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From: Paul Tupaczewski paultup AT comcast DOT net
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 06:46:22 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: (erielack) EL 6603 (ex Erie) Milk Cars color question
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Anders,

Attached is a car in the Erie TTG scheme in 1964....

- Paul


> On 10/10/2022 2:04 AM Anders Ostlund wrote:
>
>
> Thanks again Paul!
>
> As before, VERY helpful! And I got more than I asked for, some numbers of
> the cars that made it into EL, excellent! :)
> I had plans to build (print...) 4-6 cars, and now I have 6 actual EL
> numbers, very good! I'm very happy! :)
>
> The TTG scheme sounds interesting, I will do some research for that and
> perhaps I'll manage to build 6616.
> And I might paint some Erie units as well, just for fun.
>
> Yes, the resin 3D print produces amazing details! There are some drawbacks,
> you need to fiddle a bit with slicer settings and orientation to get good
> prints.
> When done, it turns out very good! I think I can do better with crisper
> details in my prints, the bogies are a bit "soft" in appearance.
> But for N-scale and "playing trains", they are excellent! Adding some more
> effort and applying separate Grab Irons of brass/NS wire may improve
> further.
> I went for "good enough" and tried to mimic the detail appearance of
> Micro-Trains and Atlas cars, it blends better with all my other cars...
>
> Again, thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Anders in Sweden
>
> Den mån 10 okt. 2022 kl 00:05 skrev Paul Tupaczewski :
>
> > Anders Ostlund asked:
> >
> > > On the http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/ webpage I found what I think is
> > the
> > > original specification of these cars. And from that I can tell that they
> > > were painted in Pullman Green by Erie and had Gold lettering, chassis and
> > > bogies were black and so was the roof walk... But... The actual roof?
> > >
> > > From the specification I can only see that they had some kind of base
> > > paint, but there is no top coat in the spec (or I just missed it...).
> > >
> > > Was the roof also black as the Roof Walk, or was it silver (metal)
> > finish?
> > > Pullman Green?
> >
> > In all the photos where you can sort of make out the roof color, they
> > appear to be Pullman Green with a black-painted roofwalk. This applies to
> > the cars that were all Pullman Green. Don't forget - some of the cars did
> > get two-tone green paint. I don't know the roof color on these, but I
> > surmise it would likely be black on those.
> >
> > > And did any more than the 6603 survive into EL?
> >
> > Well, that's a two-part question I think! I have photos of the following
> > cars with EL lettering (green paint): 6603, 6616, 6623, 6638.
> >
> > And I do have a photo of Erie 6630 in TTG paint in 1964.
> >
> > After their express service ended, a number of these cars entered MOW
> > service. I have photos of the following:
> >
> > 418011
> > 418021
> > 418027
> > 419011
> > 419012 (this one was ex-EL 6616)
> > 419013
> >
> > All these cars were Pullman Green, except 419013, which was Two-Tone Green
> > (TTG).
> >
> > Hope this helps...
> >
> >
> > > I attached a picture of the first printed car I have made, ready for
> > paint
> > > (when I got it figured out...).
> >
> > These look great! I can't believe this is N scale!
> >
> > - Paul
> >
>
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