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FROM THE BOX CAR BOOM OF THE 70s, PART I: 60,000 BOX CARS TO MODEL By Jim Eager

The vast majority of the box cars still rolling on the rails were built during the seventies. You can duplicate most of these cars in HO, N, S or 0 scale. Part II, in this issue, describes and illustrates the ACF­ built cars. Part III, in the January issue, will continue with more of the ACF-built cars.

Southern series 14000-15675, NS class B-182, former RBOX class XPF11, built by Pullman-Standard in 1975. Because of the resulting glut of box cars, in 1983 11,100 Railbox cars were also transferred to nine Class 1 railroads, like this hastily restencilled Southern car.-Jim Eager photo, November 1983

etween 1974 and 1981, well over 60,000 gener­ al- purpose, 50-foot box cars were con­ structed for Class 2 raill'Oads, shortlines, and the Railbox fleet-plus tens of thou­ • • \1-.' ..... } \, sands of similar cars built for Class 1 �- -. . '��.'-:;,. �:-::,": built by FMC in,luly 1977. • ,...... ' ''-::'_ railroads during the same period! This e p MTW 4285 is representative of the.more than 6:0,000 gen ral-jiur ose, exterior-post box cars built between . turned out to be the last great hurrah of i l' 197;. • '.t ,· :\ 4..and 1981. Most, like thiS one, were built for shortlines, but identical car.s·were built.tor arge Class a x � the common box car in North America ",roads arid tor R ilbo a� well. -Ken Annett photo, i978', and almost all of these cars are still in service today, albeit working for second not a box car, after alL Since the cars All About IPO Box Cars or third owners in many cases. were built by several different car­ Most of the cars we'll be looking at Nearly aU of the box cars built during builders over a number of years, there are were built in response to a serious short­ this boom were of single-sheathed, exte­ numerous differences in their construc­ age in the number of general-purpose rior-post construction. At first glance tion-some of them obvious, some sub­ box cars that were available for loading, they all look roughly similar, but as is tle. Telling them apart can indeed be either under the ICC's Incentive Per often the case, first impressions can be challenging without a road map, so that's Diem (IPD) regulations, or for Trailer deceiving. A box car is not a box car is the purpose of this series of articles. Train's Railbox subsidiary. I'm sure most

6 RAILMODELjOURNAL'D ECEMBER 1999 B&O series 482800-482849, built by Pullman­ Standard in November 1968. The majority of cars built through the latter 1960s were double-sheathed cars, many specially equipped with load-restraining devices, such as B&O 482841, which has DFB bulkheads and an offset plug door to provide a flush interior wall. Such XML or XL cars were in assigned service rather than being used as free runners. -Gary Zuters photo, July 1988

SP series 699200-699499, class B-70-50, built by Pacific Car & Foundry in 1970. SP 699229 is typical of the large number of insulated loader-equipped box cars (RBLs) that were also con­ structed during the 1960s. Such cars were assigned to pools hauling groceries, beverages, and other temper­ ature-sensitive products. -Jim Eager photo, September 1981

In contrast, in 1970, 35% of thenation's fleet of gen­ eral purpose XM box cars were over 20 years old, and over 40% were obsolete 40-footers. Although certain­ ly not all of them were in as bad shape as this DL&W car, the statistics were indicative of a serious impend­ ing car shortage. -Jim Eager photo

LNAC series 15030-15073. Some of the first IPD box cars were older 40-foot cars that were purchased from cash-strapped roads by com­ panies such as U.S. Railway Equipment, rebuilt, and then leased back out to shortlines like this Louisville, New Albany & Corydon PSI, which was overhauled in 1971. -Jim Eager photo, September 1983

NOKL and LOAM series 4300-4399. Many of those old 40-footers were stretched to the more useful 50-foot length, like this Louisiana Midland car, which had been restencilled for NOKL. It had been rebuilt by USRE in 8/78. -Jim Eager photo, December 1984

RAILMODELJOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 7 fPD, RAIlBOX & OTHERS, PART I of you would rather learn more about the stretching them to the more useful 50- eral-purpose box cars for their own car cars than the regulatory and financial foot length. U.S. Railway Equipment and fleets, and in any case they were effec­ mechanisms that led to their being built, Chicago Freight Car were both very tively denied the IPD rate by the but perhaps a very brief description of active players in the market, buying scheme's base investment rule. However, the situation is in order. Those of you older obsolete cars from cash-strapped if they pooled their investment through who really want a more detailed descrip­ roads, rebuilding them, and then leasing Trailer Train, which they owned, then a tion of the IPD phenomenon should see them back to various railroads. However, reliable pool of cars would be available, the article "Short Line Fever," by Bruce once the investment capital community hence the birth of Railbox. Although Curry in the February 1979 issue of recognized the potential for substantial free-runners like the IPD cars, and built Railroad Model Craftsman. returnsinhe rent in the new car-hire ru les, to similar if not identical designs, Between 1961 and 1970, investment as much as 20% per annum under ideal Railbox cars were not owned or leased in specially equipped XML and RBL box conditions, several investment groups by an actual railroad so they didn't qual­ cars for assigned service had risen dra­ were created to take advantage of the ify for the IPD rate, although as new cars matically, but during the same period opportunity to channel capital into new they did qualify for higher per-diem and there was a 40% drop in the number of cars and lease them to smaller Class 2 mileage rates. The first Railbox cars regular general-purpose XM box cars roads and short lines. By 1974 new cars were delivered in October 1974, forerun­ available for loading (from 640,000 to were being financed and constructed for ners of an eventual fleet of almost 25,000 386,500 cars). Of the cars remaining in National Railway Utilization Corpor­ cars. service, more than 35% were over 20 ation (NRUC), followed in 1975 by SSI years old and nearing retirement, and Rail Corporation, later known as Itel The Time To Restencil over 40% were obsolete 40-footers. Rail. Several other investment fi rms IPD Box Cars Concerned about an impending car short­ quickly got into the act, including Emons Combined, so many IPD and Railbox age, in 1970 the AAR and the ICC creat­ Industries, Rai1vest, Trans-Action Asso­ cars were built that they sealed the fate of ed a program to encourage the construc­ ciates, Brae, Rex Railways, Harvey, US the once ubiquitous 40-foot box car dur­ tion of modern replacements. First, in Railway Equipment, and Trans Union. ing the economic downtum of the early addition to the existing per-mile and per­ But why would short lines want to 1980s. So many, that they seriously diem car-hire charges, a new incentive lease these new cars? For one thing, depressed utilization of cars owned by per-diem charge was instituted for quali­ because most of them relied on the large Class 1 railroads, which eventually fying newly built or rebuilt cars. Class 1 roads that they connected with to refused to supply the IPD cars for load­ Restrictions ensured that the increased supply cars for their on-line customers to ing and sent them home empty instead. car-hire revenues that were generated load, the growing car shortage hit them Several short lines found themselves had to be used to build, rebuild, pur­ particularly hard, and a guaranteed fleet swamped with more cars than they had chase, or lease additional new general­ of their own cars was attractive. Second, miles of track. For example, I remember purpose box cars. because of the lucrative IPD rate and seeing blue St. Lawrence Railway cars A fw-rher restriction stipulated that increased mileage and regular per-diem stashed in every available siding and the IPD rate could only be applied to a charges for new cars, the investment/ industrial spur in western New Yo rk state railroad's box car investment in excess of leasing companies could afford to lease in the early 1980s. their average annual investment for the out the cars virtually at no charge, rely­ Ultimately the situation forced the 1964- 68 period. This wrinkle had the ing on the car-hire earnings alone for ICC to revoke the IPD charge, I believe effect, foreseen or otherwise, of largely revenue. "Hey, buddy, want a new box­ circa 1981, coincident with the deepen­ limiting the use of the IPD rate to Class 2 car lettered for your railroad for free?" ing recession. Investor groups suddenly line haul railroads and short lines, most In addition, the railroad was even found themselves saddled with assets not of which had little or no investment for promised a cut of the car-hire earnings yet paid for and with next to no income. the base period. As a result, most of the over and above a prescribed utilization Eventually the IPD cars could be seen new cars built because of this regulatory level, so even roads with no need of the restencilled or repainted for new opera­ change origi nally wore the distinctive cars for their own loadings signed on just tors as line-haul roads and short lines that and colorful livery of short line railroads to gain a bit of extra revenue. Other perks actually had car loadings picked up the that many railfans had never even heard included centralized accounting and car nearly new cars at bargain-basement of. But, as we shall see, larger Class 1 maintenance paid for by the leasing com­ prices. In 1983 the car glut also forced roads ordered similar if not identical cars pany. What a deal! Needless to say, a lot nine of Trailer Train's member Class 1 for their own fleets as well. of new cars got built very quickly, over roads to assume direct responsibil ity for The final ingredient in the mix was 23,000 by 1978, but that's only half of over 11,000 of the Railbox cars that had the waiver of the AAR Car Service rules the story. been built. With excess capacity, new prescribing that a car be loaded toward box car construction came to an immedi­ home rails or sent home empty, which The Railbox Box Car Fleet ate and screeching halt, not rebounding allowed IPD cars to be free runners; that At the same time that IPD box cars until the mid- J 990s, and even then, is to be loaded for any destination, there­ began to take off, Trailer Train, which thanks to growth of intermodal, it was by maximizing car utilization. They was owned by a consortium of Class 1 limited to specialized cars used mostly in could quite literally be seen anywhere in railroads, launched Railbox, it's own paper service. North America. solution to the shortage of general-pur­ pose box cars. Although they were also The SO-Foot Exterior Investing in 'Box Cars hard-hit by the growing car shortage, Post Box Car At first the new rules encouraged the many of the larger Class 1 railroads were Now the beginning of this whole rebuilding of older 40-foot box cars or not in a position to invest heavily in gell- process happened to coincide with a

8 RAI LMODELjOURNAL· DECEMBER 1999 major shift in box car construction­ and railfans often refer to any contempo­ point out the differences and similarities away from traditional double-sheathed rary exterior-post box car-even the IPD between cars. First up are the cars built cars and toward single-sheathed cars cars-generically as a "Railbox-type" by American Car & Foundry (ACF). with exterior side posts. This process had car. But that's a problematic term since We'll examine the cars of other builders begun in the 1960s, but by 1970 singJe­ the Railbox cars were constructed by five and even some of the earlier railroad­ sheathed cars were rapidly becoming the different carbuilders. Which Railbox? built cars in subsequent installments. de-facto standard for general-purpose Therein lies the subject of this series RMJ box cars. All but the very earliest IPD of articles: Who built these cars? What cars were of exterior-post construction, railroads used them? How can you tell as were all 25,000 Railbox cars. It turned them apart? And which ones can be easi­ out that those bright yellow RBOX cars ly modeled? We'll look at the cars and made such a splash that many modelers their antecedents builder-by-builder and

MNJ series 120877-120934, built by Berwick Forge & Fabricating in December 1977. By 1974, new IPD cars like this Middletown & New Jersey car were being built for the lease fleets of investment companies such as the National Railway Utilization Corporation (NRUC). -To dd Sullivan photo, March 1979

GMRC series 0600-0699, built by FMC in March 1976. 551 Rail Corporation was another early investor in IPD cars like this Green Mountain Railway car. 5S1 later became Itel Rail. -Todd Sullivan, photo April 1979

RBOX series 11000-11499, class XAF11, built by ACF in September 1975. Railbox ordered cars that were of the same general design as those being built for IPD service. RBOX 11216 is typical of the first 3,400 Railbox cars built for Railbox by ACF in 1974-75. -Jim Eager photo, July 1981

MEC series 35000-35199, built by Berwick in June 1981. Due to the economic downturn of the early 1980s and the sheer number of cars that were built, many of the IPD cars changed reporting marks and paint schemes, like this former NRUC car operating for the Maine Central. -Jim Eager photo, circa 1975 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 9 [PAINT & DECALS ]------

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Athearn's HO scale model of the ACF-built 50-foot exterior-post single-sliding-door box car with non-ter­ minating ends.

of the 19705, including a fishbelly side ACF didn't produce large numbers of sill, Stanray's overhanging-eave diago­ exterior-postcars until about 1970. L&N nal-panel roof and Improved Dread­ received similar cars that October naught ends. However, there were eight (114525-114999) that also had waffle CF was not the largest side posts to either side of the door, impressions, but the cars bad only seven builder of incentive per dividing the carside into nine panels, posts (eight panels) to either side of the diem (IPD) cars, but they more than would be used on later cars. door. The B&O, Maine Central, Rock of the main suppliers to The cars also had waffle impressions Island, and BN ordered similar cars, the Railbox so we'll begin with them. ACF stamped into the side sheets, but these latter three with plug doors, the BN cars began building single-sheathed, exterior­ were to mount DF cross bar pockets without waffles. When Penn Central post box cars in the late 19608 and flush with the inside wall surface and recei ved their X- 71 class in J 971 (PCA Seaboard Coast Line's X-5 class (SCL were not part of the car design itself. 166000-166999, built November 1971 to 20 150-20749, built beginning in ACF also built a group of nine-panel cars January 1972) the cars bad no waffle December 1967) were among the first, if with plug doors for the Milwaukee Road impressions, and het re were only six side not the first. These early cars already had (MILW 3500-3599, built April 1969), posts (seven panels) to either side of the several of the main construction features but they were quite unusual because they door, which would become standard on that were typical of ACF's later designs used Pullman's PS-l end and roof. subsequent cars built by ACF.

10 RAILMODEL)OURNAL' DECEMBER 1999 RBOX 10142, series 10001-10599, class XAFlO, built in October 1974 through February 1975. Railbox placed its first prOduction order for 600 cars with ACF, followed by 2,800 identical cars in classes XAFlO and XAFll, series 10600-13399. In 1983 all of these cars were distributed among the Santa Fe, BN, C&O, MP, RF&P, SBD, and SP. Athearn's HO kit and Weaver's 0 scale model are very close to these cars, except for having an X-panel roof Instead of the correct diagonal-panel style. Front Range/McKean also offered a version of their kit with this end. Perhaps Accurall will revamp and re-release that version as well. American Models' S scale and Micro­ Trains' Z scale models have the correct roof as they come. -Todd Sullivan photo, February 1979 HO Scale Decals: Herald King PR-44, Champ HB-414 or Microscale 160

SCL 20332, series 20150-20749, class X-5, built in December 1967. Seaboard Coast line was one of the first customers to order single-sheathed exterior-post box cars from ACE Although exhibiting some features of ACF's later cars (Stanray's Improved Dreadnaught ends, diagonal-panel roof), these cars have eight side posts to either side of the door dividing the sides into nine panels (later cars would have fewer posts). The full-length fish belly side sill is also a different shape than what was used on most later cars. The SCL cars had a nine-foot door and the "waffle" impressions stamped in the side sheets accommodated intermittent OF belt rails. -Jim Eager photo, September 1982 HO Scale Decals: none known

MILW 3557, series 3500-3599, built by ACF in April 1969. Although similar to the SCL cars at first glance, this nine-panel car Is very unusual In that it was constructed with Pullman's PS-l ends and a Pullman roof. Even so, there are a few other differences from the earlier SCL cars. The 10 foot 6 inch plug door is obvious, but also notice the shape of the shallow fish belly side sill, which was a dis­ tinctive feature of later ACF cars. The car was also slightly taller since it was built to the Plate C clearance diagram; the SCL cars were built to the lower Plate B clearances. The MILW cars had bulkhead loaders and ACF's Freight-Saver cushioned underframe. -Jim Eager photo, March 1984 HO Scale Decals: none known

L&N 114981, series 114525-114999, built in October 1970. ACF's design had evolved a bit more by the timethese cars were built for the Louisville & Nashville. Thedistinctive side sill is there, as are the Stanray ends and roof, but note that there are now only seven side posts to either side of the lO-foot door (eight panels). Although there are waffleimpressions, these cars were not equipped with belt rails or loaders. They also fit the lower Plate B clearance diagram. -Jim Eager photo, September 1983 HO Scale Decals: none known

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Accurail's HO scale model of the ACF-built 50- foot exterior-post box car with plug doors and terminating ends.

