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Publisher Kevin McKinney Editor features PaulZack Art Director Allen Ambrosini/GRAVITY GRAPHICS Te chnical Illustration Mike Schafer/Zephyr Graphics & Editorial John Signor Stations on the Santa Fe Belen Cutoff ...... 8 Contributing Editors Charles W Bohi John Swanson Ty pesetting Atlantic Coast Line GP7's ...... 12 Publishers Studio Tom Smiley Research & Assistance Weathering and a Load for a 50-foot Gondola .... 18 H. John Kuehl Mont Switzer Pennsylvania Railroad Secondary Trains...... 21
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Interurban Press On the cover: Looking every inch like a Standard Railroad of the Wor ld passenger train, P.O. Box 6128 the westbound Penn Central Duquesne roars upgrade past MG tower between Altoo Glendale. CA 91205 na and Gallitzin, Pa., during June of 1968. This issue's Prototype Portfolio, beginning on
Ie 1987 Interurban Press page 21, examines Pennsy secondary passenger trains. (Inset) A Union Pacific DD35 takes a break at Council Bluffs, Iowa, during September of 1967. Doug Nuckles paints Mac Sebree PRESIDENT and details an Athearn "DD40" to UP specs, starting on page 40 of this issue. Photo graphs by Mike Schafer. Jim Walker VICE PRESIDENT
F�BRUARY 1987 3 he "Chico Chief' ran in May 1969, than the 4650's (by 31/2 feet, as shown T not May 1970 as stated in your ar in the table), they're also two inches ticle. narrower and five inches lower in Robert B. Nicholson height, They are the only series of WP Ft, Madison, Iowa center-flow hoppers that don't require a square Plate C stencil since they are within the tolerances of Plate B. One series of WP center-flow cars was left out . These hoppers, WP Nos, ike Schafer's article on the Santa 11741-1 1750, were built as early as Fe "Little Chiefs" was most in M late 1961, and were originally Sacra teresting. The "La Junta Chief' train mento Northern 5501-5510, These We welcome letters that provide interesting information. correc number combinations were 191/200 cars were of a different design-more tions. or your views on model railroading or PROTOTYPE MODELER. and 201/190, however, Just look at a Mark at top of letter ··To PM Junction·· if it is to be considered for Santa Fe timetable from the later years cylindrical in appearance--and were possible publicalion. Your lull address will be g,ven ONL Y if you of aluminum construction, so request. Because of our limited staff. we are not always able to of the train's operation. Without dig answer all mail (although a self·addressed, stamped envelope ging (literally, with a shovel) through Carl W, Shaver w,lI help'), but we do guarantee to read all mail. my own files I can't say which pair was Lombard, Ill, which, It was either 190/191 east of Pueblo and 200/201 to the north or vice versa, Also, F units were the regular power during the final years of operation of A letter from an editor No reservations for Chiefs the La Junta Chief. The consist was ike Schafer's "Little Chiefs of the usually a single F3 or F7, a steam gen M Santa Fe" (August 1986 PM) erator car (converted from a smooth our September 1986 issue with was very informative and colorful. I side baggage car), a baggage car and Y the TP& W feature just crossed my am planning on modeling Santa Fe's one coach. A single unit was usually desk, and my congratulations for ex Golden Gate train. It ran from Rich sufficient power for the train, and it posing that great bisector of Sacred mond to Bakersfield, Calif. , and was freed up a B unit for more useful ser Central Illinois to the modeling world. the forerunner of today's Amtrak San vice elsewhere. Regarding TP&W's different paint Joaquin. The Golden Gate also con I had the pleasure of riding the La and lettering schemes, even on its lo nected with buses at both endpoints. It Junta Chief a few times, including the comotives (we won't even mention usually consisted of a combine, two or last run when the consist was in freight cars!), you couldn't have said it three coaches and a round-end obser creased to include a second coach and better than in the page 33 caption "the vation car, In later years, power was an car 96 of the NRHS Intermountain word standardization did not appear Alco PA or an A-B F unit set. Chapter, A freight service GP7 was in the TP&W dictionary." Although Ed Randall added ahead of the lone F unit for the Senior Editor Schafer claims consider San Pablo, Calif, northbound return from La Junta, able credentials for the railroad and Ralph V. Balfoort the area, please allow me to offer a few Albany, N,y' additions, amplifications and correc tions. The Official Guide of October 1970 Nowhere do I see mention that the states tllat the La Junta Chief (al RS's were delivered for long-hood-for tllOUgh not named as such, of course) ward operation, the Alco standard, ust read the August 1986 PM and was 191 Denver-Pueblo southbound, which was changed after a time by the J thoroughly enjoyed "Little Chiefs 190 Pueblo-La Junta southbound, 201 TP&W to short-hood-forward because of the Santa Fe." One train not men La Jun ta-Pueblo northbound and 200 the crews were choking on the smoke. tioned was the nearly-always-pure Pueblo-Denver northbound.-M.S. Also, early TP&W records list the streamliner, the Tulsan , Nos, 211 and RS2's as RSO's, something never ex 212, which ran from 1939 to 1971 be plained nor seen on any other Alco, or tween Tulsa, Okla. , and Kansas City railroad, mechanical sheets. Union Station, It was pure streamliner A silver lining In the orange-and-white era, the until the advent of the U-boats, with slanted numerals on the cab (which E's, F's, DL109's and even an FM Erie he article on Western Pacific cen were hard to read) were replaced by built heading it up. Most typical was T ter-flow hoppers in the September large, sans-serif numerals, On an E8m or A-B set of F's, The normal 1986 issue of PM is the kind of materi page 33, the side-by-side photos of consist was nearly always an RPO al that non-modelers like myself can 1000 and 306 illustrate the difference bag'gage, two chair cars, lounge and enjoy very much, I not only enjoyed splendidly. Pullman, In its earlier years, the train this one, I found it quite informative GP18 No. 600 was delivered in the sported a round-tailed observation. and illustrative, regular "early" green and yellow, not When the railroad changed out the cab I nearly choked over the explanation the "later" green-with-yellow as stat units for road switchers and later the given for the difference in cubic capac ed, As delivered, it had a one-of-a-kind "Butler Buildings" (the U30CG's), it ity for WP series 11966-12000, That treatment with the red diamond em just didn't seem to be Santa Fe any lining would have to be applied mighty blem on the cab, cut into the yellow, more, The Tulsan is very easily mod thick to take up fifty cubic feet of inte with the road numbers appearing no eled using Athearn equipment for riorl The truth of the matter is that where but the indicator boards on the power (F7's) and Con-Cor rolling these cars were designed smaller than ends, I believe this was an AAR viola stock, the others-both 4600 and 4650 cubic tion (remember Virginian's FM's), James T, Rucker feet cars have been available, Not only Concerning GP30 No. 700. on page Houston, Texas are the 4600 cubic foot cars longer 34 is a photo showing it in its first
4 PROTOTYPE MODELER orange scheme. This was a very fast repaint from the Bicentennial colors for the debut of the short-lived excur sion era under the Bob McMillan re gime-the two-day Effner-Keokuk round trip of September 1979. Aleos had been requested, but TP&W de murred for reliability reasons, and 700 was the worthy substitute. The standard large letters were applied The within a few weeks or months after the trip. In the photo of 700 on page 31, other
those block initials were white (!), not Manufacturers: We'lI be happy to spotlight your new products in choice yellow. Now Arriving. Sample products and/or a photo of the product, a description and price list should be sent to PTJ Publishing PO. in color! Now, on an item even Schafer is too Box 860. Homewood. IL 60430. Items submitted are accepted as young to remember (as am I, except for gratiS in exchange lor announcement and cannot be returned. photos), the two F-units originally wore the diamond emblem with THE Polly Model PEORIA ROAD contained therein, rather S Railroad Colors than the initials, as later. offer the serious Anyone who models TP&W ban run modeler an alternative to solvent based not only re-engined MKT FA's in m.u., paints. Easy to use, odorless and non as you show on page 32, but Pennsy, toxic - no fumes or fire hazards. Avail PC, Conrail, Santa Fe and Precision able in a broad range of realistic colors that thin or clean-up with plain water. power which ran through or was bor May be applied with brush or airbrush rowed at one time or another. The Katy for permanent adhesion to plastics, FA's were from Precision, as were some wood, plaster and primed metals. PNC green and yellow Geeps. Among Ask for Polly S Model Railroad Colors the Pennsy types seen in Peoria were at your favorite dealerl RS3's and GP9's, and later Conrail Send SASE for Information. Specify GP38's in both black and blue ap PR Series. Enclose $1.00 for actual peared. I'll leave details of the Santa Fe color chip chart. power to others, but I recall seeing F7B's and GP20's. TP&W was also the � FLOQUIL-POLLY S COLOR CORP. conduit for new Santa Fe GE diesels en Route 30 North. Amsterdam. NY 12010-9204 route from Erie to Fort Madison. And in the old days , TP&W's diesel shop repaired lots of area industrial units, including an ex-GB&W high-hood Alco, an ex-Monon SW 1, an ex D&RGW S2 from Union Electric's coal operations in the Canton area, and Morrel's Sl (or 83) from Ottumwa, Iowa. I could go on, but enough for now. You get the idea, or I should say, you Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., 5601 W Florist Ave., already had it in that caption. Milwaukee, WI 53218 has added a group of flat cars to their growing line of plastic HO J. David Ingles scale freight cars. Available now are steam Managing Editor era 42-foot flats in several roadnames: Magnuson Models, marketed by Wm. K. undecorated, GN, ATSF, Erie, UP, and NYC. TRAINS Magazine Walthers, Inc., 5601 W Florist Ave., Milwaukee, Each car is priced at $4.95. Milwaukee, Wis. WI 53218 has riow released the first two kits in its Wa rehouse District Series of buildings. Available now are the Cyclops Railway Supply and Edison Street Powerhouse models. Both are HO kits featuring polyester THE walls with cast-in doors and windows. Window FLEXIBLE glass, skylights and chimneys are separate parts. The Cyclops building (upper photo) is COI1I1ECTIOI1 item No. 439-549, priced at $44.95. The Edison WALTHERS building is item 439-550. It sells for $24.95. DIAPHRAGMS
This easy to add-on detail Atlas Tool Company, 378 Florence Ave., Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., 5601 W Florist Ave , makes passenger cars Hillside, NJ 07205 continues to expand their Milwaukee, WI 53218 has released decals for prototypically correct. fine line of trackage by adding more nickel the new CSX Transportation paint scheme. I HO-(933-429) pkg(2) $1.79 silver crossings in N scale. In addition to the Sets are available in both HO and N scale,
0-(933-101) pkg(2) $1.79 90-degree crossing already available, 15-, and include both the current " csx" scheme 30- and 60-degree crossings join the ranks. and the earlier "CSX Transportation" scheme. Also due out soon are 45- and 20-degree Sets are No. 934-329900 in HO (priced $1.30 ••• WALTHERS crossings in N. Prices not specified each), and No. 938-329900 in N (priced $1.25 5601 W. Florist Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53218 at presstime. eaCh). ©1986 Wm. K. Wallhers. Inc.
FEBRUARY 1987 5 Central Valley, 13000 Saticoy St., No. Model Rectifier Corporation, 2500 Hollywood, CA 91905 continues to add to Wo odbridge Ave., Edison, NJ 08817 has their diversified product line with a new entered the HO locomotive market with its release, super-detailing parts for HO scale release of a plastic Alco C420. The finely freight cars. These are styrene underframe detailed model is available undecorated or parts designed for 40-foot HO cars. Each painted for Union Pacific, Nickel Plate or sprue of parts contains a detailed Lehigh Va lley. Retail price is not yet specified. underframe, floor, Ajax brake wheel with chain and platform, and triple valve. Each package contains three sprues, enough parts for three cars. Packages are priced at $3.95 apiece.
Circuitron, P.O. Box 322, Riverside, IL 60546 has announced a new slow motion switch machine. Known as the "Tortoise," the machine features an extremely low current drain, simple wiring, easy mounting and a precision gear-driven mechanism. The unit creates a very realistic slow-throw action of three seconds. Retail price will be about $10.
Badger Air-Brush Co" 9128 W Belmont, Franklin Park, IL 60131 now makes an airbrush holder fitting two airbrushes. The unit clamps on any surface up to two inches thick, and it swivels and rotates to suit. Model No. 125, it sells for $24.95.
