Hey, John - I’ve received your email - many thanks, and tried three times to return a message to you - each time it fails to do so and tells me that I have a mailer daemon, the address is incorrect, your email is now stored in drafts etc.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Best
tac
PS - nice lamps - what brand are they?
Gary - I don’t know whether or not to be flattered or flattened.
I’ll take it that I’m flattered, but wish to point out that like Mr Twain, all rumours of my cessation of life are, thus far, greatly exaggerated.
Best
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
tac Foley said:
Gary - I don’t know whether or not to be flattered or flattened.
I’ll take it that I’m flattered, but wish to point out that like Mr Twain, all rumours of my cessation of life are, thus far, greatly exaggerated.
Best
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
Tac,
It was meant kindly, believe me. When I first saw a shot of you that your “cousin” in Oregon took, I noticed it then. My Dad’s grandfather came from Yorkshire. Deep roots in England. As far as Mr. Twain is concerned, my Pop passed away two years ago at 97 years young!
I got one! I contacted Phil and he had another without marker lights. Yay me!!
I dunno the brand.
Trackside details makes a nice set too. I have TD-213 on my cars.
http://www.tracksidedetails.com/parts201-220/211-222.html
Terry
Terry - I was trying VERY hard not to name names here, for fear of peeing in somebody’s hat, but if you look back over this thread, you might notice that I have already noted some nice marker lights, but was not happy to spend $15.00 for some guy or gal to put them in a little envelope and send them to me.
I’m not saying that it WAS Trackside Details, but I AM saying that the shipping costs are remarkably alike in every respect. 
tac
Yeah, they aren’t cheap but I like them. I get mine from Clem at Warrior Run during the ECLSTS. Plus a ringed lens from mouser fits perfect in them.
Them be’s the Fresnel len of which they speaks, right?
No ‘mousers’ here in rural England…
tac
Ottawa Valley GRS
tac, you may not have a “Mousers”, but look around for LED Lens Mounts. They really do look nice.
Bruce Chandler said:
tac, you may not have a “Mousers”, but look around for LED Lens Mounts. They really do look nice.
That they do, for sure.
I truly have no idea where I’m likely to find anything like this.
We live in a locale that makes the Namib Desert look like Broadway.
This is a map of our local area - we live about where the ‘X’ is located.
X
tac
tac, Google is your friend. Do a search for LED Lens. I don’t know where I’d find them around here either, so I have them delivered.
Thanks, Ken, you’rea real pal. Just about done the long walkway this evening. I’ll be attaching the final details tomorrow - cupola braces [loose, so I can remove it], smoke-jack, glad-paws/brake-hoses, marker lights courtesy of Mr Bouck, trucks, and finally, when I can collect what remains of my wits, Stan’s beautiful decals.
Then some very light weatherment to finish it off, and then I might be satisfied…
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Van Builder Boys
tac Foley said:
Thanks, Ken, you’rea real pal. Just about done the long walkway this evening. I’ll be attaching the final details tomorrow - cupola braces [loose, so I can remove it], smoke-jack, glad-paws/brake-hoses, marker lights courtesy of Mr Bouck, trucks,
And a coffee pot to sit on top that stove…
Lights left 3 days ago snail mail. Go ahead and finish it. You just need to drill 2 tiny holes for the marker light.
Looking really good.
I am sure its prototypical, but I find it odd that these crummies don’t have a platform at the end doors.
David - many of them were re-constituted boxcars of one kind or another, and instead of scrapping them or setting them afire to warm the railroadmen of a cold winter night, they made use of them instead. Makes sense when your railroad is down on its luck and dyin’ away.
If you look at the Mo-Pac you’ll see that some of their transfer cabeese are nothing more than a chicken coop on a flat car…leastways, they look like that.
The Hull-Oakes Lumber business in Dawson OR used to have its products collected from the class 1 at Corvallis, and because there was no Y or other way of effecting a turnaround, they used to back the lumber train all the way from Corvallis yard to the lumber yard, with a nice old Mo-Pac transfer caboose heading up…
It’s well-worth getting onto Youtube and looking at the H-O set-up, one of the very few STEAM-DRIVEN lumber yards left in the entire US of A.
tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Live-steam Sawmill Boys
I know these are MOW drovers cabeese but, didn’t an actual drovers caboose, before being put in MOW service have benches in it? I believe they were used on live stock trains for the animal owners to ride in to watch livestock and sell them on arrival. Or, at least one of the uses. Is it possible that some short lines used them for low volume passenger service in mixed trains?
Terry