There is a small group of very similar 13399, built March 1975 through Southern (MNS 49800-49899), St. box cars that are often mistaken for these February 1976). Railbox ordered another Marys Railroad (SM 2001-2155, with ACF cars, but which were in fact built by 2, I 00 cars in class XAF20 between 1978 plug doors), Camino Placerville & Lake Magar-Fruehauf: Penn Central's X-74 and 1980, but these were slightly taller Tahoe (CPLT 7750-7849), and Arcata & class (PC 167000-167999, built Decem­ Plate C cars, and they had a noticeably Mad River (A&MR 1000-1099), the last ber 1972). The main difference between deeper side sill. two equipped with double doors. the two builders' cars is that the X-74s Modeling the IPD and have a Stanray X-panel roof. The IPD Box Car Fleet ACF supplied IPD cars of this design to Railbox Cars in HO, Several roads ordered similar ACF N, Z, S&-O cars between 1970 and 1974, including Family Lines roads Atlanta & West Point (A&WP 51400-51459) and Western Models of ACF's exterior-post box the Rio Grande (D&RGW 65300-65349 Railway of Alabama (WA 5300-5339), cars have been produced in every scale with waffles), Norfolk Southern (NS and to the Apalachicola Northern (AN except N scale; in fact, five differentmod­ 2100-2249), Rock Island (RI 36000- 5000-5399), Ashley Drew & Northern els have been produced in HO scale 36299), Illinois Terminal (ITC 7240- (ADN 8000-8199), Atlanta & St. alone. The first was Athearn's kit, intro­ 7389), Frisco (SLSF 42000-42499), Andrews Bay (ASAB 7100-7140), duced in the late 1970s and still in pro­ CNW (CNW 155000-155599), C&EI Greenville & Northern (GRN 8000- duction. The carbody is very accurate for (252850-253199, plug doors), L&N 8049), St. Marys Railroad (SM 4001- cars produced for Railbox in 1974 to (102100-102199), Clinchfield (CRR 4300), Minneapolis Northfield & 1976, except that the roof is the wrong 7200-7224), and SCL (24350-24849), Southern (MNS 49700-49724), Hillsdale style. It should have a diagonal panel but the last tlu'ee with both plug doors and County Railway (HCRC 801-825), and instead it has an X panel. Weaver copied waffles. Port of Tillamook Bay (POTB 151-225, the Athearn kit in 0 scale, but they even In 1974 an order for Missouri with double doors). ACF also built cars duplicated the wrong roof! American Pacific's subsidiary Texas & Pacific (TP of this design for Class 1 roads BN Models got it right on their S scale ver­ 011 Z 366650-367099, built August through (321600-322099), KCS (116009- sion, as did Micro-Trains their N and November 1974) introduced a new 119997, 151009-151998), and MP scale models. Front Range Products tooled two dif­ design feature for ACF: the box-corrugat­ (253450-253749), all with plug doors ferent HO kits, one with a Dreadnaught ed, non-terminating end. (Non-terminat­ and for MP with combination doors end, the other with ACF's non-terminat­ ing means the end sheets do not wrap (367100-367299). J n 1979 the SP ing end. Both models are Plate B cars and around onto the side of the car, but rather ordered cars with centered double doors, they have the deep side sill, but the diago­ they only extend between the sides.) but they were 52-footers for lumber ser­ vice (247215-247914). nal-panel roof supplied with the kits was a The First Railbox Cars In mid-I978 ACF modified its basic joke. Fortunately, Accurail picked up the tooling from McKean Models, totally This latest version of ACF's design met design for the last time. Most noticeable reworked the dies, and re-released the the specifications issued by Trailer Train was the change to a straight side sill, with Dreadnaught version-an excellent kit. for its Railbox fleet. In fact the first a slightly deeper reinforcement in the middle third of the car. This design was Unfortunately they have not yet reintro­ Railbox cars were almost identical to built for several IPD shortlines and Class duced a model with the non-terminating those built for the T&P. RBOX 1000]- 2 roads between 1978 and 1980, including end version. (Beware, they have released 10999 were constructed in October 1974 Mississippi Export (MSE 800-899), the Dreadnaught end kit decorated for through February 1975 and became Green Bay & Western (GBW7050-7199, Railbox, and it should have the non-ter­ Railbox's first class: XAF1O. These first plug and 7200-7407, sliding), minating end.) E&C Shops produced a cars were immediately followed by Laurinburg & Southern (LRS 5001- model of the last ACF design with straight another 2,400 in class XAFll (11000- 5! 00), Minneapolis Northfield & side sills, but these were not widely dis-

12 RAILMODEL)OURNAL' DECEMBER 1999 tributed. A similar car is supposed to be PCA 166241, series 166000-166999, class X71, built in December 1971 through January 1972. These Penn produced by LBF. Central cars represent a further development in ACF's design: note that there are only six side posts (seven pan­ All of these kits have been offered els) to either side of the door on these cars, something that would be standard on subsequent production. The PCA decorated for scores of roads, but not all cars were plain-jane with non-cushioned underframes and no loaders. Reportedly, there was no herald and PCA of them have been accurate, so it's buyer reporting marks were used to ensure that the cars could be retrieved by the lessor in the event that Penn Central beware. Herald IGng produced many sets went under. Accurall's HO scale kit (a total revamp of the old Front Range/McKean model) closely match­ that were accurate for ACF cars, but they es these cars except the side 511115 deeper- which 15 easy enough to fix with a file. -Todd Sullivan photo, December 1979 are no longer in print, although some can HO Scale Decals: Herald King B-360 still be found on dealers' shelves. Microscale makes several sets in HO and N, even a few specifically designed to fit the sides of the Athearn kit (these are cur­ rently being revised). RGS once made quite a few sets in 0 scale. RMJ

B&O 485236, series 485200-485313, class B-97, built in October 1970. The Baltimore & Ohio ordered similar eight-panel cars from ACF al the same time as L&N, but the the B&O cars were equipped with DF loaders and a full set of waffle impressions. Delivered in min­ erai red with B&O's Capitol dome herald, this car had been repaint­ ed in Chessie livery. -Jim Eager photo, April 1985 HO Scale Decals: none known

MEC 29091, series 29000-29249, built in August 1970. The Maine Central also ordered 8-panel cars from ACE Theirs were Plate C, had only 4 rows of waf­ fles but no loaders, 9-foot plug doors, and a cushioned underframe. The Rock Island ordered similar cars in 1970, equipped with DF loaders and 10-6 plug doors (RI 62900-62999). -Jim Eager photo, March 1984 HO Scale Decals: none known

BN 244582, series 244300-244749, built in February 1971. The BN ordered Plate C 8-panel cars equipped with 10-foot plug doors, cushioned underframe, and no waffles or loaders. -Jim Eager photo, March 1984 HO Scale Decals: none known

RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 13 [INTERMODAL MODELING] ------

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By Brian Kreimendahl

Most of the prototypes for Walthers 45-foot intermodal trailers were painted aluminum. It's the subtle variations in lettering and weathering that make them distinctive. Here are some of the more common prototypes with decal listings so you can match your models to these prototypes. There's an index of previous articles on Intermodal modeling on pages 14-1 5 of this issue.

ICRZ 631780 shows one of two major livery variations found on

Illinois Central Stoughton-built vans. Both schemes may be - found with or without conspicuity (red & white reflective) striping. - - --�= --- -Hobart Yard, East Los Angeles, June 1997 Illinois ------HO Scale Decals: Walthers 933-1405 and Microscale MC-4029. Central - -

n the years prior to 1960, began his employment, MPM filed for Trailers, Inc. in 1965, and the company Wisconsin-based Stoughton bankruptcy. Wahlin scrambled around then began building trailers at its Trailers was known as Stoughton Cab and was able to gather enough money to Academy Street plant in Stoughton, & Body. Subsequently, Stoughton Cab & buy MPM. Wisconsin. In the ensuing years Body was acquired by Moe, Parley, & In 1961, Wahlin's new company was Stoughton has continued to build trailers, Moe (MPM) Corporation. In 1960, a named Stoughton Truck Body. containers, and container chassis in its recent University of Wisconsin engineer­ Stoughton was then a builder of regular namesake community and in the process ing graduate named Don Wahlin went to dry trucks and refrigerated vans. The has added a number of additional work for MPM. Six months after Wahlin company was renamed Stoughton manufacturing facilities there. KBSl 63403 is owned by the Kankakee, Beaverville& Southern Railroad. Note the older faded red Stoughton builder's logo near the bottom front of the sidewall. -Galesburg, Illinois, August 1997 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-665.

SFVl 732810 is a Santa Fe trailer. This trailer is vented with both front and rear vents and shows the elongated upper sidewall lifting rail. -Hobart Yard, East Los Angeles, March 1997 HO Scale Decals: Walthers 933-1412 and Microscale 87-293 and 87-638.

Railroads and equipment leasing companies continue to take delivery of 45-foot-long vans. BMDl 637009 wears the liv­ ery of the Minnesota, Dakota & Western. This van is from one of the latest orders of 45-foot Stoughton-built vans to ride the rails. Note the smail MD&W logo on the curbside doors. -Caliente, California, January 1997 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-665.

Transamerica Leasing also rosters a number of 45-foot Stoughton-built vans like ex-Illinois Central REAl 635522. -East Los Angeles, March 1997 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-703.

RAILMODELjOURNAL' DECEMBER 1999 15 jJ DU0JJfDJJ dJ -'FOJ Jf JHfEHJJ) JJDill UiJJ)J Wa lthers 45-Foot Intermodal Va ns Walthers recently introduced an HO scale model of a Stoughton-built 45-foot­ long, I02-inch-wide sheet & post dry van with a 11O-inch interior height. The prototypes for these vans began liding the rails about 1987 when intermodal trailers with cube-maximizing 110-inch interior heights appeared. The prototype for the Walthers model is extremely common and is seen in intermodal service with great frequency. Walthers has given us a good basic model of this Stoughton prototype. After its initial release, Walthers pelformed some retooling to address several issues including reducing the size of the side­ wall rivets and improving the nosewall detail by adding a recessed document The more spartan version of the Illinois Central scheme may be seen on box. Curiously, in the retooling process ICRZ 931019. It lacks the large IC graphics 0� �n the :sid�e;w:alls,:n0se and � � Walthers failed to address the recessed doors of the livery on ICRZ 631780. -Hereford, Te xas, August� ��� � � utility panel on the nose wall of the trailer. HO Scale Decals: ��: � �" r Microscale MC-4029. r7 Recessed utility panels are a common spotting feature of intermodal vans. Walthers chose an outwardly protruding utility panel, which does not match what is fo und on the prototypes that commonly lide the rails. Hopefully, a detail part manufacturer will address the need fo r a more accurate utility panel. This will complete what is otherwise a nice trailer model and a welcome addition to the stable of trailer modeling choices available to intermodal modelers. RMJ

MD&W's Stoughton-built vans are among the true icons of modern intermodal service. MD&W's fleet of more than 5,000 45-foot intermodal vans may be seen on intermodal trains all over North America. -Hobart Yard, East Los Angeles, April 1997 Walthers 933-1410 and

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KBSl 231354 represents the trailers in the KBS fleet that lack the colorful logos found on other KBS-owned trailers. -Hobart Yard, East Los Angeles, June 1997 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-665.

REAl 637844, riding a rrx Front Runner, is an ex-BN Tra nsamerica Leasing van. -Hobart Yard, East Los Angeles, June 1997 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-569 and 87-703.

Ty pical of the plain liveries found on Norfolk Southern's 45-foot van fleet is NSZ 235609. -Bakersfield, California, January 1997 HO Scale Decals: Walthers 934-1406.

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BMDl 632280 shows yet another M&DW livery varia­ tion as it lacks the large stlylized identifying logos on the sidewalls. -Helendale, California. March 1998 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-665.

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e� a n MD&wiAS·ftiteughton-buift-:- traifer fleet is. and there are many" varl tlllrfs in the liveries that maye be see . Many larg 1 e Of c OJ] a up In the MD&W raller f1 et. 1.ack or prese;Riof colisp!culty-strlplng,safety refle tors, and marklng .dlfferences C l are just a few of the variations that may be Jliund . .;...;.BMDZ 631107 and BMDZ 633413 .at Oklahoma ity, Ok ahoma, 110 87-665 . .

Burlington Northern owned a large fleet of trailers like BNZ 234436. Note the split upper sIdewall lifting rail. built vans were retired when this picture was taken, but this Is one of a smail group that lingered on In full BN Irv�rY. J'ftif �:di:einij from BN's fleet, many of these vans ended up In the fleets of equIpment leasIng companIes. -Barstow, California, June HO Scale Decals: Walthers 933-1413 and Mlcroscale 87-569.

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18 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 The pyr amid logo graphic was applied to the driver's side door of Transamerica leasing's REAZ -Hobart Yard, East los Angeles, October 238748. 1998 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-703.

One of the legendary equipment leasing liveries In Intermodal tranSport Is ...... nn ',11 REDZ shows the dasslc Redon livery so common In Intermodal service. 236241 -Hobart Yard, East Los Angeles, June 1997 HO Scale Decals:Walthers and Mlcroscale 933-1409 MC-4262.

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RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 19 ------[PERFORMANCE]------

By Guy Th rams

The Genesis, by Athearn, series of HO scale locomotives now includes a replica of the USRA 'Light' 2-8-2 Mikado. The model has a number of free-standing details so it looks like a painted brass model. It also has plenty of weight and a smooth-running drive train for realistic per­ formance.

thearn has expanded its Journal," This USRA 'Light' 2-8-2 including AC&Y, A&WP, ACL, AGS, product line to include Mikado is Athearn's first steam locomo­ B&O, C&A, CCSLL, C&EI, C&IM, more detailed and smoother-running tive in the Genesis Li ne. C&O, D&TSL, FEC, GA, GM&O, locomotives than traditional Athearn CGW, GT, CNOTP, GT, GTW, KO&G, products. Athearn calls this new series The Prototype LE&W, L&HR, L&N, MC, MEC, Mid Genesis. There's an article on the con­ The Genesis USRA 'Light' 2-8-2 is a Val, M&O, Monon, MGA, MP, NCSL, cept in the June 1999 issue and a test of fine presentation of the prototype as it NKP, NdeM, NYC, OCAA, OSL, PRR, the first Genesis locomotive, the EMD appeared in the forties. Dozens of proto­ PM, P&WV , RI, TUR, SAL, SLSF, SD70I, in the July 1999 issue of "The type railroads owned the locomotives SOU, T&OC, T&P, UP, WA B, and

20 RAIL MODEL}OURNAL . DECEM BER 1999 nor electrical pickup through the tender. The model is powered by a precision can-style motor with flywheel with a conventional worm that drives a worm gear on an idler shaft. That worm gear, in turn, drives a worm gear on the third axle to produce a gear ratio of 37: 1. The remaining three drivers are driven by the side rods.

WofA . The USRA 'Light' Mikados were The Chassis Ii Drive Train designed to provide a standard design for The 63-inch diameter drivers are a mass-produced steam locomotive to metal with bright-plated drivers, rods meet the needs of a nation engaged in and valve gear. All eight drivers are World War I. The first USRA "Light" sprung to provide smoother operation Mikados were delivered in 1918. and better contact with uneven track. The Genesis model is virtually identi­ Electrical pickup is through the drivers. cal to the USRA 'Light' Mikados operat­ The plug for the tender is designed to fi t ed by the Baltimore and Ohio in the for­ a standard digital command control ties. A photograph of 4537 from the right (DCC) receiver. There is no backup light or engineer's side appeared in the September 1999 issue of "The Journal," with more information on the prototype locomotives. The Genesis model closely matches the appearance that most of the USRA 'Light"Mikados had when they were delivered in 1918. Some roads made more changes than the B&O, but virtually all started with locomotives that looked like the Genesis model. Genesis offers the model in B&O, Pennsylvania, Missouri Pacific, New York Central, Nickel Plate, Frisco and Union Pacific paint and lettering as well as undecorat­ ed. The position of the headlight and number boards, and a choice of a stan­ dard or footboard pilot is matched to the specific prototype locomotive. The model is also available undecorated with either a conventional or a footboard pilot.

The Genesis Model USRA 'Light' Mikado features a die­ cast metal frame that completely fills the boiler for weight. The boiler itself and the cab are injection-molded plastic with separate detail parts. The bell and whistle (not shown on the model in the photos) are brass-painted plastic mOUldings. The handrails are supported by plastic stan­ chions that must be cut from the sprues and the handrails and stanchions assem­ bled by the modeler. The finer details are plastic mOUldings, including individual pipes and parts for more three-dimen­ 4.0 sional details than appear on most rela­ ::u tively inexpensive steam locomotive models. The separate detail parts and running boards will make it easier for modelers who might want to alter the OVERALL RATING: 4.0 running boards or pipes to match a par­ Prototype Top Speed: ticular modernized prototype locomo­ Driver Diameter x 1.1 69.3mph tive.

