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 Posted - July 31 2011 : 10:24:19 AM
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listed as kadee,i dont think so,what make would you say,cheers ken
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Posted - July 31 2011 : 10:27:24 AM
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Hey Ken,
Those cars were made by Model Die Casting (MDC) and are called Harriman cars.
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Posted - July 31 2011 : 10:33:29 AM
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many thanks,carl t,guy said they were kadee cars as that's what the underneath of couplings said,they look totally wrong,that livery was it a pennsy one,never seen it anywherereminds me of southern pacific other than roofs i think were silver,ken
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Posted - July 31 2011 : 5:41:27 PM
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The Harriman cars were used by the Southern Pacific,and the Union Pacific railroads.
The Pennsy scheme is pure fantasy,but the later runs of the Pennsy cars had a more realistic paint job.
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Posted - August 20 2011 : 3:35:48 PM
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Those MDC Harriman cars were really nice shorty cars. The kits went together in a matter of minutes. Besides SP and UP the Illinois Central was a Harriman road.
I had a set of the Pennsy cars that I repainted using coach green. The roofs were sepaarate so you could detail the interiors but the trucks were plastic. Lighting them would be a chore.
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Posted - September 15 2011 : 9:04:58 PM
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| Just adding to the mdc Shorty conversation, they are notorious for derailing on 18 or even 22 radius. But the fix is to trim the back sides of the end steps, which keep the couplers from swinging enough. The head end cars are OK, since they have no steps. Great cars, though.
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