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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #45 on: October 18, 2023, 05:24:54 PM »
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Probably would not even notice it if viewing this on your layout (which I hope to see some day), but the photo sure draws my attention to the oversized platform rails and ladder on the old tank car.

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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #46 on: October 18, 2023, 08:19:02 PM »
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Wow I've been looking for a place for this for years. It's one of the toy non-operating tank cars, that was lettered for SP. I
never noticed the rails and ladders and will fix them.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #47 on: October 18, 2023, 08:37:21 PM »
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Wow I've been looking for a place for this for years. It's one of the toy non-operating tank cars, that was lettered for SP. I
never noticed the rails and ladders and will fix them.

. . . better modeling through TRW peer pressure.  :D
I agree that the scene in your photo looked very life-like, but the thick plastic square cross-section handrails and ladders jumped out.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #48 on: October 18, 2023, 08:52:29 PM »
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I mean, if we’re being honest…is a former tank car just going to be sitting on the ground?
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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #49 on: October 18, 2023, 09:45:37 PM »
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Cue up Billy Joel's "Honesty". I am pulling and going with small vertical tanks. I got the idea from M.C. years
ago he had one on his Alameda Terminal.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #50 on: October 18, 2023, 09:51:06 PM »
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I mean, if we’re being honest…is a former tank car just going to be sitting on the ground?








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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #51 on: October 19, 2023, 02:02:23 AM »
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If it's sat there long enough, any wood under it may have rotted away!

And, if the car was acquired, but never used, by the new owner, it may have been left where it was sitting when delivered.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #52 on: October 19, 2023, 10:37:17 AM »
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Working on some small vertical and horizontal tanks. Better modeling through RAILWIRE
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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #53 on: October 19, 2023, 08:24:01 PM »
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. . . better modeling through TRW peer pressure.  :D
I agree that the scene in your photo looked very life-like, but the thick plastic square cross-section handrails and ladders jumped out.

Search for Gold Medal Models etched parts for MDC tank cars. 

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Re: Weekend Update 10/15/23
« Reply #54 on: October 20, 2023, 12:17:11 PM »
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