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Constructed 01 metal, the HO 2-Rail DC Big Boy is the largest HO steam locomotive ever built by IHIX.
Built specifically for North American 2-Rail DC model railroaders, the limited edition TRIX Big Boy has a TRIX HO scale length of 18-5/16" and weighs over 2 Ibs. 10 oz. Representing a level of craftsmanship only found previously on brass models at a much higher price, the TRIX Big Boy has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of only $598.
The Big Boy features a metal frame, boiler, tender body and tender frame. A high-efficiency can motor with bell shaped armature and flywheel powers eight axles that drive all 16 wheels. Headlight and number boards are equipped with LEOs for lighting. In addition, the Big Boy has these features: • RP 25 wheel flanges • Kadee® coupler #18 • DCC connector for locomotive decoder installation • Factory-ready for installation of two Seuthe smoke generators • Tender factory-ready for digital sound effects system Purchased by Marklin in 1997, TRIX manufactures HO products with the same quality workmanship and technical innovation that Marklin has been famous for since 1859.
For more information on the TRIX HO 2-Rail DC Big Boy #T22594, visit www.trixtrains.com/bigboy. or call (800)825-0888 for the name of your nearest dealer. Also available are ten different UP boxcars, hopper cars and caboose. Check www.trixtrains.comlbigboy for details. www.trixtrains.comlbigboy MSRP $598.00
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��=i�·�C�h�aI�le:ng:er Imports, Ltd., Capital Square Station, P.O. Box 93244, Des Moines, IA 50393 is importing ready-to-run brass replicas of the Southern Pacific Class GS-3, GS-4 and GS-5 4-8-4 locomotives in a choice of "Daylight" or black-and-silver paint schemes to match specific prototypes.
The 68-foot finger rack TTJX 68-foot flat cars in series 80246- 80519 are being imported as ready-to-run painted brass mod Resin Unlimited, P.O. Box 410, North Prairie, WI els by Overland Models Inc., P.O. Box 248, Yorktown, IN 53153 is now shipping this injection-molded plastic 47396-0248. truck or trailer air bag suspension kit (to replace the leaf spring setup in most kits and ready-builts) for $2.98 each or a two-pack for $4.98.
Overland Models Inc., P.O. Box 248, Yo rktown, IN 47396-0248 is importing painted and lettered brass re plicas of the Clejan-built 75 - foot TO FC (Trailers on Flat Cars) piggyback cars operated by the Erie, KCS and New Haven. See your dealer.
4 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 Life-Like is producing this ready-to-run replica of the Budd RDC-l in Amtrak, ATSF, B&M, B&O, CNW, C&O, New Haven, NYC and Reading lettering for $70.00 each ready-to run.
Bachmann will offer a completely new Spectrum F40PH diesel with wire grabirons and an improved mechanism. The model should be at your dealer early in 2003, and it will be offered in Amtrak Phase II, III, and IV and NJ Tr ansit paint and markings.
The Ako C-630 is now av ailable from Stewart Hobbies, 140 New Bri tain Blvd., Ch alfont, PA 18914-1832 as an undecorat ed kit or with N&W, PRR, Sp, PC, L&N, Conrail, ACL, Up, SCL or Cartier paint and lettering for $135.00.
Kirkland Hobbies is a new manufacturer of modern-era cast-resin freight car kits. Their kits include this lOO- to n Ortner wood chip car. Send a stam ped, self-addressed enve lope for price list to Kirkland Hobbies, 187 Concord Circle, Panama City, FL 32405.
Kirkland Ho bbies, 187 Concord Circle, Pan ama City, FL 32405 is producing cast resin kits for a series of modern freight cars. This Magor 50-foot pulpwood car was oper ated by several ro ads, including the Southern. Send a stamped, self-ad dressed envelope for price list.
RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER2002 5 HO SCALE: N SCALE: Freight Cars of the Fifties: Modern Freight Cars: lV offset-side 34-foot hoppers from ICG 50-foot flat car with wrecked Thrall Athearn or Atlas kits, gondola loads from Micro-Trains and by V.S.Roseman ...... 11 Roundhouse models, Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: by Keith Kohlmann ...... 8 EMO 5035 as CN) 2505 and 2511 from Intermodal Modeling: Atlas models, by Louis A. Marre ... . 19 APl containers,Part III, 45, 48 and 53-foot Modeling Steam: general-service and 40-foot refrigerated Missouri Pacific 0-8-0 from the life-like containers,from Deluxe Innovations and "Heritage" models, by Lee Freeman ... 22 Con-Cor,by David G. Casdorph . ...24 Intermodal Modeling: Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time: APl containers, Part 111,45, 48 and 53-foot EMD 5035 as CN) 2505 and 2511 from general-service and 40-foot refrigerated Atlas models,by LouisA. Marre ....19 containers, from A-line,Athearn and Locomotive Performance: Walthers,by David G. Casdorph .... 24 Summary of all previous locomotive Diesel Modeling: Performance Test Reports ...... 63 Pelle Soeborg's diesel fleet, by Pelle Soeborg ...... 3 1 SCALE: EMO 5040-2 as 500 line 777 from o Diesels, One-Oetail-At-A-Time: Athearn's kit,by Bob Rivard ...... 37 October 2002 Volume 14, No.5 EMO 5035 as CN) 2505 and 2511 from Modern Freight Cars: Atlas models, by Louis Marre .... ACF Coalveyer gondolas from Atlas A. 19 ON THE COVER: Modeling From The Locomotive Performance: models, by Edward S. Kaminski .....1 5 Prototype includes all eras, but we seldom see Summary of all previous locomotive IPO,Railbox, and Other Cars from the Box The the earliest eras on a model railroad. Performance Test Reports ...... 63 Car Boom of the Seventies: Railroad . locomotives, rolling stock and details are Built Cars,Part II,from Athearn and available to make it possible to recreate 500 line HS kits,by Jim Eager ...... 0 accurate 1860-era scenes so Bernard 4 ALL SCALES: QGRY 85301 NSC newsprint box car Kempinski did just that to produce Layout Design: from life-like's Proto 1000 model, "Alexandria, Virginia, 1862." There's more Modeling Civil-War-era railroads, by Daniel Risdon ...... 68 . . beginning on page 46 of this iSlue. -Bernard by Bernard Kempinski ...... 46 SIRX ACF 4650 Center Flow covered Kempinski photo Modeling Industry: hopper from AccuraiJ's kit, Wood chip loading and unloading facilities, by Chris Butts...... 69 . . . . by J. Emmons Lancaster ...... 58 Layout Tour: Alexandria, Virginia,Circa 1862, by Bernard Kempinski ...... 46 Departments: Locomotive Performance: What's New ...... 6, 7, 65, 70, 71 Summary of all previous locomotive Diesel Index ...... 60 Performance Test Reports ...... 63 Calendar ...... 66
8 • LAYO UT DESIGN: MODELING 1 62, page 46 15 • COALVEYER GONS FROM ATLAS MODELS, page 8 • MODELING THE WOOD CHIP INDUSTRY, page 5
• KIT-CONVERSION OFFSET-SIDE HOPPERS FROM ATHEARN OR ATLAS, page 11 8 • HERITAGE, BY LIFE-LIKE USRAMP 0- -0, page 22 ATLAS IN HO, N 19 • EMD SD35 AS eNJ 2505 11 2511 FROM 11 0, page 31 • PELLE SOEBORG'S DIESEL FLEET, page
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RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 7 [ UPGRADING N SCALE]
FROM MICRO·TRAINS AND ROUNDHOUSE MODELS By Keith Ko hlmann
These unusual flat car loads provide an opportunity to display the detailed underbody on the "loads." There's an index of all previous articles on upgrading N scale freight cars and locomotives on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com
friend and I were looking at the incredible underbody Bill of Materials I detailing on some fr eight Micro-Trains: MicroScale: A car models at a prototype ICG 50-foot flat car, MT number 60-2 Freight Car Data-Gothic modelers' meet. He 1030 Roller Bering Trucks with remarked, "if you spend that much time couplers Walthers: looking at the bottoms of your cars, FRA lubrication plates maybe it's time to fi x your track!" Roundhouse: This model is my reflection of that PAINTS: sentiment. My wreck damaged Thrall 50-foot high side gondola lettered Floquil: gondola is just the light item to set the time for Wisconsin Electric Evergreen Driftwood Stain (late 1970s) and place (north of Chicago) strip styrene HO 2 x 12 inch, 6 x Rail Brown for my collection of modern fr eight cars. The 1970s were financially difficult 12 inch Railroad Tie Brown times for the railroads of the Midwest. Roof Brown Unit coal trains provided much needed InterMountain: Mud revenue, but the loaded 100 ton cars Couplers Weathering powders pounded the old jointed rail and muddy Black rayon thread roadbeds into dust.
A pair of wreck damaged WEPXThrali gondolas are passing through Racine Jet., WI on their way to the CNW car shops at Cudahy, WI for heavy wreck repairs. The car is strapped to 53-foot 6-inch ICG flat number 609505. Notice how the gondola hangs over the side of the fl at car. This was a commonly seen load on the ICG between the Kentucky coal fields and Chicago, and on the CNW between Chicago an d Milwaukee, December 21, 1979.
