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I found a measured diagram of the PRR Fleet of Modernism colour scheme online, but failed to bookmark it. The only image I have is unreadable so useless. Anyone have any idea where this online resource is? Or have the info on the scheme layout measurements they can send me?

I just received a Caledonian tender from SCC. The print is absolutely excellent, on a par with RTR stuff, and it arrived very rapidly after my order was made. I thoroughly recommend Gavin's Proton products. (I havn't bought anything from Shapeways so don't know about them)

Very impressive station. I'm trying to formulate something similar. how deep is your board from front to back?

Wow Fred/sncf231e! What a stunning collection, and an excellent starting point resource. thanks for posting it.

My cut off point is the end of 1940 . All my diesels (well the three I have) are switchers and were painted in black (IC 9007, EJ&E 401 and EJ&E 213). I have Pennsylvania, Illinois Central, and Erie stock, But I was wondering whether any of the lines coming into Chicago had different coloured cars. I don't think I will be scratch building the Green Diamond (!) and the City of Miami is just too late (December 40). The B&O Capitol Limited, and the NYC Mercury are possibles, as is the UP 49er although like everything it is a matter of sourcing the rolling stock (HO)

I know that the Pennsylvania has a fairly bright Tuscan Red in the 30s, and that several roads used Pullman Green, but were there any 1st Class Roads whose cars carried other colour schemes in the 30s?

And the populations of nearly every European country in the 1840s. The nobles decapitated by Galician peasants didn't have much to say about it afterwards though. The Austrian army appears to be paying per head in this painting.

Apparently "the Galloping Major" was a favourite of mine aged around 2yrs (though I'm not actually old enough to have listened first time round). If you know it you will understand why. And then I enjoyed the re-release of Jollity Farem by Mr Stanshalls excellent band whilst at Grammar School, especially as singing it appeared to cause immense irritation to all around. So to lift our spirits (There's a farm called Misery, but of that we'll have none")

All this highbrow stuff is all very well (and I am just as partial as the next person (on here), but if we are really concerned with what the majority of the passengers and population enjoyed listening (and singing along to), and what the soldiers undoubtedly sang in the trenches (The subalterns wind up Victrola playing classical music probably producing a chorus of raspberries) it is actually stuff like this I had had the subaltern's Victrola playing "The Lark Ascending" in best film cliche style, but although written in 1914 it apparently didn't premier until 1921

And as for ministers not knowing the difference between a measure and an indicator......

You are absolutely correct. I don't intend having a large fleet, so I think I will actually have to repaint most of and to try to match the best vehicles I have, which are the Walthers head end cars in 1934 scheme.

Interesting to note that the intensive experimentation done by the PRR people produced a consistency and useability that appeared to be unachievable by "other railroads" according to this contemporary source

Not so much having a standing army on standby Nearhomer, more having a spare warehouse full of PPE gear, as recommended a couple of years back. Instead of which we are playing the silly arse knit for Britain game making PPE substitutes out of old T-shirtsd (according to our local paper anyway) A bit like not having enough carriages or drivers available for a predictable timetable change. Nobody would be that stupid, surely? available

This may apply to scruffy shortlines, and Class 1 lines of dubious merit, but this is the Pennsylvania we are discussing, the Premier Line of America. The Altoona car shop turned out well over 5,500 steel bodied cars between 1907 and 1928, so some degree of conformity might be expected.

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Mistyped it! Should be 155 Ry Wksp Co. No2 Workshop men were evacuated through St Malo. No1 Workshop was at St Nazaire. They are not listed amongst the units lost on Lancastria so should have got home. No1 was under the command of 2Lieut William Stanier, son of the LMS CME, so there may be some biographical info on him somewhere. He would appear to have survived the war as he isn't on the CWG lists.

This is what I thought, but I was slightly distracted by the apparent colour of the lower section. I have shown the pins on the angle iron uprights, and the holes in the footboard. I need to add the short chains which fastened through the pins in the closed position, but which hung down underneath the panels when they were open. Alsohave the brackets to take the stay rods which hold the upper panels up. I have yet to make the rods. I have the photo of the top brass visit which is in a 1940 railway journal along with several shots of the interior. I found it in the NRM archive.

Which actually links to an SF railway of sorts in the remake of the based on an original story by (please keep up) the Philip K.Dick story "We can remember it for you wholesale" (Total Recall, not the Shwarzeneger version). The 2012 remake features what can only be described as a railway which goes right through the center of the earth, and so the journey inviolves a central zero-gravity section, followed by a complete reversal of the direction of gravity for the second half of the journey.

This is really very useful. Thanks very much. Although I can't patch modifications with a Vallejo paint it looks like I can repaint the whole car and with weathering it is likely to be indistinguishable. Given that these are not going to reach finescale replica standard but will be "pretty close enough" this looks feasible.

Excellent image. Unfortunately it shows that the fold down floor is NOT part of the side panel. The fold up side pael covers the fold down floor. Now I have to completely remake the sides, with all those windows. AArgh! Maybe I can get away with reworking them. It is worth a try. #

excellent thanks. Vallejo comparisons especially

Thanks for this link. I'm not sure these colours match what I'm looking for. Tuscan Red is that Modelflex Pennsy Maroon?

Any hints on where to buy correct colour paints in UK? I'm looking for PRR Tuscan Red, PRR Olive Green, and PRR boxcar colour (the orangey red) initially. Either specifically formulated paints, or suggestions for equivalents from Vallejo, Tamiya or Humbrol

Of course the existentialists have the secret "sourire en l'ame" (translated by my french teacher as a "soul smirk") which is almost certainely a precursor to silent (hollow) laughing

I thought about doing that, but since they probably spent more time in action (ie static) not being moved I went for the static option. I actually then realised that the open sides would be by far the most difficult bit as both the inside and outside would be visible. In the end I have settled on a three layer sandwich, with thin skins having the windows, and a thicker transparent side piece sandwiched between them to give rigidity. Are yours a display item, or are they running on a layout?