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Post by Spice7 on Jan 11, 2023 21:19:02 GMT
My first attempt at repainting a Menard's dump truck into a coal truck. Attachments:
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Post by Adam on Jan 11, 2023 22:22:42 GMT
Nice job! Looks really good.
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Post by Joe Saggese on Jan 11, 2023 22:36:00 GMT
Awesome job
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Post by atsda on Jan 12, 2023 1:28:55 GMT
Spice7, Great idea to have a coal truck - you don't here about them often. In the 50's, my uncles had a bakery in Brooklyn. There were brick ovens in the basement. I recall that the coal truck would pull onto the large sidewalk area and park next to the building. They would pass a chute into an opening and release the coal by opening sliding doors in the side of the truck. I would watch and listen to the rattling sound of the coal as it traveled down the chute. Then I would go down into the basement and find the coal in a heap on the floor. The best thing was to see the fire in the oven when the lower door was open and coal had to be shoveled in. The next thing to what it must have been like to stoke a steam engine. Where are you going to use your coal truck? Alfred
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Post by Spice7 on Jan 12, 2023 2:36:58 GMT
Here is my replica of the Mercer Coal towers. Mercer was in Stratford, CT along the New Haven RR. |
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Post by Joe Saggese on Jan 12, 2023 2:50:50 GMT
Wish I could build models like that. What else did you build?
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Post by Country Joe on Jan 12, 2023 2:56:50 GMT
Don, the truck 🛻 and the coal towers look great! You did a super job. 👍
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Post by Traindiesel! on Jan 12, 2023 3:47:47 GMT
Outstanding work, Don. Thank you for sharing!
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Post by david1 on Jan 12, 2023 4:04:26 GMT
Nice looking truck. We used to have coal delivered to our house when I was a kid. You could get 1/4,1/2 or a full ton of coal delivered for $20.00. Man it made a alot of noise when being delivered.
Dave
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Post by josef on Jan 12, 2023 10:49:33 GMT
Terrific job. You did good. Thanks for sharing.
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Post by ptc on Jan 12, 2023 13:35:06 GMT
Very nice conversion, Don.
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Post by ptc on Jan 12, 2023 13:35:43 GMT
Love the coal towers as well.
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