Also, in line of awarenss and such, Hubert's released a model (is that the only one they did? They seemed to have come and gone PDQ) of Williamette & Pacific's Dare Car. Kinda a neat model.
And as for personal projects, the following is a photshop of a project I have painted, and am working on lettering. And adding the bell.
-Morgan
We recently built a new house (with a basement, YEAH), and every cement truck that showed up had some non-profit or charity's logo on the drum. I think it is an industry wide thing. They are to be commended for the practice.
Recovering former former model railroader.
Getting part way back to the original point, have any of us decorated a car for a charity, or to acknowledge a local business?
Some years ago, while employed by a major toy retailer, I salvaged a train set box from the dumpster. It had gotten seriosly crunched - the only salvage was the power pack, some damaged sectional track and a Geoffery box car. I changed the horn hook couplers, replacing them with some rust-painted Kadee K couplers old enough to run for the Senate. Then I gave it a light weathering job, mounted it on a length of Atlas flex on a nicely-stained piece of 2x4 with a sloped face on one side, and presented it to my store director for Christmas.
He had no problem with letting me keep the power pack Later he authorized me to claim some heavy styrene from outdated displays and about a mile of leftover 4-conductor comm cable.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
About 15 years ago (maybe more) I saw a cement mixer with "SAY NO TO DRUGS" on the barrel. Walthers had just come out with theys resin Mack heavy cement mixer, so I painted and decalled the drum to match what I saw.
Regardless of what is said, a logo, or something promoting health or a local non-profit does get a look when painted on a mixer drum.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
galaxy CTValleyRR: ...I think you're being overly cynical. Both I and the 6 women of my personal acquaintance who are *** cancer survivors are exceedingly greatful for the $1000 that company contributes annually, and appreciate their additional efforts to get others to chip in. Did you make your contribution yet? You may have hijacked the thread a bit here but: 1} Perhaps a bit cynical, but The point is they boast of making "major contributions" to b r e a s t cancer research. I would not consider $1,000 per year to be a "major contribution". It's not like they donate a portion of their sales of each gallon or pound of propane over the course of the year to research, like many corporations donate a portion of every sale to research. It may be more than the average joe contributes, but for a corporation...small peanuts.
CTValleyRR: ...I think you're being overly cynical. Both I and the 6 women of my personal acquaintance who are *** cancer survivors are exceedingly greatful for the $1000 that company contributes annually, and appreciate their additional efforts to get others to chip in. Did you make your contribution yet?
...I think you're being overly cynical.
Both I and the 6 women of my personal acquaintance who are *** cancer survivors are exceedingly greatful for the $1000 that company contributes annually, and appreciate their additional efforts to get others to chip in.
Did you make your contribution yet?
You may have hijacked the thread a bit here but:
1} Perhaps a bit cynical, but The point is they boast of making "major contributions" to b r e a s t cancer research. I would not consider $1,000 per year to be a "major contribution". It's not like they donate a portion of their sales of each gallon or pound of propane over the course of the year to research, like many corporations donate a portion of every sale to research. It may be more than the average joe contributes, but for a corporation...small peanuts.
Yes, perhaps a bit of a hijack, and I freely admit that I have seen none of their advertising or other self-promotion, so I really can't comment on how obnoxiious it is. But yes, in point of fact, I do consider $1000 to be a major contribution in the light of how the campaign is organized It's a metric butt ton more than I give annually. Never mind the untold thousands of dollars of value in free advertising gained by their pink propane truck generates.
In point of fact, vendors of petroleum products don't make very much profit on each individual sale; they're forced to make it up in volume. Plus, most of them are small, mom and pop businesses (all the ones in my local area are), who don't make all that much in profit anyway. What's his donation as a percent of his annual profits?
