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Santa Fe Sunday

T TOKELLYOGR Forum Member

People may have missed this link because it was originally in the S Scale section of this forum; but it IS chiefly (pun intended) Santa Fe, and today is Sunday. Next week the Santa Fe Alco PAs celebrate their 70th birthday and work better than I did when I turned 70. The cover picture is of an ABBA set of S Helper Service F7s that will get their own video some day.

Terry O'Kelly

Santa Fe and More in S Scale

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@Ron H posted:

Love the roof detail !

Ron,  I've been thinking about ways to duplicate those hatches for Sunset, GGD and K-Line dining cars.  Multiple thicknesses of card stock?  Construction paper? Thin plastic/vinyl heated in boiling water?  Felt placed on the roof(above a piece of wax paper) and saturated with 50:50 white glue?  Anyone have any suggestions?  John

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Ron HRon HOGR Forum Member
@rattler21 posted:

Ron,  I've been thinking about ways to duplicate those hatches for Sunset, GGD and K-Line dining cars.  Multiple thicknesses of card stock?  Construction paper? Thin plastic/vinyl heated in boiling water?  Felt placed on the roof(above a piece of wax paper) and saturated with 50:50 white glue?  Anyone have any suggestions?  John

John,

Delta Models has those hatches. Check it out. You'll have to add some side pieces. It'll be obvious when you see the parts. They are Santa Fe heavy weight passenger car hatches.

Ron

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On the High Plains Division of the Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Company, there was not much activity today, at Caprock, Texas.  Yesterday,  Christmas Eve, 1953, the Second District Local set out Alco-GE S2 2358 at the locomotive facility, fresh from classified inspection and a paint job at Albuquerque.  The Mechanical forces were greatly reduced for Christmas, and the switcher will not be set up for service until later in the week.

There was another, rather interesting, movement on Christmas Eve.  No.75 set out a sleeping car at Caprock Yard, for the High Plains Red Hat Ladies' charter trip to the Pasadena Rose Parade.  Every fifth year, they and their husbands head west on the Santa Fe to Pasadena's Greene Hotel, for a day of shopping in Pasadena's upscale shops, a Grey Line Tour of homes of movie stars, and reserved bleacher seating along the parade route. An enticement for the husbands is choice ticketing to the Rose Bowl football game.  A boiler-equipped GP7 that has been working in Caprock yard, in place of the Alco which just arrived, will couple onto the car, provide steam to it, and spot it in the passenger passing track for early occupancy by the ladies.  Upon arrival, on December 27, No.53 will stand in the station while the geep couples the Pullman onto the rear, and then they'll be off to Clovis.  No. 123, the Grand Canyon, will forward them to Pasadena.  

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@Number 90 posted:

On the High Plains Division of the Panhandle & Santa Fe Railway Company, there was not much activity today, at Caprock, Texas.  Yesterday,  Christmas Eve, 1953, the Second District Local set out Alco-GE S2 2358 at the locomotive facility, fresh from classified inspection and a paint job at Albuquerque.  The Mechanical forces were greatly reduced for Christmas, and the switcher will not be set up for service until later in the week.

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Tom,

Your scenery and backdrop are so good, I cannot tell where the scenery ends and the backdrop begins. Excellent.

MELGAR

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