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Model Railroading > Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ?Date: 05/21/19 05:35 Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: original 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
Date: 05/21/19 07:40 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: RGZ17 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.
Date: 05/21/19 08:51 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: glendale 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. Date: 05/21/19 09:51 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: atsf5704 Date: 05/21/19 09:52 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: RGDave My goodness, that is beautiful!
~RGDave Date: 05/21/19 14:09 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: original The D&RGW Baggage car is available as "stand alone only" - see our website.
It is not part of the set ! carman Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/19 15:51 by original. Date: 05/21/19 14:37 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: Fredo 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.
Date: 05/21/19 15:35 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: TomG Yes its a shame the P-S combine isnt a stand alone. That ine car has been a porular subject over the years.
Date: 05/21/19 15:46 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: TomG But its a beautiful set, Thanks Coach Yard!
Date: 05/21/19 16:00 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: original 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 Date: 05/21/19 17:55 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: original 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 Date: 05/22/19 06:35 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: original 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 Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/19 15:53 by original. Date: 05/22/19 08:47 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: SPDRGWfan 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. Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/22/19 19:10 by SPDRGWfan. Date: 05/22/19 09:06 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: PHall And people wonder why the number of brass model importers has gone down...
Date: 05/22/19 18:31 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: TomG PHall Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > And people wonder why the number of brass model > importers has gone down... Probably cause they didnt listen to their customers. Date: 05/23/19 03:45 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: original Ha ha , You too Funny !
Date: 05/23/19 05:14 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: glendale TomG Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > PHall Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > And people wonder why the number of brass model > > importers has gone down... > > 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. Date: 05/23/19 05:18 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: glendale original Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > 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. Date: 05/23/19 08:11 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: SPDRGWfan 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 Date: 05/23/19 16:44 Re: Guess what The Coach Yard is reviewing ? Author: original It is # 1230 !
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