Dabbling in O scale (was Re: [S-Scale]
¿ªÔÆÌåÓý.Thanks Jace for recalling the Crown reefer.? I thought it a
reasonable choice for those on the scale side of the tracks and
the hi-side too!? Crown did offer a MILW version of the car that I
would like to obtain--but until that time? Our dinner table won a car for each of us at one of the Bristol sponsored NASG conventions, it was a contest of sorts so my fellow diners excelled with knowledge as we consumed a good meal.? I ran mine for a couple of years till my PRS reefer fleet pushed them out.? IMHO the detail was 'just good enough' for most layouts!? So thanks Doug. Bob Werre PhotoTraxx
? CMP also produced 6-8 road names for the wood side refrigerator in S scale (with AM trucks).? Mike MacCormick operated out of several locations in the western suburbs of Boston.
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The CMP cars in both O and S scales (the S scale was really just the O scale version resized) were in the adequately-detailed category¡ªjust good enough to operate with better-detailed locomotives and rolling stock without looking like tinplate.? Rather like
the later AM cars, such as their gondola or bay-window caboose.? Underside was especially rudimentary from the O scale needing to accommodate hideous deep flanges.
I now own four of them: the MILW/URTX (which I suspect was a convention car), a PFE I found on the white-elephant table at the local train show, an NKP (also a convention car) bought at last year's NASG convention, and the Swift project by way of Tom Lennon.
Jace Kahn
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Werre <bob@...>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 11:01 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Dabbling in O scale (was Re: [S-Scale] ?
.Thanks Jace for recalling the Crown reefer.? I thought it a reasonable choice for those on the scale side of the tracks and the hi-side too!? Crown did offer a MILW version of the car that I would like to obtain--but until that time? Our dinner table won a car for each of us at one of the Bristol sponsored NASG conventions, it was a contest of sorts so my fellow diners excelled with knowledge as we consumed a good meal.? I ran mine for a couple of years till my PRS reefer fleet pushed them out.? IMHO the detail was 'just good enough' for most layouts!? So thanks Doug. Bob Werre PhotoTraxx
? CMP also produced 6-8 road names for the wood side refrigerator in S scale (with AM trucks).? Mike MacCormick operated out of several locations in the western suburbs of Boston.
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Bob Werre