Cannon & Company, P.O. Box 452, Boulder Creek, CA 95006 now makes three new - E diesel unit detail parts in their HO scale line. New are AAF angled filter boxes, radiator '�'-'-i� ... --i"- .-,... screens and inertial filter screens, all • designed to fit later EMD units such as the GP38-2. The filter box is part No. FB-1901, priced $2.95. The radiator screens come four to a pack, priced $2.50, item No. RS-1401. The filter screens also come four to a pack, item No. FS-1301, and are priced at $1.95. Each part is made of styrene.
The New Haven Railroad Historical & Floquil-Polly S Color Corp" Route 30 North, Technical Association, 11 Bassett Rd., Amsterdam, NY 12010, has announced fifteen Branford, CT 06405 is now offering two new colors in their paint line, all featuring a custom Athearn boxcars in HO scale. Both new formulation designed for better plastic are McGinnis-era 40-foot boxcars in the compatibility. Called "REY.l," the new formula orange and black-and-orange New Haven of paints also has less odor and flammability. Woodland Scenics, P.O. Box 98, Linn Creek, paint schemes. Each cor is available in five The following colors are now available: UP MO 65052 has announced a new line of different road numbers. The cars are $6.95 Light Orange, SR Green, SOU Freight Car high-quality dry transfer lettering. Suitable for apiece, and shipping is $1.50 for one or two Brown, ATSF Red, ATSF Blue, ATSF Ye llow, ATSF use in different scales, the Model Graphics cars, $2 for three or more cars. Connecticut Mineral Brown, NYC Dark Gray, NYC Light c dry transfers are available in several residents please add 52 sales tax per car, Gray, Hunter Green, RDG Green, Tuscan Red, typefaces with sizes from )1,6" to )1,". Each and please make checks payable to Guilford Gray, Oxide Red and Socony Red. sheet of transfers sells for $2.98. Treasurer, NHRHTA. Inc.
6 PROTOTYPE MODELER AMSI, Inc., P.O. Box 3497, San Rafael, CA Railroad Hobbies, 2001 Quail St., lakewood, 94912 has released two new items to expand CO 80215 announces a limited run of three their line of scenery products. Flex-Turf is a custom double-sheathed boxcars. sheet of stretchable %2' urethane foam Manufactured by Walthers, the cars are covered with four different types of AMSI lettered for Colorado Midland. Each set of ground foam. Selling for $4.99 each, the three cars (two are shown above) is $19 plus 12" x 24" sheet comes in four varieties: $2 shipping, available direct from No. A8FT10TG Turf Green, No. ABFT20GG Gravel Railroad Hobbies. Gray, No. A8FT30TB To psoil Brown anb No. A8FT40HT Hillside Ta n. Also new is Te rrain Brush, a 12"-square sheet of polyester fiber Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., 5601 W Florist Ave., covered with fine and coarse grades of AMSI Milwaukee, WI 53218 has released their 1987 ground foam. Designed to be cut and HO scale catalog. The huge bible of model stretched to suit, it comes in four varieties: railroading products features an all-new No. A8TB10SB Sagebrush, No. ABTB20HM High "Magic of Model Railroading" color section, Mountain Brush, No. A8TB30RB Riverbank Brush and several new manufacturers. The catalog and No. A8TB40HC Hill Country Brush. Each is priced at $12.95. package of Te rrain Brush sells for $4.99.
Micro Engineering, 1120 Eagle Rd., Fenton, MO 63026 has released a new kit in N scale. Murphy Manufacturing is an injection molded plastiC building suitable for a variety of trackside uses. II is molded in four colors, requiring no painting, and it can be built with several different window and door locations. Included in the kit are steps, sidewalks, signs, Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., 5601 W Florist Ave., roof vents and pallets. lIem No. ME-l, it sells Milwaukee, WI 53218 has released yet for $9.95. another new car in their ever-expanding line of plastiC HO kits. Shown here is one of the new 50-foot Airslide covered hoppers. At $5.95 each, they are available in undecorated, UP, MllW, GACX, ADM, BN and GTW
Badger Air-Brush Co., 9128 W Belmont Ave., Franklin Park, Il 60131 has announced the availability of two new sets of Air-Opaque paints. Both are sets of weathering colors. Set No. 705 is for locomotives and rolling stock, set No. 706 is for scenery and structures. Air Opaque paint is an easy-to-use product Model Die Casting, Inc., P.O. Box 926, which can be applied with brush, sponge, Hawthorne, CA 90251 has released several airbrush or other method. Each weathering new freight car kits in HO scale over recent set sells for $15. weeks. Among these is an all-Erie set from the early diesel era. Available is an Erie-lettered 40-foot truss-side boxcar (shown), 40-foot AAR boxcar, 40-foot gondola and El-Iettered 50- The Missouri Pacific Historical SOCiety, P.O. Krasel Industries, P.O. Box 11950, Costa Mesa, foot boxcar, 50-foot plug-door boxcar and Box 0, Camp Point, Il 62320 is now offering CA 92627 has released the following HO covered hopper. Also available are two HO scale decals for lettering the MP 50-foot decal sets in their Microscale line. No. 87-493 Western Maryland 40-foot boxcars in two baggage-express boxcar featured in the MP and C&EI three-bay covered hoppers; different paint schemes. Shown above is the SOCiety's summer 1984 newsletter. Custom No. 87-494 UP 1952-1959-era 40- and 50-foot speed lettering style; the other kit has the made by Rail Graphics, the decals sell for boxcars; No. 87-495 SP, SSw, Interstate and Rail earlier WM round herald. See the full line of c $1.75 per set, plus a 22 SASE. Back issues of Services 40-foot trailers; No. 87-496 SPSF pre MDC HO car kits at your hobby shop. the summer 1984 newsletter are also merger diesel paint scheme. available for $3.50 each. MORE ON PAGE 45 ,�
FEBRUARY 1987 7 This station stands along the Santa Fe Belen Cutoff at Fort Sumner, Myron Church. The "Spanish mission" style depot has concrete walls N. Mex., typical of those designed specifically for the line by architect covered in stucco.
STATIONS ON THE SANTA FE BELEN CUTOFF
Architectural notes on a family of depots
oday, with the removal of many CHARLES W. BOHI became known, was completed in small-town railroad stations, it 1908. Its gradients were less steep is difficult to remember that PHOTOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR than the Raton line. Although most of theseT depots were once important cen the towns along the new cutoff were ters of community life. So vital were Fe's Belen Cutoff provides a good indi small, with little local traffic, depot fa these structures to railway operations cation of some of the factors that influ cilities were still needed. Customers that many carriers once g'ave much enced small station planning. that were there had to be served, and a thought to their design. While much Plagued for years by difficult grades place was needed to house operators evidence of this concern has been lost on the Raton Pass line through north helping dispatchers monitor the heavy over the years, an article that appeared eastern New Mexico, Santa Fe built a train traffic projected for the line. in a 1906 issue of RAILWA y AGE maga 245-mile "cutoff" between Texico and To design a standard depot plan for zine about depot plans for the Santa Belen, N.M. The "Belen Cutoff," as it use at 21 locations along the new
8 PROTOTYPE MODELER These two views of the Fort Sumner station give an indication as to the tions in the on-line towns when the Belen Cutoff was constructed. Note the functionality of the building's design. The upstairs area is (was) an apart loading platform at the end of the depot, with its three ramps and partial ment for the station agent, since there often were no local accommoda- use of wood planking.
route, Santa Fe chose Chicago archi rooms, kitchen and living room up eight measured 24 feet x 81 feet, one tect Myron H. Church. Working under stairs must certainly have been was 24 feet x 93 feet, and three had the supervision of the company's chief welcomed by the agents assigned to dimensions of 24 feet x 135 feet. engineer, Church sought to create a the area. Downstairs Church placed As with any large construction pro depot that would be functional, eco the freight room, office and waiting ject, keeping costs low was of critical nomical to build and pleasing to the room found in countless other "combi importance. Church's simple floor eye. nation" depots in the United States. plan and rather plain exterior en Since the small, undeveloped towns While the separate "baggage" room hanced the cost-cutting possibilities along the Belen Cutoff often lacked was a bit unusual, this basic plan was inherent in the use of standard plans. adequate housing, Church designed a sufficiently flexible so it could be var Covering the station was a simple ga two-story depot including an apart ied to meet local needs. Of the twelve ble roof unbroken by dormers. More ment on the second floor. The two bed- stations actually built to his plan, over, the windows, doors and inside
FEBRUARY 1987 9 N. M ex., has at Texico, The station sed and end enclo en porch had its op om . Note a freight ro d into s remodele er arche the for m outlines of the nt windows. e two fro aro und th
, N. the M elrose o vieWs ot Tw to be a n pot shoW it Mex., de of variation a n d e d" "exp utoff Belen c -. basic ,. Church's Note the n desig n. statio un- a rather stairs bay, up odification. I Y seen m c o m m 0 n
10 Left: At Clovis, N. Mex., Santa Fe built another of the expanded Belen Cutoff stations. This depot features an upstairs bay, as well as enclosed space where normally the open porch end would be located. Below: A Santa Fe freight rolls by the Melrose, N. Mex., station. Note the stripes on the an gled wall faces, ap plied for added visibility.
woodwork appear to have been of read economical. The low pitch of the roof, had an interesting and unified appear ily available dimension and design. the overhangs , the addition of an ance that must have impressed travel The use of concrete in the walls was a arched porchway on the waiting room ers and community members alike. logical choice because the local dry cli end, the buttressed walls and the exte Those few that remain today are tangi mate made "sweating" less likely than rior stucco gave the depots the charac ble evidence of the care some railways in more humid regions. Also, concrete ter of the old Spanish mission build once devoted to depot design and are had insulating qualities vital in this ings, a common local architectual an important part of the architectural area of wide temperature extremes. Fi style. Use of a rounded bay enhanced heritage of the United States. nally, the building was almost devoid the appearance of the buildings. of non-essential decorative features. The result of Church's work was one Mucll of the information in this article . Architect Church obviously gave care of the most attractive two-story depot comes from "Santa Fe's Concrete Depots. . in ful thought to making construction of designs ever used in the United States. the March 23. 1906 issue of RAILWAY AcE. his depots as economical as possible. A symmetrical building, the Belen Another excellent source of information about these stations is pages 175-181 of Church was, however, clearly inter Cutoff stations not only blended well Robert E. Pounds' book. SANTA FE: DE:POTs: ested in creating a building that was into the architectural environment of THE: WE'STE:RN LINgs. publisiled b'y Kachina attractive as well as functional and the region they served, but they also Press.-C.B.
