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| Musicman59... |
 Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:53 am |
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Anyone make engines/cars from the mid 1800's era? Transcontinental
Railroad, etc. What was used from Texas heading West.
Family has a long old west history and thought it would be appropriate
to have what they may have come out west on. Pretty sure it was not
on Conestoga wagons..
thx - Craig |
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| Christopher A. Lee... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 11:05 am |
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:53:23 -0700 (PDT), Musicman59
<cwestbrooke at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Anyone make engines/cars from the mid 1800's era? Transcontinental
Railroad, etc. What was used from Texas heading West.
Family has a long old west history and thought it would be appropriate
to have what they may have come out west on. Pretty sure it was not
on Conestoga wagons..
There's quite a lot of stuff in varying qualities. Like the Jupiter
and the 119 (the golden Spike engines) available in plastic and brass.
Period passenger cars from MDC/Roundhose which aren't very good and
Con-Cor which are. Again as wll as some pretty good brass. Freight
cars from MDC/Roundhouse as well as resin kits from companies like
Funaro & Camerlego which are very good.
There is a yahoo group called early-rail which I suggest you subscribe
to.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EarlyRail/join
They even have a co-operative doing some reasin kits for early
vehicles.
>thx - Craig |
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| Rich... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:35 pm |
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| Bob May... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:48 pm |
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For engines, the 4 and 6 wheel driver locos were the common engines with the
Consolidations being the big freight engine. For passenger cars, the early
clestory roofed cars were what was common. Steel floors were rare anywhere
but the more modern east. Pullman just started thei service (Pullman
provided sleepers to the various railroads in their own cars!). For
freight, the 30' car was a lot more common and they were all wood cars
slowly converting to steel framed cars towards the end of your era.
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| Rick Jones... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 4:40 pm |
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Musicman59 wrote:
Quote: Anyone make engines/cars from the mid 1800's era? Transcontinental
Railroad, etc. What was used from Texas heading West.
Family has a long old west history and thought it would be appropriate
to have what they may have come out west on. Pretty sure it was not
on Conestoga wagons..
If you're not afraid of wood craftsman kits Trout Creek Engineering
has a nice selection of pre-1900 rolling stock kits.
http://www.troutcreekeng.com/tcho.html
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| Rich... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 7:56 am |
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On Oct 6, 12:53 pm, Musicman59 <cwestbro... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Anyone make engines/cars from the mid 1800's era? Transcontinental
Railroad, etc. What was used from Texas heading West.
Family has a long old west history and thought it would be appropriate
to have what they may have come out west on. Pretty sure it was not
on Conestoga wagons..
thx - Craig
You did not mention what area of the country. I take mid 1800s as
1850. Very little west of the mississippi river. Do a scroogle search
for transcontinental railroad. Scroogle does not track you like
Google.
http://www.scroogle.org/ |
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| Musicman59... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:18 am |
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On Oct 7, 10:56 am, Rich <gagnonrc... at (no spam) netscape.net> wrote:
Quote: On Oct 6, 12:53 pm, Musicman59 <cwestbro... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone make engines/cars from the mid 1800's era? Transcontinental
Railroad, etc. What was used from Texas heading West.
Family has a long old west history and thought it would be appropriate
to have what they may have come out west on. Pretty sure it was not
on Conestoga wagons..
thx - Craig
You did not mention what area of the country. I take mid 1800s as
1850. Very little west of the mississippi river. Do a scroogle search
for transcontinental railroad. Scroogle does not track you like
Google.
http://www.scroogle.org/
sorry, that would be Texas and Arizona
Craig |
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| Rich... |
| Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:57 am |
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On Oct 7, 4:18 pm, Musicman59 <cwestbro... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: On Oct 7, 10:56 am, Rich <gagnonrc... at (no spam) netscape.net> wrote:
On Oct 6, 12:53 pm, Musicman59 <cwestbro... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone make engines/cars from the mid 1800's era? Transcontinental
Railroad, etc. What was used from Texas heading West.
Family has a long old west history and thought it would be appropriate
to have what they may have come out west on. Pretty sure it was not
on Conestoga wagons..
thx - Craig
You did not mention what area of the country. I take mid 1800s as
1850. Very little west of the mississippi river. Do a scroogle search
for transcontinental railroad. Scroogle does not track you like
Google.
http://www.scroogle.org/
sorry, that would be Texas and Arizona
Craig
Search the 'Net for trains texas and trains arizona You can also try
railroads texas, railroads arizona. You will find a lot of links. It
will take some reading, but you will learn a lot. Store the links in
your Favorites folder. I do this a lot as many times I have seen mis-
information from people in forums. Most of the time, I can sort out
the real data from the opinion data by searching. Good luck.
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| Larry Blanchard... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:20 am |
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On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:13:00 -0500, Mark Mathu wrote:
Quote: a 16-page special section called
"Old Time Railroading" between pp. 54 & 54,
Aha! The fourth dimension!
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| Mark Mathu... |
| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:20 am |
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"Larry Blanchard" <lblanch at (no spam) fastmail.fm> wrote in message
news:v5udnaL0up4yyVLXnZ2dnUVZ_rli4p2d at (no spam) pghconnect.com...
Quote: a 16-page special section called
"Old Time Railroading" between pp. 54 & 54,
Aha! The fourth dimension!
Unlike when you're a kid and had to read a 100-page novel and were
disappointed to find that there extra pages in the book, THIS was a happy
discovery! |
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