Re: Be a patron of the narrow gauge model building arts??
Posted by Jim Courtney on Oct 30, 2021; 8:10pm
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/Be-a-patron-of-the-narrow-gauge-model-building-arts-tp17065p17082.html
Hi Dave,
This is the kind of discussion I was hoping for.
Bill Meredith's personal interest is DSP&P c.1888, and he is planning to start a layout by the first of the year. I suspect that he will be designing pre-C&S kits for his own use from time to time and offer them to the general market as well. I know he wants to design kits for the Bowers-Dure coaches and combines with the original roof--a couple continued in that configuration into the late 1890s and first years of the C&S, like this one:
Other pre-C&S projects that might have decent sales potential:
24' CC/UPD&G/C&S coal and flat cars. Especially if Michael York can print appropriate trucks in all scales.
26' Litchfield box cars, coals, flats and the short Tiffany reefers with Litchfield parts. Michael is already working on the type A trucks.
27' UP built box and coal cars. These were produced in Sn3 as resin kits by Cimarron Works many years ago, not in other scales.
30' Peninsular box cars of 1884.
Generally, I plan to build the various house cars of Evergreen styrene, as they are simple in construction and detail. Coal and flat cars are more important (to me) as laser wood kits.
Passenger cars are another issue. Th Co-Op dashboard is indicating Bill is planning an On3 run of the DSP&P Pullmans. I've never thought of Bill's products in terms of passenger cars before, considered him a freight car guy. It will be interesting to see how he handles the roof.
I figured that I could only afford to sponsor one kit and chose the Peninsular coal cars, because there were a lot of them (180) and they lasted until the 19teens. They could be lettered for DSP&P, DL&G and the first 15 year or so of the C&S--some even got the block C&S monogram lettering.
I didn't expect Jeff and Steve to jump in as co-investors. So I feel that I can partner in one more project. Passenger cars are another C&S void in all three scales, pretty much limited to brass RPO 13 and the 70-76 coaches in brass, plus a few resin kits in Sn3. I think that the biggest need and the simplest to design would be head end cars, specifically the two door / side baggage cars, C&S 1 and 2:
If produced in Sn3, this would complete my mid-1920s passenger train when combined with an Overland coach (the RPOs didn't run past Como in the mid 1920s, showed up again when the Leadville passenger went tri-weekly). They wouldn't be useful for a pre-1916 roster, but most folks modeling the C&S focus on the mid-1920s to the 1930s any way.
Of the 4 C&S baggage cars, only numbers 1 and 2 were near identical, excepting the clerestory roof window numbers, so each potential customer could justify buying two, in each of the scales.
Anyone interested in partnering in underwriting baggage cars 1 and 2?
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Hi Dave,
This is the kind of discussion I was hoping for.
Bill Meredith's personal interest is DSP&P c.1888, and he is planning to start a layout by the first of the year. I suspect that he will be designing pre-C&S kits for his own use from time to time and offer them to the general market as well. I know he wants to design kits for the Bowers-Dure coaches and combines with the original roof--a couple continued in that configuration into the late 1890s and first years of the C&S, like this one:
Other pre-C&S projects that might have decent sales potential:
24' CC/UPD&G/C&S coal and flat cars. Especially if Michael York can print appropriate trucks in all scales.
26' Litchfield box cars, coals, flats and the short Tiffany reefers with Litchfield parts. Michael is already working on the type A trucks.
27' UP built box and coal cars. These were produced in Sn3 as resin kits by Cimarron Works many years ago, not in other scales.
30' Peninsular box cars of 1884.
Generally, I plan to build the various house cars of Evergreen styrene, as they are simple in construction and detail. Coal and flat cars are more important (to me) as laser wood kits.
Passenger cars are another issue. Th Co-Op dashboard is indicating Bill is planning an On3 run of the DSP&P Pullmans. I've never thought of Bill's products in terms of passenger cars before, considered him a freight car guy. It will be interesting to see how he handles the roof.
I figured that I could only afford to sponsor one kit and chose the Peninsular coal cars, because there were a lot of them (180) and they lasted until the 19teens. They could be lettered for DSP&P, DL&G and the first 15 year or so of the C&S--some even got the block C&S monogram lettering.
I didn't expect Jeff and Steve to jump in as co-investors. So I feel that I can partner in one more project. Passenger cars are another C&S void in all three scales, pretty much limited to brass RPO 13 and the 70-76 coaches in brass, plus a few resin kits in Sn3. I think that the biggest need and the simplest to design would be head end cars, specifically the two door / side baggage cars, C&S 1 and 2:
If produced in Sn3, this would complete my mid-1920s passenger train when combined with an Overland coach (the RPOs didn't run past Como in the mid 1920s, showed up again when the Leadville passenger went tri-weekly). They wouldn't be useful for a pre-1916 roster, but most folks modeling the C&S focus on the mid-1920s to the 1930s any way.
Of the 4 C&S baggage cars, only numbers 1 and 2 were near identical, excepting the clerestory roof window numbers, so each potential customer could justify buying two, in each of the scales.
Anyone interested in partnering in underwriting baggage cars 1 and 2?
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
Poulsbo, WA
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