Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!,
My daughter and her family bought me one of the ‘Bethlehem Steel’ flatcars, for my birthday.
I am notifying anyone who wants one of these flatcars that the (Metal) girder load is actually made of plastic and the Lionel catalog and their web.site shows the graphics on the girders, as pictured, which are different, than the actual product packed in the box.
The ad states; “Metal Girder Load”, the box’s end flap reads; “Girder Load”, this way Lionel is, in a way, covered.
I E-mailed Lionel with a description of their ad and what actually came in the box and the person who I was in contact with checked their stock and informed me that they have plastic, which has the same graphics as mine and that they don’t have the metal ‘B. S’. girders, as I wanted to purchase from them.
As, for the pictures in the catalog and web.site ads, which have different graphics on the girder, as what comes in the box, I was informed that it is a pre-production artist’s rendering.
So, beware!
Ralph
Nice shot of 39476 in the snow.
(Just trying to be supportive.)
fifedog,
You’re always supportive and yes the flatcar is a beauty, in snow and all and even though the girders are of plastic, I like the graphics on the ones packed in the box better, than the girder in the ad’s picture.
And besides one of my wife’s uncles worked for and retired from Bethlehem Steel, as well, as lives in Bethlehem, Penna.
We try. [angel]
A lot of the images that the manufacturers use are of smaller scale models depicted on 3rail trucks. MTH and Atlas are big on that. Sometimes it works out better in reverse. I didn’t like how MTH’s GP30 looked in the “wish” book, but I immediately fell in love with the Chessie GP30 when I found one in person.
If the girders look a little too plastic, take them in the back yard and give them a couple zaps with some rust colored craft/hobby spray paint.
fifedog,
I did not know of the technique of using a smaller scale body on three rail trucks, I did read that Lionel’s artists made the subject matter a little exaggerated in the proportions, to give it more of a prototypical appearence.
I thank you for your weathering technique suggestion, you’re correct, because the actual metal loads have some weathering on them, before being attached, in the construction process, and red leaded, or whatever type of preventative coating is used now-a-days.
Take Care,
Ralph
Just wanted to post a picture of it for those who don’t know what he’s referring to.
DJSpanky,
Thank you for posting a photo of the flatcar and girder load.
I don’t have a digital camera to have posted a picture.
Ralph
No problem - I just grabbed it off of the Lionel site.
Spank,
That’s something else I have to learn, to do and It must be a simple process
I have to grab a hold of my computer savvy son, to teach me.
My computer isn’t fast and up to date, as I would like it to be.
I know, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Thanks, again,
Ralph