FEBRUARY 1987 11 Warren Calloway
The Atlantic Coast Line operated 180 GPTs, first delivered in an attractive purple variation of the scheme featuring "passenger style" roadname purple and silver color scheme, No, 247 seen here, wears the earlier lettering and ACL herald with purple background, MODELING AN ATLANTIC COAST LINE GP7
ACL Rostered 180 of these attractive units
he GP7 was one of the early BY TOM SMILEY silver favored by ACL president Cham road-switchers produced by pion Davis. My layout concept allowed Electro Motive. First built in MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY for a competing road's local to have T1949, it was designed to provide good BY THE AUTHOR trackage rights and work interchange switching visibility front and rear, with the SAL, making the engine need along with ease of access to the engine interchange unit on my layout where ed a road unit and not a yard switcher. for servicing. Because of this versatil the primary road I model is the Sea This thought process led me to the unit ity, many railroads purchased GP7's board Air Line. As a modeler, I appreci that would have been used in such when first introduced, and a total of ate prototype practice over strict ad work, the GP7. 2610 were constructed. The Atlantic herence to historical accuracy. Some of Finding suitable prototype photos to Coast Line, a user of EMD F-units for the reasons for choosing an ACL GP7 work from can be difficult. There is a long-distance freight trains, bought as my interchange unit: The place I fine builder's photo of ACL No. 100 on 180 GP7's, Nos. 100-279, in 1950-51 model is Tampa, Fla. (my home town), page 214 of the book GENERAL MOTORS for way freight and local service. Most where the only interchange with the FIRST GENERATION DIESEL-ELECTRIC of the GP7's and GP9's bought by ACL SAL was with the ACL. I model circa LOCOMOTIVEs-Volume II. This photo in 1950-57 are still in use on today's 1952 (my year of birth) which deter helped me in other choice I made, par Seaboard System, being rebuilt into mined the types of locomotives to ticularly on how to make the ACL GP7 "GP16's." But that's another story. choose from, as well as their color visually different from the GP7's I had I wanted an ACL GP7 for use as an schemes, in this case the purple and for the SAL. Sure, the color schemes
12 PROTOTYPE MODElER Above: Tw o ACL GPTs at rest display the most obvious spotting character fifties. The unit has the newer purple scheme with larger road name, istic of GPTs, the set of three louvers below the cab. ACL's Geep Ts were number and herald with purple letters and silver background. Compare it numbered 100-279. Below: No. 130 handles a local freight back in the mid- with the units above and on the opposite page.
are extreme, but I wanted detail differ is to begin referring to the model as a er than go at them all at once. I find it ences as well. Many of my modeling GP7. Athearn has recently re-motored is just as convenient and is less like a choices were based on prototype prac its HGP7" with a thin can motor and factory assembly line, but suit your tices that would clearly accentuate the nicely done Blomberg trucks. The self. Yo u will want to remove all roof differences between the two roads. shell still seems a bit stocky, but as details, the drop steps, coupler release with all Athearn products, it's a de bars, grabirons, headlights and mark Construction pendable, quality model. ers (but not their mounts). I started with an Athearn GP9. Since The first phase of any locomotive de The major work will be on the roof. the louver configuration of this model tailing project is generally the remov Starting with the easiest, remove the is actually that of a GP7, the first and al of unwanted cast-on details. I prefer horns and dynamic brake blisters. Use easiest step in this conversion project to work on these as I get to them, rath- a hobby knife and cut away the dynam-
FEBRUARY 1987 13 ACL No. 107 wears the earlier scheme of purple and silver and No. 218 below carries the later variation. Note the Twophofos.BilfFofsom differences. The stripe di viding the purple and silver areas on both schemes is yellow, as are the end and corner handrails. The stripe at the top of the side is also yellow.
ic brake fan and winterization hatch. painting and detailing suggested a with styrene cement, will have to have The rest of the details can be removed product called FibreGel. It is a fiberg their ends rounded to match the belts by passing the shell length wise down lass product that works just like any rising from the sides. I found making a large flat file. This may seem slow, two-part compound, with a fiberglass the belts longer and bending them and you will need to clean the plastic resin mixed with a hardener. FibreGel around the edge of the roof will create shavings from the grooves of the file, is light and strong, and works fast. It a flawlessjoint when finished. The rest but I've found it to be the surest meth has a three to five minute working of the roof details need to be centered, od in the long run. Turn the shell time, long enough if you don't try to do so determine the centerline ofthe roof. around periodically and be certain to too much at once. It will cure in about Mount the exhaust stacks between exert even pressure of the shell on the twenty minutes and can be wet sanded the two belts. The four 36-inch fans file until the stacks, fans , rivets and until then. Once solid, after about 45 will be mounted two per roof plate on roof plates are gone. minutes, it can be sanded or filed. One the long hood. When building some of Yo u now have about a dozen holes to feature I like is that it can be made to my first SAL GP7's, I tried to drill fill. Don't worry about the ones in the flake off from exposed surfaces easily, holes to mount the fans using the pins short nose as the replacement roof but will fill a hole and stay there. It on the castings, but I could never get plate will cover them. The two square takes paint excellently. If you fill and the fans in the right places. I've wised holes in the roof where the dynamic sand it right, no one can ever tell a hole up, and now I remove the pins on the brake fan and winterization hatch was there in the first place. FibreGel fans and mount them flat on the roof were located and the six mounting can be bought at any auto parts store plates, securing with styrene cement. holes of the dynamic brake blisters for about eight dollars for a quart-size The sand hatches, however, can be will have to be filled. Most articles rec can. It'll last a long time. easily mounted by drilling a hole in the ommend filling with body putty, and if Cut some sheet styrene backing, and proper place at the end of each hood that's what you use, g'o to it. When I place it within the shell over the holes along the centerline. The sixteen lift was starting my first locomotive de in the long nose. Fill these with your rings, one in each corner of each roof tailing project, I asked some of the ex favorite filler and sand flush . Three plate and four between the belts, need perienced modelers at the hobby shop I roof plates and two belts need to be cut to have mounting holes drilled with a frequent for some suggestions. One from .010" styrene to replace those re No. 80 bit. excellent modeler, who does custom moved . The two belts, once attached Now we come to the bell. I've used a
14 PROTOTYPE MODELER Here are two views of the author's ACL GP7 model. To differentiate be tween this and an SAL GP7, the au thor mounted the air horns in the standard EMD positions on the side of the long hood and just ahead of the cab on the short hood. Note the ACL-style m.u. connectors, mounted direclly on the end handrails. These were scratchbuill from styrene.
little of my modeler's prerogative here. drill mounting holes in the spot where Painting and Decaling In the book SEABOARD COAST LINE, by the cast-on bolt heads were. This saves Bob Warren and Fred Clark, each me some effort with drilling' tem photo of fo rmer ACL Geeps clearly plates. There are a lot of details to be To paint this model , I used a special shows a bell on the short hood . These added after painting the shell so we'll Scalecoat color called "ACL Royal Pur were added to the units later, and place the hand grabs on later. pIe." It is a custom blend made by though I may be inaccurate to have a EMD delivered its locomotives with Scalecoat exclusively for the hobby bell on a GP7 in 1952. this is the proto air horns mounted on the right side of store at which I shop. This color was type practice of the ACL and it helps the short hood just forward of the cab, taken from a paint nake off the proto me create a physically different unit and on the left side of the long hood in type. The PROTOTYPE RAILROAD COLOR from the Seaboard Geeps which had no the open space where the dynamic GUIDE suggests mixing one part Flo bells. Also, it serves to indicate the brake blisters were removed . The Coast qui! Caboose Red, one part Floquil road-switcher usage the Coast Line Line eventually moved its horns to the D&H Blue and four drops per teaspoon had for its GP7's. Mount the bell cen roof, but in keeping' with my desire to Floquil Old Silver to achieve ACL pur tered on the front of the roof plate on accentuate physical differences be ple. the short hood . tween the ACL and SAL units (which The broad silver side stripes join in a Grabirons are placed on the ends of had roof-mounted horns). I placed my curved Vat each nose. This band. ac each hood . The short hood has a fu ll horns on the sides in the original EMD cording to the COLOR GUIDE. should be ladder of grabs on its left half, with one positions. Old Silver. as is the lower stripe along low and one midway up the right half. EMD also provided Pyle gyralights the frame. The long hood has two fu ll ladders of above Pyle head lights on Coast Line Walthers decal set No. 25760 will grabs up each half of its nose. There units. The gyralight will mount over provide the purple ATLA NTIC COAST LI N E are also grabirons in the roof above the holes provided for the plastic that will be placed on the si! vel' band on each full ladder. When I mount grab lenses that come with the Athearn kit. the long hood. The color match of the irons, I remove the cast-on grabs with The head lights will mount just below lettering to the purple I used is very a chisel-shaped hobby knife. Before that. The lenses will be added after close. The Coast Line herald is located completely sanding away the image, I painting on eit her side of the short hood . Unfor-
FEBRUARY 1987 15 ACL repainted the GPTs in 1958. The new scheme was basic black with yellow striping, and a few units first re ceived this pattern of stripes as seen on Geep 147. After a short time, this was changed to a sim plified version with straight stripes.
Two photos, Warren Callowav
There were twoACL subsidiaries which ran units in Coast Line colors. One of these was shortline Columbia, New berry and Laurens. CN&L GP7 NO. 102 was photographed in 1965. Charleston & Western Carolina also used the ACL purple and silver paint.
tunately, the Walthers herald should as they are shaped to give spring ten Final Details have one more outer purple ring to sion when mounted. Place the two match the herald seen in the builder's halves into their positions and secure, photo in the GM book. I brush-painted then join the halves with a length of it in myself. If I were to do it again, I'd The grabirons should be placed in chain. probably make concentric circles of their mounting holes and secured with The correct type of m. u. stand for a purple and silver on decal paper to go a drop of ACC inside the shell. You may Coast Line GP7 will have to be built with the herald. want to cut off or fold over the legs of from scratch. They are open electrical Walthers also provided the number the grabs as well. Drill holes and conduit and junction boxes, not high board numbers and decal stripes. mount m.u. hoses and coupler release stand types. The m.u. receptacle is Walthers has upgraded the quality of bars on the pilots. Drop steps should be mounted on a plate under the end their decals tremendously in the last placed in your choice of raised or low handrails, This is one more example of few years, but I wasn't pleased with the ered positions. the kind of detail I wanted to make the sharpness of the silver numbers for A nice touch is adding a chain in the unit different. To model this kind of the side of the cab. I used numbers center of each handrail on the pilots. m.u. connector, I used a length of .019" from the Champ No. EH-174 Atlantic Try positioning' the entire railing and brass wire fixed into a piece of .030" x Coast Line Hood Diesel set. I added touch the head of each of the stan .040" strip styrene. Then, with hobby builder's plates from Microscale's Die chions with ACC . Remove the entire files, I shaped the styrene into an elon sel Data set. The trucks and underbody piece and cut away the center section gated junction box. This piece stands were lightly weathered before finish of handrail. It will probably be neces in a hole drilled into the pilot walkway ing with a coat of Walthers DDV. sary to re-bend the handrails slightly just behind the hand railing . Another
16 PROTOTYPE MODELER BILL OF MATERIALS ATLANTIC COAST LINE GP7
General Athearn : No. 31 51 GP9 powered
Details Detail Associates: No. 1002 dual Pyle gyralight No. 1004 early Pyle gyralight No. 1401 early EMD drop step No. 1507 m.u. receptacles No. 1508 m.u. hoses No. 1608 air horns No. 2201 grabirons No. 2205 coupler lift bar No. 2206 eye bolts No. 2402 GP exhaust stacks Above: The author's model was painted with Floquil Old Silver and a custom blend of Scalecoat paint No. 2506 1 V4 -inch pipe called "ACl Royal Purple." The custom color is a near-perfect match to the ACl purple. The roadname No. 3002 sand filler hatch and herald are Walthers decals, with an extra purple circle added around the herald by hand. Below: Even a faded ACl GP7 is attractive in the purple and silver paint scheme. No. 121 wears the earlier version Details West: with the purple herald. R. H. Hansen No. 128 bell No. 142 36-inch fans
Utah Pacific: No. 61 speed recorder No. 94 windshield wipers
MV Products: No. 25 headlight lenses No. 300 clear marker lenses
Paint and Decals Scalecoat: ACL Royal Purple (custom) Floquil: R100 Old Silver
Walthers: No. 25760 ACL
Champ: No. EH-1 74
Microscale: No. 8748 Diesel data
Miscellaneous Evergreen Scale Models: No. 9010 .010" sheet styrene No. 9020 .020" sheet styrene No. 132 .030" x .040" strip styrene
Campbell Scale Models: 36-link chain very short .019" brass wire was run wipers on the cab windows are a must. Scrape away a section of the reflective between the junction box and a mount Yo u'll probably want to add sunshades, backing to allow the light to pass. If ing plate of .020" styrene attached to though I chose to leave them off. I you are really ambitious, try creating the underside of the handrail with probably should have them though, a dimple on the back of the lens with a ACC. On this plate I secured the "A" since my engineers may suffer sun small bit, and it will give a very effec m.u. receptacle from a No. MU1507 stroke in the Florida sun without tive illusion of the lamps within the Detail Associates set. This set comes them. I do a lot of graphics in my work, lights. The lenses should be secured with four receptacles (but no stands), so I have cans of matte fixative that I with clear silicone. The silicone al lows enough to do the entire group of m. u. use for misting windows. I give them time to g'et the lens in the rig'ht spot connectors for the unit. just enough spray to look dusty. This before holding securely. Should the I haven't yet taken to doing much keepsthem from disappearing as well. lens come out, the silicone can be detailing to underbodies. I just like to If you wish to use the light in the peeled off and the lens reused. ACC will add a speed recorder and piping from Athearn unit to provide illumination ruin a lens if it gets on the face. They the air tanks. The skirting above the for your headlights, you will want to are too expensive to mess up. fuel tank is another case of modeler's drill out holes through the headlights. Marker lenses can be placed in the license. I don't know when the ACL be You can try heating and stretching a market light mounts by creating a gan removing the skirting, but I nei piece of clear plastic sprue to create dimple in the surface of the mount ther want to create a new mounting plugs to pass the light. Be careful not with a drill bit. A 300-series lens will s;tst.em to hold the shell to the frame to blacken the plastic. The plastic be needed for each marker. nor want to detail the metal fuel tanks, plugs that come with the engine will I rarely hear of anyone modeling the so I justify not removing them by say probably be too large to use without Atlantic Coast Line, but if you had one ing that this unit has not yet gone into damaging the headlight castings. of these purple beauties interchanging the shops for the skirting work. Lenses for the headlights and gyra with your road , it would certainly at Window glazing and windshield lights are MV Products No. 25 lenses. tract attention.
