Dave, Pieter had posted a series of links a few days ago to several RR's boxcars--the Soo line being one (maybe had something to do with the SAL car's many discussions). I had seen the photo before and liked the effect. I won't scrape off the clean lading (grain service) sign, just perhaps weather it a bit more and then apply the hide service decal to show the recycling of the car's purpose (once they went into hide service, they never left). In small towns normally junk dealers and many of the grain elevators would purchase hides to be shipped to a tannery.
Your's truly and another renegade friend, made a dollar or two by trapping gophers. Collecting the tails and getting 2-3 cents each wasn't a way to a college fund but it did buy a bottle of Orange Crush assuming you got at least five tails in an afternoon. Obviously the bounty for fox, mink, badger and rabbit was considerably more productive--but not for a 9 year old kid. My local town had two 'slaughter houses' which were just old barns a short ways out of town. Two competing grocery stores owned them to provide locally raised meats to the community. The hides were bundled and stacked outside of the building during the winter. I don't think the local economy would have provided for boxcar loadings of hides, but larger situations surely did. I'm not certain how the bones were handled. Bob Werre PhotoTraxx.com > > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, Bob > Werre <bob@...> wrote: > > Thanks Pieter, but I really wasn't trying to duplicate the car so > >much but just the weathering. > > I would like to find a decal > > indicating the car had been designated for hide loading. Just imagine > > the smell of a car load of hides in the summer heat on some siding in > > North Dakota waiting for a local to pick it up. > > Haha, probably should scrape off that clean loading only lettering then? > The weathering looks great, do you have a photo of the prototype that > you were trying to copy posted somewhere so we can see what it looked like > I'll look thru my decals and see if any have hide loading only > lettering, can't recall seeing it offhand though....dave > > [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/
