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From: "J DOT Henry Priebe Jr DOT " root AT bluemoon DOT net
Date: Sat, 21 May 2022 15:51:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: (erielack) 2 Bay DL&W Accurail Hoppers, Possibly an ELHS project?
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The photos were encoded in a winmail.dat (Microsoft TNEF format) attached
file. I manually decoded them. Here they are.

Henry

J. Henry Priebe Jr. Blue Moon Internet Corp Network Administrator
www.railfan.net Railfan Network Services


On Sat, 21 May 2022, Joshua Blay wrote:

>
> Greetings! In an effort to find more these cars, I'm trying to figure out the production history of Accurail; mostly because the accuracy of these has varied over the years. After reviewing Accurail and the archives of this list (including some message of my own from over 20 years ago! Sheesh!), here's what I've come up with. Hopefully some others will be able to help fill in the blanks:
>
> Year unknown, first run, herald, these were "dead nuts on" per Mike Del Vecchio, no photo
>
> Year unknown, second run, lettering changed (typewriter-ish font), not accurate, no photo
>
> Fall 2008, 82XXX series, herald, artwork not quite right, reporting marks too big, number series might be inaccurate, see photo a
>
> Summer Fall 2010, 81XXX series, no herald, artwork good, see photo 1
>
> Shameless plug alert (but hopefully a good idea just the same!)
>
> I read the most recent Diamond and the ELHS is looking for model projects. How about a new run like the first that was perfect? I would be in for a BUNCH of these. Accurail's quality isn't the likes of Tanget etc. these days but considering it has been awhile, Accurail is reportedly nice to work with, and they'd be accurate I think it could be a project worthy of serious consideration.
>
> Best,
>
> Joshua


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