Post by wagnersteve on Jan 9, 2024 14:59:57 GMT -8
1/9/24, starting about 4:54 p.m., EST
These reached my email at 4:30. I haven't had time to check other sources to see if any car numbers match those of real cars. I'll just summarize with a very few comments.
Two runs of Walthers Mainline series models were announced as already in stock.
One is of models based on the "53' General Steel Castings (GSC) piggyback service flatcar", listed at $34.98 each. Each has a die cast metal body, simulated wood decks, a factory-installed trailer hitch, rub rails and bridge plates, turned metal 33" RP-25 heel sets and Proto MAX (TM) magnetic knuckle couplers. Except for the SP cars, they have the sort of piggyback hitch that became more or less standard by the late 1950s.
Listed here with the apparently oldest paint scheme first, all with black truck side frames, the models are:
Great Northern: very dark red with white sans serif lettering including road name in all caps with the intitals larger, GN 60205, 60213, 60222, "T 5-53".
Southern Pacific: older style hitch with no horizontal plate with a hole in it, probably boxcar red with white lettering including full road name in Roman caps instead of reporting marks, cars 142770, 142788, 142796, shopped 10-54.
Trailer Train: very dark red with white graphics except yellow italic TT, car numbers beginning with 475 and ending with 090, 106, 130, 150, 160 and 24, NEW 10-58.
Milwaukee Road: probably boxcar red, with white graphics including Roman MILW reporting marks and matching car numbers, small tilted rectangular herald, cars 57359, 57369, 57362, shopped 10-63.
Canadian Pacific: black with white sans serif lettering, CP 505972, 505980, 505996, NEW 1-66.
The other run is of AAR 1938 design boxcars as modernized to meet later safety standards, with no running boards or supports for them on the diagonal panel roof, high ladders only near the high mounted Ajax brake wheel. Their inside height is 10'8"; they have "10 panel" riveted sides, each with a single Youngstown door 6' wide, improved Dreadnaught 4-4 ennds with rectangular top rib, black Bettendorf trucks and the same kind of wheelsets and couplers as the flatcars. I could read a shop date on only two of the photos of models. Walthers says they were in service I'll list them alphabetically. Each decorated car lists for $31.98; an undecoratred version is $29.98.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: dark boxcar with mostly white lettering, including large Burlington in sans serif caps and lower case left of the door as viewed head on, black & white Burlington Road herlad at right, cars 60000, 60875, 61180, seemingly shopped at Havelock 2-56 or 2-57 -- not readily legible.
Linde: white car with black graphics including, from left to right along the side, horizontally strethed hexagon, with points at top and bottom, UNION CARBIDE in sans serif on it, GAS PRODUCTS in condensed sans serif, LINDE in larger sans serif above LIQUEFIED GASES in smaller condensed sans serif, above a black stripe across the whole side including the door, below that smaller sans serif UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION above LINDE DIVISION. I've never seen this livery and suspect it's newer than the green ones with white. LAPX 2014, 2050, 2052.
Louisville, New Albany & Corydon: Dark blue car with mostly white graphics, in a paint schemne I remember from the 1970s and perhpas 1980s.. LNAC in white italic caps with the L taller with white stripes above the three other letters and under all four, all edged in red, immediately left of much smaller italic road name, above LNAC reporting marks. Small US outline map with illegible lettering low left of door. LNAC 10208, 10209, 10254, shopped WA 3-76.
Santa Fe: very dark red with white graphics including huge circle/cross herald left of the door and large stylized Santa Fe in capitals and lower case with serifs, ATSF reporting marks in Roman with similar numbers 141771, 143829, 144139.
Union Pacific: very dark red car with mostly white lettering: big UNION PACIFIC in sans serif above smaller reporting marks; SHIP & TRAVEL THE AUTOMATED RAIL WAY in smaller sans serif right of the door and left of red, white & blue UNION PACIFIC shield heals, clas B-50-53, cars 107070, 107272, 107448.
United Parcel Service: brown (naturally) with mostly white lettering except big yellow-gold UPS shield herald right of the door. Marked as Plate C, which clearly doesn't match the scale dimensions of the model. And I've never heard of a UPS boxcar. USPX 102512, 102527, 102534. I will be astounded if this turns out to be realistic.
It's now 5:56 p.m. I need to turn to some household duties, includidng fixing myself some supper. When I get the chance I'll report on a run of Walthers Prot o models of EMD FP7's in A and B sets and single A units for CP Rail, C&O, SOO and Southern Pacific with an ETA of Summer 2024, unless someone else does first.
