D&Sl Steel Caboose #10060 - OMI #11 76. Our original version has a ve rti ca l brake staff and a round smokestack cap, even includes the cupola mounted li ght. By Ajin of Korea in HO sca le.
UP "B-50-25" Express Box - OMI #1338. This car has everything new, roof details, end s, doors and even trucks. An extremely hard to find prototype. By Ajin of Korea in ...1I .... .;;JIil: !!I!Ii';; HO sca le.
Thrall Center Beam lumber Car - aMI #1349. We just received a few cars with diamond shaped holes for UP. By Ajin of Korea in HO sca le .
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CB&Q Auxiliary Tender #X101 - OMI #13 11. Used on the C&S behind th eir 2-10-2's. Perfect with your OMI 2- 10-2 in HO scale. Prololypc
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a total of only 26 miles of track, including the lO-mile Yellow Manageable and modelable Creek branch built by the Tennessee Valley Authority, but CCR's management feels that their trim size is an advantage ow many times have you visited a model railroad with because it's relatively easy for them to keep track of oper H one terminal representing Chicago and another ations on the entire railroad. "Manageable," is the term they named for a city hundreds of miles away? At a moderate use, but in the overall scheme of things it translates into pace, it usually takes only a few minutes to traverse even a "efficient," and that spells "profitable." The CCR is an admi r elatively large layout. Gee, from Denver to San Francisco rable operation, whose 650 boxcars enjoy the highest car and I've got half a beer left-and it's still cold! Even televi utilization rate in the country. sion's short-lived Supertrain couldn't make a trip like that. With three-man crews traversing the rail line from Cor Maybe that's why so many modelers prefer to take an alter inth (Miss.) to Counce (Tenn.) and back twice a day, the nate approach. Quite often, a portion of a mainline operation point-to-point operation begs to be modeled. Imagine: yards is represented, where one primary terminal handles the with runarounds at both ends, a stub-end branch, and inter bulk of the switching and other larg'er terminals are implied changes at Corinth with the Illinois Central Gulf and South as the trains pass through a few small towns and disappear ern railroads. The operational features alone provide the into the scenery. Another common approach to achieving mainline running, wayfreight switching and yard work we credibility in a scale-length railroad is to start with a branch modelers enjoy, and the railroad can be convincjngJy r epre line of a larger road. Then again, this often means sacrific sented in a reasonable amount of space. With all necessary ing the service facilities and variety of equipment we seem to equipment either available ready-to-run or easily kitbashed be attracted to. How about beginning with a short line rail in all major scales, the CCR provides a prototype for a truly road? That guarantees all the work trains and associated classy, yet practical, model railroad. What more could a con maintenance-of-way periphernalia outside the enginehouse, temporary modeler ask for? and if we always operate the railroad with the same caboose and four eng'ines, that's OK 'cause that's all there is! For those of you looking for a practical prototype, this issue may be of interest. This month's Prototype Profile features the Corinth & Counce Railroad company, located near the intersection of Mississippi, Tennessee and Alabama. The railroad operates Editor, PROTOTYPE MODELER
6 PROTOTYPE MODELER was left in stainless steel, not painted yel through PTJ ), is loaded with pllOtoS of 1 A low as th e caption indicates. and IE in th e original scheme, and that led · PM I'd also like to add more variations to the me to question the 1935 date-and leave it paint schemes. First, several units painted ou t of the caption. You 're obviously familiar in the SF-S3 (Zebra Stripe) scheme had the with tilat photo, since you correctly identi jundtion stripes going up on both ends, meeting in a fied tile Redondo Junction (Los Angeles) lo \ ch evron at the middle of the unit. Whitcomb cation. so I'll consider my suspicions con 44-ton unit 451 and DT-6-6-2000 2600 h ad firmed: 1937 it is. And thanks for the this application for a while. Second, 13 SD- additional information. I'm sure the Santa 40-2 units (5078, 5079, 5081-5087, 5090. Fe modelers and en th usiasts will appreciate 5092, 5094, and 5099) were delivered in it.-RJ. September and October of 1979 with an a ll yellow paint scheme. (The only markings Help for dry transfer novices We welcome letters that provide interesting information, correc were black cab numbers and the small F on tions, or your views on model railroading or PROTOTYPE MODELER. the fronts, due to a painter's strike at EMD. Kudos to Al Westerfield for his "Prototypi Mark allop of letler 'T o PM Junclion" if il is 10 be considered for Within a few days, the units were given the possible publicalion. Your full address will be given ONLY if you cal Lettering'" article in your November-De so request. Because of our limiled slaff, we are nol always able 10 usual blue markings by the Santa Fe and cember 1983 issue. These are just the types answer all mail (although a self-addressed, slamped envelope looked like any other SD-40-2, except that of articles we need to improve our abilities. will helpl), bul we do guaranlee 10 read all mail. they h ad yellow anticlimber beams.) Carrying his use of dry transfers one step I also enjoyed Bob Kosic's fine Santa Fe F further, I gave a clinic on their use at the Wrong again unit article in the same issue, and look for NMRA Convention in Winnipeg last sum ward to th e next issue's feature on model mer. I have some handouts left over and if I read your explanation regarding A TSF ing the passenger F's. Unfortunately, the anyone is interested, I will send a copy. A diesel model mixups, using a Milwaukee same gremlins that got at my article also postcard request will do fine, an SSAE is not Road GP7 to help explain. However: MILW got at his. Rather than two FT sets being desired or required. did not own, new or used, any GP7. Their converted to passenger use, there were ac entire roster of early Geeps were GP9's, tually eleven converted to this duty: 158L A Fr an k A. Pearsall with fLnd without dynamic brakes and with B C through 168L ABC. One cab unit and 6002 Schoolhouse Woods Road out steam generators. My guess is that the one booster (4 15 and 415A) even survived in Burke , VA 22015 GP7 was a typing error or the lou vel'S under this paint scheme through the renumber the cab misled you. I've seen from none to ing of the class into the 400 series. It's also Rio Grande Zephyr cOl'l'ections four sets of louvers under the cabs of "Mil interesting to note that the Santa Fe had waukee GP20's" and MILW's Paducahs. The F3's in all four phases. Units 16L ABC First off, I would like to thank you for the louvers under the radiator at the rear of the through 2 1L ABC were deli vered as Phase I Milwaukee Road E9 posters. They were a unit will, in most cases, identify a new or units with three portholes, screening over big' hit at our Pacific Northwest Region rebuilt GP7 from a GP9. Otherwise, you only the air intake opening's, small rear in (NMRA) meet in Nyssa, Ore . have an excellent magazine. The Covered take opening and high-shrouded fans. I really enjoy reading Prototype Portfolio Wagon Trail is a great feature. These units had the so-called "long warbon most. I did find a couple of minor errors on nets," which extended around the center the Rio Grande Zephyr article. Steam Gen Jerry Pyfer porthole. Sometime after delivery, at least erator units 250 and 251 are actually ex- Machesney Park, Ill. some of these units were converted to Phase 3700 Challenger tenders, L-105 class. No. Thanks for the correction, Jerry. The photo II configuration, with the center porthole 250 is rebuilt from 3703, No. 251 from of MILW 972just happened to arrive in the removed, four body vents added, with 3709. Both were rebuilt by D&RGW in mail the day I was putting the PM Junction screening covering the air intakes and 1953. The PB-1's are Nos. 252 and 253, re column togetller and i t really struck a vents between th e portholes. The rear in built from the 6012 and 6002 respectively. chord with the issue of diesel iden tification. take openin g was also enlarg'ed at this time. D&RGW shops made the conversion in The background information for that photo Units 22L ABC through 30L ABC were 1965. The 253 also had EMD Blomberg was volunteered by one of my MILW enthu delivered as Phase III models with horizon trucks placed under it in 1981. On pag'e 3 1, siast friends. My MILW roster data stated tal louvers instead of open side vents. you refer to 5771 as an F7 unit; it is an F9. only that the units were rebuilt from some Screening was restricted to the upper level As for the combine, I used a Lambert brass thing otller than a GP20. and I'm not one to intake openings, low profile fans were used C&O Pullman, and had it custom rebuilt by doubt the advice of someone much more and the warbonnet was shortened. Finally , Delta Models in Portland, Ore. knowledgeable on a railroad than I am. I units 31L ABC through 36L ABC were I hope you do some articles on the Rio should have thought to clleck the DIESEL Phase IV, with stainless steel grills over th e Grande Prospector or the Royal Gorge and SPOTTER 'S GUIDE UPDATE- page 106 shows upper level intakes, louvered vents and low Yampa Valley Mail. that you 're righ t! Gee, I'm beginning to feel profile fans. A. III like Emily Litella. About that GP20 bit: In addition to the radio antennas men Floyd Jarvis "never mind. " -RJ tioned in the article, many units had cylin Ogden, Utah drical antennas mounted directly on the roof centered at the rear. The square plate Thanks for straightening me out on the More on ATSF (grad uation cap) an tenna was also moun ted steam-generator numbers, which I tripped up on. I don 't think a Prototype Portfolio on I just got the November-December issue of centered at the rear of some units and to the left of center at the rear of others. On most the Yampa Valley Mail would be out of the PROTOTYPE MODELER , and was pleased to see question. We have a fair number of photos that the third installment of my Santa Fe of the F7's , the lower side battens were left stainless steel, even after repainting into oftllat train in our files. but, unfortunately, Diesel Paint Scheme article came through we llave almost nothing oftile Prospector or in good shape. There were two slig'ht errors blue and yellow bonnet schemes. Again, many thanks for your efforts. I'm Royal Gorge. Perhaps some reader who in the captions, however, that I'd like to put does. would be willing to do a Prototy pe right for the readers. First, the photo on looking forward to future issues of PROTO TYPE MODELER. and to submitting more arti Portfolio on either of those classy little page 34 of units 1A and 1B shows them in trains.-M.8. the modified Sf-P1 scheme, which I de cles myself. scribed in note 1, rather than in the original J ohn Langley scheme. Not only are 1A and 1B shown in Colorado Springs. Colo. Disappointed this photo, but EMC Demonstrator 512 (SF After thinking it over. I've decided not to 1C) is shown as well. It's the third unit in Thanks for your comments, John. Tlle only renew m y subscription to PM. Please don't the picture, which shows the locomotives at photo we had of lA and IE was dated Sep g'et me wrong-it's an excellent publication. Los Angeles in August of 1937. Second, re tember 1935 on the back, but it sure looked and I enjoy it a lot. Irs just that m y main g'arding the PAl picture on page 36, the like the 1937 paint scheme you described. drip strip and stripe over the cab windows Stan Repp's book, SUPEH CHIEF (available Continued on page 9
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 7 modeler's newsbox Have you photographed any new paint schemes lately? Send your entries to PT JlWisconsin, 511 E. Arcadian, Waukesha, WI 53186. We might be able to use them in Modelers Newsbox or in the News Photo section of our sister magazine, P ASSENGER TRAIN JOURNAL. Color slides are preferred, although high-quality sharp color prints wi ll be considered. Slides will be returned whether used or not; please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
When the original Norfolk Southern Railway, which ran from Norfolk (Va.) to Charlotte (N.C.), was absorbed into the Southern Railway System in 1974, railfans probably feared the road was gone forever. With the emergence of the new Norfolk Southern, technically a holding company for the merged Norfolk & Western and Southern Railways, ex NS power is appearing in its old name, but with brand new colors. The GP38 seen here was delivered new to the original Norfolk Southern in 1966 as No. 2001, wearing the road's gray, red and black paint scheme. Renumbered 2880 by the Southern, the low nose Geep was high-hooded by the railroad's Atlanta shops in 1976. On October 28, 1983, the unit became the first diesel painted in the new Norfolk Southern colors the Southern's Chattanooga shops. It's also the only unit with the off-white lettering as bright white was used on all subsequent repaintings. The computer checksum characters (the J next to the road number) aren't used by NS, but the CRN sublettering identifies 2880 as a NS predecessor Carolina & Northwestern unit.
Two PM readers have redesigned the look of the Milwaukee Road's locomotive fleet! Art Danz and Ed Abbott, both modelers and MILW employees, developed the scheme and applied it to a model which they in turn presented to MILW trustee Richard B. Ogilvie. Ogilvie found the scheme not only striking, but, at least partly in light of the railroad's newfound profitability, appropriate as well. The scheme made its debute on 5040-2 No. 201 at ceremonies held at the Milwaukee, Wis., shops November 9; 1983. The basic colors haven't changed, but the orange band now forms a lightning-bolt (the jog is out of sight right behind the cab) and the unit reads simply MILWAUKEE next to the large road number on the long hood. The familiar Hiawatha Indian emblem is proudly displayed on the point of the short hood. The remainder of the fleet will be repainted to the new standard as they're shopped.
8 PROTOTYPE MODELER John T. Eagan
New power for Conrail began arriving November 1983. 5050 No. 6736, The new power can be seen as far west as Chicago, but east of Cleve above, was photographed at Riverdale, III., Oecember 22, 1983. It's one land the 5050's generally follow the old Pennsy trackage and the C30- of forty 5050's numbered 6700-6739. Also new are sixty elephant 1's remain on the ex-New York Central rails. eared (show shields over the walkways) C30-1's numbered 5000-5059.
