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Post by trainboyy on Sept 25, 2021 16:08:42 GMT -8
Amen to the main points of Ryan H's most recent posting as fr8kar! I was amused to follow a link in another post and learn from the Japanese artist who designed the old Mitsui OSK Lines logo that the container-hefting reptile he designed was indeed supposed to be an alligator. Since that. kind of beast is strictly a "New World" creature, while crocodiles also live in Asia, I had wrongly assumed that it was probably a croc! I believe the word alligator derives from the Spanish el logardo (the lizard). Correction: Wikipedia says that there is also a Chinese alligator that may have inspired the mythical Chinese dragon! I hadn't heard of it before, and I'm 75 years old! Can't deny that's some really interesting info; I've always assumed the "MOL-ligator" was an alligator, never a croc.  I found the graphic for him a couple months ago, unsure where I found it. Certainly my favorite container company logo, by far. Can't think of many other companies that actually have mascots, apart from maybe the COSCO panda bear they have on their reefers, and the banana mascot for Dole Foods' reefer containers, though I've never seen those.  Cosco's panda mascot ^  Dole 40' reefer with "Bobby Banana" character ^ |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Sept 25, 2021 16:13:14 GMT -8
...the only thing harder than buying the models is finding prototype pics of the chassis from that era. In September of 1976, I did 5 shots of a couple of empty 40' chassis. I'll post them when the container topic starts up. Could be useful. Ed |
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Post by fr8kar on Sept 25, 2021 16:44:03 GMT -8
...the only thing harder than buying the models is finding prototype pics of the chassis from that era. Dole 40' reefer with "Bobby Banana" character ^ Speaking of container chassis, I have always had a soft spot for those chassis with the attached gensets used frequently with Dole containers as pictured here. I don't know what it would take to model one, but it seems like a pretty simple design from the side. The suspension appears to be a Fruehauf style leaf spring so that should be easy to borrow from the Athearn Z van suspension and the layout of the frame could be copied from an Athearn or American Limited chassis. I don't have any info on the genset itself unfortunately. And of course the container itself doesn't look like the reefer models out there in HO scale. But I think with a little artistic license you could get in the ballpark. |
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Post by trainboyy on Sept 25, 2021 17:02:33 GMT -8
Could buy an Athearn smooth-side container and replace the entire end?  |
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Post by ChessieFan1978 on Sept 25, 2021 18:13:53 GMT -8
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Post by lvrr325 on Sept 25, 2021 19:41:34 GMT -8
6:26 a.m., EDT Athearn got the PDF pages of their latest new product announcements up nice and early this morning. Probably eagerness to do so caused two mistakes in spelling Pennsylvania in the one for the Genesis series GP7s. The firm is certainly correct that at least some of the Bangor & Aroostook GP7's and GP9's did a lot of work for other railroads. I remember seeing dark blue BAR units in Framingham, Massachusetts where a former New Haven line from the Shore Line that branched to connect with the B&M in two places crossed the ex-NYC, ex-B&A main line from Boston to Albany and Selkirk yard. Note that there's a separate listing of photos of Bicentennial diesels in the "B" section of the great rr-fallenflags.org website; the BAR's 1776 was one of the most attractive, in my opinion. A question for someone more conversant with boxcar models than I am: do the FMC 5283 boxcar models now in the Roundhouse series have proper dimensions, or are they one of the types with the wrong width? More questions, which at some point I'll send to Athearn myself: What are the three body types for the HO Airslides shown, or are there only two? Will the models of the PRR GP7's actually be black or Dark Green Locomotive Enamel? And what color is the lettering: gold, imitation gold or just yellow? The Lehigh Valley leased a pair of blue BAR GP7s for a period also, crews reportedly did not care for them. I have somewhere a train sheet showing one as leader on an Apollo, but it's not dated. |
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