I used to have a credit card that gave 0.5% of every purchase to my Alma Mater. Imagine my chagrin when I discovered that in a typical year, I would have given far more had I sent a $100 check. Most of those "X% of every purchase" (or worse, the very vague "a portion of every purchase") campaigns are much more "philanthropic sleight of hand" than your local propane dealer, who apparently makes no attempt to hide the amount of his annual donation (yes, Yoplait, I'm thinking of you and your pink-topped yogurts).
And, in the hope of returning this thread to its owner, this will be my last comment upon the subject.
Connecticut Valley Railroad A Branch of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford
"If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right." -- Henry Ford
A concrete company up north in VT has a pink truck too. They also do one up with thousands of lights at Christmea.
I agree with CTVRR that awareness is as important as reasearch. Finding things early make them much easier to treat whether *** csncer or something else.
Have fun,
CTValleyRR ...I think you're being overly cynical. Both I and the 6 women of my personal acquaintance who are breast cancer survivors are exceedingly greatful for the $1000 that company contributes annually, and appreciate their additional efforts to get others to chip in. Did you make your contribution yet?
Both I and the 6 women of my personal acquaintance who are breast cancer survivors are exceedingly greatful for the $1000 that company contributes annually, and appreciate their additional efforts to get others to chip in.
2} I am sure you and many others are, indeed, greatful.
3} I make a contribution every year when they send me those little address labels with a request for a donation.
4} My father's mother died of b r e a s t cancer so it has directly touched my life. She died 2 1/2 months before I was born so I never knew my grandmother.
5} Since my father's father died of prostate cancer, and my father has already had his cancer-ridden prostate removed, and I now have prostate issues.....have you made a contribution to "prostate cancer research"? We men would appreciate it just as much.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
Four years ago I lost one of my favorite teachers to this type of cancer, so yeah, I think I would welcome the sight of a pink concrete truck!
Having lost my wife to the ravages of *** cancer, every dollar contributed to the fight is welcome! Gerry S.
galaxy A local distributor of Propane around here has painted one of their delivery trucks pink, in honor of breast cancer research. They brag about their support of breast cancer research and their donations to research and urge others to support also. Their total annual contributions to breast cancer research? A whole $1,000.00 per year. Yes, just 1K per year. IT probably cost them that much or more to have the truck painted pink. Oh, and they don't own a railroad for transport of propane as far as I know. {apparently the censors have censored the word " b r e a s t" out of my post as a "bad thing", but left the word cancer alone.}
A local distributor of Propane around here has painted one of their delivery trucks pink, in honor of breast cancer research. They brag about their support of breast cancer research and their donations to research and urge others to support also. Their total annual contributions to breast cancer research? A whole $1,000.00 per year. Yes, just 1K per year. IT probably cost them that much or more to have the truck painted pink.
Oh, and they don't own a railroad for transport of propane as far as I know.
{apparently the censors have censored the word " b r e a s t" out of my post as a "bad thing", but left the word cancer alone.}
I think you're being overly cynical. About the contributions to breast cancer research, not about the censorship -- that's a legitimate gripe (although it appears to have either been restored or didn't really get censored).
The whole point of the breast cancer campaign is to raise awareness, which is admirably accomplished by the painted truck and the chest thumping ad campaign. The idea is not to get the Warren Buffets and Bill Gates's of the world to contribute millions, but for a whole lot of people to contribute a little each.
My hometown of Sioux Falls, South Dakota has a population of about 160,000 people. We have a large cement contractor known as Concrete Materials. All their cement trucks are typically painted yellow with red and blue markings on the cabs. But the truck that I had seen yesterday had recently been re-painted and it's drum or cylinder was painted to resemble a Vikings football!
While I don't care for the sport of football, it would be nice if we, our local club, the Sioux Valley Model Engineers Society could get Concrete Materials to do up one of their trucks to promote our hobby.
B.T.W., Concrete Materials owns a shortline railroad, the Ellis & Eastern Railroad, which hauls all the raw materials which go into the manufacturing of concrete.