RAILMODELjOURNAL ' DECEMBER 1999 21 ------[MODELING STEAM] ------

DETAILING HO STEAM By Robert Schleicher Photos from the H.K. Vo llrath collection

he USRA 'Light' and 'Heavy' pumps should be on their locomotives, what designers. And so it was-for about a year. Mountains, like the USRA kind of air tanks, whether the locomotives Soon after the real railroads received their 'Light' and 'Heavy' 2-8-2 and 4-6-2, the 0-6- should have feedwater heaters or not, what locomotives, it was time for the locomotives o and 0-8-0 switchers and the 2-6-6-2 and 2- kind of valve gear to apply, the size, shape to visit the shop and, as long as they were 8-8-2 articulateds, were designed by the and trucks for the tender, and even the design be ing rebuilt anyway, why not add all the United States Railroad Administration of the cab. That kind of wide-ranging specifi­ specific changes the railroad wanted in the (USRA) to speed mass production of steam cation made each locomotive virtually a cus­ first place. Hence, the wide variation in the locomotives by adopting a standard design. tom-made machine. running board locations (to clear air tanks and During the 1900- 1950 period, each real rail­ The members of the USRA effectively air pumps), the different locations of those air road had its own shops that could completely told the railroads that any new locomotives tanks and air pumps, the presence of the rebu ild a steam locomotive. The engineers they were to receive from the locomotive Elesco feedwater heaters on the New Haven that were in charge of those shops had their manufacturers would be to a standard design, locomotives, the Worthington feedwater own opinions about exactly what kind of air regardless of the opinions of each railroad's heaters on some NC&St.L and some

22 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 The New Haven locomotives were fitted with Elesco 235 214 163 Feedwater heaters (Cary's with pipes and pump is close). What looks like a second air pump is the pump for the Elesco feedwater heater. Locomotive 3303 1919 was built in by Richmond Locomotive Works, and the feedwater heater was added later. It was photographed at Cedar Hill, Connecticut in 1937. September

There isn't much extra piping on the right side of the New Haven Mountains fitted with feedwater heaters. Note that the bell, however, is on top of the smokebox 31601 3301 like the Precision Scale bell. Locomotive 1919 was built by Baldwin in and photographed at 1937. Lowell, Massachusetts in May

1483 Southern is also close to the Spectrum model if 31601 you add a Precision Scale bell to the top of the smokebox and replace the tender trucks with the leaf­ spring-style Andrews trucks supplied with the Spectrum model. It was photographed at Birmingham, 1940. Alabama in March

1482 Southern has been fitted with a small 137 Wo rthington SA feedwater heater (Cary's would be fine), and the cab is Southern's own with taller sides and larger windows, and, thus, a slightly flatter roof. The tender is fitted with Andrews trucks with leaf springs. The bell is also mounted on top of the smoke­ 31601 box like the Precision Scale HO scale part. It 1919 was built by Baldwin in and was photographed at 1948. Birmingham, Alabama in April

RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 23 USRA 'LIGHT' 4-8-2 MOUNTAIN FROM SPECTRUM

Missouri Pacific 5303 was built by Richmond Locomotive Works in 1919. Itwas photographed at Poplar Bluff, Missouri in May 1935. The railroad has already added its touches, including extra lengths of cooling pipe on the engineer's side, an awning, and a wind guard over the back of the cab roof. The steam turret has been covered with a steel shroud which could be fabricated from .0lD-inch thick sheet styrene. Southern engines, or the Southern's own tall­ and later from Baldwin Locomotive Works, side cabs. Schenectady Locomotive Works and The Southern(and its subsidiary AGS and Richmond Locomotive Works. The Missouri CNOTP), Missouri Pacific, NC&St.L (the Pacific, L&N, NC&SLL and some Southern Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis-the locomotives are, perhaps, the most like the "Dixie" Line) and New Haven were the only "official" USRA drawings. Fortunately for roads to purchase the USRA 'Light' the modeler, all the USRA 'Light' 4-8-2 Mountains during World War 1. The Mountains and their clones had the same Louisville and Nashville, New York, Ontario 69-inch drivers, valve gear, cylinders and & Western and Soo Line bought clones after boi ler, so you can start with the Bachmann the war. model and build an exact replica of any of The USRA 'Light' 4-8-2 Mountains were these locomotives-or just leave it as-is and delivered beginning in May 1919 from Alco call it a "stand-in." RMJ

1493 4-8-2 Southern still has the USRA-style cab, so you can duplicate a Southern USRA 'Light' without changing 311). the cab. Bowser has those USRA tender trucks in HO scale (part number What looks like a second air 3420 pump (partially hidden by the lamp post) is an air strainer similar to Precision Scale's HO scale part. It 1919 1929. was built by Richmond Locomotive Works in and photographed at Bristol, Virginia in February

L&N apparently did not make many modifications to their USRA Mountains except to the capacity of the 409 tender slightly. Number also has a much larger steam turret which could be SlmUIiJ.JMiI,at least, with Cary's 173 (division of Bowser) USRA steam turret added to the Spectrum's steam turret with additional piping. It 1949. neath the tender. It was photographed at Cincinnati, Ohio in

RAILMODELjOURNAL ' DECEMBER 1999 25 USRA 'LIGHT' 4-8-2 MOUNTAIN FROM SPECTRUM

500 4007 has spoked pilot wheels and a somewhat larger cab than the other USRA 'Light' Mountains. This one also has very thick driver tires and huge steam pipes (Cary division of Bowser 214 parts would be close). The headlight is raised above the center of the smokebox and the bell is on top of the smokebox front like Precision Scale's 31601. It was built by Brooks in 1926 and photographed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in September 1935.

500 4009 has been fitted with a tender from another locomotive. Mantua has a somewhat similar 6-wheel tender in HO scale, and the Rivarossi NKP Berkshire tender is also simi­ lar if it were shortened a bit. It also has a Delta trailing truck (Precision Scale 31557) and that large Soo-style cab. It was pho­ tographed at North Fond du Lac, Wisconsin in June 1954.

lit New York, Ontario Western 410 was built by Schenectady in 1923. The straight run­ ning board gives it a streamlined appear­ ance, and in fact, when they were new, these locomotives carried skirts beneath the run­ ning boards and stripes. The tenders on 401 and 410 have Commonwealth trucks which are included with the Spectrum model. The locomotive was photographed at Middle­ town, New Yo rk in August 1937.

The New York, Ontario and Western USRA 'Light' Mountains appear to have been equipped with the small tenders like those on the U5RA 'Light' 2-8-2, but with the coal capacity increased. The major difficulty for a modeler would be duplicating those straight running boards because much of the piping would have to be removed from the model and replaced with wire. 401 and 416 both have Delta trailing trucks (Precision Scale 31557). It was built by Schenectady in 1922 and photographed at Middletown, New York in June 1938.

26 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 [ONE-OETAIL-AT-A-TIME] ------

Photos from the collection of Louis A. Marre

he S060, along with the S070, body shell and frame in the Oecember 1994 o Scale: Mike's Train House and Overland was the last of the EMD high­ issue of "The Journal" that can supply more has imported brass models horsepower diesels to be offered with a con­ information on model ing one of these units in ventional cab. The Union Pacific, like many HO scale. The January 1996 issue of "The Paint other roads, opted for the conventional cab on Journal" included an article by Alex King on Union Pacific Armour Ye llow: Polly Scale a portion of their orders but eventually how to superdetail the HO scale Rail Power 414170, Badger Accu-Flex 24, Floquil switched to the wide or comfort cab of the Products body and chassis. with trucks and 1 10166, SMP AccLipaint 67, or Scalecoat 22. S060M (and the S070M). The S060 was drivetrain from an Athearn SD40T-2 chassis Union Pacific Harbor Mist Gray: Polly really a development of the previous S050 to recreate Norfolk and Western's 6632. The Scale 414175, Badger Accu-Flex 25, Floquil and is nearly identical externally. The S060's details on the Un.ion Pacific locomotives are 1 l0167. SMP Accupaint 68, or Scalecoat 32. prime mover developed 3800 horsepower, similar to those on Alex.'smod el, so his tech­ just 200 more than that in the S050. EMO's niques and materials should prove helpful in Decal: S060 did, however, oifer the improvement of recrating these Union Pacific diesels. Also, N Scale: Microscale 60-523 mkroprocessors to control wheelspin and Chris Zygmunt's article in this issue on HO Scale: Microscale 87-523 or Champ fuel consumption. The S060 was effectively superdetai ling with Cannon parts will prove BRH-23 superceded by !be SD70. EMD produced 537 helpful if you want to create a superdetai1ed S Scale: none known SD60 diesels between May 1984 and May ]-10 scale version of the SD60. o Scale: Microscale 48-110or Champ B RO- 1991. 23 The Union Pacific has its unusual spare Scale Model SD60s coupler-mounting knuckles in brackets HO Scale: Rail Power Products (7283 N. One-Detail-At-A-Time attached to the truck sideframes and the Stagecoach Dr., Park City, UT 84060) makes (HO Scale) snowplow, shielded headlights, antenna and an SD60 body and chassis to accept Athearn Step-by-step instructions on how to install rotary beacon it prefers. Number 6028 was trucks anel motor from their S040T-2 model. many of these detail parts appeared in the part of number series 6000-6084 purchased in Proto Power West, Overland Models and June 1989 issue of "The JournaL" That arti­ 1987. Hobbytown also make chassis to fit the Rail cle is also reprinted in the book TUNlNG & There's a "One-Detail-At-A-Time" article Power Products S060 body shell. UPGRADING AT HEARN LOCOMO­ on the Union Pacific wide-cab S060M and N Scale: Atlas TNES. how to model it with the Rail Power Products S Scale: American Models

RAILMODELjOURNAL ' DECEMBER 1999 27 EMD SD60 AS UNION PACIFIC 6028 A-Line, Box 270 1, Carlsbad, CA 92018: 5-6206 Air hoses 1.25/6 Keystone Locomotive Wo rks, P. O. Box J, J -29200 Windshield wipers $1.85/8 11-640 1 Brake wheels 1.25/2 Pulltney, NY 1487429 2-292 12 Cab sunshades 1.95/2 Pl'. 39-3305 Cab interior $9.98/set 3-2923 1 Steps (see-through) 2.95/set Details West, P. O. Box 61, Corona, CA 91718: 17-127 Bells (left side) $l.25/2 Overland Models, Inc., 3808 W. Kilgore American Model Builders, 1420 Hanley 35-139 Fuel filter set I.OO/set Ave., Muncie, IN 47304: Industrial Court, St. Louis, MO 63144: 19-157 Antennae 1.95/5 6-90 10 Air horn $3.50 ea. 4-24 1 Windows for Rail $3.95/set 7- 166 Fuel fi llers 1.00/4 7-9043 Fuel fi llers 4.25/set Power Products cab 18-172 Wa lkway (ditch) lights 1.25/8 19-9050 Antennae 3.25/2 11-179 Brake wheels 1.00/2 11-9141 Brake wheel 1.75 ea. Cal-Scale (division of Bowser Mfg. Co., 6-190 Air horn 2.50 ea 29-9151 Coupler lift bars 1.95/2 Inc.), 21 Howard St., Montoursville, PA 36-196 Spare coupler 1.00/2 25-9177 Etched fan griBe 5.00 ea. 17754-0322: knuckles with brackets 20-9250 Fuel sight glass 3.00 ea. 5-320 Air hoses $1.85/2 sets 33-201 Sand fil ler hatches 1.25/4 23-9275 Headlight 2.50 ea. 1-419 Wi ndshield wipers 3.50/2 PI'. 34-204 Air tanks (modified) 1.95/2 31-9327 Mirrors 2.50/4 6-421 Air horn 6.95 ea. 21-221 MU hoses (set of fo ur) 3.75/4 (wind deflectors) 8-430 Bell (left side) 2.95 ea. 37-255 Snowplow 1.75 ea. 21-935 1 MU hoses 6.75/4 sets 7-43 1 Fuel mlers 2.50/set 38-265 MU hoses 3.75/4 (set of 4) 2-437 Cab sunshades 3.95/set 5-267 Air hoses 1.25/2 33-9400 Sand filler hatches 3.35/2 9-302 Coupler (scale) 2.75/pr.

Cannon & Company, 3947 Freedom Blvd., Aptos, CA 95003: 10-1 1 04 Short hood $6.95 ea. 11-1 108 Brake wheels (left side) 3.95/6 12-J 307 InertiaJ filter screens 2.50/4 13-1 358 Inertial filter hatches 2.95/2 14-1407 Radiator screens 3.95/2 15-1501 Ca:b with separate 5.95 ea. doors 15-1505 Laser-cut 2.95/set windows for 1501 2- 1551 Cab sunshades 2.95/8 16-160 I Blower housings 3.5012 (left side)

Custom Finishing, 379 'fulleyRd., Orange, MA 01364: 17-109 Bell (left side) $3.69 ea. 18-1 12 Ground (walkway) 4.95/2 lights 19-113 Antennae 3.09/2 6-22 1 Air horn 3.69 ea. 20-226 Fuel sight glasses 2.09/2 21-258 MU hoses 7.95/2 sets (set of fo ur) 11-276 Brake wheel (left side) 3.95 ea.

Detail Associat.es, Box 5357, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403: 22- 1022 Ditch lights $1.25/4 23-1 024 Headlights 1.0012 17-1 202 Bells (left side) 1.25/2 2- 1 303 Cab sunshades 1.50/4 21-1508 MU hoses 2.00/l6 6- 1601 Air horns 1.75/2 19-\ 805 Antennae 1.25/2 24-1901 Cab venls 1.00/12 25-20 1.2Etched fan grilles 3.00/2 26-2202 Grabirons 2.50/48 27-2206 Lift rings (eye bolts) 3.00/36 28-22 10 Chain 2.25/12 in. 29-2211 Coupler lift bars 2.25/2 30-2217 Curved grabirolls 1.50/3 31-2304 Wind deflectors 2.50/3 pro

- - 32-2504 .012 inch diameter 2.00/ 10 wire (for handrails) 33-3001 Sand filler hatches 1.00/4 7-3 102 Fuel tank fittings 1.00/2 (fillers) 34-3201 Air tanks (modified) 2.25/4

28 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 37-9555 Snowplow 8.85 ea. 37-39062 Snowplow 3.00 ea. Smokey Valley Railroad Products, P.O. (modified) (modified) Box 339, Plantersville, MS 38862: 36-9702 Spare couplers with 5.00/2 40-39073 Extended handrail 4.50/20 32 & 40-2 1 Preformed $15.95 brackets stanchions SD60 handrail & stanchion kit 16-9707 Blower housing 8.75 ea. 7-39080 Fuel fillers 1.00/4 (induction duct-left side ) 6-39084 Air horns 2.75 ea. 18-9708 Walkway (ditch) lights 6.55/6 5-39 118 Air hoses 1.50/10 28-48237 Chain 2.50/10 in. Precision Scale, 3961 Highway 93 North, 27-48277- 1 lift rings 2.25/12 Ordering Information: Stevensville, MT 59870: (eye bolts) 23-3933 Headlights $2.25/2 All of these parts are available to any hobby 40-3935 Side handrail 4.50120 dealer, so your dealer can order fo r you. If stanchions Run 8 Productions, P.O. Box 25224, you must order direct, order the full package 40-3937 Front & rear 2.50/8 Rochester, NY 14625: quantities shown and include $5.00 per order handrail stanchions 32 & 40- 1856 Preformed $2.50/set for postage or UPS and handling. RMJ 1-3968 Windshield wipers 1.25/4 handrails & Athearn stanchions 32-4968 .01 2-inch-diameter 1.75/6 Wlre 21-39059 MU hoses (4) 1.75/4 ------[DlESEL MODELING ]------

