This is going to be a little ramble that ends up being about the PRS Covered hopper. My dates and time line may not be completely correct but no names have been changed..
I wound up being a part of a private somewhat impromptu layout tour during the 1991 Syracuse convention. It was me Tall Paul and his son that was about 12 at the time, Billy & Danny Click who was a yeean as well, and Roy Pinch (who I think I can correctly say is the Late Roy Pinch) The man's name was Bob I think. He have a good sized Chevy window van. He drove us around God's country rural New York for about 8 hours to various train related places and some layouts. Roy Pinch talked **constantly**. We were all very happy later in the day when he fell asleep. The first stop was East Syracuse Station. There was a private business car on the siding. Ironically the owner was there and let us in for a look. After we "stayed our welcome" I was stuck being the last one out - behind Roy. Roy was truly bent on playing some kind of tune on the man's diner chime. I looked at him as did the owner in complete shock and told him to put it back in the rack. I could not get out of there fast enough. If you will remember Walt Danylak was an investor in the PRS covered hopper. He got the first batches to sell. He had undec cars at 1990 Pittsburgh to sell but no lettered cars. One of the stops on our 1991 tour was an American Flyer layout. Sitting off to the side was a New York Central PRS covered hopper. It was the first I had seen or even heard about that was sold as lettered. Unfortunately for this car the owner suffered from a **severe** lack of glue control using liquid cement to assemble it. The lettering was in literal streaks running top to bottom down the sides of the car almost making the NYC Oval look like a Keystone! Further it has American Flyer passenger car trucks on it with truck spacers about 3/8" long made from copper tubing putting the car towering over its proper ride height. Since Danny, Billy and I were the only "scale" guys on the tour we were considering on "rescuing" this poor mistreated car. We were pretty much bored to tears at this point anyway so we may have stared at the car in disbelieve - maybe a little too long. The owner looked over at us, standing in a semi-circle possibly gawking. Out of the blue he broke us up by saying "That is one of them new hopper cars from Walt Danylak. Do you have any yet?" Danny said "No, how do you like it? He said, "It's a nice car, but it really doesn't run very good!" it took every ounce of our being to not laugh at that moment. I told you it would be a story about the PRS Covered hopper! Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: <http://www.lanestrains.com/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! <http://www.prrths.com/> http://www.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL [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/