FEBRUARY 1987 17 WEATHERING AND A PIPE LOAD FOR A 50-FOOT GONDOLA
An eye-catcher on any pike, this Erie Lackawanna gondola is an Athearn 50-footer, weathered and outfitted with a pipe load by the author. The pipes are nothing more than ordinary . -- drinking straws, painted to suit,
A quick and easy detailing project
ondola cars are frequently a BY MONT SWITZER aged the car by first holding it under a problem for the railroad mod photoflood for a few seconds until I eler. Almost all railroads have PHOTOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR could bend out the sides and ends with them,G yet no two seem to be alike, The my fingers. I then nicked and dented modeler must resort to kitbashing or Lackawanna-a known transporter of the top rail inside and out to represent scratchbuilding to accurately repre pipe loads . I shaved off all molded the various types of abuse gondolas sent many of them, and when quite a grabirons, being careful to leave the typically receive. These cars can't help few are needed this approach isn't cast-on mounting bolts, The grabs but get rusty, and this is represented practical. This article describes a were replaced with Detail Associates by thin washes of burnt umber 0\1 shortcut I used to get a nice looking No. 2202 grabirons. The stirrup steps paint. Yo u'll be surprised by how easy "filler" car where overall appearance were replaced with Tuttle Industries and immediately rewarding this tech rather than accuracy was my main style "R" steps. The new brake wheel is nique is. If you go too far, just wipe it concern, I also wanted to try my hand a Bowser No. 265 held in place by a off, When you have achieved the de at modeling a pipe load. Grandt Line No. 6046 nut-bolt-washer sired results, spray the car with Tes I started with an Athearn 50-foot casting, tors Dullcote. Final weathering in gondola, factory painted for Erie When all detail work was complete I cludes an overspray of the lower car
18 PROTOTYPE MODELER Above and below: The author's gondola before he added the pipe load. plastic which was then pushed into its new shape by hand. The top edges The effective distortion of the car body to simulate heavy use was ac of the car were also gouged to represent damage from years of use and complished using a photoflood. The heat from the light softened the abuse.
Below: The pipe load was built up layer by layer, stacked as a prototype load would be. The "cables" holding the load in place are pieces of thin wire from the motor armature seen in the photo.
19 To help supportthe pipe load, the author used a piece of scrap wood as a base. Because each individual "pipe" is cemented in place, the entire load is a single unit.
The Athearn gondola was weathered first with oil paint. Wa shes of burnt umber, a color very similar to that of rust, were applied until the coverage was appropriate. After a layer of Dullcote was put on, a final overspray of Floquil Grime and Grimy Black was applied to the lower areas of the car sides.
sides with Floquil Grime and Grimy drink straws from the local liquor removed and the pipe is painted gloss Black, and spraying the car interior store. I built up the load-like the pro black. The 4 x 4's are then glued back with Floquil Grimy Black and Rust. totype would-as if a crane operator in place with Walthers Goo. Once the Make sure all the new details are was loading the pipe. I set a piece of 4 x 4's are set, the tops must be banded sprayed Grimy Black at this time also. scrap wood (4 x 4's on the prototype) to keep tension on the pipe and hold The appearance of this already on the gondola floor. I then set three that part of the load which extends handsome car is enhanced by omitting 4 x 4's on end along each side. I began above the car sides. I used very thin the below-floor weight, thus allowing the loading processby gluing the bot copper wire for this. You can find this the car to ride lower like most proto tom layer of "pipes" to the wood piece. wire in typical stranded electrical wire type cars. With the weight removed, a Each successive layer was cemented to or in a junk motor armature as I did. load is needed to make the car heavy the previous one, stacked in a stag Once the bands are in place, paint them enough for reliable operation. gered fashion. black. The pipe load is now ready to be The load consists of small mixed- When the glue is dry, the 4 x 4's are set into this or any other gondola.
20 PROTOTYPE MODELER prototype portfolio
Trains we'd like to model
Pennsylvania Railroad secondary trains
eedback from our "Little Chiefs BY MIKE SCHAFER equipment-if not many patrons. And of the Santa Fe" Prototype Port here is where this chapter of Prototype folio in the August 1986 PM has Portfolio differs from "Little Chiefs of beenF so positive, I thought we would the Santa Fe," which focused on rela take the "fleet" approach again with future Prototype Profile), and I no tively short connector trains working this issue's installment, but with an longer model PRR in particular-al on branches scattered throughout the Eastern carrier. though its ancient Vandalia branch to AT&SF system. The nature of PRR's Now, just so I don't rekindle the age Peoria, Ill., is to be represented on my passenger network in later years was old "Hatfields and the McCoys" syn now-abuilding layout-I'm still fasci such that there was not an abundance drome between the Green Team (i.e., nated by many aspects of the Red Gi of such connectors. Instead, the PRR New Yo rk Central) fans and the Red ant: Its mystique; the variety of its roll secondary trains featured here, with _-:OP"..lIIr->1 Team (Pennsylvania) diehards, let me ing stock and locomotives; the minor exceptions, of course, worked say that I always enjoyed studying and mountain-climbing route of Horse shoulder-to-shoulder with the "big photographing both roads before that shoe Curve fame; the GG1's; indeed, names"-the Broadway Limiteds, the ominous Penn Central merger of 1968. the way PRR did everything in a gTand South Winds and the Spiri t of St. But, I am going to bring readers to manner, as though the railroad was Louises , often sharing the same route . Keystone country this month, and beg going to be around for eternity-and I Sometimes they were short trains , Green Team members for their pa wish it were. Perhaps that's why I usu others were long. In all cases they car tience-NYC will get its due in the ally opt for Amtrak's Broadway Limit ried a variety of rolling stock, with em pages of PROTOTYPE MODELER. ed for my business trips to the East phasis on head end. Some started out O.K. I will admit bias to the PRR, an Coast. as famous trains, but by the final years interest of which dates back to my first But I think what fascinated me the of the PRR had slipped into "second encounter with the railroad in 1965. most in terms of PRR train operations ary" status. And we're g'oing to fu dge a My first HO layout was based on were its secondary passenger runs, bit, by including a couple of very mode Pennsy's South Chicago & Southern trains populated with an eclectic array lable Penn Central-era trains operat branch (which will be the subject of a of head-end cars and passenger-toting ing on former PRR lines. That's when some trains of both predessors NYC and PRR got to be quite short-we know not everyone has the space to It model 15-car passenger trains. � .. I'll start with a run I was particular- .,� . ly intrigued by, a photo of which leads '._' this feature, trains 70 and 71, the morning-departure day locals on the Chicago-Cincinnati route. Long after they had lost their name, many re ferred to the pair as the Union , but in fact 70 and 71 were the remnants of a train called the Redbird; the Un ion , trains 72 and 73, was also a Chicago Cincinnati train, but was character ized by mid-afternoon departures from Cincinnati and Chicago. That train disappeared circa 1960. At one time the Redbird featured dining cars, and the westbound side even ferried through sleepers and coaches from Norfolk & Western's Po cahon tas (remember, N&W was once a stepchild of the PRR). But by 1960 the train was down to coaches and a cafe coach, and by the early 1960's, coaches Photographer unknown only, with food service provided by a Three additional views of the Chicago-Cincinnati locals: (Top) Train 70 is accelerating away from vendor hawking sandwiches and cof Burnham tower at Hegewisch, III., in the summer of 1968. Though the Penn Central merger had fee as he walked up and down the aisle. occurred a few months earlier, theRedbird remnant still looks very much like a PRR train. Behind the In those times, the coaches were three Pennsy E-units are a PRR express boxcar, a COFC (container-on-flatcar) with Southern tagged on to a massive collection of containers, another PRR express boxca� UP baggage car, a Railway Express (REA) car sandwiched by two PRR baggage cars, a Budd-built former roomette sleeper-turned-coach and a venerable head -end cars, under the guidance of P70. (Above) Later in the Penn Central era, Chicago-Cincinnati ex-PRR line trains were renumbered at least a pair of Pennsylvania E 65 and 66. Here's 66 picking up an REA car at Kokomo, Ind. Behind the single E-unit is an ex-New units-the ones with the large letter Yo rk Central baggage car and a PRR stainless-steel coach built for Florida service prior to World ing that screamed PENNSYLVA NIA; War II. (Below) No. 65 at Logansport, Ind., in April 1971 has only a few days to go before its Amtrak three E's were not uncommon either, day (May 1, 1971) demise. A former PRR E8 in half-hearted PC markings leads an ex-PRR baggage nor was the practice of putting "head car and P70 coach and a former Rio Grande coach originally built for the Chesapeake & Ohio. end" cars behind the coaches as well as ahead of them. After the Penn Central merger, when the trains were renum bered 65 and 66, I even saw the south bound run head through south subur ban Chicago with ex-NYC Flexi-Vans and a PC caboose trailing the two dere lict coaches! Coaches could be just about any thing from Pennsy's pool of cars at Chicag'o's 12th Street facility: battered stainless-steel Budd cars built for the original streamliner So uth Wind, the strangely-windowed American Car &
22 Foundry coaches buil t for the Jefferso senger trains-all of which was part of ambling down PRR's South Chicago & nian and of course good ole buil t-for-a a movement to save rail passenger op Southern branch, an obscure connect century-of-service heavyweight P70's erations in the U.S. In the ensuing ing line which carried PRR "Panhan for which Pennsy was famous. months, legislation was set in motion dle" trains from the Chicago-Pitts Head-end business slipped seriously to form Amtrak, and I like to think burgh main line at Cole hour Junction, in the later 1960's, and in their final that the old Redbirds played at least a Ill., to the Panhandle main at Bernice, days under the PC banner, the two minor role in the accomplishment Ill. The cross-section of equipment on coaches often outnumbered baggage even though Amtrak startup necessi this day was typical of the era. and express cars. The trains gained tated the pair's demise on April 30, More examples of PRRIPC secondary some national notoriety during this 1971. trains follow. We know there is a plen era, when they were singled out by the The scene on page 21 shows Cincin titude of PRR readers, so let us hear news media as epitomizing the sadly nati-bound train 70 about 30 minutes from you, especially if you model deteriorated nature of American pas- out of Chicago Union Station in 1966, Pennsy passenger equipment!
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Both photos. Willi am E. Hoffman II ennsy's Baltimore-Buffalo route via Harrisburg :�'M� Pand Williamsport, Pa., and Olean, N.Y., provided travelers from the South via the Wa shington (D.C.) gateway with a convenient means of getting to the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area without having to go through New Yo rk. Until the early 1960's, a branch off the Harrisburg-Buffalo line at Emporium, Pa., brought modest PRR passenger services to Erie, Pa., as well. Trains 570, the Baltimore Day Express (southbound) and 571, the Buffalo Day Express (northbound) provided day service along the route and were supplemented by other runs, principally the overnight Northern Express (train 575) and Southern Express (train 574). Schedules of Baltimore-Buffalo trains meshed with Washington Baltimore-New Yo rk and New Yo rk-Harrisburg Pittsburgh-Chicago runs to provide interconnecting options, such as New Yo rk-Buffalo and Chicago Wa shington. In the first photo, we see train 571 peeling along at Yo rk Haven, Pa., between Baltimore and Harrisburg on May 27, 1967. The train was heavy on head-end equipment with only two day coaches for passengers. The scene at right shows unnamed 554 at Hollins, Md., on the old Northern Central line July 4, 1963. This train was strictly a Harrisburg-Baltimore local. A Single E7A tows an REA car, PRR express boxcar, two baggage cars, a clerestoried-roof P70 and what appears to be one or two additional head-end cars at the rear. n the final years leading to the 1968 Penn Central I merger, Nos. 50 (Admiral) and 53 (Fort Pitt) were champions for head-end traffic on the New York Chicago route. Witness this scene at 21st Street, Chicago, of No. 50 beginning its trek to Gotham on Trains 50 and 53 July 29, 1967: No less than eight express boxcars The AdmiralIThe Fort Pitt most of them REA but at least one New Haven-trail the triple-E motive-power consist. Behind the Chicago-New Yo rk express boxcars are (out of sight on the bridge) more-conventional head-end cars. There were only two passenger-carrying cars on the train this evening, a snack-bar coach and straight coach. As far as Lima, Ohio, No. 50 made all stops, while counterpart 53 made nearly all stops between Pittsburgh and Chicago.
