[PRCo] Re: Assorted

Herb Brannon hrbran at cavtel.net
Wed Sep 7 11:50:47 EDT 2011


Yes, it is.
You may currently purchase the Bromo Seltzer tower in kit form.
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:39, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> ____________________________________________________________________________
> >> ____________________________
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Herb Brannon
> > In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Derrick
>
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park





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