Model Railroading > Renzenberger crew shuttle vans

They are everywhere around modern day railroads.
When did they get their first contracts with major railroads?
Has anybody been modeling these (in HO scale)?
Truck models? Decals? Paint schemes other than white?

Just asking.
 

Jürgen Dietrichkeit
Weilheim, BY

They used to be a dark sort of metalic blue. The stick on decal on the door was a white rectangle with a grade crossing crossbuck with I think two sd 40 looking locomotives on an angle both pointing towards the center of the white rectangle.The Renzenberger name was printed on there along with Shawnee,Kansas. When you were sitting in the front seat drivers pulling alongside would look at the logo,then look up at you,then look straight ahead. Just like everyone does when a prison bus is alongside of your car. The same sticker was on the rear door along with a bumper sticker size one reading "Now hiring". There were no other markings or safety stripes.

Fredo Wrote:
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> They used to be a dark sort of metalic blue. The
> stick on decal on the door was a white rectangle
> with a grade crossing crossbuck with I think two
> sd 40 looking locomotives on an angle both
> pointing towards the center of the white
> rectangle.The Renzenberger name was printed on
> there along with Shawnee,Kansas. When you were
> sitting in the front seat drivers pulling
> alongside would look at the logo,then look up at
> you,then look straight ahead. Just like everyone
> does when a prison bus is alongside of your car.
> The same sticker was on the rear door along with a
> bumper sticker size one reading "Now hiring".
> There were no other markings or safety stripes.

They're always hiring. Of course a 50% turn over rate a year will do that.

We used to call Renzenberger "Felonberger" as in the late 1990"s they were hiring them as soon as they were relaesd.Most of them didn't last very long.

So what do these childish, immature comments have to due with finding decals for a model. Go sit down in the corner and let the adults talk.

needles_sub Wrote:
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> So what do these childish, immature comments have
> to due with finding decals for a model. Go sit
> down in the corner and let the adults talk.

Actually, they're observations of fact. Maybe you need to go sit in the corner and take a time out until you cool down.

Can someone REALLY help answering my question?

Thanks!

Jürgen Dietrichkeit
Weilheim, BY

I have never seen decals or finished models for them. You would think someone would make Renzenberger, PTI, or Railcrew Express decals or models.
Michael T Kerner
Collinsville, IL

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I remember white vans and Suburbans during the time Renzenberger was operating at UP's Albina (Portland OR) yard in the 1980s.  Didn't seem like they were around long.

PHall Wrote:
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> needles_sub Wrote:
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> > So what do these childish, immature comments
> have
> > to due with finding decals for a model. Go sit
> > down in the corner and let the adults talk.
>
> Actually, they're observations of fact. Maybe you
> need to go sit in the corner and take a time out
> until you cool down.
They have nothing to do with modeling the trucks. Thank fully my subscription expires in a few days, and I can leave this hate and discontent behind me. Use to be you,  could good,  intelligent answers to questions, now, no.