Thanks Chris - I intend to. I first saw one of these as a built-up model (by Don Thompson, I believe) at the 1982 NASG convention and ordered six of them on the basis of that car.
Someone once made the comment that they were an accurate prototype of nothing. Far be it from me to argue that point, but that car looked good, as well as plausible, to me, as do the models I've seen here. With the exception of Don's Trainstuff boxcars (I have, or had, three), there was nothing that even resembled a common 40-ft. boxcar out there, and I was glad to get them. There was a time when manufacturers seemed to have an abnormal affinity for the unusual and weird, but wouldn't consider commonly seen rolling stock that could sell over and over again. S went from the "reefer" scale to the "one of everything unusual, prototype or not" scale, unless you were a craftsman builder, until American Models finally released its RTR FP-7 and 40-ft. boxcar. Bob Nicholson _____________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "JCR" <vannessco@...> wrote: > > > > Just posted pix of a Buffalo Creek boxcar built with a LWS kit in Rooney bin > of Files section. > > More than one of you said it best: "that is all we had then" and from a > vantage point thirty years later we didn't do too bad (working door tracks > and HO decals excepted in this case.) Jan was experimenting with this hand > cranked injection molding machine and the quality and shrinkage were an > issue. Somewhere along he decided to throw in HO brake gear as "close > enough". That's how you can tell it was LWS. > > Enjoy those un-built kits someday! > > J. Chris Rooney > > Vannessco@... > > > > > > [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/