CANNONIZED DIESEL PARTS

By Chris Zygmunt Te hachapi Mountains. I also like SP's be done and what new techniques needed light package and dual snow plows that to be developed. were used on those locomotives that were deli vered in the late sixties and Cannonizing tlle Body was always impressed with the early seventies. Cannon and Company makes very way the SD-39 looked. I consider At first I looked for existing models that accurate models of EMD components. I it to h(: a true mountain 10comNive. I could use to accurately model an SD- thought about how nice it would be to There were .54 units built by EMD 39. I found there to be none. Thanks to make an entire hood from these parts. between 1968 and 1970 including 26 for today's manufacturers, however, there After all, the cab, nose, and sub-base are the Southern Pacific, 20 for the Santa Fe, are enough parts available that we can already available for just about every 4 for the Illinois Terminal, 2 for the Soo now build entire locomotives from these second-generation EMD hood unit built. Line, ilnd 2 for the Minneapolis, parts. They can be built with an accuracy Just build them up according to the Cgnnon instructions, and following the Nortnfield, & Southern. I chose to build that was impossible, even with br"s� an SP version, as I had witnessed them imports, until recently. My fi rst SD-39 prototype you are modeling. Cannon also running in helper service over the was built as an experiment to s�e if it can m"kes all the doors, ends, exhaust, radia- SOUTHERN PACIFIC S039 FROM CANNON PA RTS

tors, etc., to make up the entire long hood. Lay out all the doors, radiators, and That can be cut from a single piece of 1 used drawings that were published some the rest of the parts on the drawings. .020-inch plastic, and lay that out below years ago in another modeling magazine, Make up pieces of .020-inch Evergreen the doors. Basically, once the parts are all but you can use good photographs of the styrene plastic sheets to fi II around all the laid out on the drawings, the rest of the prototype, the ElectroMotive factory doors. Note that there is one long piece areas can be filled with .020-inch plastic. drawing, and the Cannon parts to position of sheet metal above the walkways and The best way to start putting a hood the majority of the components. just below the cloors on the prototype. side together is to cut out another piece

32 RAILMODELjOURNAL · DECEMBER 1999 of .020-inch plastic the size of the hood glued on top of the .020-inch side that over the recess. That .020 inches ends up side. The only cutout in that piece is for must be cut to match the overall size of being the perfect size for that too. Do the the radiator grilles. Cut the opening so the Cannon doors and .020-inch styrene other side the same way. When you are the recess on the back of the grilles fits strips. You will end up with a recess finished, you will have the two sides of into the opening. The Cannon parts and where the dynamic brakes go. Do not fill the hood in a sandwich of two layers of pieces of .020-inch plastic that were then any plastic in that area. I used a modified plastic and Cannon parts that is .040 inch laid out on the drawings can now be Athearn Dynamic Brake section to fit thick. It's the perfect size to fit around

RAILMODELjOURNAL · DECEMBER 1999 33 SOUTHERN PACIFIC SD39 FROM CANNON PARTS

81 LL OF MATERIALS:

A-Line: Details West: Windshield wipers 29200 Air filter 139 Can motor 7032 1 Air horn 175 Electrical cabinet filter and vent 107 Loco lights 172 Athearn: Traction motor cables 224 Dynamic brake hatch 45038 Fuel fi 1ler 1 66 Underframe 450 19 Fuel tank brackets 197 Headlight set 178 Cannon & Company: Snowplow 140 Anticlimber 2lO1 Coupler buffe r plate 195 Blower housing 1602 Cab kit 1502 Evergreen Scale Models: Hood end 1154 Styrene sheets .0 lO-inch 90 10 I lO3 Nose Styrene sheets .OI 5-inch 9015 Engine compartment doors 1001 Styrene sheets .020-inch 9020 Engine compartment doors t002 Quarter round .030-inch 246 Engine compartment doors 1005 Strips .100 x .250-inch 179 Engine compartment doors 1006 Strips .015 x .020-inch 110 Radiator compartment doors 1003 Strips .030 x .030-inch 131 Radiator compartment doors 1004 Radiator compartment doors 1007 K&S Engineering: Generator/Alternator access doors 1008 Brass strips .064 x .75-inch 247 Cab sub-base 1201 Brass rod lI8-inch 164 1203 SP split equipment doors Brass tube I/16-inch 125 Inertial filter screens 1303 Brass tube 3/32-inch 126 Radiator grilles 1405 Inertial filter hatch 1353 Keystone Locomotive Works: Turbo hatch 1952 Cab interior 3305

M.V. Products: Custom Finishing: Lenses clear LS 300 Speed recorder 196 Lens set LS 18 Fuel tank sight glass 226

NorthWest Short Line: Detail Associates: Screws 2 x 4 x 6 mm 12065 Dynamic brake fans 2003 Universal driveline couplers 4826 Cooling fans 2004 Shaft/axle stock 20204 Photo-etched grilles 20 12 Overland Models, Inc.: Vents 1902 MU hoses 935 1 Bell 1201 Drive system 5419 Air deflector 23 11 PFM: Armrest 2303 SD40-2 superdetailing kit Coupler lift bar 2204 Plano Model Products: Drop steps 1402 Fan hatch 187 Fuel tank gauge 3101 Precision Scale Co.: Fitting set 3102 Headlight 3934 Grabirons 2202 Fan grab 2217 Special Shapes: MU stand ]506 Brass I-beam 1/8-inch Radio antenna 1802 Brass strip .040 x .75-inch Brass wire 2506 Brass wire 2505 Utah Pacific: Lift rings 101 101 Brake cylinder 82 Sunshade 101301 Nose headlight 84

34 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 the motor that will later fit inside the raised walkway behind the fi reman's side together. Drill out the mounting holes for hood, and it also fits the Cannon ends of the cab. That piece was cut slightly the trucks of your choice. I used the perfectly. Now that you have all those nan'ower than the rest of the walkways. Overland trucks. Other mountings can be components put together, assemble the Position and glue the duct in place. Lay fabricated to accept other trucks. Solder hood sides and ends together. Butt them out the photo-etched walkways from the or glue a coupler mounting pad to the frame to match the height of opening in up to the caband check to make sure that PFM kit onto the plastic walkways. These pieces have to be cut in length to the pilot. The frame should fi t snugly the top of the hood is flush with the roof fit. Use a contact adhesive to adhere the between the pilots. Solder or glue the of the cab. brass pieces to the plastic. Cut the side pi lot braces to the frame beams. Evergreen makes plastic quarter sills from .0 IS-inch plastic strips offered To mOllnt the body to the metal round that is perfect for the cornersof the by Evergreen. Cut to match the drawings frame, install I /4-i nch-square plastic roof. It can be mitred and installed on top and then glue in place keeping them mounting posts inside the corners of the of the sides and end of the hood, but only flush with top of the photo etchings. body. Inside the body, where the bracing behind the dynamic brakes. T originally The pilot was fabricated using .0 I 0- was installed, glue in solid .25 x .25-inch cut off a roof section from an Athearn inch styrene. Just trace out the pilot face plastic posts and make sure the posts will body, which is also an option, but since off the drawings, cut it to shape, and glue clear the drive system. Fit the frame, then Evergreen has come out with the it to the front of the walkways. Then size locate the centers of the posts, and drill a quarter round and it is much easier to and cut out the pieces for the step wells clearance hole through the frame to fit a use. I'm also in the process of building a and glue them to the walkways. There is screw through to the body post. With the Santa Fe SD39, so I used the quarter a piece of plastic that gets glued perpen­ frame in place, drill a smaller hole in the round method and it sure looks much dicular to the stepwell. Also run a bead of body post so that a screw can be self­ cleaner. The area in front of the dynamic thick hobby-type cyanoacrylate cement tapped into place. This is a good system brakes was just fi lled in with sheet plas­ (ACC) to the inside to round off inside to mount your body to the frame. When tic to square up the corners. A .040-inch­ the corner, then scrape the outside of the you fit the coupler pockets through the thick plastic spacer was also used inside corner until it becomes rounded. Now pilot and screw into the coupler pad on the front part of the hood assembly to that you have the stepwells done, glue in the frame, the ends get locked in place keep the hood sides parallel. Make sure it the photo-etched steps and cut supports too. clears the running mechanism. A pair of from .0 l O-inch plastic. braces were also added behind and in The details on the pilots are as fo llows. The Trucks front of where the motor fits. This makes Hopefully, you cut out an opening in the I used the Overland trucks from an the body very stiff and keeps everything styrene pilot face to accept the Kadee cou­ SD4S drive. 1 kept the trucks and motor squared up. Cannon inertial filter hatch pler pockets. Cut the buffe r plate from the and threw everything else away. I used and exhaust were added to the top. Details West part number 195 and glue NorthWest Short Line U-joins and drive above the coupler opening. Use the The inside of the cab floor or top of shafts. After studying the trucks and the Overland air hose castings as they include the sub-base was cut away at this time prototype, J decided the trucks needed to the bracket, then dr ill and glue those in since the body is now structurally sound. have all the details removed and new place. Install grab bars, uncoupling lift This gave me the room to add a Keystone details made lip and added. Two of the bars, and appropriate snow plows. cab interior. The cab interior is mounted sideframes needed the high-low cylinder The body is almost complete. At this on blocks that are soldered to the loco­ mount. ] fabricated new brake hangers point you cango back and add all the rest motive fra me. There are four 2-mm and adj usters. I added Utah Pacific brake of the smal l details that you need to rep­ screws holding the cab interior to the cylinders to the trucks to the high mount resent the prototype that you are bui Id­ frame. I chose to use taps and screws side of the trucks. Appropriate air lines ing. Handrails can be added now, or were bent to shape and everything was offered by NWSL. All screws are metric, depending on the paint job, they can be but standard screws can also be used. added after the loco is painted. PFM soldered into place. A speed recorder was makes excellent handrail stanchions that added to the fireman's side. r fabricated Wa lkways and Pilots come with the superdetail kit. Other sander brackets and soldered them into I have several PFM SD-40-2 super­ brands are also avai lable. place. The hoses are thin wire insulation . detailing kits. I like the photo-etched The trucks are mounted to the frame walkways that these kits contain and The Frame using their mounting screws. wanted to use them on this locomotive. The frame was constructed usi ng 1/8- The fuel tank is an Athearn tank PFM detailing kits are hard to find these inch I-beam, available from Special removed from their SD40-2 frame. The days, but Cannon will be releasing Shapes. The I-beams are connected to a inside of the tank was milled out to etched walkways later this year. I traced .060-inch-thick brass bar on the inside of accept the A-Line motor. The rest of the the walkways off the drawings onto .020- the beams. Mark off where the gear tank was fi led and sanded smooth. inch plastic and then subtracted .0 15 inch tower for the trucks and motor with fly­ Plastic was glued to the ends and then off each side fo r the side sills to be added wheels will come through the frame, trimmed with a razor blade, and a lip was later. After cutting out the walkways, I then fi II all the rest of the space wi th the left exposed to give the look of separate cut another piece of Evergreen .1OO -inch .060 x .75-inch Special Shapes brass bar. welded end plates. 1 glued .0IS-inch plas- plastic for the walkway duct. That's the The brass can be soldered or epoxied

RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 35 SOUTHERN / PACIFIC 5039 FROM CANNON PA RTS

tic square strips to the top of the ends of The frame side rails are Special Shapes .060-inch I-beams cut to an HO scale 61-foot 71/z-inch length to match the the fuel tank to act as spacers between the prototype's (and the model's) length over the end platfonms. The K & S .060 x .7S0-inch brass strip has been cut tank and frame to get that see-through into four pieces so the gaps between the pieces clear the truck gear towersand the motor and flywheels. look of the prototype. Details We st fuel tank brackets were added as were gauges and fuel fi llers. The overflow tube and breather pipe were fabricated from K&S tubing. The fuel tank was positioned under the frame. Clearance holes were drilled through the brass frame, then tap holes were drilled into the fuel tank. These holes are drilled at the corners of the fuel tank. The tank was then tapped and screwed to the frame. Air tanks are fabricated from lI8-inch­

diameter brass rod available from K&S. I Solder the .060 x .7S0-inch pieces of brass to the flanges of made a die so that I can contour them on the .060-inch I-Beams.

my ladle. Howevel� dlere are several manu­ facturers that offe r them as detail parts. The air tanks, air fi lters, and piping were mounted to the bottom of the walk­ ways. Traction motor cables, bolsters and jacking pads can now be added to the frame as details. The bolsters and pads are fabricated from styrene. Air lines along the side sills were also made up and added, but are not connected. Painting, Decaling and Finishing Once all the detail work is done, it is Drill the pivot holes for the trucks and install the trucks to see that they time to paint the model. This will cover swivel freely. all those pieces that you used to make the model, but it actually looks more impres­ sive unpainted. I used Scalecoat to paint my model as it goes on smooth and thin, and T get good coverage. Microscale makes good decals which are thin, and once oversprayed, it's hard to see the decal film. There is also plenty of detail painting, and I just slightly weathered my unit to look as if it was recently delivered. SP had fairly clean locomotives in the late sixties and early seventies. After that, maintenance was deferred by most rail­ roads in order to save money and stay Install the motor, flywheels, drive shafts and universal joints, then con­ nect the wires so you can test-run the bare chassis. competitive with the trucking industry.

Conclusion The locomotive body was built using mostly a razor blade and glue. Most any­ one with basic modeling skills can build this model once the concept is under­ stood. Most modelers will build the way it best suits them. It was a good project, and I am raring to build more of these and other projects. It sure was fun too.

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ElectroMotive Corporation's own catalog drawing of the SD39 circa 1970. We've reproduced the drawing to HO scale, but check the dimensions with your scale ruler and with actual Cannon doors, hood and cab as you work to be sure everything fits. Use these dimensions to build the end platforms to the correct size. If you opt to build your frame, set the truck pivots so the truck locations match the dimensions on the plan. This particular SD39 locomotive is like those sold to the Illinois Temninal without dynamic brakes and with a shorter fuel tank. -courtesy EMD

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�0::. sg '<:l body to be certain the locomotive oper­ ::g The body and running boards are complete, but there are still a number of detail parts to be added. Te st-fit the body to be Drill the holes for the four 2-mm body-mounting screws and temporarily install the next. \A> sure it clears the motor and flywheels. Note the two pieces of .020-inch Evergreen styrene sheet that reinforce the body and ates properly. The final details, including couplers, pilots and handrails can be installed ...... will just clearthe flywheels.

[MODELING FROM THE PROTOTYPE ] ------_

By Jim Providenza Layout art by Cra ig DuMez

21st CENTURY LIMITED SAN J C> SE C_A

N IV! A A. :2 0 0 0

t's been, what, about ten years SCN first showed up in "The Journal" that we've been talking about the in a layout tour article in the December prototype, in one form or another, here in 1991 issue. A lot has happened on the the pages of "The Journal." Most often layout since then, but the essential vision we've looked at operations, but along the has remained the same. The SCN has way we've also touched on modeling always been conceived as a "real" rail­ specific types of trees and mountain road, and it fa lls into the style of model­ scenes as well as prototype industry. The ing that is now called prototype freelanc- ing. But as with most things, the more you learn, the more there is to learn. If anything, the more the Santa Cruz Northern has fo llowed specific prototype influences, the more real and realistic a railroad it has become-and the more fun to have. After 13 years in the making, the SCN is at the point where I can devote more time to modeling some of these speci fic scenes, structures and rol ling stock-putting more of this knowledge to work. Learnjng from the prototype some­ times takes the form of knowing how oth­ erwise discordant scenes fit together. In the San Jose and Santa Clara areas of the southern San Francisco Bay in the early 1970s, agriculture was slowly giving way to light industrial and commercial land Photo 2. Standing in the throat of the main aisle with the eastbound Perishable uses. The term Silicon Valley had not yet approaching the east switch at Sergeant's on the upper level; West San Jose on the been coined, but the time was not far lower level. Silos for the underconstruction cement plant are visible on the upper left. away. It was not uncommon to find fields of cabbage or groves of apricots cheek to jowl with new tilt-up or metal-sheathed buildings. A vegetable stand often was Photo 3. Standing In the small aisle, east switch not far off. The feel of row crops and fac­ of E. Rica on the lower left, west switch of tories seems odd, unless you know why. Dougherty's on the upper level the On the SCN, learnjng from the proto­ type has also meant weeding out or remov­ ing things that, as era and prototype influ­ ences have come into better fo cus, clearly no longer serve. The colorful per-diem box cars of the early 1980s have vanished from the rails of the SCN. Those FMC hoppers from MDC-they're all built in the late seventies or early eighties: gone ! As much as I enjoy them they are too new, an anachronism that is no longer acceptable. In their place is a growing fleet of WP and AT SF house cars. Some are admittedly stand-ins, but others are models of specific prototypes. A slightly more subtle date line issue is the case of the Burlington Northern. The Photo 4. Facing into the small aisle, with the helix on the left. The west switch at SCN is set in the early seventies. Any cars East Rica lies between the Warren truss over Los Gatos Creek and the Woodley painted for the BN in this time frame Avenue overpass on the lower level; the large Beroldingen lumber mill is visible on should be fresh and clean-most cars and the upper level with an eastbound drag approaching the east switch. locomotives coming down the Inside Gateway and the WP would still be in GNINPISP&S/CB&Q paint schemes even if renumbered into their BN numbers. The car fleet in general is slowly being upgraded to "green dot" standards. Following the lead of modelers from the Rennselear Polytechnic Institute Club: there are no "claws" on doors, no mount­ ing holes or slots visible on car sides, any metal wheels have their sides painted, and brake wheels are painted to match the car. All cars have received out levers and end reporting marks; replacement stirrup steps and scale-sized brake wheels are on the "Current Projects" list. Cars that still have roofwalks are slowly being converted over to Creative Model

RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 41 Sewall & Brown Apricot Processors

Helix to Dougherty's -c----��!iE8���-�:::==1J

E. RICA

Second Garrote Sand and Gravel Carbolic Smoke ball Co. Santa Cruz Northern SP X'ING Lower Level

Analytical Engine Co.

