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Arcata & Mad River ACF Double Door Boxcar
By Elizabeth Allen
To accompany the 87-1452 and 60-1452 decal sheets being released this month, that have both California Western and Arcata & Mad River locomotives. Elizabeth Allen's terrific model of an Arcata & Mad River ACF Double Door Boxcar makes an excellent demonstration of prototype modeling. Her in progress modeling photos of this car are found on her pbase gallery http://www.pbase.com/elizabethallen/amr_1066. Her amazing eye for detail capture accurately the actual car. The ACF double door prototypes are not available as RTR. One must perform a kitbash in order to accurately reflect these boxcars. There have been stand-in cars produced from FMC models but are not accurate for the Arcata & Mad RIver.
She used Microscale decals for the bulk of the lettering. One could utilize set 87-1422 or 60-1422 to letter their own version of this boxcar.
The prototype cars were found all over the United States and Canada. Their "incentive per diem" status kept them active all over the continental US on all major railroads.
More prototype and modeling information on this car and incentive per diem:
http://www.trainlife.com/magazines/pages/281/20900/december-1999-page-6
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YouTube Videos & Articles of interest
We would like to showcase those of you who have mastered the techniques associated with general modeling. If you use our products such as Microsol, Microset, trim film or any other item from our site...we would like to see how you have made good use of the material or solutions.
The only condition is that you write an article that will be of interest to other Microscale modelers and that you use some Microscale products such as Microscale Solution or Microscale decal set(s).If your article is selected and used in our Newsletter, you will be entitled to 4 FREE decal sheets of your choice from our regular stock.
If you have a knack for presenting, we invite you to submit your best "HOW TO" articles or YouTube Video for publication in our monthly newsletter and on our Microscale YouTube channel. We know how talented you are and we figured it would be a great way to showcase your work and our products.
With your submission, please include your written release for Microscale to use the information and photos for publication.
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 IN THE WORKS
Each month we will be letting you know what we're working on for the near future. Please remember to check out this newsletter each month for details of upcoming releases.
Coming Soon...
Coalveyor and Bathtub Data
PROCOR Tank Cars
Milwaukee Road Passenger Cars post 1947
CEFX and CitiRail Leasing
Eastern Per Diem Boxcars
Ex Railroad Owned Trailers - Ghosted Lettering |
