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From: Pat_McKnight AT nps DOT gov
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:52:08 -0400
Subject: RE: (erielack) Tangent Scale Models ACF 70-ton welded Drop-end Gondola
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Photo taken this morning attached (probably should do one when it is
overcast), and previous Conrail appearance. If you want to know more,
contact me off list and I can send you a copy of the report I did on the
gon.

(See attached file: DSCF0003.JPG)(See attached file: DL&W Gondola no. 68528
(11-28-2000).jpg)Patrick Mc(See attached file: DSCF0002.JPG)Knight
Historian/Archivist
Steamtown NHS
570-340-5193

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future
possible.-Alan Bloom



"Schuyler
Larrabee"
e@verizon.net> "'EL Mail List'"

10/25/2009 07:15 cc
PM
Subject
RE: (erielack) Tangent Scale Models
Please respond to ACF 70-ton welded Drop-end Gondola
"EL Mail List"
ailfan.net>







Pat, could you post a photo or two, please?

SGL

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat_McKnight@nps.gov [mailto:Pat_McKnight@nps.gov]
> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 3:22 PM
> To: EL Mail List
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Tangent Scale Models ACF 70-ton welded Drop-end
Gondola
>
>
> Mike is correct. Steamtown has one of these gons and it is currently
undergoing cosmetic
restoration. It has been power
> washed and is now black, awaiting its DL&W markings. It was in Conrail
colors when received with
EL colors bleeding
> through. All of this has been documented in a cosmetic restoration
report for the piece.
>
> Patrick McKnight
> Historian/Archivist
> Steamtown NHS
> 570-340-5193
>
> We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but
to make the past ;alive
so that it can explain us
> and make a future possible.-Alan Bloom
>
>
> -----MDelvec952 wrote: -----
>
> To: "EL Mail List"
> From: MDelvec952
> Date: 10/25/2009 03:18AM
> Subject: Re: (erielack) Tangent Scale Models ACF 70-ton welded Drop-end
Gondola
>
>
>  
>
>
> Yes, and Conrail. The DL&W gon in the Steamtown collection was one of
these
....Mike
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 10/25/09 03:01:15 Eastern Daylight Time,
pat.moore@att.net writes:
> Mike,
>
> Does it follow that at least some of them survived to be repainted for
EL?
>
> -pat moore
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: MDelvec952
> >
> >
> >
> These are the DL&W cars, built by ACF with the PRR order featured in the
model.
> The development of the kit was related to an article to appear in the new
> Railway Prototype Cyclopedia, a link to which I circulated a few weeks
ago, to
> which I contributed DL&W photos -- no idea which they've used. But the
article
> will point out any differences between the PRR and DL&W versions.  
I did drop
> Tangent a note asking if they were going to offer a DL&W version, as I
thought
> they were going to. These were all delivered with the "Road of..."
rectangle in
> the second panel from the right. A DL&W hopper car decal set will get
the model
> > lettered.
> >
> > Should be a nice kit, and the freight car purists are raving about it
thus far.
> >
> > Mike Del Vecchio
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> In a message dated 10/24/09 23:49:50 Eastern Daylight Time,
> > eolszew1@twcny.rr.com writes:
> > The newest model from Tangent looks like it would be correct for DL&W
> > gons in the 68500 to 68999 class built by ACF in September and October
> > 1951. Am I correct about this? See photos of the model at
> > http://tangentscalemodels.com/acf70tongondolareplicas.aspx. Does anyone
> > have prototype photos of these cars in service or know of an
appropriate
> > decal set? If you have seen this model or have additional info on it or
> > the prototype I would like to know your thoughts.
> >
> >
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