Mike Scholer
Trains 16 and 25 Trains 24 and 33 tow an REA express car, what may be a New Haven The Duquesne The Juniata baggage car, an ex-PRR baggage car, a baggage New Yo rk-Pittsburgh car of unknown heritage, an American Car & Foundry Jeffersonian coach and two P70's. The he Duquesne and Juniata provided local day color scene here depicts the westbound T service on the New Yo rk-Philadelphia-Harrisburg Duquesne again, not much farther up the grade Pittsburgh route, supplementing other, longer runs from MG tower, but now, in this September 1970 that also covered the New Yo rk-Pittsburgh corridor scene, No. 25 is beginning to show the effects of the more or less in daylight hours, trains like the PC merger-black has supplanted the revered Chicago-New York Admiral, Pennsylvania Limited Tuscan Red colors the E8's should be wearing! What and Manhattan Limited. Our cover shot shows the appears to be a Southern baggage car follows westbound Duquesne storming upgrade at MG and, behind that, three ex-PRR cars: a baggage car, tower, located a short distance up from Horseshoe P70 coach and Budd coach built for Florida service. Curve on the climb between Altoona and Gallitzin, (Below) The westbound Juniata is at Newport, Pa., Pa. No. 25's passage at this remote outpost was near Harrisburg with a single PC E8, baggage car (it recorded in June 1968, which means we're actually appears to be the same mystery car as in the color looking at a Penn Central train-though it looks scene), one of many 21-roomette cars Pennsy every bit Pennsylvania Railroad. A pair of E8's has in rebuilt into coaches early in the 1960's and a P70.
PROTOTYPE MODELER Trains 3 and 4 The Penn Texas New Yo rk-Sf. Louis
e're at St. Louis on Aug. 4, 1966, as New Yo rk W bound train 4 eases out of Sf. Louis Union Station. The overpass east of the terminal provides a good vantage point from which to view the varied consist of the Penn Texas: An E8A1E7B/E8A locomotive consist leads an express boxcar, two RPO's (both in service), a baggage car, postwar PRR Budd coach built for F lorida service, a modernized P70 and a Budd sleeper-turned-coach. Behind that and out of the photo is a dining car and a St. Louis New Yo rk 10-roomette 6-bedroom sleeper. No. 4 will pick up an additional sleeper at Indianapolis.
FEBRUARY 1987 25 PHOTORoSTER: REAT NORTHERN PART II
A matched set of Great Northern E7's lead the way in this GN publicity PhotoRoster series on the GN continues this issue with coverage of the photo. First used for Empire Builder service, the E's proved unreliable in the line's diesels. mountains. They were later relegated to shorter trains on the flatlands. Our
TEXT AND ROSTER BY CYRIL DURRENBERGER
he Great Northern roster of ly practice was to purchase, number were used for freight, passenger and steam locomotives (featured in and use multiple units as one engine. switching service. These early units the last PM) was very interest In part, this was due to labor union were followed by an army of GP7's, ingT and in some ways unique. Their agreements. GP9's, GP20's, GP30's, GP35's, SD7's, roster of diesels was just as interesting The GN was one of the first railroads SD9's, SD45's, U25B's and U33C's. and diverse. It should be remembered to use diesels. Their first was pur GN purchased freight cab units from that steam locomotives were designed chased from Aleo in 1926 and was a both Alco and EMD. The GN number and purchased to perform specific boxcab switcher. It was used to switch ing scheme for cab units was interest tasks. In some cases, engines were de the flour mill district of Minneapolis to ing. They used a three-digit number signed for specific parts of the railroad minimize the threat of fire . GN then with a letter. Two-unit sets had a first (the class N 2-8-8-0's were designed to began purchasing other diesel switch digit of two, three-unit sets had a first pull ore trains on the iron range, for ers in 1938, and the flood did not stop digit of three and four-unit sets had a example) or for types of service (the 0- until all steam was gone . It was a var first digit of four. Individual units 8's were designed to pull long, fast ied group: there was an EMC NC, as were numbered with A, B, C or D as freight trains with one engine). This well as NW1's, SW 1's and NW2's. Also appropriate. The Alco FA 1's and FA2's concept was also applied to early diesel bought were two GE 44-ton switchers, were in sets of two, three and four orders, and it led to a varied roster and some Alco S2's and Baldwin V01000's. units in A-A, A-B-A and A-B-B-A a certain degree of inflexibility fo r op During the same period, GN ac groupings. The first EMD cab units erating departments. The specializa quired the first road-switcher designs. were FT's, obtained in 1941. These tion was essentially stopped by the in Initially, there was a group of Aleo were purchased in sets of two, three troduction of the GP7, which was RS1's and RS2's, and from EMD the and four units in A-B, A-B-A and A-B designed and used for just about any unique NW3 and NW5 models. GN was B-A sets. GN was the only road to pur type of service on any railroad. Within the only road to purchase NW3's, used chase three-unit sets of FT's. a few years, the specialty engines were for passenger service. GN had more For passenger service, GN used removed from the roster. Another ear- NW5's than any other road, and they NW3's on local trains. They first used
26 PROTOTYPE MODELER GN PhotoRoster GN PhOtl
Left: GN No. 50 is a Gener al Electric 44-tonner, built in 1940. It was one of two such units on the GN roster. Shown here at Portland, Ore., in 1949, it was sold in 1951. Below: S12 No. 24 was one of only two types of Baldwin products ever owned by GN. The other Baldwins were V01000's. The S12 is seen in 1969, after it was officially off the roster Note the location of the numberboard on the carbody side.
Mike Schofer
E7's for the Empire Builder, but these were quickly replaced with sets of F3 units which performed better in the mountains . The E7's were then as signed to short, less important trains. Later, SDP40's and SDP45's were pur chased for passenger service. Some fourteen F45's were bought for freight service. Great Northern used four distinct paint schemes on their diesels. The first was black with a large herald cen tered on the side of the unit. This was applied to switchers until about 1946. The FT's were built in 1943, and had the Empire Builder paint scheme us II! ing green, orange and black, separat ed by yellow stripes. This appears to be the first application of the paint scheme that was to become the stan dard in 1946 for all GN engines. There were certain minor differences in the scheme for some passenger engines, such as silver trucks. In 1955, this scheme was simplified by eliminating the yellow stripes. GN decided to change their image in 1967 with a new paint scheme and an advertising campaign. This new de sign was called the Big Sky Blue scheme, and incorporated blue, black and white. It appears that 237 units were painted this way before the 1970 Burlington Northern merger. After the merger, GN units remained in all three old paint schemes until 1977. The roster of Great Northern diesels presented here gives the units with their latest numbering. In some cases, units had as many as three different numbers over the years. Some cab units were renumbered to reflect the change from one arrangement to an other, such as using an A-A set to make an A-B -A set. More complete die sel roster information can be found )n the January-February 1971 issue of An early version of the Empire Builder colors is displayed by RS2 No. 204 at Butte, Mont., in 1949, two EXTRA 2200 SOUTH and RAILROAD HISTO years after delivery. GN owned twenty RS2's, all of which were gone by 1964. No. 204 was equipped RY No. 143. with a boiler which permitted its use as a passenger unit.
FEBRUARY 1987 27 hotoRoster GN PhotoRoster
Right: GN owned nine SW1's, the early 600-horsepower EMD switche[ No. 80 had already been partially relettered for BN use when this photo was taken at 51. Cloud, Minn., in 1971. Below: The west bound Dakotan prepares to leave a snowy St. Paul in 1969 with E7 No. 503 in
charge. Of the available E's, GN pur - chased only ETs from Electro-Motive. Cyril DUffenberger
Below: Probably the most revered of all GN exotics were the FA's from Alco. Here, Nos. 276 A and B are seen at Vancouver, Wa sh., during August of 1965. They carried the classic Buildercolors particularly well. Of course it could probably be argued that FA's carried any paint scheme well. Nos. 276 A and B were bought in 1950. They lelf the roster in 1968. Mike Schafer Collection of Louis A MOffe Two photo� Mike Schofer Above: GN No. 3000 is the class-unit GP30, the fiTst of 17 owned by the road. Seen in 1969, the 3000 was acquired new in 1963. This view shows off the Empire Builder paint scheme rather well. Right: In its quest to sample a wide variety of locomotive offer ings GN bought several different models, from both EMD and GE. Here, three of GN's SD45's--there were 27 on the roster-roll out of the Twin Cities with a freight train. It was June of 1967.
Collection of Louis A Morre
The classic lines of FA1 No. 310-A are seen at Seattle in 1965. GN owned both FA and FB units, 1500-horse power locos (there were also four 1600-h.p. FA2's) built in 1948 and 1950.
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F7A No. 2718 is one of a pair of F's numbered 271 A and B. GN numbered their F-units with a three-digit number followed by a lette[The first digit indicated how many units were coupled to make the set. The letter indicated the order of units within the set. An "A" designation always was the lead unit. "B" units were second, even though (as is the case with No. 271B) the units might be "A" model types.
GN 4480 was the last unit in a four-unit A-B-B-A set of FTs built in 1950. In this 1967 view at Vancouver, Wa sh., it carries the simplified Empire Builder paint scheme. Note the lack of stripes between the colors and the missing orange band at the bottom of the carbody side.
30 PROTOTYPE MODELER PhotoRoster GN PhotoRoster GN PhotoRoster (
GN 402A-D, a set of classics from EMD, show off an early version of the Builder colors at Spokane in 1947. The portholed cabs were only three years old at the time. Note the large numberboards on the side of the A unit. The Frs were the first GN diesels to wear the Builder paint scheme, which later became the standard for all GN units.
Collection o( Harotd K. Vo llrath
Cyril Durrenberger Above:Early in its career with the GN, E7 No. 511 wore this version of the Builder paint. Built in 1947, 511 is seen here with varnish at Vancouver, s.c., in 1949. Right: In 1967, GN management decided on an image change for the railroad, and the Big Sky Blue paint scheme was the result. F7 No. 276-A shows how the new colors looked on a cab unit.
FEBRUARY 1987 31 Mike Schafer
Above: A cold night in February of 1969 finds SDP45 No. 331 on the point of the Empire Builderat Minneapo lis. GN owned eight SDP45's, units designed specifically for passenger service with a steam generator built inlo the body near the rear. The Big Sky Blue scheme looks good on these husky locos. Right: GN No. 205 is a 1967- built SW1500. It was at Sf. Cloud, Minn., in July of 1969.