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WP JCT. Del Monte Cannery Overshoe Cement Bekins

Edwards Equipment MAC ST. YARD @

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WP Staging

42 RAfLMODELjOURNAL · DECEMBER 1999 Loading docks

Unused log pond

Cold decks of logs

SAN VICENTE

Santa Cruz Northern Upper Level

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SERGEANT' Electric Hose and Rubber Co.

Fallon Fuel and Oil

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FALL CREEK T eam t rac k JCT. FALLON � Fall Creek and Alba RR

RAILMODELJOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 43 Photo 5. East switch Fa llon on the upper level; on the lower level from left to right: the east end of Mac St. Ya rd, the tower at WP Junction, indus­ tries at WP Junction with interchange tracks. Sergeant's is visible on the upper level in the rear; West San Jose is on the lower level.

Associates' plastic see-through steel roofwalks. For years the SCN has rostered a large group of PFE mechanical reefers, some of them kit-converted to match specific classes not commercially available. Following articles in "The Journal" and research in a 1971 Of ficial Railroad Equipment Register, Fruit Growers Express insulated box cars, used by or leased to the WP, are finally appearing on the SCN in reasonable numbers. Recent efforts on locomotives have led to an influx of Western Pacific Fs, a story we'll tell in the not too distant future. 1970 and 1971 was a time of great change in the WP's locomotive roster. It was the beginning of the end for most of their F units, and a time when passenger power was being used in freight service. Sorting this out has led to some enjoyable research. This in turn led to more proto­ typically correct (and more interesting) models. As I complete the detailing on the prototype locomotives, I find T need to upgrade the locomotives owned or leased by the SCN as well. Several of the SCN's Alcos, purchased from a used­ equipment dealer, were oliginally South­ ern Pacific locomotives. Their details West end of Fa llon on reflect this heritage in one way or anoth­ the upper level; WP er. Junction on the lower. WP and Santa Fe cabooses show up regularly on the SCN; as I narrow the era of the railroad, I have to determine which paint schemes are correct. Both mineral brown and Indian red schemes are cor­ rect for the Santa Fe; the red waycars should look reasonably new after the rebuilding program which started in 1966. We athering tells the tale, along with the specific detailing. The Mineral Brown cars still have all their windows, no cushion underframe, no radio anten­ nas. The Cherry Red WP bay window cabooses that have rolled many a mile behind the Santa Cruz Perishable or the drags will be headed for the paint shop shortly to be repainted brown and then weathered to show their age. The loss of the colorful red WP cabooses will be more than compensated for by the Photo 7. WP 921 leads the knowledge that things fit much better. westbound drag through an S r have been using Track Warrant curve between Damsite Control on the SCN with great success Junction and Fa llon. for about six or seven years. It is an excellent way to control train movements on a model railroad in the modern era.

44 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 However, a recent conversation with a The prototype for the Pratt truss former WP train dispatcher confirmed bridge at Los Gatos Creek. my suspicion that the WP never used them. The WP ma inline was CTC; branches and subsidiaries like the SCN were dispatched by train order until the road was merged into the UP in 1982. Over the last year I have been working on an employee timetable, dispatcher train sheet, and various train order forms. Exciting times are ahead! Take a look at the "SCN Welcome" below. Every visitor to the SCN gets one. 1t will fi ll you in on the details and give you some idea of how the rai lroad ru ns. I have updated a few things in it as we have progressed through the last decade, but the basic document was written almost eight years ago. J am pleased that the changes have reflected growth as the vision of the SCN has become more clear and my skills have improved. The basic concept of a railroad grounded in proto­ type operations has stood the test of time. The visual improvements, spurred on by Photo 10. A WP outside-braced research and observation of the proto­ wooden caboose, rebuilt from a type, are icing on the cake. RMJ 1916-era box car, still can do use­ ful work in the early 1970s as it Welcome to the Sa nta Cruz trails through Fa ll Creek Junction Northern Railroad on a westbound extra.

History and Theme-The SCN is a jointly owned Western Pacific/Santa Fe subsidiary, running from a connection with the WP in San Jose, California south to Santa Cruz on the Pacific Coast. As such, it shares many of the character­ istics of similar lines in the area such as the Central CaliforniaTra ction Company or the Northwestern Pacific. Motive Photo 8. WP 916D is crossing Los power is either second hand or leased, Gatos Creek. This former passen­ quite often from the parent roads. Traffic ger unit is now in freight service has traditionally centered around indus­ with only a change of trucks. The bridge is a Central Valley kit mod­ trial products in San Jose and agricultur­ ified to convert it from a Pratt al products from the Santa Clara Valley truss to a Warren truss to more and the Santa Cruz Mountains. Now in closely follow the types of through the early 1970s this is slowly changing as truss bridges used by the WP in the economy of the area evolves. The California. SCN serves a large cement plant which accounts for a daily turn. Design and Construction-The SCN is a point to point, double deck, walk-around style layout that shares a two car garage with a compact car. The SCN is single track with about 200 feet of mainline, of which 45 feet is in a three level helix. The maximum grade is two and 1/4 percent; minimum mainline radius is 26 inches. Four major sidings have been extended to average fi fteen feet in length. The SCN operates with Lenz Digital Plus digital command control; T have been using some form of command or carrier control since 1977. Train move­ ments are controlled by a dispatcher who issues track warrants via radio.

. RAILMODELJOURNAL DECEMBER 1999 45 Photo 9. SP 4390 at the interchange with the Southern Pacific at SP Xing. A Rail Power Products shell on an Athearn mechanism, detailed using prototype photos.

Photo 12. The two officers making a traffic stop on the Volkswagen in front of the vegetable stand are concentrating on the people in the car; they have no interest in the fact that the refrigerator car behind them, PFE 450514, is a relatively rare R70-13, a member of the first class of PFEs ======957-foot mechanical reef­ ers. The car is kit-con­ verted from the Athearn 50 and 57-foot mechanical reefers to give it an 8- foot plug door and Stanray panel roof.

I started building the present SCN in Operations-An operating session worked at Mac St. Yard and then pick up 1986 after two years of design. I built the lasts fo ur to five hours. During that time and set out blocks of cars for the layout in sections that could be taken we will operate a commuter train, a fast Mountain Local at Fallon. The Mountain apart. It has in fact moved twice, when freight and a drag freight in each direc­ Local works the industries at Fallon, the about two-thirds of the track was in place. tion, the Cement Train, two locals and interchange with the shortline FC&A at Benchwork is modified L-girder; roadbed the yard engine at Mac St. yard in San Fall Creek Junction, and industries at is a plywood/Homasote sandwich. Most of Jose. A helper crew and a work train Dougherty'S. A local mill switcher shuf­ the track, half of the switches, and all tlu'ee round out the mainline activity. fles cars at the Beroldingen Lumber Co. crossings are hand laid. Rail is mostly Operations center around the yard at Mac mill at Dougherty's. The cement train's code 70, with some code 55 and code 83 in St., which classifies cars for spotting at connection currently originates on the specific areas. Structures and roILing stock local industries and or into blocks for SP, comes onto the SCN at SP Xing, is are a mixture of stock kits, kitbashed and pickup through trains or for interchange fi lled with additional traffi c off the WP scratchbuilt. The basic scenery is either with the SP at SP Xing. Th e Perishable, and AT SF, runs up the hill to the Damsite hardshell and plaster or fo am insulation our hot through train jointly operated Branch where it exchanges loads for board and wallboard mud. Basic scenery with the WP, makes only one pickup or empties and then returns. Car move­ and structures are complete as of mid setout at West San Jose for hot traffic. ments are controlled by waybills. 1999. The raiLroad presents a finished Local switching in the San Jose area is appearance even though many structures done by the Crusher; industries at E. are slated for eventual replacement and Rica are worked by the E. Rica Local. much detailing remains to be done. The east and west drag freights are

46 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 [PERFORMANCE] ------'

