Re: [cpsig] Re: action red colour scheme
- From: Jack Hofmockel <jack.hofmockel@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:52:31 -0800 (PST)
Comments below . . . but, really, is it that hard to "get it right"? Or is it
just a "Toy" train outlook? ANYwho - for whatever it's worth - which probably
isn't much.
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From:cv_acr <cv_acr@xxxxxxxxx>
To:cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent:Wednesday, November 30, 2011 1:32 PM
Subject:[cpsig] Re: action red colour scheme
--- In cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Eric" <mile179kingston@...> wrote:
A model manufacturer of the time (Tyco or Bachmann) picked up on the car
numbers from the display train and used them for subsequent Ho scale cars: CP
56767 for a yellow 40-foot (foobie) boxcar, and CP 438850 for a (non-Angus
foobie) van.
Then there's whatever idiot at Tyco that came up with this:
http://goingincirclez.com/Kaleid2G/Tyco/GICG/BoxcarBonzai/339D_10_a.jpg
OOPS!!!! It must have been that the car was a 50' but the painter thought it
was only a 40'.
This one really takes the cake:
http://goingincirclez.com/Kaleid2G/Tyco/GICG/BoxcarBonzai/CPRWhite.jpg
It's like Guy Fleegman once said, "Oh, *that's* not right! No . . ."
from:
http://goingincirclez.com/TycoTrains/Guide/3
Chris vanderHeide
Sarnia, ON
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