[PRCo] Re: Assorted

[Derrick Brashear]

hm. i think that's the guy that did the bromo seltzer tower and
baltimore penn station models.


On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
> If you are interested in excellent HO scale buildings check out this
> website:
> http://www.custommodelrailroads.com/
>
>
> They offer the best HO scale city building kits I have ever seen. Expensive,
> but well worth the price. Click on "BUILDING KITS" for the current
> offerings.
>
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 09:17, BobDietrich <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Well Fred that leaves me off the hook for those buildings, I won't be doing
>> Smithfield Street bridge in this lifetime.  I just can't do that much
>> repetition.
>>
>> The Southern Calif Traction Club is the opposite of East Penn.  Where we
>> are
>> a loose bunch caring only about the module interface they are tightly
>> controlled so everything on their modules is coordinated and put together
>> the same way at every show.  It looks like the downtown scenes were taken
>> on
>> Sunday morning, no people around.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org
>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
>> Schneider
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 2:25 PM
>> To: Pittsburgh Railways
>> Subject: [PRCo] Assorted
>>
>> Open letter to Bob Dietrich ...
>>
>> Look at the tall buildings in this video at the beginning and again around
>> 6:40 and 7:52.
>>
>> Makes one wonder when the Gulf Building, the Koppers Building, the Alcoa
>> Building are going to appear at the north end of South Hills Tunnel in one
>> of your modules ...
>>
>> Of course after you finish Smithfield Street Bridge and the B&O Station....
>>
>> :<)
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=EEOM3Q3JJ_o
>>
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>> I don't know Barry how Johnstown Traction mounted those Pepsi crowns on the
>> cars ... I suspect sheet metal screws.   They were removed in the last or
>> so
>> ... whenever the advert contract ran out on the cars.   Perhaps they were
>> moved over to the new buses. I wasn't there to find out; was chasing
>> British
>> and German steam and trams that summer and saluting army officers.   (You
>> notice which order I put them in.  Has something to do with priorities.)
>>
>> Did you learn a new word?   The pressed metal cap on a soda or beer bottle
>> was called a crown.  How do I know so much.   I spent part of one summer in
>> Armstrong's Closure plant tending crown presses.
>>
>> Fred the Ugly
>>
>>
>>
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> Herb Brannon
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Derrick