MT October - COFC question

[Mark5]

I'm in the intermodal group but don't read it mostly so someone else on Trainboard did me a favor:


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Originally Posted by N&W View Post
Can anyone peg a date on those CAST containers?

According to the guys at the Model Intermodal Yahoo list, 1982+...
 
Art

So it's way out of my era.

[Atlanticflier]

 A Brown TX flatcar scheme PHOTO From 1976;



 M&StL X709 arrives on TTX flat at Mid-Continent Ralway Museum
http://www.midcontinent.org/timeline/time2.html

[Mark5]

Some were brown into the 1980s.

[Atlanticflier]

ummm... anybody else notice that the long fold down 'ramps' are installed wrong from M-T. On the wrong side of the car ?

The painting threw as off ............

Also, here's the brown scheme in 1980, COTS added.....
http://www.ns3010.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1979039

and the TTX yellow in 1976:
http://www.ns3010.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1881724

looks like paint schemes are really stretched out through the years...

Steven

www.nscaleintermodalstore.net

[Mark5]

looks like paint schemes are really stretched out through the years...

Absolutely - I've seen brown as late as 1990.

I model early 70s, so I need lots of brown, some yeller.

[Philip H]

and the TTX yellow in 1976:
http://www.ns3010.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1881724

looks like paint schemes are really stretched out through the years...

Steven

www.nscaleintermodalstore.net

And did anyone notice the SOVIET markings on the container to the right?  Where does one get decals for that?

[Bob Bufkin]

and the TTX yellow in 1976:
http://www.ns3010.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1881724

looks like paint schemes are really stretched out through the years...

Steven

www.nscaleintermodalstore.net

And did anyone notice the SOVIET markings on the container to the right?  Where does one get decals for that?

You might want to check out some military aircraft or armour decals in various scales.

[sirenwerks]

and the TTX yellow in 1976:
http://www.ns3010.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1881724

looks like paint schemes are really stretched out through the years...

Steven

www.nscaleintermodalstore.net

Philip,

You find me a cleaner pic so I can tell whether those are rounded or squared off letters, and I'll find you a matching font so you can do your own.



And did anyone notice the SOVIET markings on the container to the right?  Where does one get decals for that?

[learmoia]

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