The more significant fig ures from Guy Thrams ' and Bob Higgins ' evaluations of model locomotives in past issues of this magazine. The issues with asterisks are out of print, but photocopies of these reports are available for $2.00 each (allow 30 days fo r shipment). Expla nations of how Bob Higgins and Guy Th ra ms test these locomotives appeared in the March 1990 and September 1992 issues. f'"fla�:: '�!�� a�:;; S��&TG�c�I!��llaeoM5fi\lEs�: Ie 1" ."",�\\ , . ''''''' '� I", ,?/'" � ,,' )""j!).ifJ:.'.dl ;(�i�� ,"f \��' W >� '" :£ , Manufacturernmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max, Tractive Throttle Magazine Manufacturerllmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max. Tractive Throttfe Magazine Speed NO. 6 Speed Force (Oz.) Response Date Speed No. 6 Speed Force (oz.) Response Date switch (smph) (smph) Mldload (v.) switch (smph) (smph) Mldload (v,) HO Scale Diesels Alhearn aS-iS) EMD GP38-2 24 126.4 2,76 3.4 Jan. 1990' N Scale Diesels Alhearn 1w/Helix Humper EMD GP38-2 ,89 112.1 2.76 2.8 Sept. 1995 Arnold Alco S2 1.90 151.4 .44 2.0 Mar. 1991 ' can motor conversion) Alias EMD GP7 .48 237.0 .57 2.0 Oct. 1995 Proia Power West EMD F7A (& F7B) .35 98.2 4.46 2.4 May 1990' Alias (with DCC decoder) EMD GP 40-2 .42 203.7 .73 3.6 May 1998 (Athearn IV/can motor) (,26) (95.0) (8.92) (2.6) May 1990' Alias EMD SD 60 1 .63 222.4 0.90 1 ,6 March 1999 AlhearnlPPW, weighted EMD GP9 .20 94.2 4.01 3,0 May 1990' AllaSiKato GE U25B (two) .29 222.4 .64 2.0 June 1989' 2,30 1.8 August 1990' Athearn w/NWSL motor EMD GP38-2 .21 60.9 (.31) (189,6) (1.37) (2.0) June 1989' Alhearn w/NWSL molar, EMD GP38-2 Atlas/Kato EMD SD7 1.29 231.9 .60 1.7 April 1990' weighted .24 61.2 3,88 2.2 August 1990' Atlas/Kato EMD GP35 1.07 213.7 .61 2.2 Nov, 1992' AlhearhiProlo Power West w/replacement Bachmann EMD SD40-2 ,74 148,3 1.03 2.4 Sept. 1989' Wheelsets: Bachmann wiN Scale of EMD SD40-2 .82 155.7 1.25 2.6 Sept. 1989' NorthWest Short Line EMD GP38-2 .23 97.4 2.56 1.6 Oct. 199(Jo Nevada Chassis Jay-Bee EMD GP38-2 .27 97.4 2.40 1.5 Oct. 199(Jo BachmanniSpectrum EMC Gas Elec. 20.0 110,1 0,38 3.2 Aug. 1998 Athearn GE C44-9W 1 ,85 tOO.7 3.18 3.6 March 1996 BachmanniSpectrum GE Dash 8-40C .44 113.0 1.15 5.2 April 1993 Athearn GEAC4400W .10 95.8 5.06 4.1 Dec. 1996 BachmannlSpectrum EMD DDA40X .35 163.9 1.13 3.8 Sept. 1997 Alias Alco S2 .65 82,5 3,52 4.4 Feb. 1991· Can Cor EMD E7A .57 99.8 4.19 3,4 Ocl. 1992' Atlas/Aoco EMD FP7A .35 97.4 4.23 6.0 Dec. 199(Jo Kato Alco PAl (& PB1 ) 1.43 167.7 1.25 1.7 Dec. 1998 Atlas GE U33C 1.18 89.3 3.81 1.8 May 1995 (1.07) (156.8) (2.328) Dec. 1998 Atlas GE C30-7 .71 78.2 3.92 2.2 Feb. 1997 (1 .8) Kato EMD E8A .26 Bachmann-ptus GE B23-7 1.75 84.9 3.17 2.9 July 1992' 222.4 .96 2.0 Aug, 1993 Bachmann-Plus EMD F7A (& F7B) .93 88,7 3.38 2.5 Jan. 1996 EMD E8A & (E8B) (,26) (220.4) (1.92) (2.3) Aug. 1993 (.93) (84 9 (5.82) (2.4) Jan. 1996 Kato GE U30C .48 242.2 .88 2.4 Feb. 1990' Con-CorlAoco EMD GP40 ,97 112. { 2.93 9.5 March 1991' Kato GE Dash 9-94CW .11 198.2 .84 1.4 Nov. 1997 Con-Cor/Aoco EMD GP40 .29 99.0 2,91 3,2 Apn1 1991' Kato Alco AS2 ,30 167.7 .52 1.4 Sept. 1999 (with Mashlma can motor) Key/Endo EMD F7 A (& F7B) .39 145,3 .57 3.8 Mar. 1992' Con-Cor EMD MP15DC .51 69.7 1.46 1,1 Sept. 1996 (.50) (150.3) (1.27) (3.0) Mar, 1992' Con-Cor EMD SW1500 �SW 7) 1.99 265.9 .57 2.2 Dec. 1997 Life-Like EMD F9A (& F9B) 2.04 177.2 1.41 5.0 Aug. 1989- E-R Models rateschi Alco AI 1.95 114,2 2,39 5.4 Oct. 1993 (1.84) (166.4) (2.78) (4.7) Aug, 1989' E-R Models tFrateschil Alco FA 1 ,64 89,3 3.70 3.0 Dec. 1995 Life-Like Alco FA2 (& FB2) 1.19 158.0 .91 4,0 May 1993 E-R Models EMD FP7 A 3.70 92.8 3,24 3.4 May 1999 (.66) (149.3) (1.81) (3.4) May 1993 e esis, by Athearn SD751 2.12 110.0 4.01 3.5 July 1999 8 Life-Like Alco PAl 2.97 � EMD E8A (& E8B) 1.96 144.9 2,51 5,0 Fe�, 1995 139.7 1.21 3.4 Nov. 1998 Life-Like (1 .50) (136,6) (5.03) (4.8) EMD GP18 1.20 167.0 .84 3.0 April 1994' lwith 25 ounces added weight) 2,97 146.7 4.38 7.4 Life-Like EMD E8A 1.63 149.3 1.27 4.0 April 1995 (1.88) (136.6 (8.75) (6.4) Feb. 1995 Life-Like EMD SD7 .29 121.11 .48 2.45 June 1996 IHe EMD SD35 4.38 123.7J 2.48 2.0 July 1996 Life-Like EMD E7A 3.14 140.6 1,33 4.3 Feb. 1998 Kala EMD SD40 1.18 81 ,9 3.29 3.0 June 1991 Life-Like EMD SW9 .45 106.9 .40 2,0 Apnl 1998 Kato/Stewart EMD F3A (& F3B) .38 83.1 4,28 2.9 Sept. 1989' life-Like EMD GP20 3.59 116.6 .57 1.6 June 1999 (similar GP7 models by Atlas (,31) (81 .9) (9.00) (2.8) Sept. 1989' Model Power/ Kato EM 6 GP35 .29 82.5 2.87 2,2 Nov, 1992' Mehanotenika EMD F40PH 3.14 184.7 ,83 3.8 Sept. 1990' Kato EMD NW2 .76 67.9 2,44 3.0 Feb. 1994' SamhongsaiHallmark EMD F3A (& F3B) .29 150.3 1.03 3,2 Kato G.E. Dash 9-44CW 1.52 78.7 4.35 2.0 Oct. 1996 July 1989- Kato Alco AS2 1.48 78.7 3.40 2,0 Feb, 1999 (.35) (151.4) (2.04) (3.2) July 1989' Kato Alco RSC2 2,58 75,2 4.19 2.1 Feb. 1999 N Scale Steam Locomotives Kel',stone/NWSL GE 44-Ton .17 36.9 1.52 2.0 March 1990' Ho b)flown EMD E8A .60 81.4 5.92 3.3 Jan. 1991' Kato USRA 2-8-2 3.10 111.8 .7 2.5 April 1996 MDC Aoundhouse Alco AS3 .61 94.3 3,98 2.8 April 1994' & Oct. 1997 Model Power EMD GP9 ,26 104,2 2.71 1.7 Nov, 1990' Kato USRA 2-8-2 4.80 122.5 1.04 2.9 June 1998 Ai,nlOverland Models EMD SW1500 .36 74.3 2,53 1.2 AU ust 1990' (GHQ PAA L-l) AI,nlOverland Models EMD SD60 .37 80.3 4.49 Key Imports C&O 2-6-6-6 .59 96.9 1.27 3.8 June 1997 erland Models EMD GP38-2 .42 79.2 1.95 R ����� Pecos Aiver ATSF 4-6-2 .44 87.2 .88 4.4 Jan. 1995 EMD GP20 .30 78.2 3.07 �:g1.6 Dec.��l l��l1991': Aivarossi USAA 2-8-2 3.00 177.2 1,14 9.0 Oct. 1991 Model Power PAR 2·8-0 4.77 73,8 0.85 1.5 August 1996 Aivarossi (w/N Scale of USRA 2-8-2 .49 Proto 1000 Life-Like EMD F3 ,19 80.8 3.69 3.7 January 1999 160.3 .66 4.5 Oct. 1991 Nevada frame & NWSL Proto 2000 Lile-like Alco FA2 .20 90.7 3.t4 4,2 July 1991' Proto 2000 life-Like EMD BL2 .31 90.7 3.53 5.4 Nov. 1989' Sagami '420 can motor) PrOia 2000 Life-Like EMD GP9 .06 79.2 3.29 4.8 March 1998 Proto 2000 life-Like EMD GP18 .58 99.8 3.40 2.6 Feb. 1993 Proto 2000 Lile-like EMD E8A .51 95.8 5.94 5.6 March 1994' S Scale Diesels Proto 2000 Life-Like EMD SD7 ,52 73.3 3.58 5.0 July 1995 American Models EMD GP35 .54 78.0 7.85 2.0 June 1993 Proto 2000 Life-like EMD SW9/SW 1200 .57 55.5 1.36 3.7 May 1996 S Helper Service EMD SW9 .29 55.6 432 1.7 Oct. 1998 Spectrum Bachmann EMD F40PH Phase 11 1.39 80.3 3.79 3.8 Feb. 1992' Spectrum Bachmann GE Dash 8-40C 1,96 87.4 3,69 3.4 Spectrum Bachmann GE Dash 8-40CW 3,3 109,0 4.54 6.4 o Scale Diesels Spectrum Bachmann F-M H16-44 2.32 49.5 1.27 2.4 ��l'" lr��� July 1997 Central Loco. Works EMD F7 A (& F7B) .25 72.0 20.68 4.4 Sept. 1989' Spectrum Bachmann EMC Gas Elec .41 82.5 2,34 3.0 Aug, 1994 (,20) (65.5) (39.10) (4,0) Sept. 1989' S ectrum Bachmann EMD DDA40X .68 133,5 6.68 3.2 Aug, 1997 r. Key/Samhongsa Alco PAl .41 76,2 21 .85 5.6 April 1992' S ewart Hobbies EMD FTA (& FTB) .18 70.3 3.94 2.6 Nov. 1996 P&D Hobby EMD F9A (& F9B) .25 77.1 Stewart Hobbles Alco C628 1.20 69.5 2.92 2.2 5.79 1.2 June 1990' (.24) Wa ltherS/Roco EMD SWI .21 53.3 2.47 1.4 M C (74. 1) (12,80) (1.9) June 1990' �� P&D Hobby EMD F3B Wa lthersfTrainline Alco FA1 (& FBI) .31 68.7 4.47 4.2 :April l��g1997 .25 77.1 5.81 1.6 Jan. 1993 (65.3) (8.22) (3,8) Red Caboose EMD GP9 .27 81.9 12.78 2.2 June 1992' WaltherslTrainline EMD GP9M \,,� 73,8 2.64 4.0 March 1995 Weaver �O scale) Alco FA2 .22 72.8 15.31 1.9 July 1989' WaltherslTrainline With Alco FAI ,98 92.1 3.9 nla Sept. 1998 Weaver HI-Rail) Alco FA2 ,21 100.8 12.53 2.2 August 1995 MRC DeC D Coder Alco FA2 (& FB2) ,25 (94.9) (19,25) (2.0) Augusl 1995 Weaver EMD E8 .30 105.6 14.45 2.1 July 1993 HO Scale Steam locomotives Bachmann-Plus SP 4-8-4 ,18 112.1 2,31 1.9 Sept. 1993 o Scale Steam Locomotives Bowser En lish's � SamhongsalHalimark On3-EBT 2-8·2 .22 33.8 9.09 2.4 Aug. 1989' I l ) B&O 0-4-0T .90 102.4 1.46 1.8 Dec. 1992' Bo���r"P �R ��BP y 2-8-0 .64 89.3 3.70 2.8 Nov. 1995 �8esis, by Athearn USRA 2-8-2 Light .58 52.8 2.51 1.4 Dec. 1999 G Gauge Diesels 4-4-0 1,17 56.0 t.14 3.5 Dec. 1994 Atlas EMD SW8/9 .63 60.1 12.49 IHC/Mehano B&O 0-4-0T 1.42 132,0 ,92 2.0 Dec. 1992' 2,1 April 1999 LGB Alco DL535E 2.67 IHC/Mehano SP 2-6-0 .81 77.6 1.90 4.2 Jan. 1994 48.0 27.01 N/A Aprll 1990 Lionel EMD GP7 IHC/Mehano C&O 4-8-2 ,36 89.3 2,71 3,0 Sept. 1994 .38 55,6 t4.74 5.9 May 1991 IHC 2-8-0 .42 74.7 2,53 2.5 March 1997 Railway Express Agency Alco FAI 3.79 68.2 15.25 N/A July 1990 Key Imports UP 4-8-8-4 .44 62,2 6.47 4 6 AU8��t 1 �: life-Like B&O 0-4-0T 1.37 104.2 1.01 g G Gauge Steam Locomotives Mantua 2-6-6-2 3.00 70.2 5,27 7.0 June 19��91 Aristo-Craft AAT) B&O 4-6-2 1.15 Mantua 0-6-0T NA 126.4 2.09 3.2 June 1991 51,9 28.08 2,0 Oct. 1991 Aristo-Craft iAAT) & Mantua 2-8-2 .65 76.2 3.36 3.5 June 1994 PAR 0-4-0 ,94 72.7 12.13 1.6 Jan. 1992' Manlua VI/Mashima 2-6-6-0 .24 SO.6 2.17 4.2 June 1991 Lehmann (LGE) 0-4-0T 2.40 28.7 7.24 N/A May 1992' Mantua 0-4-0 .90 107.0 3.55 4.0 June 1995 Bachmann 0-4-0T .31 25.6 6.38 2.6 Aug. 1992' Mantua with 812 Can Molar 0-4-0 1.86 84.9 3,39 1.8 June 1995 Bachmann Aadio- AjiniOverland Models NYC 2-8-2 ,50 74.3 3.79 1.6 STa W Controlled Baldwin 4-6-0 .5S 25.2 28.81 N/A June 1989' Precision Scale (Iron Horse)UP 4-10-2 7,02 53.0 3,08 2.9 �. �� Bachmann Track- Rivarossl 4-6-6-4 5.90 71.6 9.47 3.3 Jan. 1997 Powered Baldwin 4-6-0 5.50 38.4 11.23 1.0 Oct. 1990' Rivarossi USRA 2-8-2 1.78 70.7 4.47 2.4 May 1997 Delton Loco, Works D&AG 2-8·0 .12 40.9 17.00 2,0 Dec. 1989- SamhongsaiPowerhouse USAA 2-6-6·2 .28 57.1 8.78 3.0 July 1989' LGB 2-6-0 2.65 54.8 22.45 N/A Nov, 1991' Spectrum aChmann Readin 2-8·0 .22 104.2 2.38 2,1 Dec. 1993 � LGB Forney 0-4-4T 2.74 36.1 26,39 Spectrum Bachmann PAR -6-2 1.21 91.4 2,32 2.2 Oct. 1994 N/A July 1994 Lionel Baldwin 0-4-0T ,12 54.5 Spectrum Bachmann PRA 4-6-2 ,72 80.8 2.50 2.4 Oct. 1999 9.60 1.8 Oct. 1989' Kalamazoo Toy Trains 0-4-0T Spectrum Bachmann Baldwin 2-8-0 ,30 83.7 2.83 2.4 July 1998 .48 50.1 13,47 1.1 Jan.1991 · Kalamazoo Toy Trains �ectrum rBachmann l USAA 4-8-2 2.75 64.9 2.41 2.8 Nov. 1999 4-4-0 .82 67.1 13.18 1.3 Jan. 1991' estside "Classic" SP 4-6-0 .49 49,1 3.24 1,7 August 1992' Note: Figures in pa rentheses are for two locomotives operated together.

RAILMODEL)OURNAL 'DECEMBER 1999 47 [PASSENGER CAR]

MODELING I FROM RIVAROSSI, PIKESTUFF AND RED CAP PARTS

By V. S. Roseman

The interior of a passenger car is more visible than you might guess, thanks to the size and number of windows. Here are the techniques and Rivarossi, Pikestuff and Red Cap products that you can use to recreate this important feature of any passenger car in miniature.

number of years ago I can be set in lowered positions and up when I used a good quality of tape. had the opportunity to they will block the emptiness of the r have simulated curtains in dining look closely at some passenger car inside of the car. cars by making thin random vertical models at a national contest. r couldn't Using photos of many cars as a stripes on colored paper using a fi ne­ believe the difference between them guide, I have noticed that shades in point light grey colored marker. When most cars are usually set to about 12 and some of the cars I was used to see­ cut into strips for either side of a par­ ing on model train layouts; these cars inches from the top. The 1952 Pullman ticular window, these fl at papers Company "Instructions to Conductors" had detailed interiors. I began to look resemble straight hanging curtains. more closely at real passenger cars. I indicates that on the sunny side of You could also curve the paper into pleats. cars, the condu started adding interiors to my models, ctor has per mission to For observation cars and lounge lower the shades completely when the and T fe lt that the models looked a lot cars, the easiest way to make venetian light is bothering passengers, while in more realistic, and my friends felt the the evening the shades in sleeping cars same way. The last time I placed my are to be completely drawn when the passenger cars in a national contest (at beds are made up for the night. For the NMRA National Convention at illuminated interiors, then, you can Llse Va lley Forge, Pennsylvania, in 1994), r closed shades and perhaps just model won two first and two second place the parlors, diners, rest rooms and ribbons. These techniques are, then, other areas that might have open effective enough to catch the interest shades. For shades, use thinwhit e bristol of other modelers. board, thin styrene or even plain white paper painted with your favorite model Window Coverings railroad paint. Heavyweight Pullman Other neglected details on passenger cars usually had dark green shades. A cars are the window shades, venetian few shades can be notched ou t to rep­ blinds or curtains. Generally, coaches, resent shades drawn higher or you parlor cars and sleeping cars have could cut the strip wider than necessary shades, while observation cars and to leave a few lowered shades. I fasten lounges may have blinds, and some the shades with small strips of ordi­ dining cars have curtains, depending nary clear tape to theinterior of the car mostly on the rai Iroad's preference. glazing or interior wall. Should this These accessories add contrast to the ever loosen, it is easily replaced. appearance of passenger cars. Where However, in the ten years I have been you choose not to add interiors, shades using tape, I have not had any loosen

. 48 RAILMODELJOURNAL DECEMBER 1999 blinds is to get some of Walthers HO scale 934-70 119 0 Dulux Gold or 934-701 180 silver decals and apply these to thin acrylic or sheet styrene. r usually use a sheet of .OOS-inch-thick Evergreen clear plastic which [ place as an i nner window and I fasten with dots of white glue or tape to the clear plastic outer material so that I am not taking any risk of soiling or smearing the outer window plastic sheet in application of the blinds. The Walthers decals have a matte fi nish which shows up as a frosted area that I do not find objectionable; however you should realize that this will block out part of the window area and obscure part of the interior. The best way around this is to use less than the enti re height of the bl i nds as if they are The Red Cap Line interiors include injedion­ raised most of the way. molded walls with fine door details. The kits also include the plans to locate the walls to Vestibule Interior Details fit specific model passenger cars. While it is possible to spend time carving Louis XV-style armchairs for the lounge in your 1929 Empire Builder, I have fo und that very basic The injection-molded plastic walls from the Red Cap Line kits. The interior fittings really make a powerful vestibule wall, lVashroom and crew locker area is shown here. visual i mpact that increases the realism

of your model passenger cars. Here are The basic components some ways of improving your models of a passenger ar interior that should be quite effective. One way include beds with sectional "headboards" to add interiors is to use the commer­ and optional upper cially available one-piece plastic berths, drawing room injection moldings. Jouef offers sever­ walls assembled from al interior kits that can be cut up and styrene plastic sheet and Pikestuff seats. reassembled to fi t speci fic cars. Although designed for European pro­ totype cars, they will fi t American cars just as well. Several importers are offering Jouef items, and possibly the interior kits are in their current cata­ logs or can be special ordered. Rivarossi offers interiors for most of their "l9 20" heavyweight cars and their " 1 930" smooth-sided lightweight cars. In some cases, however, certai n car types would require cutting up the one-piece molding into a lot of little parts. Alternatively, there are fittings available for custom building your own interiors.

