shortliner Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 Plain & Simple (sounds like a good name for a switching plank! - sorry - getting coat!) http://www.the-gauge...tart=105#p81419 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Good isn't it. The "real" LATR was abandoned many years ago - a short history here:http://mraltadena.com/altadena%20history/alta_rr.html Β Its yet another excuse for a might have been (I think Americans call it proto-freelancing) in the LA basin. I'm quite tempted to pinch Kurts livery and apply it to the NS MP15DC and SD38 I have up in the loft - what's holding me back is the worry that LA lines would all be running Gensets* by now. But maybe not? Β *Of couse, this might be an excuse for a Genset in LATR black too. Might look like this:http://railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id=373942&nseq=0 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prof Klyzlr Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 *Of couse, this might be an excuse for a Genset in LATR black too. Might look like this:http://railpictures....d=373942&nseq=0 Β Dear RMwebbers, Β Between this and some of the recent proto pics from Dr G-F, anyone feel a hankering for a 'nook that plays host to a switcher or 2, and a string of 4 - 6 89' autoracks? Β Happy Modelling, Aim to Improve, Prof Klyzlr Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Oh yes. I have three such autoracks, and no sane reason to run them. Not sure how to compress an auto terminal, but they are handsome. Β I've often wondered if it would be possible to do one in etched brass, to get the "transparent" effect when they're empty. Β Over to Prof and Shortliner, plan away! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigZ Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Oh yes. I have three such autoracks, and no sane reason to run them. Not sure how to compress an auto terminal, but they are handsome. Β I've often wondered if it would be possible to do one in etched brass, to get the "transparent" effect when they're empty. Β Over to Prof and Shortliner, plan away! Β Etched, you say? Β http://www.planomodelproducts.com/autorack_scq.html Β *whistles innocently* Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted September 11, 2011 Author Share Posted September 11, 2011 Craig, You are an EVIL, man! Fortunately I don't have any! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Oh you bad bad man! <big grin> Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 You see the photos/reports at Plano of the guy who drilled 12,000 holes in one AutoRack car (Walthers) to achieve the see thru look just before Plano came out with their perforated sides? You can now visit him at the local State Institution. Β Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Gwinnett Posted September 12, 2011 Share Posted September 12, 2011 Yeah - one of those ideas I contemplated for about 2 minutes before remembering I do have a life. Well done to him for sticking to it though, if he hadn't the law of sod wouldn't have happened and Plano wouldn't have released theirs Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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