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    Southern Pacific "Overnight Express" train

    ...hey Matt, I have seen shots of strings of SP tankers mixed in with general freight, not just a dedicated tank train - I think that concept came along a bit later...one thing I've seen that I'm trying to model, using a five car set of Athearn single dome tank cars from that time period, is a...
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    Southern Pacific "Overnight Express" train

    ...found the book I was looking for, also, Tony Thompson from the Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society answered a question I fired his way, here's what you want to know: The black and silver "Overnight" boxcars were used from 1946 to 1956, when the overall silver cars were...
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    The Atlas Forum is up and running again

    ...although you may see me over on the Atlas Forum, you will also find me here, over at RailroadForums.com and at Railroad Line Forums, we don't have to be exclusive in our membership, try to get a little more exposure guys, its a lot more interesting seeing what a larger percentage of railfans...
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    www.modeltrainsweathered.com

    ...very nice work, an inspiration and good example of what you can do - and it's good to see the fact pointed out that weathering is not that hard, it just takes a bit of your time...but in the end your time is very justified by the results you can see here. cheers, Lorne Miller
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    Southern Pacific "Overnight Express" train

    ...a question for Matt: ...are you talking about a passenger train with Express boxcars as part of the consist, a mail train with the same type cars in its consist, or a freight with overnight cars as part of the consist - this does make a difference as to the kinds of motive power and their...
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    Moving to San Diego from Minnesota - Sell My Trains?

    ...hey, I'm with you, I'm a California native, born in the foggy bay area. Like I said, I'd drop anything and run fast if I had an opportunity to relocate to a waiting job in San Diego... ...as for the comment on climatel, it was in a recent newspaper article, in the travel section, actually...
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    The Atlas Forum is up and running again

    ...for those interested, Atlas has got their Forum back online. You have to re-register, but it doesn't take that long, the new format is pretty straight forward and easy to understand, its the same format as that used on 'The Railroad Forum'. Lorne Miller
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    Moving to San Diego from Minnesota - Sell My Trains?

    ...San Diego, boy!!...if the oportunity came my way to move to a new job in San Diego, no set of model trains would get in my way, this is one of the nicest places in the world to live, second best overall climate in the world, and!! - they have one of the largest model railroads in North...
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    What is your favorite Steam Locomotive?

    ...my all time favorite is the 4-8-4 Northern class, this may be due to the fact these are the ones I've taken the most photo's of, I've had the oportunity to watch two of them in action within the last couple of years - both operating out of the old Espee Brooklyn Yard roundhouse in Portland...
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    Do you all prefer AMI Instant Roadbed or Cork Roadbed?

    ...depends on what kind of scene you're attempting to duplicate, I use cork to replicate modern mainline high iron, where you see regularly maintained high shouldered ballast with not a weed in sight. For industrial areas where the track is surrounded by roads and accessways I just apply the...
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    Best way to weather engines and cars with a brush?

    ...when it comes to weathering, there is no 'correct' way to do it, once you've decided to take the plunge into weathering a locomotive, piece of rolling stock or structure, the best thing to do is take a look at the real thing and try to duplicate what you see. I've tried using an airbrush to...
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    Southern Pacific freight car/caboose brown?

    ...hey Alex, its my experience that, due to weathering, amd the actual differences in paint from varying manufacturers, you can get away with pretty well anyone's version of boxcar red, mineral red, or tuscan brown...once you've weathered the car you won't notice any color discrepencies -...
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    Sanding tower help.

    ...yeah, no two the same, that's my observation as well, go with what 'looks right' and I doubt you'll be unhappy. I've built almost half a dozen sand towers now, and each one was totally different from the previous version... Lorne Miller
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    FRED's on watch...

    ...no FRED's here, sorry, all we got is cabeese running on this here road... Lorne
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    Empire Builder cars

    ...ok, here's a question for all the passenger train experts out there, I'm going to be getting a Sunset brass model of the SP&S #700, this is identical to an NP 4-8-4 Northern, in fact these are the steam engines that gave rise to the class name "Northern". Although these locomotives did haul...
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