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First Gen. N-SCALE Freight cars ..

Tom Starr
 

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Doug , ?

? ? Here’s one for you? I was given this car??I . G . A. ?- GOOD FOOD STORES -??Union?Refrigerator Transit Co. ?URTX road No. 5311, it has a brown roof and ends when did it first appear ? Yes, it is a 40’ ?refrigerator car..


Tom
 

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I'm sorry, Tom, I don't know, suffice to say it isn't an A1G car.. What does it say on the ends of the paper insert?
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Doug
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In a message dated 1/7/2016 5:28:35 A.M. Central Standard Time, a1g@... writes:

?Union?Refrigerator Transit Co. ?URTX road No. 5311
Tom Starr
 

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Doug ,?

? ?It did not have one so I made my own insert.?


Tom

On Jan 7, 2016, at 7:04 AM, dgosha@... [a1g] <a1g@...> wrote:


I'm sorry, Tom, I don't know, suffice to say it isn't an A1G car.. What does it say on the ends of the paper insert?
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Doug
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In a message dated 1/7/2016 5:28:35 A.M. Central Standard Time,?a1g@...?writes:
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OK, does it say anything on the bottom of the car?
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Doug
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Doug ,?

? ?It did not have one so I made my own insert.?


Tom
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Tom Starr
 

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Had to look hard it says Austria nothing else?


On Jan 7, 2016, at 08:31, dgosha@... [a1g] <a1g@...> wrote:

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OK, does it say anything on the bottom of the car?
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Doug
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In a message dated 1/7/2016 6:13:53 A.M. Central Standard Time, a1g@... writes:


Doug ,?

? ?It did not have one so I made my own insert.?


Tom
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OK so we know it's a RoCo car. It's a bit different from A1G cars. Look at the tack boards to the left of the plug door. Googling the pertinent information reveals nothing. There were many importers of RoCo-made cars.
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Doug
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In a message dated 1/7/2016 12:16:54 P.M. Central Standard Time, a1g@... writes:



Had to look hard it says Austria nothing else?

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On Jan 7, 2016, at 08:31, dgosha@... [a1g] <a1g@...> wrote:

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Tom Starr
 

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Doug, ?

? ?Here’s ?some ?photo's of my AHM?-?NYMX NYC- Mech. Refrig. Car in its original jeweled?case with paper insert which is the last photo shown in the the photo’s section of ?? . ?It seems that there are two manufacturers of the same car , not sure if there are others.?

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On Jan 7, 2016, at 7:13 AM, Tom Starr <tom39@...> wrote:

Doug ,?

? ?It did not have one so I made my own insert.?


Tom
On Jan 7, 2016, at 7:04 AM, dgosha@... [a1g] <a1g@...> wrote:


I'm sorry, Tom, I don't know, suffice to say it isn't an A1G car.. What does it say on the ends of the paper insert?
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Doug
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In a message dated 1/7/2016 5:28:35 A.M. Central Standard Time,?a1g@...?writes:
?Union?Refrigerator Transit Co. ?URTX road No. 5311
 

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Tom, you will find, as you delve more and more into first generation N scale rolling stock, that RoCo of Austria made cars for several importers back then (Atlas, AHM, Aurora, Minitrix, etc) and many of them were similar. However, there were almost always differences in several details on the bodies and often with the painting details too. So, cars from different importers were rarely, if ever, identical.
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For example, your AHM car is almost the same as the Atlas 2303 NYC mechanical reefer (which actually had at least two different painting variations, itself) but with several detailing differences. The Atlas cars don't have the center stirrup steps as on the AHM car, the placards to the left of the plug door are centered in relation to each other, and the representation of the mechanical equipment venting is different. The plug doors are also different. As far as painting, the Atlas cars don't have the extra NYC insignia above "MECHANICAL REFRIGERATOR" on the right side.
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Doug
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