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The Henderson Sub under steam The All Santa Fe Calendar-1984 I enjoyed the story on the Louisville & Nashville Henderson Subdivision by Jerry - 13 block & white scenes of Santo Fe action from all Mart and Paul Zack (March-April and May comers of the system - 14 x 22 inches - High-quality June PM). paper and printing Available November I worked on the L&N Evansville Division Only $6 .95 postpaid in 1943, before bein g drafted. CTC didn't control the movement of trains then so Order from: . I:E Crofton was a 24-hour train order office. McMillan Publications Illinois Residenls add Henderson had a 6 1-lever interlocking' and 3208 Halsey Drive 5% Sales Tax. controlled movements over the Ohio River Woodridge, IL 60517 Sorry. no C.O.D.'s. bridge to FS Tower. Manington's depot had Continued on page 46
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Did you miss our articles on Cerro-Bend Casting, Building a Saloon, L oco D etailing, Sound Installation, Passenger Car Building, Steam Shovels, Vi ntage Vehicles, Building a Schooner for your Layout. Ca r Ferries, Solderless L oco Construction, Dog Hole Steamers, Turnout Control, the Virginia & Truckee, McGiffert Log Loaders, Logging M all ets, and many more ... ? 100 pages of inspiration and information every other month. Send $15.00 for one year (six issues) to: The GAZETTE, Box 26, Los Altos, CA 94022. KEY IMPORTS -. The Key in "N" Scale! Key Imports Inc., will introduce the GS-4, Southern Pacifi c Daylight in uN" scale, very shortly. Ava il abl e painted to Quality and unpainted this beautifu l locomotive will be constructed of brass and built to the highest of the Key Imports 99 LYFORD DRIVE NO. 44 standards. Ava ilable separately 1-vi.l1 be a painted and lettered 5-car "Daylight" set. In quire at your Kev Imports dealer for these and other fin e "N" scale models from Key Imports Inc. TIBURON . CA 94920 Pro loty pe PhOIO ~...... -- -- BRASS CAR SIDES continues to expand its line 01 H O Metropolitan Corridor scale pholoelched brass lightweight car sides with the following 1983·84 releases. Orders and re servatio ns are now being laken through dealers or direct. GN 1250-55 ACF "lake" Series Dine r lo r Ee. $18.50 Railroads and the American Scene GN 1209-14 ACF 50-Seat Coach lor E B. $ 17.50 Pullman-Standard " Cascade" Series 10-5 Sleeper (Plan 4072). PRR. NYC , 8&0, AT SF, SP, Ie $18.50 John R. Stilgoe John Stilgoe takes us on a nostalgic journey GN 1200-05 ACF Baggage-Dorm l or EB. (4/ 84 ) NP 494-99 "Trave lers Rest" Lounge l or NCL (4/ 84) recreating the romance and excitement BASIC WOOD BODY KIT $5.00. Ava ilable now. Send a large SSAE lor a copy 01 our catalog listing 19 of railroading in turn-of the-ce ntury prolotypealor 24 roads. Direct orders add 51.7S . hlpplng, Ameri ca. Readable text and fascinating __ ~ plus SOc: lor wood kits. photographs cover eve ry aspect of rail · • NEWt FOR NEW YORK CENTRAl. FANS . • PEORIA & EASTERN DECALS (HO) roads - fr om depots and trolleys to signal Sel PEl : WhIle oval herald 10 rGP & SW . . diesels. $ 1. 2S /pair. Use wilh Champ lights and hi gh iron, from hobo EH-110 or EH- 1SJ. Set PE2: White & Black oval herald lor 40 ' b ox cars. camps to the elegant cars ofrhe S1.50/ pair. Use with Champ HN-20. Inc ludes diagram sheet SSAE lor copy. SOc: shipping for decals. Broadway Limited. BRASS CAR SIDES 715 South 7th Sl. 51. Peter. MN 56082 179 bla ck·a nd·white Visit your local hobby dealer often: He's the hub of Pl ease se nd me ___ copies of Metropolitan Corridor at $29.95. My chcck for ______is cndnscd. Add 51.50 for posragc, handli ng (pIllS 7. 5% t(f.\";l1 en the model Or dlargc _ _ _ MaslnCard ___ VISA Accou ll t # ______Exp. ____ railroading Sig,11:1tlln: ______Na 1l1c ______StI"CC( ______C iry ______Statt' ___ Zip._ _ ___ hobby Yale University Press Dept. 3 164. 923 Y3 k Station. New Haven. Connwicllt06S20 A High-Quality Line of Fascinating Railroad Books! S Gauge Building & Repair Manual, $3.00 and To please both the modeler and railfan $ .85 postage Building & Operating Model RH's, 120 pages S GAUGIAN - This lively model railroad RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE - The featuring 18 S scale pikes, $9.95 and $1.25 postage magazin e features great articles, plans, photos compelling , intriguing story of the 3-ft. lin es in Sn3 MODELING - Masterfu l coll ection of articles , and ads fo r S scale , 3/ 16" to the foot , for both southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. photos, plans of S narrow gauge modeling including the standard and narrow gauger. Bi-monthly, 18 ' chapters, 312 pages, 275 illustrations 4-color photos of Malcolm Furlow's work. 96 pages. $16.00 year in USA; $20 outside USA. Sample 8-page a ll -color section, steam and passenger $ 11 .95 and $1. 25 postage A.C. Gilbert's Heritage - 164-page history of this issue, our choice , $2.75. train chapters! $39.95 and $2.25 postage; $4 fascinating company that made American Flyer train s. YOUR INTRODUCTION TO S GAUGE - Canada and foreign. Add III. sales tax. Softb ound, $13.95 and $1.50 postage; hardbound; A new 72-page softbound highlighting S gauge WABASH. 325-page hardbound all about this $22.95 and $2.00. once proud railroad. Hundreds of illustrati ons . S / Sn3 Catalog - Lists hundreds of S/ Sn3 pro steam, diesel, passenger and fre ight equipment, ducts. $2.75; $4.25 fo reign. as we ll as structures. $6.95 and $1.00 postage. $38.95 and $2.25 postage; $4 foreig n. Also: Special editions of the S Gaug/an, $4 pp each: RIO GRANDE STEAM LOCOMOTIVES Other books: West Side Lumber Co; Sn3 iss ue; B&O Steam; D&RGW Narrow Gauge Plan Book, 56 pages, Missabe; issue. (standard gauge) A 200-page big 9x12" hard $6.95 and $.85 postage. bound, 14 chapters, 140 photos, 26 foli o draw Cars & Locos, 44 pages of S scale articles, photos, HEIMBURGER HOUSE ings covering the 0-6-0's to the articulatedst plans, $3.50 & $.85 postage PUBLISHING COMPANY $23.95 and $1.75 postage; $2.50 foreign . 3 10 Lathrop Ave. , River Forest , Illinois 60305 Wm. K. Walthers, Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave. , applied by the modeler, and the food service Milwaukee, WI 53218, has announced the car includes decals for the Amdinette, Amclub, arrival of two versions of Amtrak's Amfleet Amlounge and Amcafe . All models are priced passenger cars in HO scale. Based on the first at $9.95, trucks and horn-hook coupl ers Manufacturers: We'll be happy to spotlight yo ur new products in Amfleet series (Am fleet I) built by Budd in 1975 included. Now Arriving. Sampl e products and/or a photo of the product, a description and price list should be sent to PTJ PublishinglWis and 1976, th e 85-foot cars are available as Walthers has also released the 1984 ve rsion consin Division, 511 E. Arcadian, Waukesha, WI 53186. items either a co ach or food service car. The of their popular catalog for HO sca le model submitted are accepted as gratis in exchange for announcement injection-molded styrene cars feature smoke railroad equipment and supplies. Entitled "Th e and can not be ret urned. tinted window inserts, separate styrene World of HO Scale-1984," the 720-page grabirons, spring-centered draft gear and full volume includes coupons worth $51.25 on underbody detail. The models are available Greenberg Publishing Co., 729 Oklahoma selected merchandise and a 32-page color undecorated (No. 932-6000 coach or No. 932- Rd. , Sykesville, MD 21784, has added a few pictoral section entitled "The Magic of Model 6010 food service) or lettered for Amtrak (No. items to their catalog that ought to interest Railroading. " Of course, the usual product 932-6001 coach or No. 932-6011 food listing is there, this year covering 294 Lionel and American Flyer enthusiasts. Their service), painted silver with red , white and manufacturers, with most of the products 1984 Toy Train Calendar (No. 6493) features blue. The Amtrak logo, car designation and illustrated. The catalog (No. 913-634) is priced 15 light-hearted months of whimsical tinplate number are provided on a separate decal to be at $11.95. photography, printed in duotone on glossy paper. The calendar is priced at $5.95. The second edition of Greenberg's American John Szwajkart, 3334 Elm Ave, Brookfield, IL Scenery Unlimited, 310 Lathrop Ave. , Rive r Flyer S Gauge Operating & Repair Manual is 60513, has published the TRAIN WATCHE R'S Forest, IL 60305, has announced a new 12-1 now available. Written by Thomas B. Barker, GUIDE TO ST. LOUIS, a softcover book outlining Pullman passenger car kit in S scale, priced at the 80-page softcover book covers in 9 general operations and facilities of the St. $29.95. Also in S scale is a water/oil supply car chapters everything from tools and Louis area railroads, covering past and present kit, priced at $14.95. troubleshooting to exploded-view drawings and passenger operations and guiding the rail Shinohra code 100 nickel silver turnouts, No . operation. The manual, No. 6434, retails at enthusiast to the area's railfanning vantage 6 right- or left-hand ready-to-run , are now $10.95. points. The 185-pages of text and photos are available in S scale through Scenery Unlimited. Two new books are available for the Lionel accompanied by a large 3-color map showing The turnouts are priced at $113.95 each. buff, the Lionel Repair & Operating Guide (No. rail lines, through highways and road access to Also imported in S scale are two sets of 6500, $12.95) , and the Pocket Lionel Price popular railfanning sites. The book and map figures , a 4-man train crew priced at $3.25 and Guide (No. 6447, $5.95). are priced at $9 postpaid. a 7-person set for $7.50, and Model T highway truck sets consisting of one van and one low side truck, available in 3 paint schemes. The Mann-Made Products, P.O. Box 27009, Jarmac, P.O. Box 2785, Springfield, IL 62708, trucks sell for $2.50 a set. Cincinnati, OH 45227, has announced a new has introduced a benchtop all-metal wood alternating strobe light flasher that simulates lathe. The Gemco 10" lathe is powered by a the xenon-type strobes used by Amtrak and a '/' 5 hp, 5,000 rpm motor with a 'I.' Jacobs Anthracite Railroads Historical Society, number of western roads. The unit produces chuck work piece driver. It can be easily Inc., P.O. Box 119, Bridgeport, PA 19405, is multiple flashes with one or two microminiature modified to accept much longer materials if offering a 1984 wall calendar priced at $4, 1.5 V bulbs, at a user-adjustable flash rate. necessary. Available options include turning available at hobby dealers or direct. Model No . 6541 , for constant-voltage tools and a variable-speed rheostat. As a command control systems, and No. 6551 , with complete unit it sells for $114.50, but can be 9 V battery connector for battery operation , are purchased as an attachment to a Jarmac Tilt priced at $23.45 each. Table Sander base and motor for $79 .50. Also new at Mann-Made is a modular signal logic system . Signal detector module No. 4331 is designed for use with constant-voltage Miller Advertising, 1627 Lilac Dr. , Manitowoc, command control systems. The unit, which WI 54220, has added the following sets to their operates on 12 V d.c. , is user-selectable to be Herald King line of HO scale decals: No. L- active when the track is occupied or 1081 , Corinth & Counce SW900 switchers unoccupied, and includes a sensitivity (blue, 1983); No . L-880, Maine Central diesel adjustment and anti-flicker delay circuit. It's hood unit (gray Guilford scheme, 1982) ; No. L- priced at $6.95. Signal detector module No. 1960, B. C. Hydro Railway diesel hood unit 4332 is similar, but operates with conventional (yellow, 1974); No. C-1940, Seaboard System Magnuson Models, Inc., 5601 W. Florist Ave., throttles. It retails for $8.95. Signal decoder caboose (gray, 1983); No . C-1890, Oneida & Milwaukee, WI 53218, is commemorating No. 4390 is user-selectable for true approach, Western caboose (l ight green); No. C-620, MODEL RAILROADER magazine's 50th modified approach or continuous lighting for 3 Boston & Maine caboose (blue and black, anniversary with a special limited-run kit, color/3 position signals. It sells for $3.50. 1960); No. B-624, Boston & Maine 50-foot available in both HO and N scales. The model, boxcar (blue with black door, 1968); No. B- entitled "Birthplace of Model Railroader," is a 625, Boston & Maine 50-foot double-door reproduction of the three-room building in Kenagram Publishing, P.O. Box 1063, boxcar (blue with black door, 1979); No . B- Wauwatosa, Wis. , where AI Kalmbach Campbell, CA 95009-1063, is offering a 1984 1800, Pennsylvania outside-braced 50-foot published the first issue of MODEL RAILROADER. wall calendar entitled "Tales of the Western boxcar (tuscan , 1965); No . PR-162, Georgia Both models are made from polyester castings, Pacific." The slick-paper calendar opens to Pacific all-door boxcar (blue, 1972) ; No. R- the N scale model complete in one piece. Both 14 x 22 inches, and features from two to four 1800, Penn sylvania 40-foot reefer (boxcar red , versions include sign decals, cast polyester black-and-white photos of WP diesel-powered 1960); No. H-43, Denver & Rio Grande outhouse and additional detail items. Prototype action , accompanied by a column of narrative Western open quad hopper (black, 1979); No . history and a floor plan are included in the kit text. The calendars can be ordered from H-712, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Center Flow instructions. The N scale model, No. 439-544, Kenagram for $6.95 plus $1.37 postage (Calif. hopper (gray, 1976). All sets are priced at sells for $9.95 and the HO version, No. 439- residents add 6% sales tax). $1.15 each. 543 is priced at $17.95. 14 PROTOTYPE MODELER Virnex Industries, Inc., Rte . 1, Box 154-B Oriental, Ltd., 4001 N. St. Joseph Ave. , Scale Scenics Division of Circuitron, P.O. Box Herwig Rd ., Reedsburg , WI 53959 has Evansville, IN 47712, has announced four new 322, Riverside , IL 60456, has announced a released four additions to their line of Stewart diesel locomotive models in HO scale. Now in number of new additions to thei r line of scenic model railroad products: traction tire stock are : low-nose EMD SD18's (No . 308), as detai ls . No. 652-3501 Brass Micro-M esh , a installation tools with 10 traction tires (HO used by A&RF , 8&M, IC, ICG, L&N , MP, T&P, lightweight, non-woven material, can be used scale No . 504 and N scale No . 1504), priced at NYS&W, NS , poD , TP&W and TexMex; high for fe nces, gri ll s, stairs and many other $7.95 , and sets of 20 traction tires (HO scal e hood SD18's (No. 309), as used by AR , 8&0, applications. The 3" x 6" piece, priced at $2.95, BN, C&NW, GTW, IC, ICG , LV, MP, N&W, is suitable for use in a number of scales, as is No. 505 and N scale No . 1505), priced at NKP, NP, RI , SAL, SCL, SRR , CofG , TA&G their No. 652-2001 gear assortment. The 17 $2.98. and S-BC; all-new low-nose GP20's (No. 310), metal castings can be used as junk or as used by AT&SF, CB&Q, BN , NYC, SP and in co rporated into scratchbuilt machinery. It's UP ; high-nose GP20's (No. 311 ) detailed for priced at $2.95. the GN prototype, but applicable to WP, as New in HO scale are two con stru cti on scene well. All of the above models feature cab details. The No. 652-3502 cement mi xer kit interiors, see-through grills and fans , co nsists of a num ber of detailed metal castings removable dynamic brakes and winterization including cement bags and safety pylons. It hatches. Expected by the time PM goes to sells for $4.95. No. 652-1501 flashing press are EMD GP9's (No. 330) with 48" fans; barricade kit includes an an LED and an Union Pacific GP9MA (No. 331 ) cab units, UP electronics unit for one working flasher and GP9MB (No. 332) powered booster units; material for another five non-operating highway chopped-nose GP9's (No. 333) ; chopped-nose barricades. It retails at $5.95. GPTs (No. 334). These models are detailed JMC/Con-Cor, 1025 Industrial Drive, sim ilarly to the GP18's and 20's described Bensenville, IL 60 106, has announced a new Marklin, Inc., 5860 N. 60th St., Milwaukee, WI above. Also on their way are: low-nose EMD N scale model of an Alco C636 diesel 53218, is now offering four new HO scale SD45's (No. 335), as built in 1966; high-hood locomotive. The model is available in the passenger cars based on German Federal SD45's (No. 336) , as built for Southern and following road names: No. 0001 -002251 , Railways prototypes. First- and second-class Norfolk & Western ; low-nose SD45's (No. 337), Burlington Northern ; No. 0001-002252, commuter coach (No . 4158) and type Bnb 719 as built for Chicago & North Western (no Southern Pacific; No. 0001-002253, Illinois second-class commuter coach (No. 4159) dynamic brakes) ; low-nose SD45's (No. 338), Central ; No. 0001-002254, Santa Fe ; No . feature window sets set in plastic fram es and as built for Southern Pacific; low-nose 0001-002255, Conrail ; No. 0001-002256, come painted in the colors of the prototype. SD45M's (No. 339) , based on the Sulzer Union Pacific; No . 0001 -002257, Milwaukee Detai led interiors and interior lighting kits are powered UP prototype. Road ; No. 0001 -002258, Pennsylvania; No. available. The coaches are priced at $30. A New in 0 scale are No. 328 Great Northern 0001-002259, New York Central ; No . 0001- second-class commuter combine (No. 4160) is 50-foot express reefers, based on the 2000- 002260, Baltimore & Ohio; No. 0001-002261 , also available. Based on GFR 's type BDnf 735 2089 series cars built between 1910 and 1912 Norfolk & Western ; No. 0001-002262, Western car, the model features windows similar to with 4-foot door openings, and No . 329, based Pacific. An undecorated version, No . 