I have a number of old Blue Line cars which I have constructed with old Ahtearn ends and newer more authentic trucks. I got all these Blue Line kits for $1.00 each when our old "Hobbymodels" store shut down!! Still the wood bottoms and details!!Hobbymodels as in Morgan Baldridge..does that date me sufficiently??
Peoria, Illinois USA? I answer to "Dick"
If I could learn how to post pictures I would be glad to show them off, as constructed!! I will soon be 85 and still collecting!! Layout?? What`s that??
Please do post pictures. There is a sticky topic with instructions.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
If I remember right the Blue Line passenger cars were nicely painted steel sides on a wood floor. A similar looking passenger car was the American Beauty line. Both lines had glossy paint but glossy painted metal looked more like the prototype than glossy painted plastic. Blue Line had full length but also "shorty" passenger cars. American Beauty might not have had the shorties.
Dick if it had not been for this coronavirus thing I would have been in Peoria for the last 3 days at the NMRA Midwest Region convention. There were going to be presentations on railroading in Peoria that I was looking forward to.
Dave Nelson
I would but I do not know how to do that. I use an elderly(like me) desktop-Win10. I need education...I do have pictures I can send somewhere with e mail!!
Dave, you are correct. I still have 2 intact Blue Line kits in original boxes. If someone will send me a link with picture posting instructions I will be glad to share my Blue Line cars as modified as Burlington completed!!...to my e address!! tchrappr@mtco.com
I am still looking for a Blue Line observation car painted in WP colors for a friend of mine. Would love to find one for him.
Caldreamer
There are some Blue Line instruction sheets and other information on hoseeker. Ah, a simpler time:
Painting Instructions: Wash car with carbon tet. Dry thoroughly.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
rrinker Ah, a simpler time: Painting Instructions: Wash car with carbon tet. Dry thoroughly. --Randy
Ah, a simpler time: Painting Instructions: Wash car with carbon tet. Dry thoroughly.
Well at least they eliminated the "lick fingers thoroughly" instruction.
Carbon tetrachloride, my goodness. It was a common household "spot remover" when I was a kid. And my first summer job I had to clean a small printing press using carbon tet. I also had to clean off the gold printing on a bunch of 3 ring binders for a corporate project that failed so the binders could be reused I knew it was "hazardous" stuff but when my rubber gloves kept disintigrating I figured out it was more than just hazardous.
Carbon tet was also a popular track cleaner. After all you'd want your track near that shredded ASBESTOS mountain to be clean, wouldn't you? And then there was the MR article which in some manner used raw mercury in small drill holes in the tabletop as part of a turntable indexing system. I'll get right to that project as soon as I am done cutting up this sheet of lead for freight car weights. There was lead in the paint then too. And there was a time when silver solder with high cadmium levels was said to be just the best for locomotive construction.
And nearly every model railroader photographed in MR or RMC was calmly smoking a pipe while working with this stuff.
We won't even mention the articles on do-it-yourself 115 volt wiring ...
Dave "6 toes" Nelson
trainmaster1017 I would but I do not know how to do that. I use an elderly(like me) desktop-Win10. I need education...I do have pictures I can send somewhere with e mail!!
If cs.trains was a real website you could just upload your photos, they would display, and life would be good. Unfortunately cs.trains is not a real website and it does not allow upload of photos. You have to find another website somewhere that will accept your photos and then take a pointer (a URL in internet jargon) from the hosting web site and stick it into your post on CS.trains. We all used to put our photos on Photobucket which was free. Couple of years ago Photobucket got greedy and demanded we pay a user fee. If you didn't pay, they broke the URL to your photos and all the posts you ever made lost all their pictures. PITA. I switched to Trainboard (www.trainboard.com) but any photo posting site will do. So, what to do? Upload your photos to your photo host site, what ever it may be. Click on the photo to obtain the URL of your photo. Click Control C to save it to the clipboard. Go back to your cs.trains post and click on Insert /Edit Image (icon with mountain scenery). Click control V to paste the URL from the clip board to the Inset/Edit Image icon. Good luck.
David Starr www.newsnorthwoods.blogspot.com
trainmaster1017I would but I do not know how to do that. I use an elderly(like me) desktop-Win10. I need education...I do have pictures I can send somewhere with e mail!!
There is a sticky post on how to do it. Most people, who have problems, read the instructions and decide they can do it differently.
I sent you a pm, I will post your pics.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
FYI!!..I have an obs and coach in original boxes...wood bottoms and all in IC which I plan to build with new kitbashing materials to go with my Walthers IC S/L cars.
Big Daddy...OK...so (Showing my lack of internet thrills)..what is"sticky post" and pm?? private e mail??? If you do old fashioned e mail send me a message that has your e address. All my pictures of trains and models are in Picasa which I can e send anywhere for which I have an e address.My e address is posted in an earlier post above in this blog...that is what this is...right???
Kevin..I am ancient ...what is a sticky post??? and how do I get to it from my desktop ancient computer. My pictures are all stored on an external HD. I also asked "Big Daddy".
trainmaster1017 Kevin..I am ancient ...what is a sticky post??? and how do I get to it from my desktop ancient computer.
Kevin..I am ancient ...what is a sticky post??? and how do I get to it from my desktop ancient computer.
You are posting this in the general discussion forum. Postings to this forum are in chronological order, either from last to first, or first to last. I believe that most folks view the postings from last to first, because who wants to wade through postings from years ago to view what was posted earlier today.
In any event, when you open this forum you’ll see three posts (currently) that don’t change position. Two of them have a little lock icon meaning that they are sort of permanent. The other one has a lock icon and a “sticky” icon. Generally the sticky thing means it is a posting that the forum owners want to maintain its position at the head of the pack for a specific period of time before it starts to travel into antiquity. In the case of the sticky plus lock thing, that posting was put there as a temporary thing, but is locked to prevent it from moving until the issue it addresses goes away.
To see PMs, or private messages, to the upper right of your posting you should see a box that say “welcome, your name”. It doesn’t actually say “your name”, it says your name. Anyway, below that there is a selection that says “your messages”. Click that and it should open to messages someone has sent you. Big Daddy’s message should appear there.
I still have a big sheet of lead roof flashing for making car weights.............
Just don't do it while eating your lunch...........
Sheldon