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Bethgon coalporters - upnick - 06-07-2010 Hi All, Sorry i havnt been around lately .. hope to be more so now Not sure if this is in the right place but i want to make up a train of coalporters to service the mine .... what i need to know is what type of end of train light do they run if any & do any of you have pictures of the lights at all please ? Re: Bethgon coalporters - P5se Camelback - 06-07-2010 Welcome back! I wasn't here, I don't think, when you were last here. I'm not exactly sure why you want to build a model of Cole Porter. Are you a musician? :? As far as End-of-Train Devices are concerned, I can offer the following ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=220">http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=220</a><!-- m --> -- an article from Trains magazine regarding EoT devices ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ringengineering.com/">http://www.ringengineering.com/</a><!-- m --> -- a kit to build a model of an End-of-train device ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.google.com/images?q=end+of+train+device&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=avAMTL2sDYKC8ga7_cmKBw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=5&ved=0CDsQsAQwBA">http://www.google.com/images?q=end+of+t ... CDsQsAQwBA</a><!-- m --> <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.elpasohub.org/ATX.htm">http://www.elpasohub.org/ATX.htm</a><!-- m --> -- an press release/spec sheet re: Union Pacific's use of EoT's ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6102491/description.html">http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/61024 ... ption.html</a><!-- m --> ... and ... from a competing forum ... <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.nscale.net/forums/showthread.php?17756-FRED-Flashing-Red-End-Of-Train-Device">http://www.nscale.net/forums/showthread ... ain-Device</a><!-- m --> I hope the information provided above satisfies your question re: EoT devices ... but as far as Cole Porter is concerned ... :?: :?: :?: :? Re: Bethgon coalporters - upnick - 06-07-2010 Hi Thank you for the information it is helpful As far as a model of a musician that is not my objective .... if you look at the title of the thread it is spelt Coalporter not Cole obviously you are not conversant with the car. This is a coalporter car. P5se Camelback Wrote:Welcome back! I wasn't here, I don't think, when you were last here. Re: Bethgon coalporters - tomustang - 06-07-2010 He was kidding Nick , good to see you back again as for the porters, over here on the ns line they park the unit coal train in a river yard with the standard FRED device still blinking for a few days I'll have to check, I might have a far away shot of one of the waiting unit coal trains Re: Bethgon coalporters - P5se Camelback - 06-07-2010 upnick Wrote:Hi Thank you for the information it is helpful P5se Camelback Wrote: Welcome back! I wasn't here, I don't think, when you were last here. I'm not exactly sure why you want to build a model of Cole Porter. Are you a musician? :? I apologise Nick! I was making an attempt at humor ... My daughter always tells me I shouldn't, that my humor is just too obtuse, just like me! I tried to make a joke, a play on words, rather than suggest that you might be refering to hoppers or gondolas, but I guess it was just me being obtusely "out there." I was in a "Funny Mood" and was just making light of the differences between English English and American English ... But I DID offer some "totally useful" information, at least I hope it was useful. BTW, those are nice photos of those hoppers, but in that one, you appear to be a bit chilled! Snow; I haven't really been in any since I moved to Florida. It just looks cold! But, please ... post more often ... join the new "Challenge!" Have some fun! Re: Bethgon coalporters - nachoman - 06-07-2010 P5se Camelback Wrote:I'm not exactly sure why you want to build a model of Cole Porter. Are you a musician? :? Wow! that's an obscure reference! I'm impressed. It's like when I am at the sports bar and refer to a local baseball pitcher as "Jimmy" Webb. With all his injuries lately, I say that someone left that cake out in the rain! Re: Bethgon coalporters - upnick - 06-08-2010 Hi Tom hope your keeping well Its nice to be back posting i have still been doing things here more concentrating on the N scale now i have a Cornerstone mine ready to put on the layout when i decide where & lay the track for it so to have a couple of spurs as well as the line through i needed some help ....... be grateful if you can find the shot for me I am going to disappear again sometime soon as i'm waiting for major heart surgery .. but the railroads keep me occupied and should in my recovery time Re: Bethgon coalporters - upnick - 06-08-2010 Hi Bill, No problems maybe i took it too serious as well it was late when i posted & it gave me a good excuse to post a couple of pictures of them yes the information was useful thanks ... oh btw it isnt me getting cold there ... i confess i pinched the pic of the net As to the build challenge if thats what you mean (sorry i havnt seen if there are threads for a build this year still getting back into the site) i did start a ''kitbash'' building last year still here needs finishing maybe this year i'll get something completed Quote:I apologise Nick! I was making an attempt at humor ... My daughter always tells me I shouldn't, that my humor is just too obtuse, just like me! I tried to make a joke, a play on words, rather than suggest that you might be refering to hoppers or gondolas, but I guess it was just me being obtusely "out there." I was in a "Funny Mood" and was just making light of the differences between English English and American English ... Re: Bethgon coalporters - tomustang - 06-08-2010 Found one of them, to the left of the dash 9, the unit coal train is mixed with the older conrail bethgons, 3 bay and 4 bay hoppers, and NS's own Top Gons, the top gons were rebuilt from H11 and 12 class hoppers. Re: Bethgon coalporters - Ralph - 06-08-2010 Tom, ya got anymore shots of the mill complex in the background? Ralph Re: Bethgon coalporters - upnick - 06-08-2010 Hi Tom cheers for the picture ......... N&S another of my favorite roads saved now for reference |