SCL
Seaboard Coast Line
This 1985 Carstens Classic is a pictoral history of the Seaboard Coast Line focused on Florida!
It could have been a movie star: Butch Eyler and Bob McClanahan were driving to last year’s St. Louis/Collinsville meet and stopped in Galesburg, Ill., to shoot BNSF trains. A guy was weeding in his tomato patch and asked what was up. They told him and showed him this HO Athearn car (above) and a UP car done by Butch using his usual sandblasting to get the ghost lettering, plus gouche weathering. It turns out the man was a local TV reporter, so he did a sto- ry about this. Later, they were contacted by Google to do a documentary on how they used Google to search maps and freight cars. A film crew was sent to Pennsylvania; however, the project was scrubbed because of copyright concerns with the graffiti painter. Oh well. Some- how the graffiti guy found Butch via the internet and asked if he could buy the car. (“No, but I’ll make you one.”) Film at eleven. Stay tuned. Finally, Lou Papineau is rebuilding this HO five- bay MDC Ortner hopper (below) into a two-bay car as used at the Tilcon trap rock quarry.
Black and yellow SCL locomotives arrived with the 1967 merger of Atlantic Coast Line with the Seaboard Air Line railroad. From phosphates to Florida orange juice, from long passenger runs and special circus moves to a diverse fleet of diesels; You’ll
enjoy 116 pages of quality black and white photography.
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www.marpm.org. This is a new venue for an “RPM” and is in a history- and railroad-rich, scenic part of the the state. Several well-known RPM model- ers are among the scheduled speakers. October 17-19: Naperville RPM: This year’s big Naperville meet is around the corner from last year’s loca- tion, a few blocks away at the Wynd- ham Lisle-Chicago Hotel, 3000 War- renville Road, in Lisle. As usual, things
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start before lunch on Thursday with “Early Bird” presentations and go full bore through Saturday. Over 50 pre- senters will be covering a wide range of topics, both railroad history and mod- eling, and there will be specialized ven- dors, modular layouts and the famous exhibit room. A Saturday-only regis- tration will be offered, too. For more in- formation and for registration, see
www.railroadprototypemodelers.com.
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