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Re: (erielack) Potential DL&W wooden reefers

Yup I Must Cuncur....I looked at those cars and thought similarly...
To Me its 1 thing to be Nit-picky and another to be so extremly picky we could
never build our "Road Of Anthracite" Fleets..... I Myself will Accept some detail
Idiocycracies to have a good repesentation of the car type....We have been
getting better Luck lately from the Manufacturers as they have been releasing
some items
that are Correct for DL&W, ERIE and EL.....  IE   P2k and Atlas in particular and
if your willing to strip and repaint  Spectrum has the correct  Scenic Series
10-1-2 Pullman cars   (DL&W had 4, ERIE 1or more?)   And Branchline is bringing
out
ERIE and Lackawanna Passenger Cars Soon (late fall/winter)   So IMO Its getting
better not worse for us E-L and Pre Hyphen Modelers!!!

PS..BTW.... the Highliner Bodies that we can make our F3s and F7s are now
Available :-)

MDelvec952_@_aol.com wrote:

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>
> The following is part of a review posted by reefer historian Byron Rose about
> the new ACF wooden reefers from Branchline Trains.  These cars are very
> similar to the DL&W wooden cars, and they're as close as we're likely to get.
>  To the reefer hardcore, the DL&W were quite different than the
> run-of-the-mill ACF car produced by BLT.  To the general spotter, these cars
> have all of the ACF details that make a reefer ACF -- the side and end sills,
> the trim along the roof and on the ends and the doors and hinges and
> underframe general arrangement.  These are much more correct than the PFE
> reefers released in DL&W paint from Red Caboose a few years ago.
>
> As the reviewer states, the car isn't a great building experience, but to
> paraphrase Popeye, it is what it is.
>
> Read on:                      ....Mike
>
> >>Branchline Trains just released a kit for a Refrigerator Car built in
> 1927 by American Car and Foundry, for Union Refrigerator Transit Comapny
> and affiliated roads.  It is a car which has been seen in modeling
> several times before, starting with an HO resin kit (which I helped Al
> Westerfield produce) and more recently in O scale, as a brass model and
> as parts of a plastic model by Atlas.  The usefulness of this car is its
> longevity, in several cases lasting into the 60s.  During its lifetime it
> hosted hundreds of different lettering schemes, most of them well
> documented if you want to do some digging.  It was also the subject of
> several largely photographic articles in the model/prototype press.
> Truly, a useful car to model.
>
> So what do we actually have when we open the kit box?  A collection of
> parts which clearly puts this model out of the shake the box class, but
> based on discussions with BLT, a kit intended to be easily built.  Now
> that I have built one, I'm afraid that hasn't happened.  Let me mention
> several sore spots before I get down to cases.
>
> Parts which DO NOT fit:  Sides to car body.  Trucks to underframe.
> Underframe to floor.
>
> Parts which bear no resemblance to their full size counterparts:  Ice
> hatches (murder on a reefer).
>
> Parts which are incorrectly located:  Side door latch bar, air hose.
>
> Lettering crooked, smudged, poor color coverage, poor color registration.
>
> That latter is really ironic.  One of the reasons BLT wanted to produce
> these kits is to show off their custom painting skills.  I guess rushing
> will take the edge off that.  The artwork produced for these models is
> phenomenal, the best I have ever seen.  Lots and lots of time was
> expended on it<<

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