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Cyril Durrenberger GREAT NORTHERN DIESEL ROSTER ROAD YEAR NUMBER BUILT MODEL BUILDER H.P. NOTES
5100 1926 100-ton A1co 600 Off roster 1941 100 1938 NC EMD 900 Rebuilt 1955 101 1938 NW1 EMD 900 Rebuilt 1953 75-79 1939-41 SW1 EMD 600 102-136 1939-42 NW2 EMD 1000 175-181 1939-42 NW3 EMD 1000 Only NW3's built 50-51 1940 44-ton GE 400 Off roster 1951 132-133 1940 V01000 Baldwin 1000 Off roster 1963 249B-251B, 253B, 401C 1941 FTB EMD 1350 Off roster 1957-8 137-144 1943-44 V01000 Baldwin 1000 Off roster 1964 400A, D-428A, D (even nos. only) 1943-44 FTA EMD 1350 Off roster 1959-64 400B, C-418B, C (even nos. only) 1943-44 FTB EMD 1350 Off roster 1959-62 182-185 1944 RS1 A1co 1000 255B 1944 FTB EMD 1350 Off roster 1960 145-150 1945 NW2 EMD 1000 247A-249A, 256A-258A 1945 FTA EMD 1350 Off roster 1960-65
32 PROTOTYPE MODElER ROAD YEAR NUMBER BUILT MODEL BUILDER H.P. NOTES 256B-258B 1945 FTB EMD 1350 Off roster 1964-65 401A, D-405A, D (odd nos. only) 1945 FTA EMD 1350 Off roster 1960-62 403B, C-405B, C (odd nos. only) 1945 FTB EMD 1350 Off roster 1960-62 500-509 1945 E7A EMD 2000 186-195 1946 NW5 EMD 1000 359A, C-361A, C, 366C 1946-47 F3A EMD 1500 200-219 1947 RS2 Aleo 1500 Off roster 1964 259A, B-263A, B 1947 F3A EMD 1500 Off roster 1967-68 350A, C-358A, C 1947 F3A EMD 1500 350B-358B 1947 F3B EMD 1500 366A-369A 1947-48 F3A EMD 1500 366B-369B 1947-48 F3B EMD 1500 500-512 1947 E7A EMD 2000 362A, 362C 1948 F3A EMD 1500 430A, D-438A, D (even nos. only) 1948 F3A EMD 1500 Off roster 1966-68 430B, C-438B, C (even nos. only) 1948 F3B EMD 1500 Off roster 1966-68 440A, D-442A, D 1948-50 FA1 Aleo 1500 440B, C-442B, C 1948 FB1 Aleo 1500 Off roster 1968 458A, D, 470A, D-472A, D 1948 F3A EMD 1500 Off roster 1964-68 458B 1948 F3B EMD 1500 Off roster 1967 151-162 1949 NW2 EMD 1000 444A, D-456A, D (even nos. only) 1949-50 F7A EMD 1500 444B , C-456B, C (even nos. only) 1949-50 F7B EMD 1500 474A, D 1949 F7A EMD 1500 1-10 1950 S2 Aleo 660 Off roster 1967 11-13, 163-170 1950 SWl EMD 1200 80-83 1950 SW1 EMD 600 220-232 1950-53 RS3 Aleo 1600 Off roster 1968 273A, B-274A, B 1950 F7A EMD 1500 276A, B, 310A, C 1950 FA1 Aleo 1500 Off roster 1968 277A, B, 278A-279A 1950 FA2 Aleo 1600 Off roster 1968 278B-279B, 310B 1950 FB1 Aleo 1500 Off roster 1968 307A, C-309A, C, 364A, C-365A,C 1950 F7A EMD 1500 307B-309B, 359B-365B, 370B-372B 1950 F7B EMD 1500 363A, 363C, 367C-368C, 370A 1950 F7A EMD 1500 600-605 1950 GP7 EMD 1500 Boiler-equipped 606-655 1950-53 GP7 EMD 1500 17-23 1951 SW8 EMD 800 98-99 1951 SW9 EMD 1200 271A, B, 460A 1952 F7A EMD 1500 311A, C-317A, C 1952 F7A EMD 1500 311B-317B, 373B-374B 1952 F7B EMD 1500 369C-370C 1952 F7A EMD 1500 458C, 460B 1952 F7B EMD 1500 550-572 1952-53 SD7 EMD 1500 24-28 1953 S12 Baldwin 1200 Off roster 1968 462A, D-468A, D (even nos. only) 1953 F7A EMD 1500 462B, C-468B, C (even nos. only) 1953 F7B EMD 1500 470B, C-474B, C (even nos. only) 1954 F9B EMD 1750 573-599 1954-58 SD9 EMD 1750 656-678 1954 GP9 EMD 1750 679-680 1954 GP9 EMD 1750 Boiler-equipped 681-734 1955-58 GP9 EMD 1750 29-33 1957 SW1200 EMD 1200 900-915 1958-59 GP9m EMD 1350 FT engine components 2000-2035 1960 GP20 EMD 2000 3000-3016 1963 GP30 EMD 2250 2500-2523 1964-65 U25B GE 2500 3017-3040 1964-65 GP35 EMD 2500 320-325 1966 SDP40 EMD 3000 400-426 1966-68 SD45 EMD 3600 2524-2529 1966 U28B GE 2800 200-209 1967 SW1500 EMD 1500 326-333 1967 SDP45 EMD 3600 427-440 1969 F45 EMD 3600 2530-2544 1969 U33C GE 3300
NOTE: All road numbers shown are the final numbers carried by the units.
FEBRUARY 1987 33 PhotoRoster GN PhotoRoster
At Great Falls, Mont., in April of 1967, GN GP9 No. 665 displays the later, simplified Empire Builder paint as it looked on smaller hood units. GN owned 78 similar units, all built in the mid-1950's.
Allphotos this poge, collection of HOlotd K. Vo llloth
No. 606 is a 1950-built GP7. At Skyomish, Wash., in 1955, it is wearing the early Builder colors. GN bought 56 GPTs, the first six of which (Nos. 600-605) were boiler-equipped for passenger service.
Right: GN No. 2025 had an interesting histo ry as it was first built as an FTB (No. 255B), and was rebuilt by EMO to GP20 specs in 1960. Note the high short hood. Only GN and Western Pacific owned GP20's with high short hoods. Below: One of the better ap plications of the Builder colors was to GN's group of SOTs and S09's. Here, S09 No. 582 shows us the simplified scheme at Glasgow, Mont., in 1967. RoSl
Collection ot Harald K. Vo llrath Above: One of the earlier diesels bought by GN was NW2 No. 135, a 1942 EMD product. This view shows how the early Builder colors looked on a switcher. Left: One of only 13 NW5's ever built, BN No. 990 (GN No. 190) rests at St. Cloud, Minn., during July of 1973. GN 190 was a 1946 EMD product.
Collection of Harold Vo llrath Cyril DUilenberger K. T
Right above: In 1945, GN received its second order of EMD NW2's. In that group of units was No. 146, seen here at Great Falls, Mont., in 1967. In this photo, the switcher wears the simplified Empire Builder colors. Note the initials and road number on the nose of the unit. Right middle: NW2 No. 129 gives us a look at how the Big Sky paint was done on the early EMD switchers. One of GN's first diesels, 129 was built in 1941 (as No. 5329) and renumbered in 1943. Below: GN had only a handful of locomotives from General Electric. These included U25B's, U28B's and, seen here in Big Sky Blue, U33C's. No. 2537 was one of the last diesels purchased by GN before the BN merger of 1970.
Collection of Harold Vo l/rafh K. Collection of Harold K. Val/roth
35 This is a view of a cotton gin complex at Rice's Crossing, Tex., powered by struclures at middle lett are cyclones, for controlling air pollulion. To the a diesel engine. The main gin slruclure is Ihe large rectangular building right is Ihe burr hopper with three of its own cyclones on top. In Ihe running from left to right. At Ihe lett, the slatted affair is the cooling tower background is the gin office, an old quonset hut. Note the piles of various for the diesel engine coolant; the engine room itself is the smaller "wing" process-related material around the base of several of the structures at jutting out perpendicular to the main structure. The elongated funnel-like the gin. COTTON GINS
A look at a railroad-served industry common in the South
he invention of the cotton gin BY CYRIL DURRENBERGER steam engines connected to long made it possible to economically crankshafts with belts that drove all remove cottonseed from cotton PHOTOGRAPHY BY THE AUTHOR the gin machinery. Fuel was whatever lint.T This permitted the practical rais was cheap locally and typically con ing of cotton as a cash crop. As with sisted of coal, lignite or hog fuel (small many industries, cotton gins have they are fu rther compressed for ship pieces of wood not fit for use as lum evolved over the years, and additional ment to textile mills, many of which ber). Railroads shipped hog fuel in operations have been added to the basic are overseas. Until recently, most cot boxcars, flatcars with racks and, in function as methods of harvesting ton bales were shipped by rail to the some cases, specially modified cars. seed cot ton changed. compress, and the compressed bales Today some small gins are powered by Until the early 1960's, most seed cot were moved to market by rail as well. diesel engines that drive crankshafts ton was harvested by hand picking. In cases where the gin was not located with belts, but the machinery in larger Hand-picked seed cotton is relatively along a railroad spur, the cotton bales modern gins is usually powered by in clean, but the harvesting is slow, labor were moved by wagon or truck to a dividual electric motors. intensive and expensive. As harvest loading platform which was at a rail Early gins were built with wood, but ing was mechanized, large quantities road spur. In the past, cotton bales wood gins burned easily. By the of dirt, burrs (the hulls), leaves, stems were shipped in boxcars or on flatcars. 1940's, therefore, high insurance and other trash were picked up with In more recent times, most cotton rates forced most gins to be con the seed cotton. In addition to the seed, bales moved by boxcar. structed with sheet-metal walls. Most all these items are now removed from Cottonseed is a valuable byproduct gins actually consist of an array of sev the cotton lint at the gin. The entire of the ginning process. Usually the eral buildings, each with a different operation is shown in the flow dia seed is accumulated in a seed house fu nction. Each gin appears unique, gram with this article. As you can see, located near the gin and later shipped but there are some standard designs, the "gin" is only one part of a cotton to a cottonseed oil mill. Some of the each of which is modified to suit the gin facility. The seed cotton, cotton seed is also used for the subsequent individual owners. lint, cottonseed and trash are trans crop. The burrs and other gin trash The accompanying diagram shows a fe rred pneumatically within the gin. were burned in the past, but now are typical layout for a modern cotton gin. The last part of the ginning process frequently tilled back into the soil or A small office is located near the en is to compress the clean cotton lint into used for making compost. trance to the gin with a scale next to bales. These bales are then usually A source of power is needed to run the side of the building. The loaded shipped to a cotton compress where the gin. Early gins were powered by wagons or trailers are weighed when
36 PROTOTYPE MODElER This structure was once a small coHon gin, of the wood construction variety. It now houses a furniture artisan. Note how its original wood siding has been partially recovered by corrugated sheet metal. The seed coHon wagons were unloaded under the canopy along the side of the main building. This former gin is located at Park, Texas.
It seems that each coHon gin was constructed in a slightly ------different manner, resulting in no standardization of appearance. Only the basic layout of structures and functions was constant. Here is an old gin at Hye, Te xas. The ramshackle character of the gin makes it an ideal candidate for modeling. Finished coHon bales were removed from the gin via the large door at the left end.
brought to the gin and weighed after chine room attached to the main struc model, not requiring a great deal of being emptied. After weighing, the ture, as well as fuel storage tanks. room on the layout. It can also gener trailers are moved to the storage yard Most modern gins also have some sort ate a lot of rail traffic. One might ask until they are emptied. When ready to of air pollution control equipment, and then, where can cotton gins be found? beemptied, each wagon is moved to the batteries of cyclones are most com In the middle 1960's, cotton gins inlet suction chute, a covered area ad monly used. Burrs are stored in an ele were located in nineteen states. The jacent to the side of the gin building. vated burr hopper, and when the hop following states had more than fifty Here , the seed cotton is transferred per is full the contents are loaded into cotton gins and are listed in descend into the gin with a large suction tube a truck. In some cases, the burrs are ing order of the number that were that is moved around the wagon. After blown into a large pile which is later operational in the 1965-66 season: the cotton lint has been processed, removed or sent to a burner. Frequent Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Ala cleaned and compressed into bales, the ly, worn-out equipment is accumulat bama, California, Georgia, Tennessee, bales are weighed and moved to the ed in junk piles near the gin. During South Carolina, Louisiana, North storage yard or to a loading platform. ginning season, a number of loaded Carolina, Oklahoma, Missouri, Ari The cottonseed is stored in a separate trailers are parked in the storage yard zona and New Mexico. Other states seed house. Steam-powered gins had a and empty trailers are also stored with fewer than ten gins were: Virgin boiler house and machine room that there. ia, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois and Ne was attached to the main gin struc With the multitude of small build vada. Cotton was not raised in the ture. ings, other equipment and vehicles, a western states as much as it was in the A diesel-powered gin will have a ma- cotton gin can make a very interesting South.