8 RA ILMODELJOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 This WEPX coal gondola is heading back to the home shop in Cudahy, WI for heavy wreck repairs.
RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 9 It was common during this era to see WEPX Gondola with Railroad Tie Brown. The trucks and Thrall gondolas owned by the Wisconsin The starting point of my wreck sides of the car were lightly sprayed with Electric Power Company (WEPX) damaged Thrall gondola was a Roundhouse Roof Brown. returning to the CNW Cudahy, Wisconsin 50-foot high-side gondola lettered for The interior of the WEPX gondola car shops for heavy wreck repairs. The Wisconsin ElectJ.ic. I removed the tJ.·ucks was painted Rail Brown. The bottom of battered gons were loaded upside down and twisted the body to release the metal the car was heavily weathered with Roof by the home road where the wreck weight from the interior of the car. I fi lled Brown. All damaged areas were dry occurred. Most of the WEPX cars came in the truck-mounting holes with putty. brushed with Rail Brown to represent back on Illinois Central Gulf flat cars I sliced off the corner stirrups, and I fresh rust. Floquil Mud was dabbed after a mishap while running between cut off the brake gear lumps under the car. around the bottom and ends of the car to Chicago and the Kentucky coal fields. I placed the car about two inches show where the car was on the ground. away from a 100-watt light bulb to soften Both cars were lightly dusted with ICG Flat Car the plastic sides. After about 10 minutes, weathering powders to bring out details. began my model with a Micro I slightly bent the sides inward to Brown was used on the flat car. Black Trains lCG SO-foot flat car. I cut off the represent a car that got caught between was dusted along the sides of the brake wheel stand and popped out the two cars in a pile up. gondola. Finally a little white dust was plastic underframe detail insert. I cut 9 After the car cooled, I cut out a applied along the Micro-Trains feet off each end of the metal section from one of the car sides to underframe to show the detail that is underframe. I made a new bolster from represent the place where an ICG carman normally never seen. I an 8 h-inch-long piece of Evergreen had to cut out a section of the car with a HO 6 x 12-inch styrene to lower the car. torch to untangle the cars. final Assembly I glued a 3-foot-long piece of HO 2 x I glued an InterMountain coupler box I glued the gondola directly to the 12-inch strip over the center of the at each end of the car. I broke off one deck of the flat car with epoxy cement. bolster. I drilled a number SO hole for knuckle, and I twisted the coupler on the I secured six pieces of rayon thread with the truck-mounting pin. I switched the rotary end to show the damage from the CA to the stake pockets to represent the trucks to MT number 1030 Roller train breaking apart. tie-down strapping. I found it easiest to Bearing Trucks with Couplers. The I cut off all the cross-bracing from the use a little drop of CA accelerator to metal weight was glued back under the plastic underframe insert that was left instantly cure the threads in place. car without the plastic detail insert. over from the Micro-Trains flat car. I This was an easy and fun kit I used a soft pink eraser to remove used a Dremel tool to grind out the conversion project. The trick is to keep the data from the sides of the flat car. I centersill of the gondola so the MT from overdoing the damage. Any replaced it with data and an ACI plate underframe detail would fit. severely damaged cars would not be from MicroScale set number 60-2 salvaged for repairs. They would be cut Freight Car Data-Gothic. FRA Painting and Weathering up for scrap at the wreck site, but that's Lubrication Plate decals from Walthers The deck of the flat car was painted another project! were applied to the sides of the flat car. Floquil Driftwood Stain then weathered RMJ
The sides are warmed then bent. Damaged panels are removed, rotary coupler twisted and small details broken off.
The Micro-Trains underframe insert from the flat car is fitted into the underside of the Thrall gondola.
10 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 CARS OF FIFTftIE'SS;-I------�[FgRH:EIGHT THE ] ------
I.Vi FROM ATHEARN OR ATLAS� HO SCALE MODEL By V.S. Roseman i;"t��·r�.p��I'���1ft.t'�.��";J:
Completed model of Lehigh Valley 12984.
