I am replying to Tom's email a second time. Earlier I was puzzled when he commented his appreciation for shepherding this car through the required procedures. Only at dinner tonight that I realized I had not explained the context of part of my earlier email. I had nothing at all to do with the shepherding of the NC&StL boxcar through procedures to make it the NASG Convention car. After this car was announced, there were a some scalers of the rivet-counting variety (no criticism intended) who were questioning the choice of the model in the photo. I think this is because the photo of the convention car is only a representation of the car that will be produced, and I think it was an HO model. I do not know enough about freight cars to have been of any help other than being a liasson with my friend Steve Johnson here in Nashville. Steve is one of the most knowledgeable persons around about rolling stock of the L&N, Tennessee Central, and NC&StL. I did help forward questions to Steve Johsno and his replies, but that is all. And I learned that the scalers involved in this discussion, upon understanding that the convention car would be from American Models, agreed that this was the best choice available for this particular model. I apologize for not explaiining the context of my earlier comments that unintentionally gave the impression that I had anything to do with the NC&StL car being the convention car. But I sure am glad that Dave Blum and others accomplished that. They deserve the credit. - Earl Henry In a message dated 4/13/2012 2:56:49 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
____________________________________ Earl, Thanks for the speedy reply. Well, I definitely agree that the car looks great in that paint scheme, and it is the only car you could come up with in the current context of the S-scale market that is tied to China. So I appreciate your efforts in shepherding this car through the required procedures. By the way, thank you for checking on the consist of Southern Railway's "Tennessean" when it had that CGW Pullman club lounge and operated for a few months on the SR in CGW livery. Too bad no one can recall seeing the train that way or photographing the car which had to stand out in contrast to silver streamlined coaches and Pullmans of the train. I believe the "Tennessean" also had the Southern ALCO PA-3