0001- those on the coaches plus a control on the 2090-2139 series built in 1924 with 5- 002250, is also available. All locomotives , compartment, detailed interior, switchable foot door openings . Th e models feature full available powered only, are priced at $39.98 automatic operation of the tail lights (based on underbody detail, sprung trucks and end each. the direction of travel ) and illuminated route buffers and working ice hatches. HO versions signs at the control end of the car. Interior of this car are expected soon . lighting kits are available. The car retails at N scale models in stock at Oriental include $50. Based on the GFR type WRmz 135 car, E7A's in standard, PRR and CB&Q (n ickel Marklin's new HO scale TEE/1C diner features plated) versions with interiors and see -t hrough a sprung single-action pantograph, windows screens. A B unit version is also available. set in plastic frames and interior details for the Also ready for shipping are Alco RSC2 and kitchen and dining area, and will accept interior Canadian RS3 switchers with see-through lighting kits. The diner, model No. 4153, sells screens and 3-b lade fans. Also expected are a number of N scale E8 's: No. 319, E8A with for $42 . vertical-slit Farr air grills; No. 320, standard Marklin has also released a number of new E8A with ve rtical air intake grills ; No. 32 1, models based on European prototype locomo Union Pacific E8A with dynamic brakes and tives. An interesting HO scale model of a TGOJ snowshields; No. 322, Pennsylvania E8A with di esel locomotive used by the Swedish Private roof-mounted radio antennas ; No. 323, nickel Railway features a C wheel arrangement with all plated Chicago, Burlington & Quincy E8A; No. wh ee ls driven, two with traction tires, and three 324, E8B with dynamic brakes. headlights and coupling hooks at each end . Th e Also available in HO scale is an EMD SW7 TGOJ, No. 3144, se ls for $82. switcher, available either powered or An HO scale 2-10-0 steam locomotive is unpowe red. JMC/Con-Cor has combin ed the also new at Marklin, based on German Federal fo rmer Revell switcher body with Athearn's Railways' class 85 switcher. Th e model switcher frame and drive to produce a smooth features Marklin Telex couplers, 10 powered running switcher from the steam/diesel drivers (4 with traction tires) and an electronic transitional period. The available road names direction control switch. A smoke unit is also are: available for the model. Locomotive No. 3309 Powered Dummy Railroad retails at $245. 001500 001550 Undecorated New in Z scale is a German Federal 001501 001551 Norfolk & Western Railways electric freight locomotive. It features 001502 001552 Santa Fe an all-axle driven C-C wheel arrangement, 001503 001553 Great Northern remote control for forward/reverse, a 001504 001554 Conrail track/catenary power source se lec ti on switch, 001505 001555 C hi cago & North Western Whiteground Model Works, P.O. Box 273, three working headlights at each end and 001506 001556 Louisvi ll e & Nashville Randallstown, MD 21133, has announced a automatic couplers. Th e class 194 locomoti ve, 001507 001557 Seaboard Coast Li ne new structure model available in either HO or No. 8822, retails at $172. 001508 001558 Milwaukee Road scale. The basswood Foundry and Pattern Al so available are two new Z scale freig ht o 001509 001559 Union Pacific House kits include corrugated metal roofing cars. Beer car No . 8632 is lettered for Eichof 001510 001560 Soo Line material and Grandt Line castings. The HO Brewery and refrigerator car No. 8633 is scale version , kit No.7, sells for $29 and the 0 lettered for Capri-Sonne. Both models retail at Th e un powe red dummy units are priced at scale version, kit No.1 002, is priced at $80. $11.75. $11 .98 and the powered units sell for $24.98. JANUARY·FEBRUARY 1984 15 the prototype modeler's notebook BY RICHARD H. HENDRICKSON hen the railroads were nationalized under the rather than flat riveted seams. Later, the USRA design W United States Railway Administration during wasshghtly revised, and the resulting cars were an World War I, top priority was given to quantify pro inch shorter and seven inches lower inside. In this duction of the five most urgently needed types of form, the USRA steel boxcars became the mainstay of freight equipment. Once the achievement of that ob the Central's huge freight car fleet, and was built both jective had been assured, drawings and specifications as a boxcar and as a 11/2-door auto car with 10-foot were prepared for a number of other USRA standard door openings. Many cars of this design were deliv cars, but the war ended before these were ordered into ered to such NYC subsidiary roads as the Cleveland, production. As "state of the art" designs, however, CinCinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, Michigan Central, most of the proposed USRA cars were subsequently Boston & Albany, Peoria & Eastern and Cincinnati built (sometimes in more-or-Iess modified form) by Northern, as well as to the parent company. In the one or more of the major railroads. Among them was late 1920'8, another revision of the basic USRA design a 50-ton steel-sheathed boxcar which was adopted as yielded a slightly taller car with early dreadnaught a standard design by the New York Central system. style ends, wnich was built for the NYC;-Michigan Like its arch-rival, the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Central and Pittsburgh & Lake Erie. All told, the USRA " entral ' invested heavily in all-steel- freight cars design accounted for over 25,000-new NYC steel box throughout the 1920's, and its USRA steel boxcars cars in the decade following World War I. Most of 15ecame as familiar and-distinctive as a rauemark of these cars survi.V8dl nto the late 1940's, at whicll time the NYC as their counterparts, the X-29 boxcar, were a modernization program equipped them with AB air for the Pennsylvania. brakes, new steel panel roofs and corruga tecn:I60rs. In As is shown in the builder's photo of car 180000, this form, many remained on the roster through the the firs postwar C steel boxcars were constructed 1950's an d weIrin to the 1960's. directly from the USRA drawings, the only visible dif While the Pennsy's X-29 class cars are well known - ferences being the use of 2-piece, 8/7 corrugated ends and often modeled-;1,he Central's USRA""type steel cars instead of the 5/5/5 type and of U-section roof ribs have been largely ignored by modelers and model PROTOTYPE MODELER ------ - Coll ection of J ohn C. La Rue, Jr. As built, the New Y ork Cent ral USRA steel b oxcars had n aught e n ds differed from 5 /5 /5 design specified on 3 -panel doors an d U -ch anne l r oof ribs. The 8/7 dread- the ori ginal USRA drawing,-,,-s ,-. __ manufacturers alike, and there's no easy approach to modeling them in HO scale. With some modifications, Original USRA design however, Train Miniature's 40-foot plug-door boxcar ( 3162 cu. ft.) kit can be transformed into a reasonably realistiC, if not totally accurate, model of an NYC steel box. NYC 101000-102499 NYC 180000-180999 Here's how it's done. First, remove all door details NYC 116000-116249 CC&St.L 101000-102499 from the TM body, shown in fig. 1, except the upper NYC 144000-144249 door tracks. Remove the placard boards from the sides, leaving intact the lap seams and as much of the Modified USRA design rivet detail as possible (the missing rivets can be re (2955 cu. ft.) stored by making indentations with a sharp awl they'll appear as bumps, rather than indentations, NYC 102500-111999 CCC&StL 57500-59499 when seen from a normal viewing distance. NYC 113000-115999 CCC&StL 59500-59899 Remove the vertical ladder rails from the sides, NYC 117000-117899 MC 81000-82999 leaving the rungs in place (or, if you prefer, remove NYC 118500-119999 MC 84000-84999 the ladders entirely and replace them with Detail As NYC 120100-120899 MC 95000-95499 sociates No. 2202 wire grabirons). Cut off the sill NYC 122500-123499 MC 96000-99499 steps, along with the scale 7"-wide lower side sill and B&A 50000-50999 P&E 3500-3649 lower door track. NOR 4350-4749 P&E 3700-4116 With a razor saw and a knife-edge pattern file, slightly undercut the edges of the roof where it m eets N ot e : These were the number series assigned in the the eaves, simulating the roof overhang of the proto mid-1940's. CCC&StL, NOR and MC cars were in the type. To model a 1950's-era modernized car, convert process of being renumbered into the NYC r oster, so the roof to a steel panel type by fitting sheet styrene many numbers in the series for these subsidiary lines panels between the ribs, except at the extreme ends. were vacant and some of the NYC number series were These panels should have beveled edges and should be undoubtedly established to accommodate this renum filled and sanded so they look like an integr al part of bering. Also, many cars which had been equipped for the roof sheathing. auto parts loading and other special services were Make new 8/7 corrugated ends by cutting up a pair scattered through the roster individually or in small groups. of Gould No. 3001 USRA 5/5/5 ends and rearrangin g the pieces as shown in fig. 2. If you plan to model 17 Similar AAR-design boxcars were built for the New York Central, Peoria & Eastern, Boston & Albany and the other NYC subsidiaries. The carsshown here were all modernized in the early 1950's with corru gated doors, steel panel roofs andAB brake-gear. The P&E car still has its original roof, but note the steel roofwalk. Compare these cars to the NYC car in the builder's photo. - Both photos. W. C. Wh ittaker several cars witil 8 /7 ends, you can rework one end as pocket covers from the underframe and cut down the a pattern, use it to make an RTV mold and cast dupli bolsters so they're level with the upper surface of the cate ends in acrylic, epoxy or polyester resin. center sill. Cut the shallowfishbelly sections from the Remove one end from the TM carbody with a razor lower surface of the center sill and file it straight and saw and file tile edges of the roof and sides to a 45- smooth. 1" x 6" styrene strip flanges can De added to degree bevel. File a corresponding bevel on the edges the lower edges of the center sill if desired. The fin of the 7 /8 ends, working carefully and checking fre ished underframe is shown in fig. 3. Center tile under quently until it precisely fits the carbody. Cement the frame on the car floor and cement it in place. new end in place and add scale 4" x 4" styrene strips Fit Cal Scale No. 290 (or equivalent) KC-type air to reinforce the inside corners where the end and brake equipment and brake rigging to the under sides meet, making sure these won't interfere with frame, following the instructions in the p ackage. If the floor. This process can then be repeated at the you're modeling a modernized car, use Cal Scale No . other end of the carbody. Apply acrylic filler as neces 283 AB brake set, instead. sary to the joints between the ends and the carbody Remove the placard boards and lower door slides and, when dry, file and sand them smooth. from a pair of Train Miniature 3-panel doors. Notch Make a new floor from .060" styrene or ABS sheet the upper edges of these doors to clear the flange on stock . .Alter securing the floor weights to the top of the upper door track and cement them in place on the this floor with Walthers' Goo or an equivalent adhe carbody. Make new lower door tracks from 2" x 4" sive, fit the new floor into the carbody and cement it in strip styrene and cement them in place. Install new place. Detail Associates No. 6213 placard boards, centered Cut the truck mounting bosses from the original in the upper door panels. For those of you modeling a TM floor and cement them into the holes in the under modernized car, substitute TM corrugated doors from frame bolsters. an AAR boxcar kit. Remove the air brake components and coupler Fit Kadee NO.5 coupler pockets to the floor, using PROTOTYPE MODELER 1 TRAIN MINIATURE SHELL MODIFICATIONS ~-H- I • II 2 8/7 END CONSTRUCTION 3 COMPLETED UNDERFRAME s tyrene shims if necessary, so that they fit flush with 2206 eyebolts. Use the prototype photos as a guide: the lower edges of th e ends. Carefully wash the model to remove dirt and finger Fabricate new stirrup steps from flat wire staples oils ana. paint the entire car freight car red. and install them in the side sills by drilling appropri When dry, apply the lettering. Clover House offers ately sized holes and securing them in place with ACC. an excellent dry transfer set coverIng the lettering Using either a flat file or sandpaper on a flat sur and all her alds used by the NYC and subSidiary roads -face, thin the roofwalk from a Tr ain Miniature X-29 during the period fronf' 1930 to 1955. I didn't Know pre-AAR steel boxcar (kits in the 2000 series) to about this set when I lettered my model, so I used about half its original thickness and cement it in Champ decal sets Nos. H N- 15 and HD-2. Walthers de place on the NYC model. cal set 7 1-W can also be used. For post-1955 lettering, Install Detail Associates No. 6207 or Grandt Line either Champ No. HB-321 or Walthers No. 71-15 decal No. 5124 end ladders, Detail Associates No. 2202 end set is corr ect. grabirons, th e hand brake and brake step from Cal Spray the entire car with- a flat finish, install-the Scale set No. 290, roofwalk end supports made from trucks and couplers and weather the model according fl at wire staples and uncoupling levers formed from to time passed between the date -of the model's paint .0 15" brass wire supported by Detail Associates No. scheme and the time period of your layout . 19 prototype profile The Corinth & C01.DCe RaDroad Company One of the most respected short lines in the nation ne of the more interesting Class BY GUY N. KIECKHEFER Creek nuclear plant. Unfortunately, III short line railroads in the construction at this site has fallen vic O United States is the Corinth & tim to the Tennessee Valley Authori Counce Railroad, which operates 16 needed to manufacture linerboard, ty's sharp retrenchment in the area of miles of track connecting the historic and shipping out the finished paper nuclear energy and it's unlikely. that railway center of Corinth, Miss., with product to corrugating plants located construction of this atomic power Counce, Tenn. Located just northwest throughout the eastern two-thirds of plant will be resumed in the foresee of the bend in the Tennessee River the United States. In this role, it isn't able future. where the states of Mississippi, Ala unlike the Ashley, Drew & Northern, bama and Tennessee meet and south of which services the former Crossett Pa The roster grows Pittsburgh Landing, where the bloody per mill complex at Crossett, Ark., or Starting with one locomotive bor Civil War Battle of Shiloh was fought, the Minnesota, Dakota & Western, rowed from the Southern Railway, the the Corinth & Counce itself dates back serving the Boise Cascade mills in the Corinth & Counce soon bought two of in hi$tory only a quarter of a century. International Falls, Minn. , area. its own switchers new from EMD. As The Corinth & Counce was complet Since its initial construction, Cor its traffic has grown over the years, ed in 1959 to serve a new paperboard inth & Counce has been able to attract further motive power has been needed mill of the Tennessee River Pulp and other major on-line industries, includ and additional switchers have been Paper Company at Counce, built by a ing mills owned by Republic Steel and added to the roster over the past eight consortium of corrugated container Kimberly Clark, to provide some diver years to provide a present total of four manufacturers but now owned solely sification in traffic. More recently, units. by Packaging Corporation of America, Corinth & Counce received operating Operating in relative obscurity the a Subsidiary of Tenneco. It began its rights over a 10-mile branch line built first five years of its life, it originally corporate existence hauling in the by the Tennessee Valley Authority for purchased 35 steel wood rack cars in pulpwood and papermaking chemicals use in the construction of its Yellow the late 1960's , as one might expect from its role in serving a pulp and pa per mill. Twenty-five 38-foot (inside length) rack cars in the 2000-2024 se ries and ten 50-foot rack cars in the 3000-3009 series constituted its initial complement of rOlling stock. These cars were followed in the early 1970's by an additional six 45'-6" wood rack cars numbered 3010-3015. Identified by the reporting marks "CCR" (not to be confused with the "CRR" reporting marks of the Clinchfield Railroad), this fleet quietly served the pulpwood handling needs of its owner, bringing little outside recognition to the Cor inth & Counce as the important origi nator of rail traffic that it had become. It was only in 1977, however, when its growing fleet of bright blue and yel The railroad's main office building in Counce, Miss., is as simple and clean as its operation. Text continues on p age 2 4 20 PROTOTYPE MODELER CCR operates a roster of one SW900 (No. 901) and three SW1001 's (Nos. 1003-1005). Two units, such as 1003 and 1004 seen here leaving Corinth, are typical power for the Counce run unless the consist is particularly long. The Southern hoppers at the head end carry woodchips to the Tennessee River Pulp and Paper plant at Counce for manufacture into Kraft paperboard. Visible in the background is the Corinth diesel house. All photos by Mike Hargraves Tenneco untess otherwise noted Above and left, SW1 001 's 1003 and 1004 wind their way through Monroe siding with a trainload of products from Stauffer Chemical, Republic Steel and Tennessee River Pulp and Paper at Counce, Tenn. and covered hoppers with which CCR supplies Kimberly Clark with synthetic polymer pellets. Just a hundred yards ahead is CCR 's Corinth, Miss., yard and the Kendrick Rd . overpass, built by the railroad to solve the problem of auto traffic at the yard throat. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 21 Kendrick Rd. Kimberly Clark Corinth area trackage LEGEND --Corinth & Counce Railroad -- Other railroads Highways scate : ok""""""=1===::=;;'1~'"""""""""'1:===~~2 mile Farmington Rd. Droke Rd. Hwy.2 Corinth & Counce col/ection Leaving Corinth yard, SW900 No. 902 and an SW1001 cross No.1 trestle with a cut of interchange cars for the Illinois Central Gulf and, indirectly, the Norfolk Southern. Note that CCR always operates with the cab facing west-with the switchstands located on the south side of the track, they're always in view of the engineer. 