nthracite (hard coal) was an went to wide-firebox anthracite-burning Lehigh River which then proceeded to important fuel for clean locomotives for their Staten Island Rapid flood all of the mines out, bringing burning installations in Transit operation, a number of industries mining here to an end. Ahomes and some industries. converted to use anthracite coal, and the One of the main shippers of The much more common rush was on in the coal mines to expand anthracite coal was the Lehigh Va lley bitumjnous or soft coal sets the image we their operations in hard coal country, which stretched from Jersey City and usually think of when we talk about coal such as the Wyoming Va lley. Perth Amboy on the tidewater to Buffalo black smoke fo uling the landscape with Bubbles began to appear near the on the West. Coal could be easily soot, darkening wash on the line, and shore of the Lehigh River in brought from the mines served by the smudging the sky with impurities. Pennsylvania one day in 1956. Soon Valley (as the railroad was often caJled) Anthracite leaves little residue even foam rose and fi nally a geyser of water through their gateways all the way from when handled. This hard, shiny black shot out of the river. The event marked the Ne w England States to the Midwest. rock has a high kindling temperature, but the end of anthracite coal mining in the As freight car fleets went, the Lehigh once anthracite starts to burn, it gives off Wyoming valley, one of the richest Valley could be said to be fairly an almost smokeless heat with nearly no seams of hard coal in the world. For conventional, except possibly for its group oat. As coal went, this was the cleanest nearly a hundred years anthracite had of left-hand-door box cars and its form. been mined throughout the valley and composite hoppers which were built up Cities such as New York had been several railroads fo rtunes had been based through the 1930s (to avoid corrosion from instituting smoke abatement regulations on the hauling of hard coal. As the mines some high-sulfur coals being hauled). for years, but by the turn of the 20th were dug deeper and wider it was This interesting and unusual design of Century, the pall of grey smoke over the inevitable that they should eventually hopper car appeared on the LV in 1944. city finally caused laws to be enacted meet as they were dug ever closer to the Generally, the fo lded section of the sides prohibiting bituminous coal to be used as edges of the properties. Eventually, it is of an offset car had additional strength a locomotive fuel within New York city said, all of the mines connected in over a plain flat side. Rib-sided cars had Iimjts. Rajlroads converted engines to oil various levels. Then in 1956, a new strong stamped metal ribs on the outside burners in a few cases, and other roads tunnel branch apparently came too close of the car that reinforced their flat sides. electrified. Some roads such as the B&O to the river, for it opened the bed of the These new cars in series 12000- 12899 . RAILMODELJOURNAL OCTOBER 2002 11 HO HOPPER REBUILD had the folded metal of conventional Modeling the LV Hoppers slicing some off an old car body and offset-side cars, along with their interior The 55-ton twin hopper models with carefully gluing them in place if you like. bracing, as well as hat-shaped rib sections offset sides in HO by Athearn and Atlas Remove the gussets at the upper riveted outside the car providing great both have similar proportions to this car. diagonal panel of the cm'side carefully. strength to this group of cars. After acquiring several Athearn cars for Any material left can be sanded off, and Apparently satisfied with the 900 this project, [found that the Atlas car has any gouges can be puttied and fi nished hopper cars received in the 1944 group, its central vertical end posts closer by sanding after thoroughly dry. A nice the Lehigh Va lley returned to Bethlehem together than the Athearn model, and so fi nish at this stage of the work will give Car Works in 1948 for a nearly identical the car ends would be more similar to the you a better-looking car when you are batch of cars which would be numbered end posts of this prototype. Otherwise, through. The body parts of your car can 12900- 13399. These 1,400 cars would there is not too much of a diffe rence be assembled at this time if you are prove to be the last ones Lehigh Valley between the models, although the Atlas starting from a kit, although you can do would ever need, due to that disaster at model has some finer detailing on the this later too. Lehigh River. ladders (which you could obtain on the Add the outside ribs of the car. It is reported that some of these cars Athearn car with some fi ling.) Scal i ng the ri bs from the photo, it were sold off to other roads in later years, In 0 scale, T have only been able to appears that these are about 7 inches and this is evidenced by the fact that by find offsethoppers in fo ur-bay and three across the flange, (about .080 inches in 1967 there were but 200 of the original bay styles which you could shorten to HO) with a square section of 2-112 900 cars of the 1944 car series numbered two bays. A two-bay twin hopper is inches (close to .030 inches in HO) I in the 12000s. Additionally, there were available from MTH, but might have to made these from Evergreen strip material only three left in the newer 12900 series be widened for this project. In S scale (Plastruct would work as well). I began built in 1948 (possibly because the 1948 there are models from Lionell AC Gilbert by holding the assembled and glued "hat cars could bring higher prices on the (though you may have to get one at a section" (.030-inch square, on a strip of used fre ight car market than the slightly swap meet as it may not be available in .0 10 x .080 inch) on the carside, making older cars). the stores