[PRCo] Re: Assorted

[Fred Schneider]

Sorry Herr Dietrich but sometimes we need a fall guy to get things flowing again.   It was a bit dead for a month.   

You can build part of the Smithfield Street Bridge and then use mirrors?   

Someone also needs to model the "Inverted Mineshaft" and all the other buildings in Oakland.

WITF last night aired one of its Explore Pennsylvania series films on Pittsburgh ... didn't remind me at all of what I remember of Pittsburgh.   My Strip District was the PRR freight house and a bunch of factories; now it is a place to go to eat.  I couldn't find it on line.   But some of you might like this similar Pittsburgh tape from the series.

http://video.witf.org/video/2094664180   


On Sep 7, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Herb Brannon wrote:

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