I have a rail yard models trinity multan sulfur tank car kit. No directions though. Where can I get a set?
Shane
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You think you can look at images of moltan sulfer tank cars and figure it out?
I mean, it's a tank car, should be easy enough to figure it out, BUT, I have no experience with resin kits.
Heres what I found on a search:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/rail-yard-models-assembled-kit-111-292595839
Mike.
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Rail Yard Models closed at the beginning of March 2012, and it appears the URL they used has been for sale since. I'm afraid you may have to rely on the kindness of strangers to get a scanned or copied version of the relevant instructions sent to you.
Barring that, if you take pictures of the components it may be possible to figure out an approach to construction that at least contains a minimum of pitfalls...
Gene's kits came with a mini-cd with the instructions on them rather than a set of printed instructions. So the cd may be in your box and you can print out your own instructions. I do not have one of those kits but maybe some other modeler can e-mail you the files off the cd.
These are difficult kits to make what with all the detail parts and Gene's instructions need to be followed in sequence to come up with a completed model.
Rick Jesionowski
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dti406Gene's kits came with a mini-CD with the instructions on them rather than a set of printed instructions.
If that is so, then even the "unopened" kits on eBay should have the documentation available for transfer, saving as files on hard-drive storage, and printing out (to PDF if need be).
I do have IDE drives that will read the smaller CDs, and I believe it is still possible to find the 'adapter rings' that let them be used in at least some of the slot-loading drives.
Overmod dti406 Gene's kits came with a mini-CD with the instructions on them rather than a set of printed instructions. Does that imply, as I hope it does, that he burned all the instructions for all the kits onto the one medium and then just popped a 19-cent duplicate into the box of every kit? If that is so, then even the "unopened" kits on eBay should have the documentation available for transfer, saving as files on hard-drive storage, and printing out (to PDF if need be). I do have IDE drives that will read the smaller CDs, and I believe it is still possible to find the 'adapter rings' that let them be used in at least some of the slot-loading drives.
dti406 Gene's kits came with a mini-CD with the instructions on them rather than a set of printed instructions.
Does that imply, as I hope it does, that he burned all the instructions for all the kits onto the one medium and then just popped a 19-cent duplicate into the box of every kit?
Yes you are correct, all the kits came with the mini-cd, and I have a search for Railyard Models on E-bay, and there have not been any kits up for sale in the last 6 months, and those have been the PS 4785's and X58's that have been done in plastic recently.
But anybody who bought a kit should have that cd in their hands, I have a bunch but not that car. I have the ones for the PRR G41and X58 along with the PC G47 & X79, the PS 4785 CH and various Hot Coil Cars.
dti406 I have a search for Railyard Models on E-bay, and there have not been any kits up for sale in the last 6 months
I don't know if it matters but I used 'Rail Yard Models' as the precise search term on the 'Bay.
none of my drives are IDE nor flat. they are side load. the software has to be able to understand it is a mini disk. I dont have the disk. So I take it all the directions are on that disk?
A mini-CD can be read correctly by any drive mechanism that will mount it; the center hole is common dimension, the pickup will detect the beginning (which is on the inside diameter of the track information, nearest the hole), and the volume will then presumably mount to a desktop and display a files directory the same way the computer has been set to do for 'ordinary' data CDs. If you have a sideloading 'drawer' drive with a center spindle you 'snap' the disk onto, you're all set -- the little one snaps on just like bigger ones. If you have a slot-loading drive, you can probably use one of the 'adapters' (it's a "donut"-profile disk with the correct outer diameter, thickness and concentricity to load into a slot, with the mini disk clipped into the hole in the middle).
The 'instructions' themselves are likely PDF files. There may be some kind of cataloguing system intended to 'autorun' when loaded that lets you choose the particular set of instructions you want -- that may not work on current Windows or other operating systems, but you should still be able to access the PDF files, even if they have cryptic names, and just open them one by one if necessary until you find the 'right' one.
It is remotely possible that an emulated system may have to be used to get the files off the CD and saved correctly, for example if the instruction files have some proprietary protection that only lets them be read with special permissions. That is not a major issue; there are even a couple of 'free online services' that can create a VM in 'the cloud' that will work for this purpose.
As an update to this topic that may be of more general interest: I was offered a reasonable price by an eBay seller on a Rail Yard Models kit that explicitly includes the instruction CD. Once that kit arrives -- slated for around the 3rd of February -- I'm going to see how the CD runs in a portable CD/DVD reader connected to various types of computer, and whether more 'universally' readable formats for the contained instruction files can be generated. At the very least I expect to be able to extract some kind of .iso disk format that could be used to burn some form of replica instruction disk.
Well, regrettably, at least by the time of kit 107.5 the mini-CD instructions do not include "all" the different kits.
My CD is a Memorex 'pocket CD', marked with a Sharpie to indicate it is for '107.5' I had no trouble whatsoever loading it in an external DVD drive (it can't be 'slot-loading' but even the cheap drives based on 'walkman'-style players will work) and mounting it and accessing its contents on a Mac running 10.6.8. All the files opened correctly and clearly. PCs should be able to access it as readily.
The CD contains only five items, all in PDF format:
A prototype discussion, 4785 PS-2CD History.pdf
The catalog to date, Catalog.pdf
Drawings, Drawing-107.5-6.pdf
Instructions, Instructions_107.pdf
Special decal instructions, RailGraphisInstructions.pdf
The volume on mini-CD is in ISO 9660 (Joliet) format, showing a capacity of 18MB, and 100% of that capacity shows as being used by the five files. This argues that there was not a mini-CD at some time that had all the instructions for all the kits on it.
I suppose it was worth the expense to establish that this is the likely truth about the Rail Yard Models documentation; we'll have to wait until someone actually acquires a sulfur-tank CD to be able to have the documentation. In the meantime, anyone who needs copies of the 107.5 documentation can PM me...
To my knowledge Gene Fusco is still in the hobby although it appears he has left Intermountain. There must be others who are similarly possessed of a kit but not the instructions.
Dave Nelson
Dave,
I am sure others have missing directions. Especially if they came from a second hand sellers. ebay as example. Which is where mine came from without the directions.
I hope you find the mini-CD.
I have experience with only one Railyard kit, and the instructions were top-notch.
-Kevin
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