Re: [cpsig] Re: action red colour scheme

  • From: Larry Sebelley <sebelley@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:27:08 -0800 (PST)

It seems that Tyco has invalidated the mantra that "there is a prototype for 
everything" eh?


L.A. (Larry) Sebelley
Convention Chair, Pacific Northwest Region
Assistant Treasurer, Pacific Northwest Region
Treasurer, PNR 7th Division
Treasurer, Coldslap Free-mo
(604) 858-5717
www.members.shaw.ca/coldslap/welcome.htm
 


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From: Jack Hofmockel <jack.hofmockel@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <cpsig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:52:31 AM
Subject: Re: [cpsig] Re: action red colour scheme


 
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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