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Author:  Bob Yarger [ Sun Nov 30, 2003 4:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Model question
Slightly off topic, sorry, but I seem to have exhausted all other avenues. A few years ago, I saw a photo in (I think) Model Railroader of a model of a UP rotary snowplow that was highly detailed. This was a rebuilt Athearn model of the Lima rotary that is now at Illinois Railway Museum, formerly at Kansas City, and I think the modeler was from Kansas City.

I can't seem to find the photo in my 50+ year magazine collection, nor find it listed in Kalmbach's Model Train Index. I think it may have been on an award page of some kind. Can anyone help me find the issue?

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Author:  David Forsyth [ Mon Dec 01, 2003 5:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Model question
>Your'e correct, it was a model of the month feature, excellent modeling effort, Like you can't remember which issue, but I keep thinking it was further back then a couple of years ago. Slightly off topic, sorry, but I seem to
> have exhausted all other avenues. A few
> years ago, I saw a photo in (I think) Model
> Railroader of a model of a UP rotary
> snowplow that was highly detailed. This was
> a rebuilt Athearn model of the Lima rotary
> that is now at Illinois Railway Museum,
> formerly at Kansas City, and I think the
> modeler was from Kansas City.

> I can't seem to find the photo in my 50+
> year magazine collection, nor find it listed
> in Kalmbach's Model Train Index. I think it
> may have been on an award page of some kind.
> Can anyone help me find the issue?


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Author:  David Forsyth [ Mon Dec 01, 2003 8:33 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Model question
Allow me to elaborate from memory, a C&O style tender was used (as per the prototype, EX C&O 2-8-8-2s UP aquired during the war, only to scrap them in 1946, with the tenders being reused behind 2-10-2s and for MoW duties), only model ones i'm aware of were made by Rivarossi.Body and tender were painted silver with the blade and housing painted a bright red (scarlet?) agree this was detailed to the nines. Seem to recall that the metal walkways were built up using various metal etchings (detail associates? and scatchbuilding?).

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