Model Railroading > Tangent’s new 40’ combination door boxcar.

Just received the new cars in the mail. They have done a superb job!

Steve

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Nice.  On the other hand, that about $100 worth of rolling stock in that picture.

They look great. Tangent does fine work.

Looks great!!

MILW16 Wrote:
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> Nice.  On the other hand, that about $100 worth
> of rolling stock in that picture.

Yes, but worth every penny to those of who appreciate fine models.

Cheers,
Jim

Posted from Android

My MILW car arrived yesterday, only three days after ordering. Another home run from Tangent!

Posted from iPhone

Gosh, I wish these came in more colorful schemes or short line road names. Can anyone one suggest any? Did DRGW have these cars? 

RRBaron Wrote:
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> Gosh, I wish these came in more colorful schemes
> or short line road names. Can anyone one suggest
> any? Did DRGW have these cars? 

No. They ran on the DRGW but the railroad didn't own any. The DRGW didn't originate many, if any, lumber shipments.
And these cars were built for lumber service.

RRBaron Wrote:
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> Gosh, I wish these came in more colorful schemes
> or short line road names. Can anyone one suggest
> any? Did DRGW have these cars? 

Any Rio Grande fan needs to get a copy of Jim Eagers Color Guide to Freight & Passenger Equipment (Morning Sun Books).  I bought my copy around 1993 and have referenced it evaluate models.

But if you only want D&RGW freight cars, you are denying yourself some prototypical models available that would be typical in Rio Grande freight trains.

Cheers,
Jim



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/12/21 15:46 by SPDRGWfan.

RRBaron Wrote:
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> Gosh, I wish these came in more colorful schemes
> or short line road names. Can anyone one suggest
> any? Did DRGW have these cars? 


The only roads which had these cars were NP, MILW and UP. It doesn't seem there was any second hand market as the industry standard went from 40' cars to 50' cars.

fbe Wrote:
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> The only roads which had these cars were NP, MILW
> and UP. It doesn't seem there was any second hand
> market as the industry standard went from 40' cars
> to 50' cars.

And that's ok.  More than likely those 3 NP, MILW, and UP cars were regulars traveling across the D&RGW so are fair game for Rio Grande modelers.

 

These cars were loaded with bundles of 2 by stud lumber going to areas of booking home construction especially bin the Midwest.

EDIT:

I never typed "booking" in my post. That is something the smartphone software did on it's own. Same with "bin" instead of in.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/13/21 19:33 by fbe.

fbe Wrote:
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> These cars were loaded with bundles of 2 by stud
> lumber going to areas of booking home construction
> especially bin the Midwest.

Didn't they also carry a lot of plywood loads too?

Why not correct it here?

fbe Wrote:
> EDIT:
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> I never typed "booking" in my post. That is
> something the smartphone software did on it's own.
> Same with "bin" instead of in.

I am kind of searching for any useable solution to prevention the software from behaving this way.

fbe Wrote:
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> I am kind of searching for any useable solution to
> prevention the software from behaving this way.

It's very simple, turn off the autocorrect.