Although normally not very visible, The bulkhead is an essential the vestibule can be important if you interior detail because, even if model any cars with doors in the open there are drawn shades over the position. Pullman cars and long dis­ windows, the bulkhead is visible from the end of the car. This is a tance coaches always had doors Bethlehem Car Works bulkhead. closed while running, unless a con­ ductor or porter wanted to open the . RAILMODELjOURNAL DECEMBER 1999 49 MODELING INTERIORS upper part of the dutch door to get some air. On commuter railroads like the CNJ, most of the doors were open in the coaches while making local stops as they were often only a minute

The interior of the Con­ or two apart. Cor observation car with An important part of the vestibule the walls painted and which has a lot of impact on the fi n­ chairs and seats made ished look of your passenger cars is from Pikestuff parts. the interior bulkhead. (These divide the vestibule from the passenger com­ partment inside the car.) Bethlehem Car Works has a good model of an interior bulkhead. With only a little fili ng of the edges they can be used in cars having the window glazing attached to the roof such as the Con The interior for the Con­ Cor and Rivarossi car. While they Cor observation car with actually simulate the older door style Preiser figures. The bed­ room at the left is a of a heavyweight car, they are such an recreation of a room improvement over the emptiness we usu­ with fixed furniture and ally see when we look inside the end the bedroom at the right portal of a car that I use them on light­ is a model of a room with movable furniture weight cars too. (all the pieces are, of Red Cap Line Interiors, Box 6457, course, cemented in Burbank CA 91510, is now making place in the model). detai led parts available for variou s passenger cars and offe rs several parts for detailing vestibules, probably available as you read this or very soon. The interior of the Con­ They specialize in lightweight car Cor observation car interiors and have several bulkhead installed in the model. door styles, safe ty tread for the vestibule floor and other details for various car interiors for those who want to build very detailed models. The vestibule of a passenger car does not have any outer end door, only an open portal. (Multiple Unit cars are one exception to this rule as they usu­ ally have door closures at vestibule ends.) Most model train manufacturers incorrectly make their cars with an end door at the vestibule, but this is easy to correct by cLltting the door open. There should be a bulkhead inside every vestibule in passenger cars to enclose the passenger compartment. On single vestibule cars there is also a blind or non-vestibule end which always has a

Pikestuff seats can be cut to cre­ closed outer door, and at this end ate the seats for a section as it there is no interior bulkhead. would appear in the daytime. The interior of the vestibule was Coach seats have a similar usually the exterior color of the car, appearance. although there were exceptions. The vestibule floor was generally glossy black. The traps (staircases) were painted black on heavyweight Pullman cars, and again, many cars were seen with the floor and staircases finished in . 50 RAILMODELjOURNAL DECEMBER 1999 the car's exterior color. Stainless steel types of doors modeled to scale for the older car types look more Illodern. It may cars often had unpainted floors and modeler insisting on the highest level have been the introduction of printed staircases. A nice detail seen on pas­ of detail. Their floor system is slightly materials such as Allied Chemical's senger cars is the black-and-white raised on a pair of edge rails so that Melamine wall covering (Formica is enamel WATCH YOUR STEP signs wiring for lights can be put under the another commonly known brand) that usually mounted on one of the risers of floor allowing fo r what they call scale re introduced the wood grain motif to the steps. These are available from ceilings and lighting. passenger car interiors. Paper printed Champ, although their HO signs need The body and roof on Rivarossi's with wood grain for use in dollhouses to be trimmed at the ends to fit on step " 1940" series of Budd I ightweight cars or paper-thin veneers are available in risers. Yo u could use an alternative are molded in one piece with a sepa­ art supply houses if you IllUSt have mounting, either level or at a 45-degree rate floor section that has raised rei n­ wood grain. In any size smaller than 0 angle on the vestibule end interior. forcement ridges. These should be cut scale, you would have to decide how off to provide enough height for a car important any of the wood grain is for it Passenger Accommodations interior. You will fi nd that adding really does not show except under close For a coach interior in HO scale, styrene walls will stiffe n the floor. inspection. r would suggest instead of you can install seats available from trying to simulate wood grain, use solid Pikestuff by just gluing the strips of What Color? colors that resemble wood for these seats in place with the armrests at the Until around the time of World interiors unless you are building special aisle side of the seats. With a I ittle more War II, the interior fi nish of heavy­ cars for display. work, you could alternatively cut the weight Pullman cars was imitation The fo llowing colors were shown seats apart and place them at the win­ wood grain paneling representing in a Pullman color brochure of the dow posts in any patternyou like. I usu­ many different wood colors (actually mid-fifties and represent color choices ally face most of the seats toward each paint over met'll panels and moldings) actually used by Pullman and many other in pai rs so the car does not have Simulated inlaid paneling with fl oral rai I roads: to be turned. Otherwise, if you operate or geometric motifs were used. -Tan or buff walls, dark brown point to point, your fi gures will be rid­ Frequently, gold color decals were chair fabric, dark grey carpeting ing backward half the time. Red Cap used for striping decoration. In the late -Tan walls, dark green chair fab­ Line is listing several types of car seats thirties through the end of World War ric, brown carpeti ng by the prototype manufacturers' names II, passenger car interiors began to be -Light grey walls, green chair fa b­ and part numbers so you can be com­ painted in solid colors that made even ric, rust-colored carpeting pletely accurate for many types of cars. They also offer a wide range of com­ n plete kits, each in the $10.00 range, that II will do a complete car interior. Seats Nearly all passenger cars require Use .030-inch thick styrene some form of interior walls, and even sheets to assemble chairs a coach is likely to have washrooms or ,dl equipment lockers. Some had en­ Assembled closed smoking rooms or even sepa­ o rate lounge areas. Sleeping cars require partitions, and even section cars had enclosed men's and women's rooms with accompanying "lounges" (dressing rooms with sinks and mirrors). Sofas are the same, only wider It is easy to use .020-inch or .030-inch­ thick styrene cut to fit for interior wal ls by just gluing these to the car floor or to a sub-floor of .0 1 O-inch­ Beds Use .030-inch thick styrene Paper strip for folded thick styrene. Probably the easiest way sheets to assemble beds. p to simulate doors is to jLlst scribe the Styrene pillows Assemble like a box outline into the interior walls or to add Add paper for topsheet a thin door made of styrene to the wall. Add pillows �", � The Red Cap Line Company is now releasing varioLls interior wall L'---/--- /� parts in injection-molded plastic that � can be used for coaches (or other types F of cars) which are highly detailed with molded-in screwheads and coverplates �l== u =:;r� where necessary as well as the various

RAILMODELjOURNAL ' DECEMBER 1999 51 MODELING INTERIORS ·Light blue-grey walls, tan chair either narrow separate Pikestuff units Lavatory Fittings ' fa bric, brown carpeting As lavatory fi xtures do not show or you can make up your own as ·Light avocado (yellow-green from outside the car I do not add them shown in the sketches and photos. muted with white) walls, rust-colored to my cars, although for special mod­ Sketch the floor plan on the floor chair fa bric, dark green carpeting els you could use blocks of styrene CLit or on a piece of paper or styrene that ·Light grey walls, dark grey chair from thick strips and drill out the you can later use as the floor of the fa bric, rust-colored carpeting water receptacles. Sinks and com­ car. The plans for some of the more ·Peach walls, dark grey chair fabric, modes can be modeled in this way. common passenger car interiors dark green carpeting appear in the June and October 1998 Many cars in which I have ridden Modeling Pullman Sections and May 1999 issues of "The over the years also have had aluminum and Rooms in Daytime Mode Journal;" these may provide the in­ or stainless door frames and wear Pi kestuff seats can be converted fo rmation you need. You may be able plates fi tted over corners. In Europe, for use as section seats by cutting the to use the concepts of passenger car some model train manufacturers use seat strips apart to create individual design in those issues to determine the light tan on their interior Illoldings, seats. Notice that there are both left interi ors of other cars. There are also a and this gives a very pleasing appearance. and right armrests. Glue the seats on variety of books on prototype passen­ f usually select colors that are some­ the floor in the section area of the car ger cars with more information on interi­ what lighter than I know were used for wi th pai rs back to back at each thick ors. You may have to make compro­ two reasons : fi rst they seem to create window post. Wa lthers used to manu­ mises for the space needed on the the illusion that there are lights on in facture interiors for their entire line of sides because window glazing Ill ay the car (even when the cars are not passenger cars, and you may be able to intrude into the car over two scale fe et. lighted). Second, if I choose to light fi nd seats and packages of other details Some notable exceptions to this are the the car, the pale (pastel shade) colors at swap meets. I have fo und that laser-cut streamlined cars in HO and are much more reflective and help cre­ Pikestuff seats can usually be fi tted in the Indianapolis Car Co. cars former­ ate a much brighter interior than dark all types of sleeping cars in the day­ ly made in 0 scale. These use a single colors could. It is easy to do this: just time mode as seats or sofas. By joining piece of clear material for the car side add a couple of drops of white to col­ a right and left armrest type together and the glazing. ors you select to create pastel tones. you can make a nice sofa: this can be When you examine the commer­ shortened to fi t various room accom­ cially made seats and chairs, you will modations. For movable seats you can see that they are usually too small to

The one-piece injection-molded plastic interior used by Rivarossi for their Pullman The same drawing room with the seats and bed in the daytime mode. The areas between car. The walls have been painted and the beds are painted to provide blanket and this drawing room and bulkhead will be filled with the bathroom/lounge walls and pillow effects. details. fit an y figures. You will usually have to shave off some of the width of plas­ tic fi gures, and may have to cut off their feet to get them to fi tin seats. This will usually happen even with Sections made up for night travel include scratchbuilt interiors, again due to the (right)a lower berth made of two facing Pikestuff seats wit a styrene sheet across th ickness of the floor, roof and sides of them. These details are only necessary your model passenger cars. behind windows that have open shades.

Modeling Night Time Accommodations in Se ctions or Rooms According to the rules of the Pullman Company, who operated most of the sleeping cars, the shades would be drawn completely at night. Frequently some passenger might be up reading or might be boarding or Modeling a section at night mode leaving the train at some intermediate A section made up for the night. point during the night. I usually only leave the shades in one or two rooms or sections raised. If you want to model sections or Dark green painted curtains room accommodations in night mode you will need beds. A bed could be made up with strips for the sides and ends and a thin sheet on top like a little box. Pullman blankets were light brown, and you can paint these right onto the bed model. Although beds are Use the Red Cap Line generally about six feet long, I hesitate interiors walls or .020- inch thick styrene. The to specify any sizes because you will walls and beds in a have to work around limitations such as drawing room are in thick window glazing and roof holders place, along with a extending through the body of the car. Bethlehem Car Works bulkhead.The seats are Upper berths do not show at all, and I in their nighttime mode; suggest not bothering to model them. converted to a bed. Green painted paper can simulate the closed curtains that bordered the aisles at night in a Pullman section car. These should be cut lengthwise like cafe curtains to better simulate the effect of The two center bedrooms have occupants who are still the upper and lower berth curtains. awake, while the drawn blinds on the end bedrooms sug­ gest similar interiors, but with sleeping occupants. Dining Cars, Lounge Cars, Parlors, Observation Cars, etc. Dining cars require tables and chairs that can be made up out of styrene sheets and strips, although most commercially available diner interiors (Rivarossi, Jouef etc.) can be trimmed to fit various kinds of dining car models. Preiser has tiny represen­ tations of glasses, plates and even food in some of their kits, although most modelers just use little bits and pieces of plastic to simulate dinnerware and food when this is required. Diners and lounges often have

RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 53 MODELING INTERIORS large windows that really look empty door sections intended for modeling gers, you might as well use good-looking without some interior fittings. lightweight cars of all types. While I figures. 1 usually buy the unpainted sets Partitions can be made of styrene simi­ only have some samples at this time, of seated people from Preiser, although lar to the walls in sleeping cars. Tables the manufacturer assures me that a several other manufacturers make very and movable chairs can be made up complete coach interior should sell in nice figures from metal or plastic. from styrene, while fixed sofas can be the hobby shop for about $10. The inte­ made up from Pikestuff seats joined rior is a whole kit in itself and should Illumination together. Small blocks of styrene can provide a great deal of satisfaction for You can fu rther enhance the represent small snack tables. Red Cap the modeler in the completion of cars appearance of your train with operating Line will be offe ring both the dining car with this level of interior detail. As the lights. Look into lighting kits for your furniture and several types of kitchen cost is so low and construction is aided detailed cars, and remember that the equipment such as stoves and broilers by eliminating a lot of the measuring best electrical systems use all-wheel in a dining car kit and as detail parts. and fi tting involved in scratchbuilding pickup. Avoid too many bulbs in each In Parlor cars I use Pikestuff seats plain interior fi ttings, it makes sense car or the lights of a long train may slightly cut down (narrowed) to represent for many modelers to consider the prevent your engines from running (or the rotating type seats, and I generally alternativeof the Redcap inleriors. they could dim the lights at the power do not bother to make any changes to planl). Roco, Marklin, Jouef and the arm rests so that figures can be Passengers Rivarossi all make interior lighting kits made to sit in the seats without trimming Yo u can use seated plastic pas- designed to set on top of car interiors the width of the figure. sengers from Preiser, Bachmann or (within the roof space) and have their For those who do not want to Life-Like for your cars. Do look careful­ wiring down to the trucks located out scratchbuild basic types of interiors, ly when you buy figures because there of sight in the bathrooms. Several Red Cap is offering an increasing vari­ are some that look like blobs of metal or makes have elaborate light diffusers ety of seats, dining car kitchen equip­ plastic rather than people. I f you are that would be very diffi cult to make by ment, berths, and all kinds of wall and going to the trouble of adding passen- hand. I suggest looking at these even if you decide to design your own interior lighting arrangements. Red Cap Line has a lighting kit under development that wi ll use light emitting diodes that The seats for most HO scale passenger car interiors will reduce the heat and the space are too low to allow full-height seated figures. This requirements previously needed for is often the result of too-thick floors or an extra lighting passenger cars . layer of floor to hide lighting. Mosl figures will need their feet cut off to fit into seats (left), other­ With or without interior lighting wise your people will lean against seats instead of you will find that shades and interior sitting in them (right). fi ttings will increase the realism of your passenger car fleet. RMJ

A .OlO-inch thick styrene floor was made to fit the interior of Con-Cor observation car with a large hole for the light in the car floor. The interior partitions are .020-inch thick sheet styrene. Pikesluff seats with Preiser figures add life to this com­ muter coach. Compare the realism of the 8 center win­ dows to the empty windows on the ends.

The seats are highly visible inside a lounge car. The particularly-drawn shades lend another element of realism to this model.

54 RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 - [ WHAT'S NEW ... IN HO]...... ------

Branchline Trains is shipping HO scale replicas of the 50-foot AAR plug-door RBL box cars with both riveted sides and with riveted side with a overlapping horizontal panel. Prototype photos for many of these cars have appeared in "The Journal" and most of those articles are reprinted in FREIGHT CAR MODELS, VOUI, BOX CARS. See your dealer.

Rail Power Products, 7283 No. Stagecoach Dr., Park City, UT 84060 is now shipping injection­ molded plastic body shells that are replicas of the EMD GP40X locomotives. The bodies are designed to fit Rail Power's GP60 frame with Athearn drive train parts.

Walthers is shipping ready-to-run replicas of the Amtrak 60-foot express service box cars. The cars have separate ladders, grabirons, latch bars, brake and door wheels with work­ ing knuckle couplers and metal wheelsets.

Walthers is also shipping ready-to-run models of the 50-foot North American 50-foot plug door smooth-side box cars with free-standing details, knuckle couplers and metal wheelsets in your choice of C&NW, D&RGW, Sp, NYC, BREX, Wp, Magcobar, Stelling Salt, and undecorated for $9.98 each.

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N SCALE HANDRAILS

By Bill Pearce

The Atl�s N scale SD60 can be upgraded to match the best HO scale models . .. with the addition. of fabricated brass handrails and stanchions. Bill Pearce . :.• ' started with � fa ctory-painted model-it's the fa bricated handrails that make such a difference in its realism. And don't wait fo r the manufacturers to add this upgrade for you, it' sachan ge you 'll need to make fo r yourself. If you model modern N . scale, a resistance soldering machine is one of the best investments you can make to improve the realism of your models. It is possible to assemble handrails and stanchions with Super Glue. or epoxy, but soldered joints are strong enough to allow the models to be handled. The article in the February 1996 issue of "The Journal" illustrates more of the step-by-step techniques for adding these scale-size brass handrails to any N scale diesel.

The rotary beacon and Micro-Trains couplers help improve the realism of this N scale model, but it's those handrails and stanchions that make it difficult to tell whether the HO model is or N scale.

he Union Pacific was an and-three windshield cabs. Only one of should be seeing many of these pulling a enthusiastic consumer of the two versions was released in UP, but lot of cars around N-Trak layouts' EMD's SD60. Eighty-four units were undecs are available in both. Modelers of For this project, I used reference purchased between 1986 and 1988. either wide-cab version should pay care­ photos purchased at a train show. When When the wide-cab version became ful attention to reference photos to visiting train shows, careful modelers available, an additional 23 1 were pur­ ensure that the cab receives an appropri­ will spend more time at the photo sales chased. This accounts in some part for ate number. booths than at the bins of cheap freight the excitement surrounding Atlas' cars. I've never spent more than $5 US announcement of an N scale model. The Si ze Matters for an 8xlO photo, with an average of initial release was of the narrow-cab ver­ This is a big locomotive. While it is $3.00, in color or black and white. These sion. Showing a bit more restraint than about an eighth of an inch shorter than photos are priceless when modeling. the prototype, I acquired a single factory­ the Kato Dash 9, it is a full inch and a I did depart from the photos in one painted version for a detailing project. half longer than the GP9 that I was work­ respect. Since the locomotive I After the initial release of the narrow­ ing on at the same time. This allows purchased had a prototypically correct cab version, modelers were treated' to plenty of space fo r a heavy split frame, number, I left well enough alone. This two wide-cab versions, with both two- even with a cutout for Dee decoder. We brings up an unfortunate subject. Again,

56 RAILMODELjOURNAL ·DECEMBER 1999 A resistance soldering machine makes it quick and easy to attach the handrails to the stanchions.

