Surprising poll results

Mark Mathu · 2003-09-26T02:20:10+00:00

According to the results from last week's poll at only 26% of newmodel railroad products purchased are assembled and put into service rightaway.

Sep 26, 2003 24 Replies

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Andy Harman 22 years ago

I agree, but it didn't come across well in the photos. I use roof brown, rail brown, or sometimes Rustall but the latter is raw iron oxide and needs to be toned down at least on a truck that is supposed to be "in service".

The B&O F units look to have been weathered with only grimy black or something similar. It's easy to overdo it. I haven't tried to weather any Genesis F units yet... only ones I really have "in service" are the warbonnets. They did get some dirt on them, but in the heyday of the 1950s they sprayed the trucks silver on every run... which must have been quite a mess for the maintenance shops once they got about 35 coats of paint.

Andy

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Mark Mathu 22 years ago

I swear you must be reading a different article than me. Sideframes aside, do you see the rust on the steps below the cab door and the dirt on the pilot? You don't accomplish that with only grimy black.

Terry Thompson gives the exact same warning in his article.

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Andy Harman 22 years ago

I got it out and looked again. Just barely. The pilot has just a haze of a brownish color, which my eyes neutralized against the background. I can see that it's there but the lighting on the photo is angled too steeply or something. Compared to the low lighting on the UP SD70 in the prototype photo, which illuminates the truck and wheels nicely.

Yep, nothing like a living example ;-) Still, I've never seen a photo of a B&O F-unit looking like a Tehachapi pusher. Not to say it never happened, B&O did use F units sets for pushers and they did have tunnels.

Andy

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