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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2009, 03:20:47 PM »
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Is the offending door track cast as part of the shell, or is it separately applied?  It might be an assembly problem at the plant...  Tell those Chinese that we'll start with holding those container loads of $100 bills if they don't straighten up and fly right!

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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2009, 03:21:37 PM »
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Looks to be cast on Lee
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2009, 03:23:39 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on May 22, 2009, 03:20:47 PM
Is the offending door track cast as part of the shell, or is it separately applied?  It might be an assembly problem at the plant...  Tell those Chinese that we'll start with holding those container loads of $100 bills if they don't straighten up and fly right!

Lee

I think it was those drunken Canucks who screwed it up from the get go...... they can't get anything right, we ought to....um.....ah.... nevermind. ;D
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2009, 04:38:20 PM »
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Um.....





Holy lettering errors Batman.
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2009, 04:46:22 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on May 22, 2009, 12:55:45 PM
And would the ladder over the multi mark be green?  Or painted into the logo?

Lee

The ladders (on the prototype) are painted white and black over the multimark.
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2009, 04:48:27 PM »
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Maybe this was their inspiration... they just put the lettering on the wrong side:

http://freight.railfan.ca/cprail/cp85310.jpg

Well, these are the same people that did not do the RS18 in the action red scheme...
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2009, 04:51:58 PM »
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Quote from: cv_acr on May 22, 2009, 04:38:20 PM
Um.....





Holy lettering errors Batman.

I'm not sure it's an error - if you look at the picture I posted it matches the car - I think, and stand to be corrected, that there were changes and iterations of the locations of markings throughout the car's life.
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2009, 04:58:43 PM »
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Pudd - no, look at the three panels under the CP Rail logo. Totally screwed up. The car number should be aligned with the left side of the "CP Rail" and not over to the right. The other side of the car is fine.

It's pretty obvious what happened here - they did the artwork for the other side, and screwed up when trying to mirror it to this side. Just like Rapido's infamous "Central Illinois" baggage cars. (Of course Rapido recalled them all right away and gave you a free car with the correct lettering.)
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2009, 05:04:29 PM »
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Whats the MSRP on these?
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #24 on: May 22, 2009, 05:11:32 PM »
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With all their issues, if it's more than those blue box lifelike cars, I'm going to be passing.
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #25 on: May 22, 2009, 05:15:26 PM »
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Yes the car rides too high, but that's easily remedied.

The door track being one panel too far left is a mistake, but that is correctable by the modeler.

The left-side ladder is just a matter of some paint and ten minutes time.

Overall, the tooling appears to be pretty good.  Nice to see another model in the mix.


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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #26 on: May 22, 2009, 05:30:06 PM »
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"Good Grief"......you're right.......this is just "NOT" True Line's day.....................


Photo by Kevin Belk - used for illistrative purposes.

Reversed the reporting marks on the one side.....um..... yesh !
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #27 on: May 22, 2009, 06:19:29 PM »
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Are these MT cars?
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #28 on: May 22, 2009, 07:07:45 PM »
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Looks like the ride height in HO isn't that much better:

http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/product_p/920-37155.htm
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Re: True Line Trains 50' Paper Box car
« Reply #29 on: May 22, 2009, 07:11:46 PM »
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Could it be that the door tracks are correct for a CN version?

Are there not many variations of the CP paint - they are doing a CPI marked car...

I really am hoping these are decent models given the cost...

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