11-28-2010, 06:26 PM
Today, at a train show in Ft. Myers Florida (of all places) I acquired an 8x10 glossy B&W of Reading Scale Test Car #91210, plus a nice B&W 8x10 glossy of RDG 4-wheel "bobber" caboose #90077 which will aid in adding the final detailing to my "Building a Small Fleet of Very Small Cabooses," which I just may resurect as my "End-of-Year Challenge" project ... I'll have to think about that ... I don't want to just jump into anything without proper consideration, know what I mean?
But my real questions relate to the former photo. According to data stenciled on the side of #91210, it was built in 3-26. A "recent" calibration apparently took place on 10-27-76 and something else, possibly an earlier calibration (painted out) had happened to it on 6-19-74. It has two interesting "shields/crests" of some sort on the side pictured, one situated near the center and the other towards the car's right-hand end.
The body appears dark (but not dark enough to be black.) There is a raised handrail that runs the length of the car that is either white or yellow (or at least a very light color.) I'm guessing the color scheme is either the Reading's early standard Pullman green w/Dulx Gold or white lettering and white handrail, or "Reading Green" with yellow stenciling and a yellow hand rail, but I am not at all confident with either of those “semi-edumacated guesstimates.” I am considering modeling this interesting piece of equipment but would like some more solid information before I start if I can get it. Can anyone offer any knowledgeable assistance ... even just a tiny bit?
I have a George B. Stock model of a Scale Test Car that is circa late '50's/early '60's that I came into possession of in 1963. The kit is missing all detail parts (probably why this teenager was able to get it for only 50 cents!) The body of the Scale Test Car is a single metal casting and quite heavy. The wheel sets are metal, the axles ride in simple slots, no bearings or journals of any sort. The tiny little box says "Pennsylvania R.R. Scale Test Car," but we all know that (especially back then) if you marked it PRR or Santa Fe, it would sell. I'd like to build this "antique" up into an interesting "trackside detail" to be parked on a siding near a track scale or in the corner of a yard somewhere.
Any assistance will be enormously appreciated!
But my real questions relate to the former photo. According to data stenciled on the side of #91210, it was built in 3-26. A "recent" calibration apparently took place on 10-27-76 and something else, possibly an earlier calibration (painted out) had happened to it on 6-19-74. It has two interesting "shields/crests" of some sort on the side pictured, one situated near the center and the other towards the car's right-hand end.
The body appears dark (but not dark enough to be black.) There is a raised handrail that runs the length of the car that is either white or yellow (or at least a very light color.) I'm guessing the color scheme is either the Reading's early standard Pullman green w/Dulx Gold or white lettering and white handrail, or "Reading Green" with yellow stenciling and a yellow hand rail, but I am not at all confident with either of those “semi-edumacated guesstimates.” I am considering modeling this interesting piece of equipment but would like some more solid information before I start if I can get it. Can anyone offer any knowledgeable assistance ... even just a tiny bit?
I have a George B. Stock model of a Scale Test Car that is circa late '50's/early '60's that I came into possession of in 1963. The kit is missing all detail parts (probably why this teenager was able to get it for only 50 cents!) The body of the Scale Test Car is a single metal casting and quite heavy. The wheel sets are metal, the axles ride in simple slots, no bearings or journals of any sort. The tiny little box says "Pennsylvania R.R. Scale Test Car," but we all know that (especially back then) if you marked it PRR or Santa Fe, it would sell. I'd like to build this "antique" up into an interesting "trackside detail" to be parked on a siding near a track scale or in the corner of a yard somewhere.
Any assistance will be enormously appreciated!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & Western
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln