Model Railroading > Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ?

We are with one of our builders working on the pilot models of the 1971 Denver & Rio Grande's "Zephyr". Once all the corrections are made  - We will have them at Salt Lake City , July 12, 2019 - stop by  and say Hello

 

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I believe that GrandeGold has a B&W picture of the ex-CZ baggage car on the RGZ at Provo taken sometime in the early to mid 1970's. 

Would have been nice if the baggage car would have been made available as a stand alone purchase.

Not everyone has the disposable income to purchase an entire train set for just one ca. 

The Coach Yard has a website.

For the RGZ:

http://thecoachyard.com/PDF/RGZephyr.pdf

My goodness, that is beautiful!

~RGDave

The D&RGW Baggage car is available as "stand alone only" - see our website.
It is not part of the set !

carman



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The CZ baggage car is not part of the Rio Grande Zephyr project. It was run with the along with the Budd cars for a different project.

Yes its a shame the P-S combine isnt a stand alone. That ine car has been a porular subject over the years.

But its a beautiful set, Thanks Coach Yard!

Fredo - not true ! -  The baggage car is part of this order ! - available as a separate car !
Sorry - the combine is only available in the set 

This car was done by Division Point de-skirted - We did not see the need for it was made in 2018 !
Division Point did not do a skirted one and our set is 1971
carman

We are portraying  the "1971 D&RGW ZEPHYR" we are not doing something that represents a time period for now as you point out  - skirts or no skirts -  blomberg trucks - or P trucks- speed lettering or standard -  and on and on !
we can't please everyone and do not try - We present a Train (in this case - the inaugural one) and that's it. !
So,  as Popeye says 'It is what it is - and that's it "
carman
 



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One of the combines had the skirts removed in the 1960's and there is a photograph of it on the Yampa Valley Mail deskirted in Rio Grande Diesels Vol 1 book by Joseph Strapac.  Here are photo's of each 1230 and 1231 taken in 1972:

http://rr-fallenflags.org/drgw/drgw-cb1230jpa.jpg

http://rr-fallenflags.org/drgw/drgw-cb1231jpa.jpg

You can see 1231 has no skirts and it is highly unlikely they were put back on so the photo in the 1960's with no skirts had to be #1231, it would not have had skirts in 1971 either.  The appropriate road number for the skirted model combine in the set would need to be #1230 - it is listed in the PDF as #1231.


> we can't please everyone and do not try

Sure, understood.  But you can please a much broader range of customers using the de-skirted combine #1230.  The core 8 car set with the deskirted combine would be good for most of 1973 to 1983

I realize you posted this topic to publicize the future offering, but when you commented about making corrections, it seemed now is the time to offer comment.



 



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And people wonder why the number of brass model importers has gone down...

PHall Wrote:
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> And people wonder why the number of brass model
> importers has gone down...

Probably cause they didnt listen to their customers.

Ha ha , You too Funny !

TomG Wrote:
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> PHall Wrote:
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> > And people wonder why the number of brass model
> > importers has gone down...
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> Probably cause they didnt listen to their
> customers.

Very true. 

Its no more apparent than this exact run. I was very much hoping to support this company. 

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> Ha ha , You too Funny !

if you listened to your customers (or even knew the market), you would have made the combine available as a stand-alone. 

If anyone needs a photo of the de-skirted combine #1231, follow this link to a photo taken in 1967 on the Yampa Valley; Very likely the same train featured in a photo in Rio Grande Diesels Vol 1. 

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4620413,4797821#msg-4797821 

Being that there are links to photos of both #1230 (with skirts) and #1231 (no skirts) both taken in 1972, in an earlier post, that is strong evidence that the 1971 RGZ combine in the CY set should be numbered as #1230, rather than #1231 as in the PDF

It is # 1230 !