These reached my email at 4:30. I haven't had time to check other sources to see if any car numbers match those of real cars. I'll just summarize with a very few comments.
Two runs of Walthers Mainline series models were announced as already in stock.
One is of models based on the "53' General Steel Castings (GSC) piggyback service flatcar", listed at $34.98 each. Each has a die cast metal body, simulated wood decks, a factory-installed trailer hitch, rub rails and bridge plates, turned metal 33" RP-25 heel sets and Proto MAX (TM) magnetic knuckle couplers. Except for the SP cars, they have the sort of piggyback hitch that became more or less standard by the late 1950s.
Listed here with the apparently oldest paint scheme first, all with black truck side frames, the models are:
Great Northern: very dark red with white sans serif lettering including road name in all caps with the intitals larger, GN 60205, 60213, 60222, "T 5-53".
Southern Pacific: older style hitch with no horizontal plate with a hole in it, probably boxcar red with white lettering including full road name in Roman caps instead of reporting marks, cars 142770, 142788, 142796, shopped 10-54.
Trailer Train: very dark red with white graphics except yellow italic TT, car numbers beginning with 475 and ending with 090, 106, 130, 150, 160 and 24, NEW 10-58.
Milwaukee Road: probably boxcar red, with white graphics including Roman MILW reporting marks and matching car numbers, small tilted rectangular herald, cars 57359, 57369, 57362, shopped 10-63.
Canadian Pacific: black with white sans serif lettering, CP 505972, 505980, 505996, NEW 1-66.
The other run is of AAR 1938 design boxcars as modernized to meet later safety standards, with no running boards or supports for them on the diagonal panel roof, high ladders only near the high mounted Ajax brake wheel. Their inside height is 10'8"; they have "10 panel" riveted sides, each with a single Youngstown door 6' wide, improved Dreadnaught 4-4 ennds with rectangular top rib, black Bettendorf trucks and the same kind of wheelsets and couplers as the flatcars. I could read a shop date on only two of the photos of models. Walthers says they were in service I'll list them alphabetically. Each decorated car lists for $31.98; an undecoratred version is $29.98.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy: dark boxcar with mostly white lettering, including large Burlington in sans serif caps and lower case left of the door as viewed head on, black & white Burlington Road herlad at right, cars 60000, 60875, 61180, seemingly shopped at Havelock 2-56 or 2-57 -- not readily legible.
Linde: white car with black graphics including, from left to right along the side, horizontally strethed hexagon, with points at top and bottom, UNION CARBIDE in sans serif on it, GAS PRODUCTS in condensed sans serif, LINDE in larger sans serif above LIQUEFIED GASES in smaller condensed sans serif, above a black stripe across the whole side including the door, below that smaller sans serif UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION above LINDE DIVISION. I've never seen this livery and suspect it's newer than the green ones with white. LAPX 2014, 2050, 2052.
Louisville, New Albany & Corydon: Dark blue car with mostly white graphics, in a paint schemne I remember from the 1970s and perhpas 1980s.. LNAC in white italic caps with the L taller with white stripes above the three other letters and under all four, all edged in red, immediately left of much smaller italic road name, above LNAC reporting marks. Small US outline map with illegible lettering low left of door. LNAC 10208, 10209, 10254, shopped WA 3-76.
Santa Fe: very dark red with white graphics including huge circle/cross herald left of the door and large stylized Santa Fe in capitals and lower case with serifs, ATSF reporting marks in Roman with similar numbers 141771, 143829, 144139.
Union Pacific: very dark red car with mostly white lettering: big UNION PACIFIC in sans serif above smaller reporting marks; SHIP & TRAVEL THE AUTOMATED RAIL WAY in smaller sans serif right of the door and left of red, white & blue UNION PACIFIC shield heals, clas B-50-53, cars 107070, 107272, 107448.
United Parcel Service: brown (naturally) with mostly white lettering except big yellow-gold UPS shield herald right of the door. Marked as Plate C, which clearly doesn't match the scale dimensions of the model. And I've never heard of a UPS boxcar. USPX 102512, 102527, 102534. I will be astounded if this turns out to be realistic.
It's now 5:56 p.m. I need to turn to some household duties, includidng fixing myself some supper. When I get the chance I'll report on a run of Walthers Prot o models of EMD FP7's in A and B sets and single A units for CP Rail, C&O, SOO and Southern Pacific with an ETA of Summer 2024, unless someone else does first.
Would be great to see a replica of the Linde cars in model form, Green and white schemes. But it won't be from Walthers, not their target market and price range. Nice stand-in for the non- prototypical model railroaders.