown and return, I saw them in the consist of CGW; freights that our passenger train met. On the CGW all northbound traffic was superior to southbound traffic, and so the passenger train took the siding for freights. As a ninth grader I got out of the train with the conductor and brakeman to watch the freight go by and saw those SAL turtleback cars in the cnsists. Anyone who models the Fifties and Sixties can assume that an SAL turtleback showed up in a freight on almost any road one could mention. The cars did not stick around the SAL nor were they limited to service on southeastern lines. Tom ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Pieter [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Re: (ADDENDUM) on the SAL Boxcar Hi Alan; Only Seaboard OWNED these cars, but it is a safe bet that they RAN on Sante Fe rails in the 1940s and 1950s. Unless you model a dead end branch line that only shipped and recieved locally, this car is valid on any layout of the period (Standard gauge, naturally). The wonders of interchange! Pieter Sent from my iPhone On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Alan Lambert <[email protected]> wrote: From: Alan Lambert Lone Star Flyer Club Arlington, Texas To all, The thing we are missing is what era and what railroads had the car in question. How many model that specific time frame and railroad. I model the Santa Fe Transition between steam and diesel. See what I mean. Now are there enough of us to justify this car(SAL). --- On Mon, 4/18/11, JOHN E. HENNING <[email protected]> wrote: From: JOHN E. HENNING <[email protected]> Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: (ADDENDUM) on the SAL Boxcar To: [email protected] Date: Monday, April 18, 2011, 12:42 PM Peiter, With our current Yahoo Group membership, we only need 8.8% to speak up and we have enough. Kinda throws the 80/20 rule out the window. Even the NOSS club has not more than 5 people on the list or subsribe to the Dispatch. So how many clubs across the US have that low of a percentage of Yahoo Group participants? Thereby limiting the advertisement. I'll have to see if we can get the SAL car listed in our newsletter, which only goes out to about 45 people. -- John --- In [email protected], Pieter Roos <pieter_roos@...> wrote: The KEY thing to focus on is that if Jim doesn't get the minimum 80 orders within the next two months (minus a few days now), there will be NO car to worry about converting to scale or hi-rail! If you really want this car, you all really need to talk it up to your friends who are not on the list. Why we can't get even 10% of the members to buy into anything remains somewhat of a mystery. Pieter E. Roos --- On Sun, 4/17/11, Michael <meldridge@...> wrote: Just a thought - depending on how the scale kit is constructed, it might be a simple matter for someone other than SMMW to make a replacement part for the floor, with clearance for AF flanges and swivel. It wouldn't need a lot of detail. Not sure about coupler clearance on the end. Easy first time urethane casting project for someone. It would be like Ace bolsters in reverse. -Michael Eldridge [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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: [email protected] [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/
