Set has 10 cars, each is different. Modelled after specific cars from that train. Was a real labor of love, especially masking each of the windows on the observation car! Cars are 28" long and weigh about 7 pounds each!
Jim
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A certain individual from Arkansas should be very happy!
SGMA1 posted:A certain individual from Arkansas should be very happy!
You are correct, Kirk
Jim
SGMA1 posted:A certain individual from Arkansas should be very happy!
I am!
Bob Nelson
One of the Olympian Hiawatha cars in the 10-car consist that Jim has built for me is a crew dormitory car. This has gotten me thinking about what life must have been like for the crews assigned to the Olympian Hiawatha and other transcontinental trains. Did they make back to back to back runs on the train or did they have time off between trains? It must have been a hard life.
Does anyone know the title of a good book which discusses the life of crew members working aboard a transcontinental train?
Bob Nelson
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