22 I Tennessee River ...... \ Pulp and Paper ',f(.f -- I ~ ltd Hwy. 57 S1auffer Chemical • '--" Counce a .. ea trackage LEGEND -- Corinth & Counce Railroad Highways Scale: 0 '14 % mile ='~ m=~==~====~==~1 Republic Steel Pickwick Landing Dam COUNCE r ------ALABAM A YE LLOW CREEK PORT AUTHORITY • Yellow Creek nuclear power plant Kendrick Rd. Detail map area Corinth & Counce Railroad Company lJ-~"" LEGEND ---- Corinlh & Counce Railroad ---- Other railroads Highways c===:J City limits Scale: 1 0 3 miles Eba=c=eac~======~I==~==~I======~ Artwork: Rick Johnson/Graffix To Chattanooga, Tenn., Birmingham 23 Ala .. and Atlanta, Ga. ( ;' '. f~ , ' low 50'-6" boxcars began to carry the Orleans Public Belt Railroad boxcars low Creek Branch hardly warrants products of its online industries to the currently being stripped and repaint weekly service, the railroad expects rest of the nation that the general pub ed for the Corinth & Counce. the soon-to-be-completed Tennessee lic became aware of this important and It's rather ironic that such IPD cars Tombigbee Waterway to bring a boost prosperous little switching road. Be are being repainted for the CCR since in traffic through the Yellow Creek ginning with a grou p of 400 50'-6" that road, being a very strong origi Port Authority ser.ved exclusively by Type B209 boxcars built by Pullman nating carrier, never saw fit to enter CCR and to set the sta.ge for new indus Standard at its Bessemer, Ala. , plant in its boxcar fleet in the Incentive Per try along the brancI).. July and August 1977 and originally Diem program. This is particularly 1984 marks the year CCR celebrates leased to it by SSI Rail (this lease was fortunate now that the current boxcar its 25th anniversary, and promises the later taken over by Itel), the Corinth & glut has forced most of the large IPD inauguration of the railroad's new pig Counce later has added to its fleet more railcar lessors such as Itel, National gyback service-equipped with both than 200 similar Type B208 and B209 Railway Utilization Corporation and flatcars and highway vans. To further boxcars built by FMC and leased Emons Railcar into financial reorgani encourage off-line traffic, CCR is plan through the Itel Corporation. Its pre zation and has strained the car storage ning a warehousing operation to com sent boxcar roster is shown, series by capacity (and financial stability) of plement the intermodal terminal at series, in the accompanying table. more than one short line that had Corinth. The little-railroad-that-could During their short life, th ese Cor hoped to profit from the use of its fleet. has seen a remarkable development in inth & Counce boxcars have been Even the continuing existence of the its lifetime. Not only is it one of the painted in one of two paint schemes. Railbox Company is threatened by the most profitable per mile railroads in The light, bright blue P-S boxcars have current lack of demand for its boxcars the nation, but CCR has claimed the "CORINTH & COUNCE RAILROAD COMPANY" and gondolas. It's interesting, there NO.1 slot in freight car utilization. As applied in yellow to the left of the door. fore, that the short lines with large ambitious and progressive as CCR has The reporting marks and other re boxcar fleets that are best weathering proven to be, it's future is sure to be an quired data have been applied in black. the current downturn in the demand exci ting one. The later FMC cars are painted similar for their cars are all related to and ly , but h ave the interlocking CCR her heavily dependent upon a paper or Next Month: Modeling the Corinth & ald applied in yellow to the right of the board mill for much of their traffic. Counce, with two track plans for the door. Other minor differences between It's not uncommon for a large mill to CCR designed for PROTOTYPE MODELER the lettering of these cars can be easily originate 30 or 40 carloads a day or by Ed Vondrak, modeling CCR 's observed from the photos. more, utilizing its car fleet relatively SW900 and SWlO01 switchers and the The last two series (the 6500's and efficiently, while the typical short line familiar blue CCR boxcars. For addi the 6600's) represent FMC-style Incen with IPD boxcars is currently worry tional information on the history and tive Per Diem (IPD) boxcars being recy ing about locating additional siding operation of the Corinth & Counce cled by Itel through its subsidiary space for its idle fleet until hopefully Railroad Company, rea.ders ma.y want Green Bay & Western Railroad's Nor the demand for boxcars revives or the to refer to "The Corinth & Counce" by wood, Wis., shops. All or most of the car leases expire. Jeff Wilson, in the May 1983 issue of last two series in fact represent New Although current traffic on the Yel- RAILFAN magazine. Above left, pulpwood racks and woodchip hoppers don't stand still volume of paperboard shipped from this plant in CCR's fleet of distinc long at Counce. The Tennesee River Pulp and Paper Company, visible tive blue boxcars is the primary reason the short line leads the nation's in the background and above right is CCR's single largest shipper. The railroads in freight car utilization. 24 PROTOTYPE MODELER With common Athearn diesels as a starting point, it's not beyond the capabilities of the average modeler to capture the flavor of these passenger haulers. Modeling the Warbonnets These Santa Fe passenger F units make a truly beautiful set of motive power BY BOB KOSIC Santa Fe's 300-class F7's, an F3B re Also sand around the edges of the nose presenting a 37-class unit and a third door u ntil there isn't a trace of it , but be MODEL PHOTOGRAPHY B unit based on the 16-class F3's. careful not to sand off the lower head BY MATT KOSIC My models were all based on the ven light housing. Next, lightly sand the erable Athearn F7. The oldest in the upper headlight housing, g'iving it a Part one of this Covered Wagon Trail Athearn line, it was first brough t out slightly rounded contour. installment appeared in the November on the market in the early 1950's . It All of the mold lines should be elimi December PROTOTYPE MODELER, in was the first inexpensive, mass-pro nated, beginning with the one that which Bob Kosic covered the prototype duced diesel model on the market and runs from the top of the nose to the background for San ta Fe's passenger F proved to be the most popular of all back of th e cab roof an d the ones that units. T11is month, Bob and Matt Kosic models for years. Today, however, the run from the dynamic brake hatch to show us how to accurately model these model compares somewhat unfavor the top of the side grills. Then sand l egendary covered wagons. ably with the newest in the Athearn smooth th e line running up the center line and is showing signs of worn tool of the pilot a nd, at the same time, you first became acquainted with San ing. The following construction tech can remove the pilot steps. These will ta Fe's passenger F units during niques will show you how to upgrade be replaced later on. I the mid 1960's, and chose to model the Athearn F's to today's high stan Since Santa Fe equipped only the B them as they appeared at that time. I dards. units with steam generators, remove felt that their appear ance as modified these details from the cab units. Mask for ease of maintenance exhibited more Detail removal ing tape should be placed over the character than their as-delivered look. The first step is to remove from the h atch rivets to prevent them from be An A-B-B-B-A lashup would not only Athearn shell all details to be replaced. ing accidentally removed. Using the be appropriate for many Santa Fe pas Carefully remove the numberboards plans as a guide, remove all of the fuel senger trains, but would allow highly and molded-on classification lig hts tank skirts except the areas around the flexible motive power combinations, so from the u nits and sand the nose fuel filler. Don't discard the doors on I modeled two F7 A's and one F7B after smooth, removing all traces of them. the skirts, as th ey'll be reused later on. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 25 large or make one opening slightly dif you're happy with. I made the m.u. R ebuilding the windshield ferent than the other. I found that it door latch on my model by outlining The one feature that I find distracts helps, when filing, to color the white the hand opening with an X-Acto knife the most from the appearance of the plug with acrylic paint or a black and chiseling out the opening to a Athearn A units is the shape of the marker so it blends in with the shell, d e pth of approximately 2'/2 scale windshield. The openings on the mod making it easier to judge the shape of inches. el are square, whereas the prototype the openings. When you're satisfied windshield curves with the contour of with the results, remove the paint or Roof detailing the nose and is rounded at the corners. marker from the shell, since it may Remove all plastic lift rings from the I've devised a method of improving the bleed through when you paint it later. roof, file or sand the sites smooth and contour of the Athearn windshield The corners of the cab windows can be install Detail Associates No. 2206 wire openings. A modified windshield is slightly rounded with putty, too, to eyebolts. Firecracker antennas should shown in fig. 1 with a stock Athearn match the prototype. As you can see also be added to the rear hatch of both shell for comparison. To modify the from the photos, the extra work in A units. I m ade mine from Bell wire windshield openings, plug them with vol ved greatly enhances the look of the scraps, but commercial castings are .020" Evergreen styrene. The plugs model and is well worth the effort. also available. By filing off the flared should be cut and sanded for a snug fit roof ends , a later model F7 can be sim so that no putty is needed to fill the Nose detailing ulated. Both of my A units and one of jOint. I found it helped to square up the Let's move down to the nose. Refer the B units received this treatment. window openings with a file first so ring to the scale drawings, locate the One of the main reasons I chose to the plug could have sharp corners and numberboards and affix them with model F7 No. 310L was the 48" dynam straight sides, making it easier to fit. ACC . Work carefully-this may be a bit ic brake fan on the roof. The original After making sure that the plugs are tricky, since they must be located cor cast-on 36" fan was removed and a 6' -3" flush with the windshield openings, rectly the first time. Use ACC to fill the square was then filed to a flat surface cement them in place with ACC. Sand slightest gap between the shell and to accommodate a Details West No. 143 the surface smooth to completely hide numberboards, and sand it smooth for 48" cooling fan (fig . 2). The plate-type the seam. Check for cracks between the a seamless contour. You may want to antenna in front of the four 36" radia shell and windshield plugs, filling any substitute a 5-minute epoxy for the tor fans is easily simulated by cement with ACC and resand as n ecessary. above process as it'll give you more ing together Evergreen styrene rec Carefully draw the correct windshield time for adjustments. tangles of varying thicknesses. shape on the model. If you 're using the Again working off the drawings, lay One of the neat features of modeling plans as a guide, be aware that Ath out the outline of the nose door and the Santa Fe F3's is the amount of roof earn's roof and nose contour are differ adjacent m .u. door lightly with a sharp variation possible. The railroad would ent than that of the prototype. I arrived pencil. I found that narrow lengths of replace the componentized roof fan at the the shape of my new windshields K&S brass strips make good straight housings on an as-needed basis, so it by observing photos and plans, and edges since they could be bent to match wasn't uncommon to see an F3 with a carefully drawing that shape slightly the compound curves of the nose. Us 36" or 48" round dynamic brake fan or undersize on the model. It's easier to ing a scriber (a No. 11 X-Acto blade with any or all of the high-profile ex judge the correct size of the windshield used "backwards" works fine) and a h aust fan housings replaced with the after you start to open it up, giving you straight-edge, carefully outline the newer low-profile 36" fan housings. I a chance to make corrections before door. Don't be too heavy handed-use chose to model my F3 with the original you 've removed too much plastic. Drill many light , even-pressured strokes to rectangular dynamic brake vents and a number of holes around the inside carefuly outline the door. This will two replacement 36" radiator fans. perimeter of the windshield, taking minimize the chances of and potential This again involves removing the 36" care not to use so much pressure that damage from slipping with the scrib dynamic brake fan, sanding away all you crack the plug. After obtaining a er . The m.u. door is slightly trickier traces of the fan and smoothing the rough opening, use an assortment of because the curves must be free roofline. Layout the locations of the jeweler's files to open the window to formed. It's a good idea here to use rectangular dynamic brake vent open the correct size and contour. Stop and very light strokes so you can sand out ings on the h atch, following the di check your work frequently while fil your mistakes. It may take three or mensions in fig. 3. Open them using ing, so you don't make the opening too four tries to achieve an m .u. door Text continues on page 30 26 PROTOTYPE MODELER In the Santa Fe Railway publicity photo above, F3 's 3SLABC draw the streamlined Super Chief westbound through Cali fornia' s rugged Cajon Pass. Stainless steel grills and horizontal louvers were original equipment on phase IV F3 's such as this. Note the lower headlight and dual single-chime horns, and that the nose lift rings and rear view mir rors have yet to be added. Above, phase IV F3 No. 314C, originally numbered 32C, was built in October 1948 with horizontal grills and the fan arrangement seen here. The multi-chime horn, spark arresters, lower headlight, grabirons up the side of the nose and the removal of the fuel tank skirting are some of the modifications made to the unit by the railroad. Note the rectangular dynamic brake cooling openings just behind the cab roof. Visible on the booster unit behind 314C is some additional piping added to both ends of some boosters and the rear of some cab units. Left, when phase III F3 No. 22L was built in March 1948 it had screen covered vents and air intakes (the previous F3 order, 16LABC through 21 LABC, had the high shrouded fans, as well). Note the fan-equipped dynamic brake hatch and the angular openings behind the grill, a sure giveaway for phase I-phase III F3 's. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 27 L Grabirons Cab vent 5-chime horn Lift rings (Detail Associates) (Detail Associates) (Detail Associates) (Detail Associates) il-'-___ Dual headlight Rear view mirrors 48" dynamic brake fan Spark arresters Windshield wipers (Detail Associates (Utah Pacific) (Details West) (Detail Associates) (GS8) with PFM lights) Coupler cut levers Speed recorder cable (.012" brass wire) (Detail Associates) M.u. cables Air hose (Detail Associates) (Detail Associates) .------______~ /i:.01(j ;~~~n ~ :.______~,--J/CI~ Proto1ype Modeler ~ Drawn for PROTOTYPE MO DE LER magazine by RICK JOHNSON The purchaser of this magazine may reproduce these drawings to facilitate his or her own model building or tool designing. either for personal or commercial pur poses, but the purchaser does not have the right to sell or otherwise distribute copies of the drawings to others. These accurately modeled and finely detailed locomotives capture the flavor of the prototype not only because of the builder's choice of details, but due largely to the careful selection of materials and finishes. Note the stainless steel grills, the difference between the silver and simulated stainless steel carbody panels and the careful use of window material. 28 PROTOTYPE MODELER r'\, Qg') J , I' Firecracker antenna Plate-type antenna Steam generator (Details West) (scratch build) (Details West) Air intake grill Air intake grill Handrails / (Detail Associates) (Detail Associates) (Detail Associates) Cut away skirting Couplers on model (Kadee) BILL OF MATERIALS General Details West Testors Athearn (choose any quantity of cab and/ No. 165 numberboards· No. 1146 Silver or booster units to suit your particular No . 157 firecracker antenna· No. 1147 Black No. 143 48" fan (optional) No. 1133 Brown (optional) - lashup) No. 118 steam generator set (booster No. 3223 undecorated F7 A (powered) Virnex unit only) No. 3024 undecorated F7B (dummy) No. 9007 black decal sheet GSB Details Misc. No. 3401 windshield wipers· Adjust quantity of details to suit Brake fluid or model paint stripper number of units modeled . PFM Assorted weathering colors 1.5V mini-bulb· Athearn Misc. No. 10425 long stanchions (for stirrup Scale Scenics Evergreen Scale Models steps on cab unit only) No . 3501 brass micro-mesh (F3 only) Utah Pacific No . 9010 .0 10" styrene' Detail Associates No. 77 rear view mirrors· No. 9020 .020" styrene· No. 2206 wire eyebolts Kadee No. 2001 34" flat-top fan (F3 only) Paint and finish No . 