Here is an interesting video on the old Kartrak system:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K8UpMNYIPo
Does anyone add Kartrak barcodes to their 1960s/1970s era equipment?
Kartrak
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Re: Kartrak
The 1974 Centennial Edition of the Car and Locomotive Cyclopedia devotes 13 pages to the subject matter showing
exactly where the templates are to be mounted on various types/pieces of rolling equipment.
For the detailing purist… the template appears to have had two different physical sizes.
The standard one measured 20-1/2” long by 8” wide.
The extended range template measured a tad longer at 24 inches.
The attached drawing snap shot also shows the templates had 6 magnets attached to them.
Indeed an interesting little modeling detail that has been on my list. I’m adding a couple to my wrecker.
How I make them… I’ve not decided.
There’s likely a very good “squared up” photo of a template on the Internet somewhere for further reference… but have not spent time looking yet.
John
exactly where the templates are to be mounted on various types/pieces of rolling equipment.
For the detailing purist… the template appears to have had two different physical sizes.
The standard one measured 20-1/2” long by 8” wide.
The extended range template measured a tad longer at 24 inches.
The attached drawing snap shot also shows the templates had 6 magnets attached to them.
Indeed an interesting little modeling detail that has been on my list. I’m adding a couple to my wrecker.
How I make them… I’ve not decided.
There’s likely a very good “squared up” photo of a template on the Internet somewhere for further reference… but have not spent time looking yet.
John
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