FEBRUARY 1987 37 TYPICAL LAYOUT OF MODERN COTTON GIN
RAILROAD SIDING
COTTON BALE STORAGE LOADING PLATF M T COTTON BALE STORAGE ON GROUND STORAGE YA RD FOR EMPTY WAGONS OR TRAILERS
SEED HOUSE
BURRII HOPPER BALE PLATFORM I U
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POWER ROOM - STORAGE YA RD FOR I LOADED WAG ONS I OR TRAILERS 9 SEED COTTON SUCTION FUEL TA NK OF� UCALE
FLOW DIAG RAM OF COTTON GIN PROCESS
SEED SEED COTTON COTTON TRANSPORTED - r- PICKED TO GIN
SEED COTTON WAGON OR SEED COTTON SEED COTTON STEMS, LEAVES, COTTONSEED CLEAN COTTON WAGON OR TRAILER TRANSFERRED f-o- DRIED BURRS AND SEPARATED LINT I- TRAILER PARKED TO GIN DIRT REMOVED FROM COMPRESSED WEIGHED IN YARD COTTON LINT INTO BALES I I I
TRASH TO COTTONSEED BALES WEIGHED BURR HOPPER STORED IN AND STORED SEED HOUSE FOR SHIPMENT
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TRASH COTTONSEED BALES SHIPPED DISPOSED TRANSPORTED TO COTTON TO OIL MILL COMPRESS
38 PROTOTYPE MODELER Above: The cottonseed house of the gin shown on page 36. Note how the ture and the complex interior machinery. A model including some of the walls of this building are wood, but the gin structure is of corrugated inside workings of a cotton gin could be made into a showpiece on your metal. Below: A rare view inside a gin building was gained when this one layout. was photographed while being torn down. Note the framing of the struc-
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In August of 1974, Union Pacific 0035A No. 81 takes a breather at North one carbody-a massive machine producing 5000 h.p. In this article, Platte, Neb. The huge 0-0 locomotive is essentially two EMO GP35's under Ooug Nuckles reworks and details an Athearn "0040" to UP specs. THE UNION PACIFIC DD3 5
One of the largest diesel locomotives ever built
the name implies, double die BY DOUG NUCKLES some of the best running models itsels such as Electro-Motive's presently available. Their models can DD35 have two diesel prime MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY easily be enhanced in appearance by movers in one carbody. EMD first of BY THE AUTHOR the addition of detail parts readily fered the DD35A double diesel in 1965, available from several manufacturers. following GE's U50 in 1963 and the duced 5000 h.p. from two 16-cylinder Although Athearn makes a DD40A Aleo C855 in 1964. Union Pacific or 567D3A engines. They used a 74:18 model, it is actually very close to a dered 15 of the powerful , giant gear ratio, and had a maximum speed DD35A, and the change is easy. Ath DD35A's (Nos. 70-84) along with 27 of of 65 mph. The overall length of these earn's DD40A is an accurate replica of the cabless DD35B (Nos. 72B-98B) giants was 88'-2" over the coupler the "first" prototype DD40 designed by units. The only other DD35's were faces. In their later years it was not EMD but never actually produced. The three B-units built for Southern Pacif uncommon to see DD35's followed by DD40 was to have had two 645-series ic. These locomotives were essentially almost any other type of UP single-en engines rated at 3000 h.p. each, equal two GP35's combined into one massive gine diesels such as SD45's, GP30's, to two GP40's. However, the Union Pa carbody. The DD35's were generally and even GP9's. Thus, the UP modeler cific ordered 15 double-diesel cab units used on the head end of mainline can run one of these two-motor power with the 567-series prime movers rat freights on the western part of the UP houses with a variety of trailing units. ed at 2500 h.p. each, equal to two system, mostly between North Platte, GP35's. Thus, the EMD DD35A was Neb., and Los Angeles. The DD40 model rated at 5000 h.p., but built in a The prototype DD35's were built in The recently upgraded Athearn mo "DD40'.'· carbody except for the 35-se April and May of 1965. The units pro- tors, flywheels and trucks provide ries practice of one small and two large
40 PROTOTYPE MODELER Steve Gartner. collection of Doug Nuckles Union Pacific train!; frequently feature pooled motive power, as is the parade. Note the sand box on the flank of No. 73. As delivered from EMO, case here with a Rio Grande 5045 following the big 0035 on the paint. In the 0035's did not have sand boxes installed. They were added later by the famed Cajon Pass area on July 15, 1979, No. 73 leads a 14,450-h.p. the railroad. radiator fans for each prime mover. No. 17 modeling blade and replace units originally had canvas awnings, This article will describe the simple them with two 36-inch cooling fans. but I used cab sunshades. I believe they "40 to 35" conversion as well as detail Smooth the roof before adding the new add a lot to the appearance of the mod ing a factory-painted model and a sim fans. el. Windshield wipers may be cement ple weathering technique using only Other details to be added to the roof ed to the inside bottom edges of the chalk. include eye bolts, a new horn, a rotary outside window openings of the Ath beacon and an antenna. Remove the ex earn cab roof. A filler piece of styrene Detailing the DD35 model isting bits of plastic at the locations of will need to be cemented in place Although the latest Athearn DD40 the lift eye bolts, drill .015"-diameter across the top of the two center win models have the new slim motors, they holes and install the metal eye bol ts dows in order to install wipers there. do not have flywheels. However, fly with ACC cement. Glue the original There was no drop step on the front wheels can easily be mounted on the plastic horn in place with styrene ce of the DD35A's. A rear step should be motor shaft ends which are not coup ment and after a few hours cut it flush added, since these units most often led to the trucks. I added an old fly with the cab roof. Drill a suitable hole were trailed by other locomotives in wheel to each motor for smoother oper in the center of the cab roof and cement prototype use. The only other details ation. The trucks on this model have the base of the rotary beacon over the needed on the carbody are grabirons. not been reworked yet by Athearn and hole. Wait until after all painting and Drill .015" holes and install new grab are still cast metal. However, they are lettering to install the orange light for irons at the locations of the cast-on reasonably accurate and do not need the beacon. The antenna style and loca grabs. The cast-on grabs can be left in any alteration. tion varied on these units. I drilled a tact if you are using a pre painted mod I decided to add details to a factory hole for a firecracker antenna base el and don't wish to repaint it, or they painted model and paint the handrails near the front center of the cab roof. can be shaved off with a No. 17 blade and new parts by hand. Modifications However, since this part is so fragile I and replaced with wire. I left the mold which you might want to cio would be waited until the model was finished to ed-on grabs in place, drilled holes, and to replace two of the roof fans, fill in cement it in place. Install the new air cemented the wire grabs with ACC ce the low nose headlight, fill in the front horn between the first and second radi ment. pilot, and add a ladder to the right side ator fans on the left side of the roof. See The front and rear pilots should be of the carbody behind the cab. The ad the prototype photos for the exact loca detailed, by adding coupler lift bars dition of this ladder, however, will re tion. and m.u. air hoses. The coupler lift strict the minimum turning radius of Although the prototype DD35A loco bars are attached with eye bolts and the model. The ladder is located be motives were not delivered with sand secured with ACC cement, as are the tween the third and fourth axles of the boxes on the body sides, the pictures I air hoses. The appearance will be im front truck. I used a piece of ladder used as guides showed them installed. proved greatly if the front pilot is filled stock from an Athearn caboose. The I cut mine from I/S " styrene sheet and in with .040" styrene, except for a 1/2" low nose headlight should be filled in added them to both sides. I also used wide center opening. Build up the in with styrene. Remove the front and Athearn's stanchions but made new side of the pilot above the center hole rear 48-inch radiator fans with a handrails from .019" brass wire. These with a styrene block and mount a No. 5
FEBRUARY 1987 41 The author added a flywheel to each of the Athearn motors on his 0035 model. He lett the trucks as is, since they are fairly accurate representations of the prototype.
To convert the "0040" Athearn model to a 0035, the author removed the existing front and rear 48-inch radiator fans and replaced them with 36-inch fans.
Detail parts added include the rotary beacon, firecracker radio anten The rear of the Athearn carbody has new m.u. hoses and a drop step. na, roof eyebolts, m.u. hoses and new grabirons. Not visible in the photo is 0035's never had front drop steps since they were originally designed to the air horn, positioned between the first and second radiator fans on the run with other units coupled only at the 0035 rear ends. roof.
42 PROTOTYPE MODELER The author's 0035 model was left in its original Athearn paint job except control over the final results. Note the positions of the air horn and speed for the trucks, underframe,air tanks and pilot area. It was weathered with recorder and wheel slip cables. Chalk-EZ powdered chalks, a very �ffective technique allowing great
Kadee coupler in its own box. The rear are found near the center of the fuel filled in the low nose light and need to repaint the nose. The added details can coupler can be mounted in the existing tanks, but should be cemented to the 3 be hand-painted individually either be truck coupler box for better operation. body shell. Drill /32"-diameter holes in A few details added to the chassis the tabs above the fuel tanks and glue fore or after they are added to the mod will also improve the appearance of the the fuel fillers in place under the walk el. On my model I did spray-paint the model. Cut off the molded-on air tanks ways but extended through the holes. underframe, ail tanks and the fi lled-in with a razor or jeweler's saw. Replace The four-axle trucks used on the pilot. The other parts were hand-paint these with new air reservoirs in the DD35's had the brake cylinders ed after they were cemented in place. The trucks were hand-painted with same locations, but attached instead to mounted on the inside of the truck Floquil Old Silver. I removed the exist the frame with a few drops of ACC ce frames and they are not seen from the ing lettering on the model with a cot ment. Hold the new tanks in place outside. If you wish to add detail to the against the vertical part of the frame trucks, a speed recorder can be at ton gauze soaked in rubbing alcohol. It and the sloping top of the fuel tank tached to the second axle on the left was relettered with decals from Herald until the cement sets. An air filter is side of the front truck. A wheel slip King. I changed the number on my lo attached to the frame on the right side indicator can be added to the third axle comotive just so it would be different just forward of the air tank. Using ofthe same truck. Follow the manufac from the rest. Finally, I sprayed the . 019" brass wire, add air pipe lines turer's instructions which come with entire model with Testors Dull Cote . from the reservoirs to the air filter and these parts. Use plastic insulation to the frame. Round fuel gauges are from small light bulbs to simulate the We athering located near the center of the fuel wire cables. I weathered the DD35 using only a tanks, one on each side. Drill '/a"-diam set of Chalk-EZ powdered chalks ap eter holes 1/1 6" deep for the gauges and Painting and lettering plied with a brush. I cut the bristles hold them in place with ACC cement. The DD35A model shown is a fac almost completely off a cheap No. 2 The right-side gauge is near the rear of tory-painted Union Pacific unit. The paint brush so I could scrub the chalk the forward tank and the left-side Floquil paints are close color matches colors onto the model. Using color gauge is near the front of the rear to the Athearn paint. Harbor Mist slides as guides, I first brushed black tank. Gray can be used straight out of the chalk in all of the air intake and ex Attach the bell to the underside of bottle ..The Armour Ye llow should be haust grills and on all of the roof fans . the frame just forward of the air tank mixed about half and half with Reefer At the same time, the black chalk was on the left side. The fuel filler locations Ye llow for a better match if you have applied to the fuel tank and some of the
FEBRUARY 1987 43 BILL OF MATERIALS
UNION PAC IFIC DD35
Ge neral
Athearn: No. 4285 UP DD40 No. 95008 flywheels (2)
Details
Detail Associates: No. 1201 bell No. 1301 sunshades (2) No. 1401 drop step No. 1508 m.ll. hoses (12) No. 1703 class light jewels (4) No. 2202 grabirons (9) No. 2205 coupler lift bars (2) No. 2206 eye bolts (26) No. 2304 wind deflectors (4) No. 31 01 fuel gauges (2) No. 3201 air reservoirs (3)
Details West: No. 142 fans (2) Two views of UP 0035 No. 71 provide a guide to detail locations, painting and lettering. Note the UP No. 154 air filter applied sand boxes on either side of the unit. Union Pacific ran 15 DD35A units with cabs and 27 cabless No. 157 antenna DD358's. They were Nos. 70-84 and 728-988, respectively. No, 166 EMD fuel fillers (2)
Precision Scale: No. 3968 windshield wipers (6) No. 39021 drop step No. 39052 air filter No. 39084 three-chime horn
Utah Pacific: No. 61 speed recorder No. 65 wheel slip indicator
Kadee: NO. 5 couplers (2)
Paint and Decals
Floquil: No. 10 Engine Black No. 15 Flat Finish No. 40 Dark Green No. 100 Old Silver No. 166 UP Armour Ye llow No. 167 UP Harbor Mist Gray
Herald King: No. L-481 UP Decals (optional)
AI Chione. collection of Doug Nuckles
air tank surface . Gray chalk was used changed if need be. After painting and to dull the color of the trucks and a Summary detailing many models for other peo little rust-colored chalk was added to This article was written to describe ple, I have learned some do not want as the trucks as well. A few areas along the DD35A as I modeled it, but in a much detail as others, and some do not the side sills and walkways also re manner to let less-experienced model want to make a new locomotive look ceived the rust color. Some gray chalk ers know that the amount of detailing old until it has been used for a while. was scrubbed onto the top of the low is up to the individual. It also demon That's certainly understandable. nose. One nice advantage to weather strates that a nicely detailed model can Perhaps some readers will want to ing in this manner is that the chalk be done with a minimum of tools and model the DD35A with fewer details, can always be washed off if you don't equipment. Thus, the average modeler while some may decide to do even more like what you've done. Once you are can easily detail and weather his favor work on their units, or even custom satisfied with your weathering job and ite factory-painted model. For those paint an undecorated kit. But what you want to keep it, just apply another who may have been afraid to try weath ever you do, whether or not you choose coat of Dull Cote to seal the chalk to the ering, the technique presented here is to model a DD35A, have fun. That's painted surfaces. valuable because the results are easily what the hobby is all about.