8 couplers No. 2104 spark arresters Floquil No. 1508 m.u. hoses K&S Engineering No. R4 Crystal Cote No. 6206 air hose No. 235 .025" x '/4' brass strip No. R15 Flat Finish No. 6210 grabirons' No. R11 Reefer White Scrapbox No. 2505 brass wire No. R136 SP Scarlet ACe cement and/or 5-minute epoxy No. 1602 5-chime air horn· No. R65 Signal Red . Liquid styrene cement No. 1102 wrecking lugs· No. R101 Bright Silver Assortment of fine sandpaper No. 3303 cab windows No. R31 Reefer Yellow Styrene scraps No. 3304 porthole windows .01 2" brass wire No. 1703 4 'Ii' classification lights' Microscale 4-40 and 2-56 screws No. 1012 dual headlight conversion plate· No. 87-101 Santa Fe Warbonnet .015" acetate No. 87-012 Santa Fe Diesel (for herald No. 1901 cab vent clear silicone caulk' No. 2807 speed recorder cable· on ly) No. 2704 or 2705 air intake grill No. 87-375 C&EI (for numberboard nu merals only) ·cab unit only JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 29 11 " 10" 1-1-___ Centertine . _____+ 10" I of locomotive 11 " t 1'--____----' Not to scale DYNAMIC As noticeable as roof details are on model locomotives, continu ing the tr ue-to-proto 3 BR AKE VENTS type approach up there adds to the cha racter of the model. Note the va riety added by the difference in dynamic brake and en gi ne cooling fans between th e two units visible here. the same techniques used on the wind One other change I made to all of the Again, with all the variations on the shield and square the openings with a B units was to swap the cast-on steam prototype, you should consult photos file. The vent screens are sim ulated generator vents for ones from Details of the unit you're modeling before with Scale Scenics No. 3501 brass mi West No. 118 steam generator sets, as bending'. Attach the lift bars to the pi cro-mesh, cut on a 45-degree bias. The shown in fig. 5. lot using Detail Associates No. 2206 screens should then be fitted flush wire eyebolts. The m.u. hose restrain with the roofline and attached with Pilot de tailing ing brackets are fabricated from a ACC-take care not to clog the mesh Santa Fe's F unit pilots varied from scale 2" strip of .0075" styrene, scored wi th any adhesive. unit to unit so it's best to consult pho on the back and bent into a U shape. To install h igh-profile F3-style fans tos of the unit you're modeling before Referring to the photos and drawings, on the Athearn diesel, carve out the detailing the pilot. You can simulate cement them to the pilot and add the molded-on F7-style fans, taking care the steam line openings on each side of eight Detail Associates m.u. hoses that not to damage any adjacent fans that the coupler by drilling two No. 55 hang through them. aren't going to be replaced. Then, us holes next to each other and filing the Fabricate new stirrup steps to be ing j eweler's files and sandpaper opening with a pointed jeweler's file. mounted on the pilot and just behind it wrapped around a flat wood stick, fin The holes can th en be backed with on the engineer's side of the locomo ish the bare areas to accept the Detail .010" styrene and drilled to accept De tive. I bent my steps from Athearn Associates No. 2001 flat top fans. I tail Associates No. 1508 m .u. hoses. stanchion material, with a shorter found that I had to sand down the base Make the pocket to the left of the cou piece of stanchion soldered in place on of the Detail Associates fans so the top pler opening using' the same technique the side step. Drill appropriate mount of the fan base would match the cast-on as above, but the styrene backing ing holes in the shell and anchor them ones. Attach the new fans with liquid should be fitted on a vertical plane so with 5-minute epoxy. plastic cement. The high-profile fan in it's flush at the top of the opening and Next, locate all of the handrail and stallations and completed dynamic indented at the bottom. Form the cou grabiron holes. Drill No. 80 for the De brake vent are shown in fig. 4. pler lift bars from .012" brass wire. tail Associates No. 6210 scale grab- 30 PROTOTYPE MODELER John H. Kuehl Mike Schaler This overhead view of F7 No. 311 shows all the details we'd expect on a covered Dual-purpose F's provide a prototype for modelers who wagon built in March 1953: the vertical-slit Farr air grill, vertical side vents, 48" haven't made much progress on their Super Chief con dynamic brake fan and rounded door openings. Roof details also visible are the sists, but just can't wait to run those silver and red war firecracker antenna at the rear of the roof, spark arresters over the exhaust stacks, a bonnets. Here's No. 336 in Chicago, 1966, with a train of second plate-mounted antenna, five-chime horn and cab vent. ice bunkers-what better power for a fast freight? With the fuel tank skirting still intact (Santa Fe began removing them as Calif., fueling track. Note the pilot detail, including the footboards early as the 1950's), an A-B-B set of warbonnets poses at the Barstow, typical of 325-class power. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 31 irons and No. 77 for handrails to be bottom edges line up with the bottom screws and check for proper align formed from Detail Associates No. of the fuel filler skirting. The tank of a ment with the original coupler mount 2505 brass wire. Install only the grab finished model is shown in fig. 7. ing pads. If everything checks out, cut irons that won't interfere with the The appearance of an Athearn F unit the original pad and the end of the masking and painting processes. The lashup has always suffered from an mounting screw off flush with the end other h andrails should be set aside for unprototypically long distance be of the frame as shown in fig. 9. installation after decaling. Add the tween coupled units. Solutions to the In order to clear the new coupler hex nut-bolt-washer castings to the problem range from semi-permanent mounts, you'll have to remove some of grabirons located on the nose of the A drawbars to screwing or cementing the gearbox housing ends from the units. The reworked and detailed nose Kadee No.7 couplers farther back on trucks (fig. 10). is shown in fig. 6 , primed and ready the mounting pads, slightly reducing for final painting. the gap. I wanted a prototype coupling Painting and finishing distance of three feet between the units The first step in painting the models Chassis modifications as well as total lash up flexibility, im is to thoroughly clean the shells of After finishing the shells you can possible with drawbar coupling. My grease and oil that may have accumu turn your attention to the chassis. Be solution was to design a new mounting lated from handling the model. I start gin by stripping them of their mecha pad, shown in fig. 8, that would allow ed with painted shells, since I found it nism. The removal of the fuel tank the coupler draft gear to screw farther easier to judge the results during the skirts on the shells has left us with back on the chassis. initial phase of filing and sanding. unprototypically large fuel tanks. The The pads are made from a .025" x 1/4" After the rough work was done, I prototype tanks were actually hung K&S brass strip formed to an L shape . . soaked the shells in a commercial mod from the carbody so, when the skirts The angle is formed by chucking the el paint stripper for about 15 minutes are removed, you can see across the top brass into a steel-jawed vise and, with to remove the original paint and then of the tank. This is best simulated on th e aid of a square, aligning it perpen put them into an ultrasonic cleaner the models by cutting a scale 5"-deep dicular to the top ofthe vise. Bend the with a solution of Top Job and water groove into the top of the tank sides, brass piece to a right angle by tapping for another 15 minutes. If you don't along the bottom of the chassis. I used it with a hammer. Make sure the bend have an ultrasonic cleaner, you can a table saw with a l/S" carborundum is tight and straight. If it's angled, the clean the model with a soft bristle blade to rough in the groove. The top of coupler will mount cockeyed. Then cut toothbrush, but watch out so you don't the cutter should be set approximately the mounting pads to size, as shown in knock off any details. 1/ 16" above the saw bed and the saw fig. 8, using a Dremel Moto-Tool or a After the model has thoroughly fence should be set l/S" away from the suitable small saw. dried, spray a primer coat of Floquil cutting blade. The top of the chassis To attach the mounting pads, drill R11 Reefer White over the entire model should be placed firmly against the the chassis No. 43 as shown in fig. 8 as a base for the red. While waiting for side of the fence, using it to keep the and tap it to accept 4-40 screws. Press 'the white to completely dry, I sprayed groove straight as the chassis is the mounting pad firmly against the the inside of the cabs with my own mix passed across the top of the cutting chassis end with some sort of wedge (I ture of a light industrial green. I didn't disc. Exercise care while making the cut one from a piece of Masonite), keep keep track of what I had mixed to cut and use three or four passes to re ing it centered and level with the origi achieve this color, but a rule of thumb move all the metal. The top of the fuel nal pad. With the location of the chas is to make it a couple shades lighter tank should be rounded and the sis hole marked, remove the pad and than you think it should be to better grooves sanded smooth. Finally , re drill a No. 31 clearance hole in it. The highlight the cab interior. move the access doors from the dis hole for mounting the coupler should When the undercoat becomes dry to carded skirts and cement them to the be located as close to the bend as possi the touch, you can begin airbrushing fuel tanks. Temporarily install the ble and drilled and tapped to accept a 2- the final body colors. I add gloss to all shell and position the doors so that the 56 screw. Attach the pads with 4-40 of my paint mixtures to eliminate the 32 PROTOTYPE MODELER COUPLER 8 MOUNTING PADS / '" Drill No. 31 clear hole " '" / " /' /' --- '- '- '-,- .... /1 /,," i //' /, j ,// ,/ /' '" // '" /' " /' /' Not to scale / '" / " / " -,./" / // --- ...... 'y'// /// ",- i ","'''', Masonite wedg~shim between cast FRAME ...... ,1// ...... coupler mounting tab and fuel tank to hold pad in place while marking Remove shaded area location of mounting hole POWER TRUCK 1 0 MODIFICATI ON need for an additional coat of gloss lat er in preparation for decaling. My mix ture for Santa Fe red, to be applied to the entire model, is three parts Floquil R136 SP Scarlet to one part R65 Signal Red. This mixture simulates the color of a freshly shopped unit. If you want to simulate fading, something the war bonnets did quite quickly, add a few drops of yellow and white to the mix ture. Don't use too much, though, or you'll turn the mixture pink. After the red has thoroughly dried, mask off the red warbonnet design. I used the decal artwork and photos to layout a pattern for the curved warbonnet. Remember that the red stripe wraps arou nd the end of the unit. Spray a coat of Floqu il RiOl Bright Silver on the model, and also on the chassis and truck side frames. When dry, reinstall the drive mechanism and install Kadee No. 8 couplers. The nose stripe can be masked and sprayed with Floquil R3l Reefer Yel low. I simulated the stainless steel pan Santa Fe took full ad vantage of the interchangeability of the F unit components, but sometimes els by masking them off and spraying that left the units a little strange looking. On 31 OL , for example, one of the lower fireman's-side them with a mixture of three parts Tes body panels used to be an engineer's-side panel, leaving a unit lettered simply SANTA, and with tors No. 1146 Silver to one part Testors the warbonnet pattern doubling back into itself as if to form a paperclip. It's unusual that a 105- No. 1147 Black. You can add a bit of mph passenger locomotive such as 310L (renumbered from 44L) would have the pilot foot color to the mixture with a touch of boards, more common on the dual-purpose 325 class F's. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 33 Amtrak train 15, the Houston/Ft. Worth-bound Texas Chief, struts out Fe F' s in the spring of 1973. of Ch icago behind a double A-8 set- elephant style-of leased Santa Testors No. 1133 Brown. The units of Floquil R15 Flat Finish. If applied Drill two holes on the cab units, cen should then be set aside to thoroughly correctly, this will give a smooth, sub tered above each numberboard, to ac dry before decaling. tle g'loss finish. cept Detail Associates No. 1703 4 '12" I used a combination of Microscale After this thoroug'hly dries , the classification lights. Model the twin decals to finish my models. Their set model is ready for weathering. I air sealed beam lower headlights by No. 87-101 Warbonnet was used for brushed a rusty brown mixture on slightly filing down the diameter of the majority of the decaling, but I sub some of the F units' exhaust stacks and Detail Associates No. 1012 dual head stituted nose heralds from set No. 87- gave all the openings in the fans, ex light conversion plate so th at it fits in 012 because their proportions were far haust stacks and pilot m.u. connec the Athearn headlight hole. Paint it closer to the prototype. The numbers tions a wash of Polly S Black to add aluminum and install two PFM 1.5V for the numberboards came from set depth. Cut strips from Virnex black de mini-bulbs in the openings. Secure the No. 87-375 for Chicago & Eastern Illi cal sheet No. 9007 to apply to the verti bulbs with clear silicone caulk. Clear nois diesels. Remember to add the cal and horizontal grooves in the fuel plastic cut from a punch simulates small engine numbers on the B units. tank. Refer again to fig. 7 . Another headlight glass nicely. Finally, install After your decaling is completed, in piece of this decal paper can be sprayed GSB No. 3401 windshield wipers and stall the remaining grabirons and han Floquil Bright Silver. When dry, cut it rear view mirrors. You can use Utah drails, and paint them their correct into strips and apply them in the black Pacific No. 77 mirrors or fabricate colors. Next comes the installation of grooves to simulate the brackets the your own from .010" styrene, as I did. Detail Associates No. 1602 chime air fuel tanks are hung from. I finished Future plans for my models call for horns and No. 1102 wrecking lugs on my weathering by giving the five units the installation of new Blomberg truck the nose of F7 A No. 310L, all of which varying' degrees of black exhaust resi sideframes as they become available should be prepainted. Cut Detail Asso due on the roofs. I left the trucks un from Smokey Valley Models. Also ciates No. 2701 Farr air intake grills to weathered, since Santa Fe resilvered planned is the installation of can mo size and epoxy them over the cast-on their trucks and underbodies on a reg tors in three of the units and oscillat counterparts. I sprayed the cast-on ular basis. ing headlights for both A units. You grills black first to add depth to the can look for follow-up articles on these stainless steel additions. The units Final de tailing projects in forthcoming issues of PRO should now be ready for final finish Carefully cut cab windows and wind TOTYPE MODELER. ing. I give my models a thorough once shields from .015" clear acetate and in Hazy memories and old Koda over at this point to correct any imper stall them nearly flush with the out chromes need not be the only remem fections. side surface. Detail Associates No. WS brances of these Southwest thor Airbrush a good wet coat of Floquil 3303 and No. WS 3304 F unit window oughbreds that seemed as much at R4 Crystal-Cote over the F units. Fol glass kits can be used for the porthole home stirring up dust in Coal City as low immediately, while the Crystal windows. All of the windows can be they did snaking up Raton Pass. The Cote is still wet, with a very light coat cemented with 5-minute epoxy. warbonnets roll again. 34 PROTOTYPE M ODELER portfolio Photos by the author unless otherwise noted The 12,600 h.p. generated by the three GMD GP40-2L(W)'s and an M636 Here, 461 is backing into the Uhthorr siding to exchange empties for (the third unit in this consist) in charge of 461 today will be needed to loaded cars from Midland. move the near-60 loads of stone south on the Newmarket Subdivision. Canadian National freight No. 460/461 A combination unit train/mixed freight yo u can model BY GERHARD WETZEL Technically a unit limestone train op off-bound hoppers on the connecting erating between Toronto and Uhthoff, track between the York and Newmar here are two approaches we usu Ontario, it also functions as an intra ket subdivisions and proceeds north ally take in modeling specific regional freig'ht, peddling cars for the on the Newmarket Subdivision. T freight tra ins. For general locals along the way. At Barrie , cars are set out for the freights, the emphasis is placed on loca l industries and for train 540, the modeling the engines and caboose, Operation Monday-through-Friday way freight while the cars in between are virtually Northbound train 461 runs Monday on the Beeton and Meaford subdivi ignored because of th eir constantly through Saturday (except during the sions. Since the train handles all its changing nature. Unit trains, on the winter), originating at CN's Macmillan switching duties on the northbound other hand , are modeled with all parts Yard, just north of Toronto. The train, run, an y cars for Toronto are added to of the train faithfully reproduced. usually called to leave the yard at the consist at this time. Canadian National train No. 3 p .m. weekdays (10 a.m. on Sun Farther north, at OriIlia, cars are set 460/461 combines both of the above. days), picks up its cut of empty Uhth- out for the local industries and for JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 35 QUEBEC ONTARIO , LAKE •.. j I [Jr "."" ONTARIO MICHIGAN ./ ! 0 i BUFFALC?':ry ROCHESTER ! "" ...... DETROIT ( ' NEW YORK r L?oKE ERIE i.. .. PENNSYLVANIA OHIO Wayne M. Hannan Above, Montreal Locomotive Works-built M636's such as 2329 provide diversity to the pre dominantly GP40-2L(W) consists on 460/461. Note the black cab roof and top of the short hood. Below, for an occasional departure from the usual General Motors GP40-2L(W) power, the author suggests a Montreal Locomotive Works-built C630, modeled by modifying Model Pow er's Alco C628. Compare the weathered wet noodle paint scheme on M630 No. 2005 to the current scheme on M636 No. 2329, leading. Wayne M. Hannan Longford, served by the Orillia switch Orillia. No stone cars are handled on boxcars of flour from Olgi vie Mills or er. 503. 