Post by wagnersteve on Oct 26, 2024 3:49:06 GMT -8
10/26/2024, starting about 7:13 a.m., EDT
The firm posted its Newsletter Vol. 193 October 11. But a few minutes ago the link in it to a "catalog" for its forthcoming 40' AAR 1937 boxcars in many variations still wasn't working, and following to the link for ordering them, as well as its website, still show only one car number each instead of six for these four paint schemes: Lancaster & Chester, Florida East Coast, Northern Pacific and Ontario Northern. I find this frustrating.
I do already have less detailed boxcars in all four of these liveries.
Here's a true story that might provide some amusement. After my Dad finally learned to drive and bought a used car in 1960, we would sometimes go to a woodsy place along the right bank of the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County a little upstream from Philadelphia where we could watch trains on a nearby track probably belonging to the Pennsy -- or possibly the Reading. These were mixed freight trains with cars lettered for several lines I had never heard of, including coal hoppers from the Montour and the Cambria & Indiana -- the Indiana referred to a county in central Pennsylvania. When I saw a blue and gray Lancaster & Chester boxcar, I thought that railroad was probably also named for counties west of Philly.
I learned later that it was -- and is -- a short line in South Carolina. For decades it was owned by the Springs Cotton Mills, which produced, among other things, Springmaid sheets and women's undergarments. I saw its humorous ads in the man's magazine True, which one of my uncles got. They were considered rather raunchy then and would certainly be severely criticized today for sexism and various kinds of derogatory stereotypes. They had been created for many years, not by an advertising agent but by the company's owner; many can easily been found on line. One of them was probably my first encounter with a version of the classic humorous poem and song "Abdul Abulbul Amir". See the Wikipedia article of that title for its history, dating back to 1877; the song was a hit in the Twenties. It's about a fight between the Turkish title character and the Russian cossack Ivan Skavinsky Skavar, after the former tells the latter, "Vile infidel, know / you have trod on the toe / of Abdul Abulbul Amir!" In the ad, the second of those lines is "you have sullied [or, possibly, stepped on] the sheet".
The firm posted its Newsletter Vol. 193 October 11. But a few minutes ago the link in it to a "catalog" for its forthcoming 40' AAR 1937 boxcars in many variations still wasn't working, and following to the link for ordering them, as well as its website, still show only one car number each instead of six for these four paint schemes: Lancaster & Chester, Florida East Coast, Northern Pacific and Ontario Northern. I find this frustrating.
I do already have less detailed boxcars in all four of these liveries.
Here's a true story that might provide some amusement. After my Dad finally learned to drive and bought a used car in 1960, we would sometimes go to a woodsy place along the right bank of the Schuylkill River in Montgomery County a little upstream from Philadelphia where we could watch trains on a nearby track probably belonging to the Pennsy -- or possibly the Reading. These were mixed freight trains with cars lettered for several lines I had never heard of, including coal hoppers from the Montour and the Cambria & Indiana -- the Indiana referred to a county in central Pennsylvania. When I saw a blue and gray Lancaster & Chester boxcar, I thought that railroad was probably also named for counties west of Philly.
I learned later that it was -- and is -- a short line in South Carolina. For decades it was owned by the Springs Cotton Mills, which produced, among other things, Springmaid sheets and women's undergarments. I saw its humorous ads in the man's magazine True, which one of my uncles got. They were considered rather raunchy then and would certainly be severely criticized today for sexism and various kinds of derogatory stereotypes. They had been created for many years, not by an advertising agent but by the company's owner; many can easily been found on line. One of them was probably my first encounter with a version of the classic humorous poem and song "Abdul Abulbul Amir". See the Wikipedia article of that title for its history, dating back to 1877; the song was a hit in the Twenties. It's about a fight between the Turkish title character and the Russian cossack Ivan Skavinsky Skavar, after the former tells the latter, "Vile infidel, know / you have trod on the toe / of Abdul Abulbul Amir!" In the ad, the second of those lines is "you have sullied [or, possibly, stepped on] the sheet".
