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 Posted - September 05 2014 : 9:31:47 PM
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Here is a one-off on a different theme: Honeywell, one of the more successful (they are still around) "little IBMs" of the 1960s requisitioned a box car to ship large mainframe computers, using a rehabilitated AAR 40' standard box car, appropriately rebadged. I am ot sure if early transistorized computers were amenable to being shipped by rail, but their size back then may have made railroad shipping a more flexible and adaptable method than narrower tractor-trailers.
It may look a bit Christmas-y, but I keyed off the red version of the Honeywell logo and used the black striping to separate the red and white better.
Kadee #5s and I-M metal wheels, with proper interior NMRA weighting were the only features of note.
This one started off as an Athearn BB Southern Pacific (silver livery) built kit that was well-worn when I plucked it from the flea market tables last June.
Hope you like it.
Siouxlake Ron
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 10:01:54 PM
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| Always enjoy seeing your models Siouxlake Ron. Your talk of the proper interior weight causes me to wonder if you enter your models in contests?
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 10:35:14 PM
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| Very nice, Ron!
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 10:38:53 PM
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quote:I am not sure if early transistorized computers were amenable to being shipped by rail, but their size back then may have made railroad shipping a more flexible and adaptable method than narrower tractor-trailers.
Originally posted by siouxlake - September 05 2014 : 9:31:47 PM
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As an old mainframer, I can say that most computer rooms I ever saw had three foot wide doors, so a semi trailer is plenty wide. Still, just because it'll fit in a truck that doesn't say that a truck is the only way to go. Anyway, that's a beautiful box car and there's no sense in getting all technical about whether Honeywell ever shipped by rail.
 
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 11:07:14 PM
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Cool!I love computer related things! Anyway, nice freight car.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - September 05 2014 : 11:15:52 PM
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| ohhh you WILL gimmie one!!
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Posted - September 06 2014 : 4:21:36 PM
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Ben, Ben, Ben....what can I say? I can barely afford to give MYSELF one, let alone others!
My Navy computer command was located in an old WW2 barracks building at NAS Coronado in San Diego. The first floor had IBM 370 mainframes (yes, more than one!) and had a double door (6 ft wide) that was a positive pressure "air door" portal- to keep the interior air-conditioned air far cleaner than that which the rest of us had to breathe in the building.
But those double doorways were designed into the barracks building originally, not for the computers that later inhabited it.
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Posted - September 06 2014 : 6:31:20 PM
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I knows But I'd ask forv a different number anyway
*goes out & takes pics of Honeywell signs*
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Posted - July 08 2022 : 4:02:34 PM
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Nice one.
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