50-foot covered hopper s carrying sili 461 then proceeds west on the Mid The Newmarket and Midland subdi ca sand from Indusmin Industries . land Subdivision to Uhthoff. Depend visions are timetable and train order Th e flour-loading boxcars have, for the ing upon the amou nt of work required dispatched with open stations at Bar most part, had their roofwalks re at Barrie, 461 usu ally arrives at Uhth rie and Orillia. Although 460/461 is moved, bu t retain the high location for off between 5 and 6 p.m. Here its emp technically an extra and can run at any the brakewheels. The covered hoppers ty hoppers are exchanged for loads at time, its usual sch edule is fairly well are the common 100-ton capacity cy Limestone Quarries, a di vision of King adhered to, as the running times fit lindrical type, of which CN has a large Paving and Materials , Ltd. Cars are well into the traffic patterns on these fleet. Train 461 is blocked with the also set ou t at the Uhthoff siding for subdivisions. Barrie cars at the head end, followed the Orillia switcher, which operates by the Orillia and Longford setouts, weekdays to Midland as train 544. Con sist the Midland cars for Uhthoff and, fi Train 461 returns to Toronto some Althoug'h it's possible to see almost nally, the stone hoppers. Bringing up time after g p .m. as 460, usually with any typ e of CN moti ve power on the rear is a standard CN steel van. about 50 to 55 stone-filled hopper s, the 460/461 , the usual consist is from cars it picked u p at Barrie and cars th ree to five GP40-2L(W) units. It's not Product availability from Midland left for it at the Uhthoff uncommon, however , to see a six-mo Train 460/461 is a kit basher's de siding. tor SD40 or MLW unit replacing one or light. Most of the components are Train 718, operating five days a more of the Geeps. Solid sets of MLW available, at least in HO scale, in sever week, shuttles the h oppers to Milliken power are also seen occasionally. The al kit and ready-to-run forms requir wh ere they're unloaded to feed th e train also swaps out the local switch ing various degrees of kitbash ing, the building material demands of metro ers, usually GP9's , assigned to Barrie most difficult being the CN van. eN politan Toronto. and Orillia, so the mati ve power is fur GP40-2L(W)'s can be kitbashed using During the coldest winter months, ther diversified with first generation an Atlas GP40 with a Canadian Proto when the demand for aggregates is at power. type Replicas wide-cab conversion kit. its lowest, 460/461 is annulled for sev The hoppers that form the unit stone PFM's new sideframes can be utilized eral months, replaced by a long-dis train part of 460/461 are 40-foot, 82- to to produce a more exact model of a tance way freight turn, train 503, op gO-ton hoppers filled to capacity . Most GP40-2L(W). The SD40's that some erating' from Macmi llan Yard to of the Midland cars are either 40-foot times supplement the locomotive con- 36 PROTOTYPE MODELER In the process of setting out its Orillia cars before proceeding north to July 17, 1983. The locomotives are on one leg of the wye behind the Uhthoff, four GP40-2L(W) units (Nos. 9413, 9545 9443 and 9463) lead Ori llia station, the CN transfer van on the other. 461 onto the Midland Subdivision from the Newmarket Subdivision on EQUIPMENT LIST eN freight 4601461 Models given are HO scale. Locomotives: Atl as GP40 modified with Canad ian Prototype Rep li cas No . 5000 wid e-cab conversion kit; Model Power No . 6680 Alco C628 ; AHM No. 16305 (in cl udes In ternati onal caboose) S0 40 ; Ath earn No. 3151 (powered) or No. 3051 (d ummy) GP9. Above, the most common power on 460/4 61 is the comfort-cab version of EMD's GP40-2, the Open hoppers: MOC No. 1617 (lettered GMD-built GP40-2L(W). CN No. 9577 is one of 102 such units built in 1975, classified by CN as CN) or No. 1610 (undecorated) 3-bay off GF-430c. They're fairly easy to model, too, using an Atlas GP40 with a Canadian Prototype set-side hopper; Ul rich No. 190 (undecor Replicas wide-nose conversion kit. Below, CN 's wet noodle logo is the most prominent feature ated) 40-foot triple hopper; McKean No. on hoppers painted in the current paint scheme. The older scheme appears on the car to the 100 (un decorated) 15-panel out.side right. Bottom, hoppers in the 320000-325600 series can be easily modeled in HO scale, starting braced hopper, kitbashed pe r text or with MDC's triple hopper. A reasonable representation of CN outside-braced triple hoppers in painted and decaled. the 326000-326499 series can be kitbashed in HO scale from the McKean Models 15-panel open Covered hoppers: Model Power 9500- hopper. se ri es (avai lable decorated only-strip with alcohol solvent) 51 -foot cylindrical hopper. Boxcars: Athearn No. 1200 (u ndecorat ed) 40-foot boxcar, modi fied with CM Shops roofwalk plugs. Caboose: Athearn No. 5360 (undecorat ed) wide-vision caboose-two requ ired for extensive ki tbashing job. Paint: Accupaint No. 18 CN Red-Orange, No. 2 Stenci l Black and No. 19 CN Yel low for locomotives; No. 12 Oxide Brown for hoppers and boxcars ; No . 43 CP Gray for covered hoppers; No. 18 CN Red-Orange for caboose. Dry transfers: COS Letterin g, In c., No. 212 for diesels in current paint scheme, No . 163 for diesels in wet noodle paint scheme, No . 72 for caboose, No. 25 for boxcars in wet noodle paint scheme , No. 30 for boxcars in maple leaf paint scheme, No.4 for open hoppers in pre wet nood le paint scheme, No. 41 for cylin drical hoppers. Decals: Herald Kin g No. L-160 for diesels in wet noodle paint scheme, No. B-160 for boxcars in wet noodle pai nt scheme, No. H-1 60 fo r cyli ndrical hoppers; Champ No. HC-658 for open hoppers. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 37 Right, CN van No. 79605 is backed into the four-track storage yard at Uhtoff. At this point, 461 has left the Midland Subdivision and the entire train is backed into the Uhthoff storage yard to exchange empty cars for loads from Midland, Ontario. Next, the train will pick up some real tonnage at the quarry a few miles north. Below, Montreal Locomotive Works M636 No. 2317 and Alco C630's Nos. 2004 and 2005 approach Uhthoff siding in July 1982 with a short block of only ten general freight cars ahead of the unit hopper section. Nearly 60 loaded hoppers of stone, to be picked up at the quarry beyond the foliage to the left of the units, will tax 460's power on the southward leg of the turn. sist can be modeled using the ARM or hopper, shortened to 40 feet by remov teristic CN look. See the equipment list Model Power SD40. A smooth-running ing- a panel between each of the bays. for the necessary paints and decals or Athearn or GSB SD40-2 could also be The boxcars are stock Athearn No. dry transfers to give the equipment the backdated to a n SD40 model. A Model 140-1200, modified by removing the prototype look. Power Alco C628 could provide th e roofwalk and plugging the holes with Many of the older CN diesels, such as star ting point for an M630, although a CM Shops roof plugs. Model Power the SD40's, M630's and GP9's are still can motor replacement would make it makes a reasonably accurate model of painted in the original black-and-red a better running unit. The GP9 can be CN's 370000 series hoppers. By replac scheme without the white side panels, modeled u sing Athearn's GP7. ing the cast-on ladders with brass as seen on the GP40-2L(W)'s . Similar All of the stone cars on 460/461 are ones, a much more accurate model can ly , the boxcars and hoppers carry both triple hoppers. Model Die Casting kit be achieved. the wet noodle and the old pre-wet noo No. 480-1617 is already lettered for The most difficult kitbashing job on dle paint schemes. The covered hop CN, representative of the 320000- 460/461 is the CN van. A reasonable pers are all painted in the new scheme. 325600 series, although the color is model could be built by combining two too brownish- CN cars have a much Athearn No. 5360 extended-vision ca I wish to thank J . E . Muirhead, Bri redder cast. The outside-braced boose kits. This requires extensive an Moreau and Jim Stratton of eN Rail 326000-326499 series hoppers could modification to the windows and a for their assistance in supplying infor be kitbashed from a McKean 15-panel lengthened body to achieve the charac- mation for this article. 38 PROTOTYPE MODELER By reducing the car height and modifying the end bracing, a 100-ton McKean model becomes a close match to its 77-ton predecessor. Backdating McKean hoppers A diet plan for the modern high-capacity models BY JIM SIX AND TERRY STUART n any freight car popularity poll, marily lOO-ton ribbed-side triple hop pose). The older hoppers of more mea the hopper is certain to win a top pers on roller bearing trucks. Twelve ger capacity are also relatively well re I slot among many modelers. The panel cars, by the way, are generally presen ted. Several manufacturers visibility of the hopper's load, the op favored by eastern railroads, while the provide a variety of twin hoppers in the portunity for distinctive weathering western roads tend to opt for the 15- 55-ton range, and a couple of smaller and the inherent role the car plays in panel cars. triple hoppers from MDC and Ulrich so much of the heavy industry we find exist in HO kit form along with Ath appealing on a model railroad guaran The model scene earn's 4-bay offset, the prototype for tee its inclusion in significant num Modelers in HO can be thankful to which has essentially disappeared bers on most scale rosters. Bill McKean for bringing us a low-cost from the rails. As King Coal has re-emerged as the share of this traffic. The 12- and 15- Yet a study of any modern coal train sensible alternative fuel for everything panel versions of the 100-ton Green is likely to reveal many 12-, 14- and 15- from electrical power generation to ville hopper (actually built with slight panel ribbed-side triple hoppers in the home heating, the prototype has seen variations by several prototype manu 77-ton range, which are essentially new life for its hopper roster in recent facturers and railroad car shops) nothing more than cut-down versions years. Happily, this preponderance of brought out by McKean Models pro of McKean's 100-ton hopper-or is the hoppers is no longer limited to the vides a quick and inexpensive way to reverse true? It was this observation East. While the Environmental Protec enter the model coal business on a that provided a clue toward the solu tion Agency has all but destroyed some grand scale. Even so, a significant gap tion to our hopper problem. While we of the coal-burning industries (and the remains in the HO hopper supply situ readily admit that the scale rule folks economies) of the northeastern indus ation that has tended to lessen some may have a field day with this tech trial states, the increasing demand for what the authenticity of most contem nique, here's a way to get convincing low-sulfur coal has made long cuts of porary model coal trains. 77-ton triple hoppers quickly and in hoppers and entire unit coal trains Available HO hoppers tend to repre expensi vely. commonplace west of the Mississippi. sent both ends of a continuum. On the With Conrail being a primary target Expanding mining operations have high-capacity side are the previously of our modeling efforts, we were look created new traffic opportunities for mentioned McKeans, along with var ing at Pennsylvania, Erie and New western railroads. This new business ious unit train offerings by Model Die York Central cars which still abound has fostered new rOlling stock, pri- Casting (all excellent for their pur- everywhere in Conrail red and PC JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 39 Compare the end bracing on N&W 69099, above, with that of PRR 667478, above right. The peaked end and roller bearing trucks on the N&W car and the lower corner brace, two-strap stirrup step and Bettendorf trucks on the PRR car contribute further to the cars individual personalities, First cut Remove shaded area 1L - f=nIT=r.~~~APprox, '/s" ~ f Second ~ cut "'" I-- 16f Rem,ove s~ep,s , ladders and grablrons mdlcated in color 1 black, Ex-P company 77-tonners tend Dremel Mota-Tool as well, but set it to uniform thickness all around. This to be the 12-panel types (although the lowest speed to minimize melting' time, complete the sanding with 400- there are exceptions), while Erie and of the plastic carbody. First, remove grit sandpaper to prepare the surface Central cars are mostly 14- and 15- the top sill and set it aside, as it will be for painting. An alternate method panel varieties, Lengthwise, they're reused on the modified car. Then saw would be to fabricate new top sills from approximately equal to their 100-ton away the l/S" section of the body indicat .020" x .1 00" strip styrene (Evergreen brothers, but they're just not as tall. ed in the drawing and discard it. Sand No. 125 or equivalent). You can eyeball Admitting compromise, a large razor the resulting ragged edges by laying the lengths , using 45-degree angles at saw was put to work and the cut-down 80-gTit sandpaper face up on a flat sur the corners. A Northwest Short Line McKeans began to roll off the shop face, such as glass , and rubbing the "Chopper" or "Duplicutter" is handy floor (figuratively , of course!). upside-down body against it in for this operation. Line up the inside smooth, even strokes. Switch to 270- edges with the car's interior and ce Model construction grit paper for final smoothing. The ment the new members in place. The method is simple, if a bit fright bottom of the top sills should be At this point, the car is essentially a ening to the neophyte kitbasher. Each smoothed similarly. 77-ton counterpart to the McKean car. hopper beg'ins life as a straight-from On many hoppers, the ribs are bev You may be satisfied to paint the car as the-box McKean, either a 12- or 15- eled at the top. This can be easily dupli is, but, for those of you wanting a little panel model, depending' on the speciflC cated by lightly touching the ribs with more authenticity , some additional de prototype we're duplicating. a mill file held at an appropriate angle. tailing may be in order. As we said earlier, the car is a little Replace th e top sills and cement Straig h t from the box, the McKean tall, so some height must be removed them in place. The sill is too thick for car h as too many ladders for the specif from the body . Fig. 1 shows where to most prototypes so, when the cement ic prototypes we've found. You h ave to make the cuts. Make the straightest has hardened, use the above method to cut, h ack and file, but it's possible to possible cuts with th e biggest razor thin it to a more realistic dimension, remove the unwanted ladders and saw you can find. It can be done with a working slowly and carefully to keep a grabs shown in fig. 1. We use a Dremel 40 PROTOTYPE MODELER Above, PRR 672015 is one of the prototypes that inspired the authors' models. Note the lower corner braces and short end walls above the slope sheets. Left, RDG 40267 is of a common Bethlehem design similar to the author's models, applicable to quite a number of railroads. Below, EL 33940 presents a bit more of a challenge to the modeler with its shallower slopes dictating further modification to the basic McKean body. variations in head-end and rear-end lo comotive performance, th e basic cause of derailments in model r ailroad help er districts. This means a slight modi fication of the underframe-cutting all projections off the cast-on draft gear box and smoothing it out to accept the Kadee draft gearbox seems to work best. While you're at it, remove the end projection above the coupler pocket, and super-glu e the metal Kadee draft gearbox flush with the end of the car. This method will eliminate the end-of car cushioning a ppearance of the McKean hopper, h ardly a necessity in the transportation of coal! Install the weigh ts in the body shell and mask off the couplers, and the two subassemblies are ready for painting. Moto-Tool with an auger bit, small modeling, as there are variations. The roller bearing trucks supplied files, sandpaper and a sharp hobby One rather touchy but necessary op with the kit should be replaced with knife. Replace the grabirons with De eration for authenticity on most of the earlier Bettendorf tru cks, such as Ath tail Associates No. SY-2202 grabs and cars is the removal of th e modern low earn's No. 90400, painted to match the fashion new end braces from .015" pi brakewh eel mechanism. Fact is, even prototype. ano wire, referring to fig. 2 and the on the big 100-tonners which the With th e construction completed. prototype photos. McKean hopper represents, prototype gently wash the model in a mild deter Here's another touch that provides brakewheels are generally found near gent to remove grease and finger oils, increased realism-the replacement of the top of the end. A small Dremel au allow to dry and g'ive it a coat of paint the molded plastic steps with the ger bit and a steady hand seem to be the appropriate for your particular proto formed metal varieties manufactured best remedy. Cal-Scale's No. BW-351 type. The painted subassemblies can be by Tuttle Industries. They're relatively Brake Wheels and Housings (or an joined when the paint dries. inexpensive and easy to install-just equivalent), plus a platform fashioned After decaling and flat-finishing, be cut off the plastic steps, drill small out of strip styrene, will accomplish sure to cap off your work with a holes and cement the Tuttle steps in this job. healthy coat of road grime and coal place with ACC. Here's a suggestion that won't affect dust. End bracing is found angled under the appearance of the model, but it will Some or all of the detailing done to the slope sheets of virtually all hop improve operation, particularly if you these 77-tonners-the ladder, grab pers. Strip styrene is an ideal material use h elper power. The addition of Ka iron, end bracing and stirrup step re for this added touch of authenticity . dee NO.4 couplers provides real slack placement-can be done to standard One arrangement is shown in fig. 2 , action, thus creating a cushion effect McKean 100-ton hoppers to enhance but study the specific prototype you 're within a train that compensates slight their appearan ce as well. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 41 Richard H. Hendrickson more than 400 were still on the Pennsy ros warning notice about this hazard inside the ter after a half century of revenue service. top of every kit's box-I even encountered The G-22's , though advanced in design, some breakage problems in spite of han were in no sense experimental, as the dling the parts very carefully. Pennsy's initial order was for four thou To start with, a piece was broken out of sand cars to be delivered in 1915. Thou one center sill flange when I first opened sands more followed in 1916, and several the kit. By the time I had assembled and hundred drop-end versions of class G-22a detailed the floor, several other pieces of were added to the Pennsy roster a year lat flange had parted company with the center er. When built, the G-22's (though not the sill, so I filed off what was left of the flang'es G-22a-class cars) had steel floors with four and replaced them with strips of 1" x 6" sty transverse drop-bottom doors. These doors rene. I also had problems with the towing were later removed and the openings plated staples cast onto the car sides, two of which over so that by the late 1930's, only a hand broke off under light finger pressure when Reporting Marks serves as an evaluation guide for potential ful of G-22's remained in their original I was cleaning' up the edges of the side cast purchasers of model railroad and railroad-related products. Products are reviewed by persons we feel are accomplished form (Westerfield's kit represents a G-22 as ings with a file. According'ly, I removed the modelers and it is the intention of the reviewer to provide readers rebuilt without the drop-bottom doors). two remaining ones and replaced all four with fair and accurate accounts of assembly and performance. A builder's photo of G-22 775470 ap with .020 brass wire, fitted in No. 76 holes Manufacturers are invited to send products for review to PM. Shipments should be made to PT J Publishing/Wisconsin Divi peared in the 1919 CAR BUILDER'S DICTIONAR Y drilled next to the attaching bolts. sion. 511 E. Arcadian, Waukesha, W153186. Items are accepted (reprinted in Newton Gregg's TRAlN SHED My conversations with other modelers in as gratis in exchange for review and cannot be returned. CYCLOPEDIA No. 35. A G-22b-class container dicate that I'm not alone in experiencing car is illustrated in CAR BUILDER's CYCLOPE such difficulties. Al Westerfield's insistence DIAS of the 1930's , as well as in Wayner's on maintaining correctly scaled dimen HO scale G-22 g ondola book, TH E CARS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA sions and cross sections is admirable in RAILROAD. principle, but in some instances it invites When the government took over the na broken parts and needless frustr.aj.i.ClLl _ A Westerfield Railroad Scale Reproductions tion's faltering rail system during World slightly overscale center sill flange, for in Elk Grove Village, Ill. War I, the USRA freight car committee, ob stance, is clearly preferable to a broken one, viou sly impressed with the G-22 design, especially on a part that isn't highly visible Periodic additions to Westerfield's "Golden adopted the drop-end version with only mi when the finished model is on the track. I Age" line offer prototype modelers a grow nor modifications as the USRA standard 70- believe most modelers would welcome some ing variety of accurately scaled and detailed ton mill gondola . Pressed Steel Car Co. and compromises in fidelity to scale where nec HO scale kits representing steam-era Standard Steel Car Co. were instructed to essary to ensure that the model's details will freight cars. The Pennsylvania G-22 mill build 4,500 of these "government issue" survive normal handling during construc gondola should be an especially popular ad gondolas. Pennsy itself received 2,500 of tion and operation, and hope Al will take dition to the Westerfield line. Thousands of the class G-25 cars while the rest were as this into consideration in designing future G-22's were a familiar sight both on the signed to the Baltimore and Ohio, Reading, kits. Pennsy itself and in interchange service and New York Central System. After the Aside from these problems, the G-22 g'on from the World War I period through the war ended, both the B&O and the Reading dola goes together easily and continues the 1950's. In addition, thousands of similar liked their USRA mill gons well enough to high standards established by previous cars based on the G-22 design were built for order many additional cars of similar de Westerfield kits for precise detailing and the USRA during World War I and for other sign. prototype fidelity. In comparing the kit major Eastern railroads during the 1920's , Turning from the prototype to the model, with prototype photos I discovered one mi and Westerfield's kit is easily modified to the major parts of Westerfield's kit are nor discrepancy, however. Like most other represent these cars. Apart from pro molded in metal-filled polyester. These are Pennsy cars of their era, the G-22's had KD totype appeal, the relatively simple con assembled to form the carbody, to which air brake equipment, with the reservoir sep struction of the model makes this kit an various metal and plastic detail parts are arate from the cylinder, while the kit pro attractive choice for less experienced mod then added. Construction of the car is rela vides Cal Scale KC type brake gear. This is elers who may want to give Westerfield's ti vely uncomplicated and goes quickly, aid easily remedied by cutting' the Cal Scale cy "plastic craftsman-type" kits a try. ed by Westerfield's unusually comprehen linder/reservoir apart with a razor blade, A pace-setting design, Pennsy's G-22 sive and detailed instruction sheet. Careful mounting the cylinder next to the center gondola was a large and heavy car for its work and precise fitting are essential, how sill, and locating the reservoir and triple day , built entirely of steel at a time when ever, as the parts are not designed to "fall valve next to the side sill as shown in the composite construction was still common together" in correct alignment as they are model photo. It should also be noted that the practice. That the G-22's were strongly in many styrene plastic kits. Also, the cast original KD brake equipment was gradual built was demonstrated by their longevity; ings are brittle and easily damaged-in ly replaced with the AB type beginning in most survived through the 1940's, and fact, Westerfield now places a prominent the 1930's , with most cars converted 42 PROTOTYPE MODELER John C. LaRue Jr. collection to AB brakes by the early 1950's. (200,000-lb. capacity cars) and 353278- was ver y pleased with the realistic appear Early in the history of the G-22's , the re 353311 (190,000-lb. capacity cars). ance of the finished model, so I decided to tainer valves were also moved from the car Excellent decals are furnished with the try converting a second kit into a USRA end to the left side ofthe car, close to the B Westerfield kit, with prototypically correct type drop-end car. The Baltimore and Ohio (brakewheel) end. lettering that's sharply printed in dense, 0-27 gondola model shown in the photos is Since mill gondolas lead a hard life and I opaque white. Data is included for both the the result. The major modification to the kit wanted my model to represent a car that standard G-22 and the 100-ton G-22b con involved making new ends, end sills and had seen thirty years or so of service, I gave tainer car, although not for the journal re corner posts from styrene sheet and strip some thought to achieving a "well used" packing and air brake servicing data which stock, with rivet detail on the ends im look. Making actual dents in the brittle side was always stenciled on the prototype cars. pressed on a thin metal overlay. The side and end castings was obviously out of the A warning is in order about applying car posts were filed straight, eliminating the question, but after some experimenting I numbers: the number sequence on the decal Pennsy-style tapered configuration, and found that I could simulate dents by apply sheet for the sides is not the same as that for some details such as brake gear and tack ing judiciously shaped and located blobs of the ends. I didn't notice this until after I had boards were relocated. The following proto the thick ACC type adhesive that's intended lettered the sides, and found myself apply type data regarding the USRA mill gondo for use with wood and other porous materi ing the small end numbers one character at las and their postwar progeny is offered for als. When these ACC bumps were dry, I a time. Lettering the car would be easier if the benefit of modelers who may wish to filled the slight ridges around their edges the side and end numbers on the decal sheet attempt a similar conversion. with a thick application of primer so that, matched, and easier still if they corre Drawings for the USRA standard 70-ton after light sanding, they blended into the sponded to the number series used on the mill gondola, showing the revisions made sides and ends, closely resembling real prototype cars. to the Pennsy G-22 design, are included in dents in appearance. I then added some In spite of the minor difficulties I encoun TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDI A No. 9. The cars built dents and gouges in the side posts and top tered in assembling and finishing Wester under government contracts were assigned flanges with a file, and the net result was a field's gondola kit, I enjoyed building it and as follows: car that appeared appropriately battered and bent. Richard H. Hendrickson Except for the model photos, Wester field's instruction sheet omits information about the numbering of the G-22's and Pennsy's method of numbering freigh t cars was confusing, especially for modelers with limited reference material. Fortunately , Pennsy entries in the OFFICIAL FREIGHT CAR REGISTER listed car classes as well as num bers, but many modelers don't have access to old issues of the REGISTER. My January 1948 REGISTER shows the following number series for G-22's , and these probably didn't change much over the years: 315101-315866 775197-775474 352001-352831 801001-801345 360501-362383 8 10282-810458 370301-370369 825066-825172 382002-383091 840003-840158 750529-750912 864001-864052 Numbers assigned to the G-22a drop-end cars were: 750913-751040 840162-840313 775477-775751 870004-870849 810460-810774 880155-880499 825173-825287 The gons con verted to class G-22b container cars were renumbered 353000-353277 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 43 ..~,. ;. , . '.. ,:,:"..- ~. .'\.. -~ Richard H. Hendrickson Baltimore & Ohio 500 cars Pittsburgh, McKeesport n ated class 0-27, were almost carbon copies 250000-250499 & Youghiogheny3 500 cars of their wartime predecessors. Later cars, 9 1000-91499 with strengthened ends and ARA trucks in New York Central 500 cars stead of the Andrews type, were in sub-class 337500-337999' 1. Renumbered 707500-707799 in 1937. 0 -27a. These postwar B&O cars, numbered 2. Later renumbered 825387-825436. 250500-256499, eventually totalled 6 ,500. Pennsylvania 2500 cars 3. A subsidiary of the Pittsburgh & Lake There's a builder's photo of 0-27251569 in 315867-317366 Erie, part of the New York Central system. the 1925 CAR BUILDERS' CYCLOPEDIA (reprint 751330-751829 ed in TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA No. 62), and a 775968-776029 (The information above is adapted from photo and drawing of 0-27a 254000 ap 810775-810941 James E. Lane, "USRA Freight Cars. pears in the 1931 CYCLOPEDIA (reprinted in 825238-825287" RAILROAD HISTORY No. 128 [Spring, 1973].) TRAIN SHED CYCLOPEDIA No. 46). The Read 840319-840440 ing, too, purchased an additional 4,000 After the railroads were returned to pri cars, numbered 20000-21999 and 23500- Philadelphia & Reading 500 cars vate ownership, the Baltimore & Ohio be 25499, which, except for their corrugated 6950-7449 gan acquiring additional gondolas based on steel drop ends, were of USRA design. the USRA design. The first of these, desig'- Richard H. Hendrickson couplers. The parts in the kit were all of pier pockets are integrally molded with the good to excellent quality, with the details truck framework, and the instructions call on the sides and roof matching the details for cutting the pockets from the truck after ~ -...-- ""'""------.~~-,- ..• - .. ' in the above-mentioned photos very closely . it's assembled. Removal before assembly is .. r.. • • .. 9 The underbody has all of the details you'd easier and less likely to result in a broken expect to find under a coach of this vintage. truck, but the modeler must make certain The underbody parts aren't detailed as pre that the frame is assembled with the mount Pennsylvania RR P-70 coach cisely as the sides, but since they're buried ing pads for the sideframes facing down HO scale under the car, the fidelity isn't as critical. ward. The roof parts, sides and end parts are pre The instructions suggest beginning the Alco Models painted in the appropriate tuscan red and side assembly with the window installation. E. Setauket, NY black, the sides were lettered and pin striped Since some touch-up of the paint may be Editor's Note: We deeply regret reporting in simulated gold leaf. There were no car required after assembly , and since you'll numbers applied, but a set of gold decals probably wish to flat-finish the car to hide that Bruce Giles and Charlie San toro ofAlco Models have recently left the model railroad were included. Ifound that the clarity of the the number decals, the window assembly decals weren't up to the quality of the fac should be done after the treatment is ap business they began 15 years ago. Alco tory-applied lettering, so you may opt for Models' P-70 may still be found althouglJ plied and just prior to affixing the roof. I'd lettering from another source. quantities may be limited-we'll advise you suggest cutting the vestibule windows if the availability of the model resumes. The instructions consist of one 8 '/2' x 11" from the main window assemblies and in sheet, printed on both sides. One side has stalling them as separate units. In late 1907, the Altoona Shops of the Penn the written instructions on it, while the oth Most of the underbody parts are two-piece sylvania Railroad introduced an all-steel er provides an exploded view of the kit and moldings, and will require filing on the coach, built to the railroad's then new P-70 other graphic information about the assem mating surfaces for a good, tig'ht fit. After standard, a design which would become a bly. It's my opinion that the instructions these parts were assembled, it was neces long-standing' hallmark of the Pennsy pas weren't as clear as some that have appeared sary to file some of the joints to better ap senger fleet. Cars of this type were pro in other kits of this nature, and additional proximate the cylindrical surfaces. This duced for more than 20 years, and the cars information about the prototype and about was probably the most time-consuming remained in service well into the diesel era. the assembly would have been appreciated. part of the whole assembly process. The Alco Models HO scale reproduction of Information on proper numbering of the The roof presented the biggest challeng'e this famed car appears to be a model of the car, for example, was missing from the in the assembly. It consists of three major P-70 as produced around 1928. Photos of instructions. The photos of coach 3400 in sections and a dozen small vents to be added the P-70 which appear in John White Jr.'s John White's book provided the necessary to the finished roof. The main roof section book, THE AMERICAN RAILROAD PASSENGER reference material. has openings for two clerestory sections, to CAR (Johns Hopkins University Press, In assembling this model, I recommend be added by the modeler. Careful installa 1978), confirm that Aleo has accurately that you familiarize yourself with the rela tion of these sections is necessary to achieve captured this car. tionship of the parts by "dry fitting" the a smooth, flat roof profile. The main roof My sample contained all necessary parts sides, ends, floor and roof. In assembling had a prominentl sag in the clerestory sec for construction, including the special my model, I deviated slightly from the se tion, a common occurance in a molded roof Pennsy trucks and the well-known X2F quence shown in the instructions. The cou- of this type. Again deviating from the 44 PROTOTYPE MODELER instructions, which suggest using a tube photograph and measure the various de type cement, I attached the upper portions tails, or utilize excellent books like STAN of the clerestory inserts to the roof using a DARD PL ANS . The book saves Katy fans a lot strong, fast-setting cement. The cement of work, and those who buy it should thank was applied from the center and gradually Leon Sapp for his consideration in sharing extended outward to the ends of the roof. the material. The only thing that would en The lower joints were handled in a similar hance the book would be a photo or two of fashion, with occasional checks to ensure each item shown. This is not a criticism, that the lower sections of the roof remained merely a sugg'estion for future endeavors. straight. It would be especially nice to see more books As an overall assessment of this kit, the of this type. for other railroads. Historical Aleo P-70 has a high degree of prototype societies and publishers, please take note. accuracy. Despite the minor shortcomings We'lI be happy to review books. ca lendars . slide set s. litho· P.Z. graphs. records and video tapes. They should be related to of the decals and instructions, problems model rai lroadin g or ra il roading or at least conta in information that most modelers can easily overcome, it's useful to modelers. Items for review are accepted as gratis in a car that can be easily built by any modeler exch ange for review and cannot be returned. Where applicable, with experience in multi-piece plastic kits. we reserve the right to also review submitt ed items in our sister pubtications. Shipments should be made to : PT J PublishinglWis For the Pennsy fan, Aleo's P-70 is a must. co nsin Di vis ion. 511 E. Arcadi an, Waukesha, Wt 53 186. Ken W. Breher Diesel locomotive louvers HO scale Consumer Research Felton, Calif. SN3 MODELING Louvers, hinges and door latches have al Edited by Donald J. Heimburger ways been a problem for the serious proto 928'/2' x 11" pages type modeler. Moving doors around , or sim soHcover, $11. 