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Company Mail IS a QueSllon-and-answer column covenng all 1986 ANNUAL MODEL RAILROAD PERIODICAL INDEX cov-' aspects of railroading. bottl model and prototype. Please send ers 9 most popular magazines. 40 color-coded pages. func questions to John Swanson, CIO Prototype Modeler. tionally organtzed structure. for fast. easy reference. '87 edilton due February. $5.95 plus $.50 pph Keystone Central. Box 1946. Island Heights. NJ 08732. CONDUCTED BY CUSTOM PAINTING steam. diesel. cabooses. rolling stock JOHN SWANSON HO. O. S scales. 4.000 units completed since 1963. Inlo photo Old Pullman Model Railroads, Inc., 8195 25th sheets $2.00 (relundable). Full-time service. Midwest Locomo St., Vero Beach, FL 32960 has released a new tive. RR-l. Morocco. IN 47963. Q: How did the railroads balance Timken roller-bearing truck in HO scale. power back in the steam era? Today EMD painting lettering diagrams for over 40 railroads. SSAE ba Available with 33- or 36-inch wheels, the SIC info. Midwest Locomotive, RR-1. Morocco. IN 47963. it's done simply by adding units to trucks feature nylon sideframes and bolsters, ALL BRASS W/CAN MOTORS, highly delailed. Due November non-magnetic brass axles and are fully almost any train heading to where 1986. Sunset Light or Heavy USRA 2-8-2 "MIKES'" $1 19.95. F- the power is needed. I haven't seen sprung. The trucks are $3.50 per pair. 3-powered diesels: " A" unit $91 .95. '"B" $87.95. Send LSSAE lor much information on this, but it ··Special.·· Nordik Trains and Hobbies. P. O. Box 965042. Mariet would seem likely that it was the ta. GA 30066-000 1. (404) 928-2487. Add $2.00 Irelght. 4�, MC VISA charge. same in the past. A: If a steam-powered train had a g'ood RAILROAD APPROVED WATCH-Manulactured in Switzer land to the specs 01 CNR . Authentic retro look with all RR lea sized engine on the point and nothing tures. but using the finest quality Swiss Quartz movement. Avail in the local geography called for able in October. Send LSSAE lor Iree brochure: Pro Spec. doubleheading, adding a second en Dept. R67509. P. O. Box tOOO. Kings Park. NY 1 1 754. gine was usually done just as a move to PROFESSIONAL CUSTOM FINISHING. Locomotives. roiling balance power. Whenever power was stock. structures. All scales. Expert superdetailing of plastic loco· motives. Get prototype realism lor reasonable rales. Write: PIP balanced, it necessitated calling an er"s Precision Models. Box 263. Eagle Grove. IA 50533. other engineer and fireman for each HAVE YOUR NEW Athearn GP38-2. SD40-2. or Atlas Alco die engine to be moved. This response is a sel beautifully custom painted and meticulously superdetailed lor rather general statement, and if any your favorite road. To your specifications. Expert brass model painting. all scales. Quality service at affordable prices. Write: readers have more specific informa Piper"s Precision Models. Box 263. Eagle Grove. IA 50533. tion, please write. Life-Like Products, Inc., 1600 Union Ave., Baltimore, MD 21211 now markets HO freight cars 49 years or older from locomotives with a new eight-wheel-drive n our recent discussion about date built or rebuilt [will be prohibited power system. Two such units are curently I freight car roofwalks (August from interchange service] . For exam available, an FP45 and an Alco C628. The 1986 PM), I stated that a 25-year ser ple, a car will be considered 49 years FP45 comes in undecorated, Chess ie, PRR, vice life was imposed on freight cars in old on January 1, 1972 , if it was bu ilt and B&O colors, and the Alco comes in the early 1970's. I was wrong (not the or rebuilt prior to January 1, 1923. undecorated, Lehigh Va lley, ATSF and BN first time, won't be the last). This principle will apply progressively road names. No price information is available Mr. Oscar Kinsey Jr. wrote in with for cars built or rebuilt in each succes at presstime. the following information: From the sive year on January 1st until the per book of AAR Interchange Rules , effec missible maximum age for cars in tive January 1, 1972, Rule 90 "Cars interchange is reduced to 40 years, in and/or Car Parts Prohibited in Inter accordance with the following- sched change," section 3a reads in part: "All ule:"
CARS BUILT OR PROHIBITED IN MAXIMUM REBUILT PRIOR TO INTERCHANGE EFFECTIVE AG E January 1, 1925 January 1, 1973 48 January 1, 1927 January 1, 1974 47 January 1, 1929 January 1, 1975 46 AM Models, 23 76th St. Sw, Kentwood, MI January 1. 1931 January 1, 1976 45 49508 has [eleased three new plastic January 1, 1933 January 1, 1977 44 structure kits. In 0 scale, a small trackside January 1, 1935 January 1. 1978 43 shed and a shanty are available. The shed January 1, 1937 January 1, 1979 42 sells for $1.98 and the shanty c.a n be yours for January 1, 1939 January 1, 1980 41 $3.98. In HO scale, the Williamsburg Wo rkshed January 1, 1941 January 1, 1981 (item No. 106) is out, selling for $4.98 40
FEBRUARY 1987 45 Prior to January 1, 1971, the AAR had no age restrictions on interchange rules. Due to a high rate of accidents related to failures of ancient equip ment, AAR started the ban on equip ment older than 50 years on Janu ary 1, 1971. They then decreased the age limit by one year each year until 1981, when the desired permanent age limit of 40 years was reached. The maximum permissible age for any interchange equipment then became 40 years, and it remains as such. This rule does not apply to equip ment used in either revenue or non revenue service provided it is not of fered in interchange to other carriers. As a result, there are still many over aged cars currently remaining in on Long before today's fabulously successful San line revenue and company service, but Diego Trolley from downtown to the Mexican border, there was a ne'er-do-well, meander they are disappearing quickly. The ing country trolley line called the San Diego & gradual restrictions allowed for a Southeastem that tapped the same territory. phasing out of the older equipment The onset of the Great Depression blew it without undue hardship to some of the away, and nobody dreamed that history would repeat itself when San Diego grew more financially strapped carriers. into a giant. Thanks for writing, Mr. Kinsey. I re call that when this rule was put in ef fect, the Wellsville, Addison & Galeton SAN DIEGO'S SOUTH BAY INTERURBAN single-sheathed cars disappeared practically overnight (and may have Here's a meticulously researched By Ralph Forty book full of gems of photos that aided in the demise of the WA G), along will stand as a fine case history of with just about all of the other interest traction lost. Includes a series of ing freight cars. While the rule may maps by John Signor, have been necessary, it sure made the railroad scene that much less interest SAN DIEGO'S SOUTH BAY INTERURBAN ing. By Ralph Forty More about local names . _ . 96 pages, 92 photos, plus maps, time Back East, local freights were often tables, etc., index. 8'hx11" softbound. ISBN 0-916374-76-9. called Drills, particularly on the Cen tral of New Jersey and the Lehigh Val Special 1 06 ...... $14,95 (Shipping $1.10: Californians add 6% sales lax .) ley. Examples include the "Aldene TARGET DATE, January-February 1987 Drill" on the CNJ (near Cranford, N.J.) and the "Bloodgood Drill" on the LV. rM TRANS-ANGLO BOOKS SEND FOR FREE BOOK CATALOG On the Erie, jobs were often known by NTERURBAN PRESS DEALER INQUIRIES INVITED the name of the branch they worked, P. O. Box 6444 • Glendale, CA 91205 such as the "1st NJ & NY" or "2nd Northern." One unusual job on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western was called the "Harrison Pusher. " It was a A set of 20 c% r s/ ides featuring local freight with a passenger conduc Photography hy tor on board so it could assist stalled m.u.'s (commuter trains) in an emer Pre-Amtrak gency. The CNJ, after abandonment oflines passenger trains in Pennsylvania, had one long-dis tance local (Elizabethport-Phillips High-quality duplicate transparencies of U.S. passenger trains of the burg and return) known as the "May 1960's. SCI includes: PRR Penn Texlls . Santa Fe Fast Mail with PA's. CB&Q Nebraska Zephyr (observation cnd). NP North Coast Limiled. be" because maybe it would return and NYC Twilight Limited. SP SarI Joaqui1l Daylight (corning and going. maybe it wouldn't. with observation), SCL Sill'er Comer. California Zephyr on D&RGW The term "Traveling Switcher" was and WI'. RF&P E\rerglades. NYNH&H mail train with EP5 electric. CMStP&P Sioux. Monon Thoroughbred. GM&O Limired. EL Pacific quite popular on the New Yo rk Central M ik.e Schafer Express . Frisco Southland, Ie Lwul O' Com. GN Badger and UP Ciry Mohawk Division, and it indicated a Domeliner on Sherman Hill. certain type of train crew-a road crew Famous trains . Obscure trains despite the name. At Cleveland, almost all industrial crews are yard crews and SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO, often use the term Pony, such as the $15 plus postage & IWlldling "Marcy Pony" or "Line Pony." Zephyr Graphics & Editorial Allow weeks delivery Shifter is another common term, P. O. Box 860 4-6 and then there are the jobs with their Homewood, IL 60430 own specific names like "The Lake
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More about ligh ts and locals ... BIGBY CREEK I would like to provide additional in DAVID fo rmation regarding two recent sub H. jects in Company Mail. The first concerns yellow vs. green REDINGER lenses used in marker lights. Informa tion in the following rule books indi cated use of yellow and red lenses as opposed to green and red: Western Maryland (1939), New York Central (1937), Clinchfield (1955), Boston & Albany (1919) and New Haven (1956). Evidently this practice was more com California to be anything but descH, so they said. But man turnedit into farms, mon than previously supposed. factories and II living ,Irca fur millions. The second item is the use of various The key to that development was 300 names for locals. I have a copy of a Rio miles to the north ... in the High Grande 7 a.m. lineup issued on Sierras, where the Southern California Edison Co. undertook one of the gee,alest April 10, 1968, when I was Track Su water power developmcnts in the world pervisor from Helper to Thistle (Utah). Big Creek! Finally finished in 1929, this There were Tramps, Turns and Jobs, great work of man, animal and machine all on one subdivision. In fact, there created six dams, eight lUllnels (one of them 13 miles long), three major artificial were also irregular locals occasionally lakes and five power houscs -all lO ensure listed such as the "Helper Local" from electric power for a growing Los Angeles Roper to Helper. Briefly, the jobs are metropolis. David H. Redinger was (circa 1968): Resident Engineer for this great project, and he tells the story ...abollt building �I "Scofield"-called out of Helper to railroad into the High Sierra in 157 days work the mine and power plant at ...carving roads and tunnels through Castle Gate, went "high" to Scofield hostile terrain ... fighting snow at high on the Pleasant Valley branch one or alticudes ... and accomplishing ncar miracles with manpower, l11ulcpowcr and two days a week to work the mine steam power. Big Creek! there THE STORY OF BIG CREEK "Garfield"-called at Roper, worked By David H. Redinger the Kennecott smelter complex at 232 pages, 250+ illustrations, index, 81 'zx I J ,. hardbound with color jacket. Garfield ISBN 87046·070·6. "Tintic"-called at Provo, worked the Trans·Anglo 270 532.95 Tintic branch, traffic was mostly (ShLpplng 51 50. CaldofnL
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