I chose a factory-decorated version. Why St ep-by-St ep, St ep 1 I used lift rings and grabs from Gold I continue this slovenly habit, I can't say, This is an easy project, which will Medal Models (Route 2, Box 3104, but this experience has certainly cured suit the aspiring prototype modeler. It Lopez, WA 9826 1). Although it is possible me of my laziness. Generally, Atlas includes the usual add-on details, and in to make finer grabs from wire, the GMM (China) factory paint has been acceptable, one respect, an improvement that makes etched grabs look good after painting on with above-average pad printing. Since I the modeler's life easier. After removing all but the most serious contest models. I can't recall a model that required as many removed cast-on details and added new the shell from the mechanism and dis­ ones, a good deal of touchup painting assembling it, remove cast-on details lift rings. GMM sunshades are applied to the cab, and a hole was drilled to receive was required. When I masked the factory with a chisel-blade knife. Note that along paint, big chunks came off with the tape with the usual grabs and lift rings, there are a Sunrise rotating beacon, to be attached in numerous places. I don't feel this was lift rings on the sides as well. I fi nd that by after painting and weathering. unique to me, as I saw an internet posting dlilling number 80 holes at the exact loca­ Lights that Illuminate by a respected modeler and contributor tion of the cast-on lift ring nubbins, the I seriously considered attempting to "The Journal" describing this same cast-on piece falIs off with a tOllch. It may working ditch lights. I think there would problem. This may, however, be confined be necessary to sand the locations where be just enough room for 1.5v bulbs, but to this run of UP models. I describe this the grabs were removed. Most chain auto thought better of it, due to the difficulty so other modelers may beware of the lift­ supply stores have fine wet-or-dry paper of wiring. I applied Sunrise ditch light ing paint. available in grits to 2000. castings, and inserted MY lenses after

Install the Gold Medal Models handrail stanchions in the holes in the sill of the Atlas 5D60. The handrails can then be soldered to the stanchions so the model itself can act as an alignment jig.

RAILMODELjOURNAL . DECEMBER 1999 57 Before ... and after. The phosphor bronze handrails and Gold Medal Models etched brass stanchions make it major improve­ ment in the realism of the model.

used my American Beauty 250-watt machine at its lowest setting. P-B-L (Box 769, Ukiah, CA 95482) sells a similar resistance soldering outfit. Grip the stanchion with the tweezers just below the joint. Just tap the foot pedal, there's enough heat to make the adjustment. Be careful, any more means melted plastic. Don't be put off, it's easier than it sounds. Complete the handrails by forming the ends to meet the factory holes. Cut the end rai lings in two, and attach Athabasca etched chain. This is the time to touch up the factory paint, and good luck matching the color. There's nothing like a little weathering to make those mismatches less apparent. The decal stripes will need to be painting and weathering. Oddly enough, factory holes are quite a bit bigger than repaired. A good touch comes next. the horns were in the same location on necessary, when attaching GMM number Modern locomotives have a plethora of the model as in my reference photos. 32 stanchions, just a bit of thickened warning labels (litigation preventors) on The supplied plow is a fine addition, hobby-type cyanoacrylate cement (ACC) their sides. Fortunately, the Microscale and equally nice as the one on the Kato fi lls the hole and holds the stanchion decal sheet has a big supply. Refer to Dash 9. These show the advantage of secure. The 160-32 Stanchion set those train show photos for locations. Injection molding, and modelers includes 150 stanchions in five different You've retouched the paint and should hope they will be available as a styles for $6.00 plus $1.00 shipping and repaired and added decals. Now shoot a separate part. There are cutouts in the handling. coat of Te stors DullCote over all, to plow, and I inserted Sunrise MU hoses This is the second model where I used provide a good surface for weathering in both sides. phosphor bronze wire. I've found this a chalks. Although the UP generally keeps Handrails or Se wer Pipes? big improvement over the brass I used pre­ their locomotives clean, there's always Atlas used a means of construction viously. Creative Model Associates offers soot and stuff on the top. Don't forget the previously confined to the larger scales. phosphor bronze wire in .008, .0lO and trucks and fuel tank. My photos show Older N scale models use a side sill and .01 5-inch diameters. I used the .0l O-inch that despite the clean sides, the fuel tank pilot cast of styrene with a walkway and wire for this model. The wire is $2.50 for and trucks were dirty. The tanks show handrail assembly of dell·in. The Atlas· a package of lO eight-inch long pieces spilled fuel and gunk, and the truck side­ SD60 has a styrene casting that includes (plus $5.00 shipping and handling); Box frames have a light coating of rust. side sills, walkways, and pilots. There 540, Plainview, NY 11803-0540-or it's Finally, attach the Sunrise rotating bea­ are holes cast in the sides that receive available to hobby dealers through disnib­ con. Reassemble the shell, and put it delI·in handrails. For those that leave the utors like WaJthers. r first attach the stan­ back on the mechanism. Don't forget to handrails as supplied, both methods give chions to the sill, making sure they are at replace the ugly Rapido couplers with equal appearance. 90 degrees to the walkway. Then I solder ones from Micro-Trains. Remember a few paragraphs ago I the wire to the stanchions. After soldering Put the locomotive on your layout. mentioned an improvement? This is it. all joints, you may note that one or two are Note it no longer looks like a toy. The change to wire handrails is made a bit offvertic al. Here comes the fun. Now, it's a distinctive duplicate of a Adjusting the stanchions is easy worlds easier since holes don't need to real locomotive. RMJ be located and drilled. Although the using a resistance soldering machine. I

------[TECHNIQUES ]------

CREATE PHOTO MURAL

BACKBy CharlesDR C. HarmantOPSas

Actual photographs can be a quick and extremely realistic way to provide a backdrop in virtually zero space. The technique is especially useful on shelf-style layouts like this one, where you can use it to create trackside buildings, but it can be used effectively on any layout. There is a layout tour of Charles Harmantas' 2 x 24- foot shelf layout in the August 1997 issue of "The Journal."

These two 4 x 6-inch prints show a building complex. I was about 60 feet back from the buildings and adjusted my zoom lens to have the buildings fill the view. Unlike the panoramic cityscape shots, these are NOT taken from the same position; I walked several feet to the right to take the second shot.

Here's the color copy backdrop on the left and the 1.1 x 14-inch photo enlargement temporarily propped up on the right. The color copy was trimmed off the track on the bottom, the sky was removed from the top, and the resulting copy was attached to the backdrop with rub­ ber cement. I originally thought the color copy output had a suffi­ ciently dull and flat finish, but subsequent layout photos indicat­ ed that a duller finish was needed. So when there was a nice day with a breeze, I opened my windows and sprayed Testor's DuliCote on the mounted cityscape. I recommend that this be done (outside or in a vented spray booth) before being mounted on the backdrop. If the backdrop still seems too bright, use the dilute Reefer Grey and airbrush technique described in the text to tone down the photographs or photocopies. he New England cityscape has provide an effect of distance that greatly was for layout photography, and this always been high on my list of increases the realism when using photographs requires only from 5 to 12 inches of back­ backdrop ideas fo r any model railroad that I for backdrops. drop height for an HO scale layout. might try to build. During the past two years RMJ ['ve been bu ilding my 2 x 24-foot layout (with Building the Backdrop portable staging yards at each end) in my con­ Living in the midwest, I'm not always dominium. I wanted to incorporate the look able to guarantee what conditions will be like of a typical New England "Mill Town," which during my occasional trips to New England. seems appropriate to my trying to recreate the However, the photos shown here seemed to Boston and Maine Railroad in the late 1940's fu lfill the preceding conditions. I was very The completed backdrop. Because I make my own time period. Because of my track plan, [ don't fo rtunate to have a clear day on February 3, enlargements, I can expand and crop to get what I have too much room for buildings at the rear 1995 ill Holyoke, Massachusetts, and with no want. You may want to experiment with color pho­ of the layout. I intend to incorporate some snow on the ground (10 inches fe ll the next tocopies, rather than actual photographic prints if building flats or slightly protruding buildings day). This portion of Holyoke does not appear you cannot find a machine (like the Kodak Create­ from the backdrop in the future, but for the to have changed much in 45 or 50 years, A-Print II machine I used) in a camera store that first segment of the layout, I was interested although if you look very closely in the pho­ will allow you to make your own enlargements. in attempting to use my camera to create a tos, there are some anachronisms, such as From the two photos, I chose a 5 x 7 -inch enlarge­ New England city scene. The accompany­ octagonal red "stop" signs, modern street ment size. Seven inches is the height of the build­ ing photographs and captions describe what lights, and other things. But for my purposes, ings. I had to make Four enlargements for this; the I've accomplished so far. the photos I was able to take seem to work white building to the left, the " middle" red brick In addition to describing my results, some well. building, the two interior walls (which create a ter­ additional tips should be kept in mind. Basic You can use the information on building rific "forced perspective" effect that adds great photographic rules apply in this endeavor. and painting backdrops in the August 1999 depth to the scene), and the red brick building to Having a good camera helps. So does the issue of "The Journal" if you don't already the right. These four sections were cut out and right lighting and atmospheric conditions have your favorite materials and techniques. cemented to posterboard with rubber cement. The (taking photos during the early morning or My backdrop is 0.080-inch sheet styrene. 1 edges were blackened with a felt tip pen. Any late afternoon on a clear day). For the purchased a 4 x 8-foot sheet at a plastics exposed paper edges in the interior were covered "distance" views of the urban scene, finding distributor, and they sawed it into four 2 x 4- with colored pencils. After final trimming, the a good vantage point to take panoramic photos foot sections. The backdrop is 2 feet high and, resulting building "flat" was coated with Testor's is also necessary. The photographs and so far, 8 feet long. I joined two sections with DullCote and mounted with rubber cement. If captions will guide you through the process a 4-inch reinforcement strip along the back of there are subsequent sags or gaps, Walthers "Goo" of creating the kinds of photographs that will the joint with Testor's Plastic Cement to join can be used. The big trick when doing multiple work best for a backdrop. the pieces and Squadron Green putty to fi ll enlargements for one building is to get the degree One last tip: use an airbrush, with mixture the joint. I realize the prevailing opinion is of enlargement EXACTLY the same for all seg­ of about fo ur-parts thinner to one part Reefer to have the horizon height on a backdrop at or ments. Otherwise, when joining the separate Grey to provide a slight haze for the back­ near the viewer's eye height, somewhere from pieces together, there could be a mismatch. drop. Experiment on some leftover 62 to 68 inches. That's a lot of backdrop to fill Sometimes I use an overlapping segment of one photographs. The grey will blend the too­ above a 48-inch layout height. A strong photo just to gauge the degree of enlargement, harsh (and somewhat too realistic) colors and concern when contemplating my backdrop then crop this segment off when making the print. CREATE PHOTO MURAL BACKDROPS The two enlargements show the parallax shift caused by shooting a photo from the left side of the pedestrian bridge and from the right side. This can be used to advantage when taking distant pictures of cityscapes or close-up pictures of individual buildings, as it helps to remove objectionable foreground elements, such as the overhead light on the bridge. The 11 x 14 enlarge­ ment (on the left) is then copied on a Canon color copi­ er. The copy is then trimmed to remove the sky and applied to the backdrop which has already been painted sky blue. This particular photograph was ultimately not used. You could get an enlargement on the color copier (up to 17 inches wide, or even enlarged up to 400 percent onto four 8112 x 11-inch rectangles if you want. I first tried using the 4 x 6-inch prints and enlarging them on the color copier, but found that the quality of the enlargement was not good enough. That's when I made 11 x l4-inch photo enlargements and I made an 11 x 14-inch had these color-copied at 100-percent size. enlargement from each of the five negatives. This is the basic "building block" of the back­ drop; a 14 inch segment of cityscape separated by building flats, also created from photos of buildings taken the same day in the same place.

These five 4 x 6-inch prints show an overall panoramic view looking westerly over an older downtown section of Holyoke. The Boston and Maine Connecticut River mainline passes at the bottom from left to right. There is a concrete footbridge across the tracks, and I was standing at its east end. The old passenger station is 1/4 mile to the right.

This is one full segment of my finished backdrop. The large building to the left was done just like the previ­ ously described building, but I enlarged it to be 11 inches high. Note that gap in the buildings to the right does not have the same background that was there when the initial photos were shot. "Modeling from the Prototype" is expressed in every nuance of its meaning on Jack Burgess' HO scale recreation of the Yo semite Valley Railroad just as it was in August 1939. Every car, locomotive, structure and scene is there in HO scale as well as precise replications of the operations of the line. It's a layout you can see in the January issue and visit at the NMRA National Convention in July. -Robert Schleicher photo

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64 RAILMODELJOURNAL ' DECEMBER 1999 [WHAT'S NEW ... IN HO]

Westerfield, 53 River Lane, Crossville, TN 38555 is producing a cast-resin kit to recreate the CM&STP 36-foot drop-bottom stock cars. The prototype cars were built in 1925 and 1926 but they lasted into the sixties. The kit is $29.00 less trucks and couplers.

InterMountain is now shipping F7B diesel body shells in New Yo rk Central and Union Pacific paint and markings to match the available F7 A bodies. The bodies fit Athearn or Stewart chassis and InterMountain will have their own chassis available early in 2000.

Key Imports, Box 1848, Rogue River, OR 97537 is importing brass replicas of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Cincinattian as a five-car set. See your dealer.

Challenger Imports, Ltd., P.O. Box 93244, Des Moines, IA 50393 is producing a replica of the complete Great Northern "Empire Builder" of 1955. The cars have full interiors and are avail­ able as an 8-car set with two additional three­ car sets.

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Pecos River Brass, 560 E. Church St., Lewisville, TX 75057 is shipping o scale injection-molded plastic replicas of the AAR 50-foot double­ door box cars in ATSF (Pullman Green), Sp, NYC and Southern. The kits are $40.00 and ready-to-run models are just $50.00 in a choice of 2-rail or 3-rail with trucks and couplers.

Moffett Models, 7 Jolie Court St., St. Catherines, Ontario L2M6V5, Canada is producing cast-ure­ thane kits with laser-cut windows and doors to duplicate the CN standard track scale building. The 0 scale model is $24.95 and the S scale model is $19.95. The kit is also available in N scale for $12.95 and HO scale for $16.95.

Atlas is producing 0 scale replicas of the ACF 60-foot hi-cube auto parts box cars with both single and double doors. The models are avail­ able with either three-rail trucks and couplers or two-rail trucks and couples. See your dealer.

Centralia Car Shops, P.O. Box 2686, Des Plaines, IL 60018- 2686 is shipping S scale injection­ molded replicas of the Pennsylvania Railroad Class H39 hoppers. The models are available with either hi-rail trucks an cou­ plers or S scale trucks and cou­ plers for $39.95.

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GHQ, 28100 Woodside Rd., Shorewood, MN 55331 is producing a cast-metal superstructure and tender to convert the Rivarossi 4-6-6-4 into the Northern Pacific locomotive. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for more information.

Red Caboose, P.O.Box 250, Mead, CO 80542 is producing 42-foot flat cars in injection-molded plastic. The assembled cars are available in three-packs with three different numbers for $41.85 including trucks and couplers in Sp, NYC, C&O, Up, B&M, New Haven, CB&Q, D&RG, CRIP or ATSF paint and lettering.

Con-Cor is now shipping their corrugated side baggage cars ready to run in N scale. See your dealer.

Blair Line, P.O. Box 1136, Carthage, MO 64836 is producing a laser-cut This cast-pewter front end loader is the latest in a series of construction wood kit to recreate the Blairstown two-story depot used by the Frisco vehicle kits from GHQ, 28100 Woodside Rd., Shorewood, MN 55331. See Railroad. The kit is $39.95 plus $3.00 shipping and handling. your dealer or order direct.

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Preserving the Heritage You will help with the preservation of these early marvels of the rails through the purchase of the 2-8-8-2. PROTO 2000 will donate a portion of the sales to the historical society of the road purchased to aid their efforts of preservingthe histOty and beauty of the 2-8-8-2 Steam Locomotive.

an and two road This extraordinalY locomotive and tender is available in umited quantities in unlettered version numbers each in Santa Fe llIld Norfolk and Western . © 1999 Life-Like Products, Inc, 1600 Union Ave" Baltimore, MD 21Z11 �i!E� Suggested retail price $375.00 In Canllda: 140 Applewood Crescent, Concord, Omario L4K 4E2 w\\",!ifclikeproducts.com THE NEW 5PSeTRUNr USRA 4-8-2 LIGHT MOUNTAIN with t:lo wiltg Firebox

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