reply to Dave Phelps re passenger cars

[NW Modeling List]

Rick:
 
I was fortunate enough to get one of the undec Rivarossi's with  the dry 
transfers, but I seem to recall having to spray paint mine...  The  RF&P car name 
was "King William" in the set.  I also did the  stripes from the dry transfer 
sheet and to my amazement it came out well.  
 
Again from Waynor, the three L&N cars, 3410-Green River,  3411-Kentucky 
River, and 3412-Barren River, were indeed Plan 4140 cars, but  built in Lot 6814 in 
Oct. '49.
 
It's always been my understanding that the Rivarossi car  modeled the 
Pennsy's ACF 10-6 cars, not their P-S ones.  This is why the  most common 
factory-applied name on a Rivarossi Pennsy 10-6 is "Huron Rapids,"  an ACF car.
 
I looked at one of the Rapido N&W coaches at Rail Yard;  they looked nice but 
I already knew they were not correct, and the price turned  me off.  Later I 
did some research and discovered that the trucks on the  Rapido coach are not 
correct for N&W coaches, and that violates the "six  foot rule."
 
Dave Phelps
 
In a message dated 4/30/2007 7:40:29 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
nw-modeling-list at nwhs.org writes:

Dave:

Sorry for omitting RF&P from the roads owning the  Pennsy style 
sleepers.  How could I forget?  I modelled one once  from the original 
Rivarossi car.  These cars were a respectable model  but are hard to 
find now.  Walthers was the last importer of them and  they had much 
improved trucks.  The Rivarossi cars once were issued  in Tuscan red 
with dry transfers for RF&P, and IIRC L&N which also  had the cars for 
joint PRR service.  That's how I lettered the car  for RF&P, but I 
used decal stripes for the trim work.

If  Walthers won't do N&W with their new "S-2" they have listed an 
undec  version.  The windows will be a great improvement over the Rivarossi  
car.

Rick  Morrison

________________________________________
NW-Modeling-List at nwhs.org
To  change your subscription go  to
http://list.nwhs.org/mailman/options/nw-modeling-list
Browse the  NW-Mailing-List archives  at
http://list.nwhs.org/pipermail/nw-modeling-list/







************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://six.pairlist.net/pipermail/nw-modeling-list/attachments/20070430/f28b5c63/attachment-0001.htm>