95 ply matching details has always meant the KATY STANDARD PLANS Heimburger House Publishing Co. painstaking task of shaving detail from the Compiled by Leon Sapp 310 L atilrop Ave. side of another model or cutting out a panel 1288'/2' x 11 " pages River Forest, IL 60305 and sanding away the scale 8 inches from softcover, $9.95 behind the desired part. Consumer Re This book consists of nearly 30 articles and Mac Publishing, Inc. search, a n ewcomer to the model railroad a dozen or so drawings of Sn3 model rail P.o. Box 7037 industry, has eliminated much of the dirty road subjects. It can be described as an "in Colorado Springs, CO 80933 work for those who wish to add or relocate troduction and over view" of Sn3, although louvers on EMD locomotives. KATY STANDARD PLA NS is an unusual effort , some of the material is definitely for ad The louvers are made of a styrene-com to say the least. Compiler Leon Sapp is a vanced 8n3'ers. There are scale plans, patible material and a re packaged in quan former MKT employee who cared enough to equipment modeling features, layout tours tities of six units. Each unit has two sets of save a roomful of drawings and elata, and and more, written by noted Sn3 modelers ten louvers, which the manufacturer states this book is the result. It would be easier to such as Bob Sloan and John Mann. A little is usually adequate for one model. My sam list what STANDARD P LANS does not include. of everything is touched: structures, ple measured a maximum of .012" thick The coverage is extensi ve. If you've freight and passenger cars, locomotives across the louvers, and .005" thick across searched years for the exact dimensions of and the HO con version thereof. the edges. You may wish to sand away the every part of an MKT low-level switchstand, Converting from HO is the most interest rear .005" of the casting to obtain parts look no further. If you've prayed for floor ing' feature of Sn3. Actual Sn3 is, of course, without edges, but be warned that the ultra plans of Katy section houses, someone has 3-foot narrow gauge modeling in S scale. thin material is very brittle. been listening. There are 121 pages of Very close to that is Sn3 '12, which is exactly I tried sever al types of solvent cem ents to drawing s and information, reproduced the same gauge as HO. Therefore, one can attach portions of the louvers to a piece of from the original Katy plans. General sub model Sn3 effectively using HO track com styrene sheet. Among those tested were ject headings are signs, roadbed and track , ponents. The difference from rail to rail is Weldon 3 , Plastruct Weld Cement, Micro structures, signals, trestles and rolling' only %2. In addition, there are many read Weld and plain old lacquer thinner. The stock. It should be noted that the rolling' ily availa ble (and inexpensive) HO locomo Weldon 3 may be a little strong for the stock section covers only certain MofW tives and rolling stock kits which can be louver material, as the part seemed to m elt cars, and not revenue equipment. converted to Sn3 (or Sn3'12) with a mini and distort sligh tly . On the other end of the It's a foregone conclusion that Katy mod mum of fuss. The book explains several con spectrum, the lacquer thinner seems to elers will gobble this one up, and other in versions, involving MDC, Athearn and oth evaporate too quickly to achieve a good terests also will find valuable information er products. bond. The other two cements gave a good in the book. Certain items, like grade cross Graphics a nd reproduction a re very bond with little or no distortion. ing specs, track profiles and turnout/cros good, with an abundance of photographs. This is a long'-awaited product , directed sover dimensions, are applicable to almost Anyone conSidering a narrow gauge layout at the modeler who is attempting' to achieve any rai1road. will find the book valuable, and after read the highest possible level of prototype accu To achieve the feel of a particular proto ing it, one is tempted to ask why more mod racy. At $2 per package, Consumer Re type, visual details such as yard limit and el railroaders are not working in Sn3. The search louvers should be welcomed by most station signs of the appropriate design book will certainly cause many to examine diesel-bashers.- Ken W. Breher must be included in a scene. Modelers must the scale cl osely.-P.Z. JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 45 PM Junction An open-an d-shut case modified to blend in bet ter with streamlined equipment. The Denver & Rio Grande West I really enjoyed the North Western Limited burned down and they were using' a couple ern had several dining cars with this sort of article (July-August 1983 PM). It brought of bunk cars for a depot and train order r oof, characterized by a sharp corner and to mind an amusing experience I had back office. Nortonville was a busy car inter in 1973. My family and I journeyed from steep slope at the end of the roof. Compare change and mail transfer point between the Prince Rupert, B.C. , to Detroit by a Canadi the roof ends of NO.6 with the more round Illinois Central and L&N. There was a rath ed end on combine No. 286 on the next page. an railroad. Par t of the trip included a er large depot there, built on a right angle roomette in a duplex car. While comfortably Also note that the slope of the roof is steeper facing both the L&N and the IC, with a 3- and.seems to curve to nearly vertical above resting in a drawer-type berth around mid position train order signal for the L&N and the letter board. I can't see the CGW doing night, the train made a sudden stop and a 2-position lower quadrant for the IC. Hop slWh modernization, but perhaps they slam went the drawer-with me in it. It kinsville h ad a water tank on Second Street bought the car second-hand from a road didn't lock , fortunately , but it did give me a that did go for this idea. with a small turntable and a water tank good lau gh. south of town. They'd be great models to I'm a new subscriber to your magazine Gordon Cole Bassett add to the HD if one wished to model it in a and am really enjoying the articles and steam period. Colorado Springs, Colo. clear pictures. I'd sure like to see a g'ood W. W. Simms article and dimensions of the circa 1935 I believe CGW RPO-baggage car NO.6 was Bovina, Tex. Hiawatlla 4-4-2. My train watching started rebuilt from a CGW sleeping car. Perhaps in 1936 when that consist sped through St. one of our r eaders h as additional informa Paul on its Chicago-bound schedule. tion.-M.S. Sleeper problems C. G. Fader Congratulations: you just ran a modeling Ketchikan , Alaska Stirred CGW memories article that made the other model r ailroad publications look pretty good. I'm talking I enjoyed the September-October issue of about the Chicago & North Western North S ince when? P ROTOTYPE MODELER, and especially the arti ern sleepers (September-October PM). I ran cle on the Chicago Great Western. I came When was the spelling of Bellevu e, Ohio , out a nd bought $30 worth of parts, only to from a long family line of former CGW em changed to "Bellvue," as on page 3 of the ployees and enjoyed riding Nos. 13 and 14 find that the article was very, very inad September-October PM? equate for properly building the car. Lots of m any times on my father's pass. I especially words were used on parts for the roof and Regg'ie McGee remember the two specials the CGW ran underbody, but not one photo or drawing of East Canton, Ohio each year- the river ramble from Oelwein either. It showed in gTeat detail how to to Dubuque and the picnic specials on make a static full-width diaphragm , I t was about tlle time we put th at issue of which each family traveled from all four thoug h-something every car should have PM togetller-we'vejust put th e "e" back in. spokes of the system to Oel wein for a family if you want it to derail on any curve tighter Thanks.-R.J. outing, courtesy of the CGW. Probably my than 36" radius. Even you r parts don't fondest memory was standing in the cab of agree with the text: do I use a Walthers a covered wagon next to the hoghead for wood floor or a Northeastern? The end grab Curious about CGW RPO-bag'gage car about 80 miles from Clarion, Iowa, to Oel holes were wrong-how wrong'? Where wein. should they be? Century Foundry part No. I wonder if an yone knows anything about I remember toward the last years, the 205 is an engine generator; how does it re the origin of the Chicago Great Western consist would sport a shiny maroon boxcar late to the air conditioning system? The RPO-baggage car NO.6 on page 18 of the behind the combine and, behind that, a roof weld lines are located every 33", but September -October P ROTOTYPE MODE LER. Union Pacific boxcar, both set up for pas starting where? At the center of the car? Looking at the roof ends, I suspect that this senger service. I was told they contained One end? And the fresh air inta ke above the car was originally a clerestory roof car, sealed mail from the Twin Cities and were vestibule door: which door? There are two. I happen to admire the job Bill Stauss did like to correct. I'd also like to clarify some This will place the top grab iron even with in building his Northern sleeper. Aside areas of construction that may have been the black stripe running below the win from the lack of good roof and underbody unclear to the readers. dows. photos, it's an ideal article on a well-built As stated in the text (but omitted from the In building a second Northern sleeper , I model. Your magazine has pulled itself up bill of materials), I use a Walthers No. 135 found that filing the full-width diaphragm by the proverbial bootstra ps. Please, please wood floor for the carbody. The Northeas striker plate from a sing le piece of styrene avoid getting into the r ut that that other tern No. 71 2 wood floor listed in the bill of was easier and less time-consuming than model railroad mag'azine is in, publishing materials is used as a template in forming building the three-piece assembly in the prototype modeling articles without proper the contour of the skirting. I also men drawing. It's also possible to make fl exible. documenta tion of that prototy pe. That, tioned that Brass Car Sides makes sides for working dia phragm s by substi tuting after all, is what your title is all about. C&NW's 6500-series parlor cars when , in m asking tape or some other flexible materi Byron S. Rose fact. the only other C&NW sides made are al for the Evergreen No. 8108 '/s" strip sides. Pittsburgh, Pa. for the 3400-series coaches. Lacking prototype drawings , I was When detailing the car sides. holes for the forced to rely on available photographs of gTabiron s at the forward end of the car (op the prototype (published in the July-Au About that sleeper posite the vestibule) need to be drilled, as g ust PM) for placement of the roof and un the predrilled holes are in the wrong loca derbody details. In rereading m y article on modeling the tion. The new grabiron holes are located 6" Bill Stauss Chicago & North Western 's Nortllern-se from the end of the car, and 4' -9" and 6' -6". Mazomanie, Wis. ries sleepers . I noted a couple of errors I'd respectively, from the top of the car side. Air cond itioner \IIIater tank cooler All measurements trom vestibule end (not including diaphram) Measurements trom this end 46 PROTOTYPE MODELER forwarded to the west coast. I remember that they were cut off at Council Bluffs to be delivered to the UP. Michael E. Porter Parkville, Mo. More CGW nostalgia I was delighted to see the feature on CGW varnish in the September-October PM. Like a lot of other railfans, I didn't discover the CGW until the late 1950's , when I saw CGW No. 14 leaving Omaha. It had one of those UP 40-foot double-door express boxcars in the consist. I've read that up into the late 1950's and early 1960's , 13 and 14 often ran 15-20 cars during the Christmas season IV .C. \Vh ittailer with a lot of "borrowed" headend cars. Since they shared Burlington's station in Omaha , Questions boxcar built date ed in minor dimensional changes which that was where they first turned for extra took them out of the distincti ve 3782-cu . ft. equipment. Jeff English and I had some raised eye categor y. More information would be wel brows over Anthony Thompson's Modeler's comed h ere. In may 1961 I took a railfan's holiday and Notebook installment (July-August 1983) rode all of the then-remaining CGW passen I've discovered a photo of a B-50-32 in its on SP Class B-50-32 boxcars. The Athearn ger service: Omaha to the Twin Cities and original paint. just 15 months old in fact. car generally represents a pre-war design then to Kansas City. At that time, 13 and 14 showing a 1-53 built date. The photo also with original Dreadnaught ends and Mur SilOWS the ends: which are the so-called picked up and delivered a solid car of stor "im phy roof. Pullman-Standard was building agemail between Austin: Minn., and St. proved Dreadnaught'· (ID) ends. Note al so PS-1 's (all welded with different ends and Paul. NO .6 departed Minneapolis with just that the l arge tack board on the door is lo roof) from 1947-48 on. It seems inconceiv the power, RPO-baggage and combination cated differen t1y than on tile published able that P-S would make a special run of photo coach. At St. Paul, the full baggage car was of 132405. 970 cars of an obsolete, 15-year-old design. picked up. It's possible that the same bag Isn't that like asking' GM today to build 970 gage car ran Austin-St. Paul-Kansas City L et m e n ow turn to Joll11 's letter. H is and return. 1965 Chevies? Can the date be wrong') The questions are reasonable ones. and might car in question obviously has rivets, but the To avoid switching charges in its final well be shared by other readers. so til ey de 1949 EQUIPME NT R EGISTER lists no cars in serve a full reply. I do t1link, h owever. that years, 13 often carried one 01' more h eadend that particular series. What g ives') cars on the rear of the coach, which were p er1laps th ey stem from an oversimplified view of freight car development. Yes, the dropped at the freight yard in Council John Nehrich Athearn car is essentially tIle 1938 "AAR" Bluffs and later delivered to the U.S. Mail Troy , NY Rail Transfer by the Great Western's own design: but th e PS-1 was designed in 1940. switch crew. In accord wit1l the old rule that "no m a tter as Todd Sullivan pointed out i n t1l e Dec. If the combination car pictured on page how careful you try to be, more information 1982 M AINLINE M ODELER. The SP. incidenta- 19 looks familiar to Chesapeake & Ohio always appears as soon as tile articl e is pub- 1y, never bougilt any PS-1 's , according to fans, that's because it was one of several 1islled," I've found more information on the the Su11ivan article (altho ugh subsidiary (four, I think) picked up by the CGW from B-50-32 SP boxcars I described in the July Cotton B elt owned a few). so welded con the C&O in the early 1950's. A ugust issue. These cars wer e originally struction m ay have been slow to be accep ted built for the T&NO, and exactly how many by the SF. Jim Seacrest cars were in tile order from Pullman-Stan J o1111 is right in expecting ID ends. as North Platte, Neb. dard is still uncl ear. The best estima te I can most post-World War I cars h ad them in m ake from tile EQUIPMENT R EGISTERS I have stead of the "original" style ends, as r epro CGW Kansas City Sub fades away is a minim um of 3500 cars, in tile number duced on the Athearn car. The B-50-32 series 59750-64249. These cars were di photo shows the ID ends. I didn 't mention Thank you for the wonderful article. "Chi menSionally identical, since all ilad the the ends in my article, one way or the other, cago Great Western Varnish." As a Chicago same cubic cap acity (3782 cubic feet), but but g iven the lack of a conveni ent way of & North Western brakeman out of Kansas not all were necessarily built by Pullman ch anging car ends to the ID sty le, I chose to City, I'm very familiar with the former Standard. By 1958, there were 3405 cars l ea ve the Atllearn ends as tlley were. Great Wheaties trackage between Kansas remaining in this n umber series. As for the question of rivets. I think a City, Mo. , and Des Moines, Iowa. On a sad In 1961, when the T&NO was absorbed ch eck of various photo books of th e era and note, however , starting Dec. 1, 1983, all in to the paren t SP. rolling stock began to be the appropria te CYCLOPEDIAS will show traffic will be routed over the newly ac re-1ettered with t1l e new reporting m arks. clearly that most freigh t cars (the m ajor ex quired Rock Island Spine Line and the for R en umbering also occurred w h en the cep tions seem to lla ve been covered hoppers mer Great Western trackage (Kansas City T&NO numbers duplicated existing SP and flatcars) were still being assembled Subdivision) will be closed except as needed numbers: that was tile case for these cars. with rivets well into the 1950's, PS-1 's n ot for local service and should be abandoned as SP already h ad boxcars in a 59000-61200 withstanding. within three to five years. series. This process probably accounts for one l ast point. Freight cars aren 't (and A note on modeling CGW F7's such as No. the lettering in the photo published with certainly weren't in the 1950's) produced 152: After studying pictures in both the my article: the r esten ciled reporting marks. like Chevies. A railroad 's order for hWl Hastings book (Iowa in the Merger Decade) n ew nwnber. and the HO (H ouston) 6-61 dreds or even thousands of a particular car and the book SIX UNITS TO SYCAMORE , I noted SllOP m ark (th e built date of the car is 3-53). d esign r eadily justified the bui1der's will that all CGW F's h ad winterization hatches By the July 1962 R EGISTER . over 800 of the ingness to "build 'em like tlley want 'em . ., (I use Details West No. WH-16) and not all 2755 remaining 3782-cu. it. car s were re You could even order steel -framed, wood had dynamic brakes. On the subject of the l ettered SF. sheathed cars-SP bought n ew sugar beet passenger cars, RPO-bagg'age NO.6 now re Inciden tally, the reduction 0 [' 650 ofthese GS gondolas of t1lat description as late asf sides at the Kansas city Railroad Museum fairly new cars between 1958 and 1962 1951. The purchasing of standard-design and even though it now sits in disrepair it's seems rather high for normal attrition or freight cars has d eveloped slowly and isn't nice to know that at least one piece of the scrapping. One possibility is that they were universal. even today. Thus, obsolescence fl eet survived. being modified for other (speci alized) ser doesn't mean t1le same t1ling for freig1lt David E. Lindquist vice, something the SP did a lot 0 [' in tllat cars as it does for Chevies.-Tony TllOlllP Shawnee, Kan. p eriod , and that the modifications(s) r esu1t- son JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1984 47 ~------, Quality is Here! Craftsman type wood structure kits from JV Models. 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