The car was a Cimarron Works S scale DSP&P 26 foot box that I built and painted - but didn't letter. I sent it to Harry and this is what he did to it. On his '30s era layout - iirc - this car was a shed somewhere in Idaho Springs so it was kind of a collaborated "before and after" sorta thing.
He also did a 30 foot St. Charles type boxcar (TCW kit) for our friend Bob Axsom - first actually. It was so cool I prevailed upon Harry to do one up for me too. Bob passed away last year and I had wanted to aquire that car in memory of both him and the Union Central & Northern but alas someone else got it (Dan Kempf?). Instead Bob willed his Unimat DB to me - a total surprise (but I had expressed an interest in it a long time ago - if he were ever to sell it). It is mounted in my shop with a brass "in memory" tag on it. I remember Bob every time I drill another precision hole in something. Thanks, Marie, for getting it to me!
Harry is one of the most gracious and sincere, down to earth, modelers I know and we have been friends for a long time. I love the UC&N and am so grateful that our friend Rick Steele has "rescued " it. Now it is being set up in the Depot in Cheyenne where everyone can see it - - I want to go see it some day. I saw it a couple of times when it was in Little Colorado, Nebraska. Harry is an artist in SOoooo many ways!!
The Heitkamp car is a great piece too. It is one of a kind as far as I know - Big D being the consumate model builder in all things scale. I am not aware of another C&S S scale car that he built from scratch - well, greatly modified commercial part - machined actually! I've always wanted him to change the 6 to a 7 but he isn't inclined since the car won an award as 7642. Even if sommmmmehow I came to own the car I'm not sure I would do it....
The photo taken, by my Uncle Bender in 1909 or '10, was found among his collection after recalling the car was seen on the Trout Creek Pass line during his numerous visits to the area. It has to be pretty unique among vintage C&S photos - foreign cars on the line being pretty rare not to mention a uniquely numbered car together in the same view. We know its Bath because the depot says so... but what year?
I think the car should show up in Leadville at some point. However the company may run a risk of being fined by the ICC since it would not be legal in 1930s Leadville - it would violate many US Safety Appliances Laws! I'm not sure how the RR got away with that sending it thru Dickey!
Nice to talk about something fun after brain warping thru the Icing story all week!!
I am sure some cars got stuck in the Cloud City when the ICC changes occurred. We have a RIP track, you know. 7642 would make a fine place to store some locomotive parts or track repair tools. You could say the same for UC&N 205.
Uh, that would be a trick, since 205 was sitting on the ground in Idaho Springs in the '30s. As to 7642, EVERY car was ICC compliant by the first part of 1920 - or it was on the ground (if it still existed). So I suppose since we are warpin' the heck out of history anyhow maybe somebody's magic wand could make it all happen...?
Is the UC&N car a Harry Brunk HOn3 car or an Sn3 copy? Brings back memories. Thanks for posting.
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Lee, the clue is the Type 1 car in the string.
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Lee Gustafson
The car was a Cimarron Works S scale DSP&P 26 foot box that I built and painted - but didn't letter. I sent it to Harry and this is what he did to it. On his '30s era layout - iirc - this car was a shed somewhere in Idaho Springs so it was kind of a collaborated "before and after" sorta thing.
ReplyDeleteHe also did a 30 foot St. Charles type boxcar (TCW kit) for our friend Bob Axsom - first actually. It was so cool I prevailed upon Harry to do one up for me too. Bob passed away last year and I had wanted to aquire that car in memory of both him and the Union Central & Northern but alas someone else got it (Dan Kempf?). Instead Bob willed his Unimat DB to me - a total surprise (but I had expressed an interest in it a long time ago - if he were ever to sell it). It is mounted in my shop with a brass "in memory" tag on it. I remember Bob every time I drill another precision hole in something. Thanks, Marie, for getting it to me!
Harry is one of the most gracious and sincere, down to earth, modelers I know and we have been friends for a long time. I love the UC&N and am so grateful that our friend Rick Steele has "rescued " it. Now it is being set up in the Depot in Cheyenne where everyone can see it - - I want to go see it some day. I saw it a couple of times when it was in Little Colorado, Nebraska. Harry is an artist in SOoooo many ways!!
The Heitkamp car is a great piece too. It is one of a kind as far as I know - Big D being the consumate model builder in all things scale. I am not aware of another C&S S scale car that he built from scratch - well, greatly modified commercial part - machined actually! I've always wanted him to change the 6 to a 7 but he isn't inclined since the car won an award as 7642. Even if sommmmmehow I came to own the car I'm not sure I would do it....
The photo taken, by my Uncle Bender in 1909 or '10, was found among his collection after recalling the car was seen on the Trout Creek Pass line during his numerous visits to the area. It has to be pretty unique among vintage C&S photos - foreign cars on the line being pretty rare not to mention a uniquely numbered car together in the same view. We know its Bath because the depot says so... but what year?
I think the car should show up in Leadville at some point. However the company may run a risk of being fined by the ICC since it would not be legal in 1930s Leadville - it would violate many US Safety Appliances Laws! I'm not sure how the RR got away with that sending it thru Dickey!
Nice to talk about something fun after brain warping thru the Icing story all week!!
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I am sure some cars got stuck in the Cloud City when the ICC changes occurred. We have a RIP track, you know. 7642 would make a fine place to store some locomotive parts or track repair tools. You could say the same for UC&N 205.
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Keith Hayes
Leadville in Sn3
Uh, that would be a trick, since 205 was sitting on the ground in Idaho Springs in the '30s. As to 7642, EVERY car was ICC compliant by the first part of 1920 - or it was on the ground (if it still existed). So I suppose since we are warpin' the heck out of history anyhow maybe somebody's magic wand could make it all happen...?
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Well, while we are talking, which refer ended up on the ground in Leadville near the roundhouse?
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Keith Hayes
Leadville in Sn3
I don't know. I don't even know when it was place there - prior to 1917 is all I can state as fact.
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