Watts da madda wit dees guys? 
Why couldn’t Lionel make a CNW PS1?
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Excellent!
Beautiful are you going to offer any up for sale.
Have another set of decals, I'll do another one day. Always watched many CNW's pass by the house on Staten Island. Chicago area Bell Telephone System filled the cars with scrap copper wire bound for Nassau smelting in Tottenville. 
Allegheny posted:Beautiful are you going to offer any up for sale.
ebay offerings every week, steve426.
Now that you've done one Steve, I expect there will be one cataloged by Lionel in volume 2 this Fall.....
MTH and Lionel copy me.
Mike didn't put out a STATEN ISLAND Alco S-2 until he seen mine. At 60, I just get tired of waiting. How many more years do I have to enjoy the past? 
Gorgeous, Steve!
Peter
Nice
Gasp......one less D&RGW box car!!!
nice work really.......
short answer?.....yes. I have that same STRT philosophy.... Man~ana ain't gettin' it.
Absolutely beautiful STEVE. Nobody does it better
SIRT posted:MTH and Lionel copy me.
Mike didn't put out a STATEN ISLAND Alco S-2 until he seen mine. At 60, I just get tired of waiting. How many more years do I have to enjoy the past?
Are you running for the next "Most Interesting Man In The World?"
Rusty
I vote for some Staten Island mu's or a Staten Island premier camelback
SIRT posted: At 60, I just get tired of waiting. How many more years do I have to enjoy the past?
I'm hoping at least 30. Great work as always!
Steve,
Fortunately, Atlas made a CNW car for the era that I'm modelling and I found one on eBay:
Unfortunately, I have yet to find an SIRT S-2 and must ask if you'd be willing to repaint a MTH B&O S-2 for me?
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SIRT posted:Watts da madda wit dees guys?
Why couldn’t Lionel make a CNW PS1?
Lionel did:
Stu
Lionel did two of them, but not the 1972 scheme or car I did. MTH, Weaver and Atlas have done the scheme for more modern cars.
Rapid Transit Holmes posted:Unfortunately, I have yet to find an SIRT S-2 and must ask if you'd be willing to repaint a MTH B&O S-2 for me? -
I avoid repainting diesels for others because the lighted number boards can't be changed to look OEM.
Aaaah, so true. So, I'll keep the lonely vigil on eBay knowing that the chances are slim that Mike will repeat that run. Nuts.
SIRT posted:SIRT posted:Watts da madda wit dees guys?
Why couldn’t Lionel make a CNW PS1?
Watts da madda wit dees guys?
Why couldn’t Lionel make a CNW PS1?
Very nice!! What kind of blast media did you use?? Where did you obtain your decals?? Inquiring minds want to know...
Great work as always Steve!
Steve,
Nice work. I especially like the chalk marks.
Tom
There are two 1955-1956 era C&NW PS-1 40' Boxcar schemes that the people at LIONEL did not put on their model of the PS-1 40' Boxcar.
http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-...?i=cnw8385&o=cnw
http://freight.railfan.ca/cgi-...i=cnw23018&o=cnw
Those are what the C&NW boxcars should look like.
Andrew
Bee you teee ful!
What year did the railroads start removing the catwalks?
I was going to write up something but there is an abundant amount of information around the forums on this.
Most railroad cars roof walks started being removed in 1968, when the FRA outlawed them for safety concerns except for certain types of cars. There was 10 year grace period where. 1. The roofwalk had to moved and the only side ladder that was full size was the one that reached to brake wheel. 2. The second phase was when brake wheels had to lowered to a half height side ladder. You could leave the ladders but they had to be cut down. Same thing with the roofwalk attachments. 3. The last phase was removing all roofwalk attachments and adding a crossing platform so the brakeman could get to the brake wheel without having to pass between cars. By 1978, all cars in interchange service had to abide by these standards. No new cars, again with certain exceptions, have been produced since 1970 so car producing companies wouldn't have rework cars already in the pipeline. The main exception to the roofwalks on covered hoppers and a few other specialized cars. These are technically called loading platforms and it's illegal for a crew member to be on the roof while the car was in motion. None of these rules applied to company service cars and it's still common to see company service boxcars with roof walks.
Atlas forum member
Atlas O PS 1 has offered this on later models but they fail to cut the ladders. Probably better in cost for them as their warping brass walks were never any good to begin with.
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Nice finds Andrew!
Thanks everyone, comments and lessons always appreciated on the posted subject!
Glad you all liked the modeled CNW PS-1, it was interesting to do.
S.
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Looks awesome!
Steve
Back to your original question in the thread title, my answer is: "Not always. But when you do, you have something no one else has..and YOU builit it."