this year). T think that I have the bend and then cutting the piece off at The Bessemer and Lake Erie also had seen an offset-side twin hopper from the bottom of the cm·side. I made enough similar cars. The B&LE seems to have American Models too. Micro-Trains parts fo r both sides with a couple of pioneered several steel carbody types offers an offset-side hopper in N scale. extras in the event that some might come (such as their very early all-steel box The central flat panel of the carside out to be imperfe ct. cars). The B&LE cars in their 45 100 should have all detail removed, which As far as I could tell from the photo in series were built of Cor-Ten steel in a can be done by carefully slicing off with measuring in perspective, and in the lightweight design. As those cars were an X-Acto number l7 blade in a number diagram for the cm', it appears that the triple hoppers much larger than these one or similar holder. Before scraping panels of the flat section of the body Lehigh Valley twin hopper designs, it is anything, however, J recommend fi ling were all the same width. Measure the certain that the Lehigh Valley was not the corners of the cutting edge of the corresponding flat side of your car model building lightweight cars, for the B&LE blade slightly rounded so it is less likely and di vide it into six equal parts. I lightweight car weighed 30,700 pounds, to gouge the carside. I left the rivet detai I suggest measuring and marking along which was 7,000 to 7,300 pounds less on my car sides, but you could put new the top and along the bottom with short than the smaller LV cars. rivets in place where you want them by pencil marks to indicate the middle of
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12 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 offset-side hopper models have pretty nice steps as they come. Unfortunately, the Athearn car I used doesn't have the same type as the 12900 cars did, and even the metal steps I used aren't exactly the same. You could add the strut and the extra step if you want. The Lehigh Valley prototype has closely set posts near the middle of the car end. I felt that it would not be justified to cut away these parts of the Athem'n (or Atlas) model and make new ones that would be attached closer together, but you might want to do this extra work for an even more accurate model. Use the prototype photo as a guide. Builders photo of LV 12900 of the bought some decals for these cars, 1948 car order. r and I found lettering similar to the prototype until I got to the large "Lehigh Valley" lettering across the upper each vertical rib. You may also want to rungs by cutting off some of the excess carbody sides which was much too large, use a small machinist square to make material in the back. This step makes the and the end numbers did not have the absolutely sure that your application of model look much more realistic. diamond emblem for the reporting mark. the ribs comes out square to the top (and If you look closely at the builder's I did the original artwork for the CDS bottom) of the car. Be sure that details photo of the car, you will see that there is dry transfer lettering sets which I scaled such as the corner reinforcements at the a small angle bar running horizontally rjaht off photos of the car, and I checked corners of the top of the car do not below the carside which is not on the '" . these with the Lehigh Valley lettenng interfere with your square. If they do, Athearnor Atlas model. simulated these I diagram. The LV hopper car lettering set turn the square around. by adding a .040 x .040-inch strip below (set #333 in all scales) is made for a Use very little glue so it doesn't ooze the cm'sides, and when dry I covered ribbed-side 55-ton twin hopper, so out beyond the parts as you apply the these with a .0 1 5-inch-thick by .040- I compromised in that the small data is not ribs. If your model is already detailed inch-wide strip in a slightly outboard all exactly the same as for this series of nicely with coupler lifters and diagonal position to provide the little flange you car. You may want to use other lettering bracing between the frame and the see. added a .020-inch brass rod bent to I as from a data set to get all of the data the bottom of the slope sheets, you are pretty form the outside air line, and another same as in the photo. much finished. r added a pair of diagonal beneath the center of the frame as you can have never been able to get a good braces from the two middle end posts at see in the model photos. (This appears to r photo showing the interior of these cars. the top of the car's frame to the outside be obscured in the shadows of the hopper If you want to be sure about the of the slope sheets as these are missing bays in the prototype shot.) I like to add appearance of the car interior, put a coal on the Athearn car. As the metal car coupler lifters when I can, so used the I load in it. weights are mounted in this position at Detail Associates kit. I used the Cal Scale These cars showed up in places like the bottom of the slope sheets, super glue brake hose kit fo r each end of the car. Cheyenne or Topeka, just as here in New must be used to attach the inner ends of I added a Precision Scale Ajax brake York where we would see Elgin, Joliet & the diagonal struts to the weights. wheel to my cars because they do show Eastern or Kansas City Southern cars. You could cut off all of the ladder up when these cars are seen in a train. I Railroad workers I knew have told me that runas on the Athearn model and replace used metal corner steps from Detail '" this sometimes resulted from an enor of them with wire ones if you like. I left Associates, although both the Athearn loading a car and sending it offin the wrong mine, and just thinned the cast-on plastic and Atlas cars have nice corner steps. The direction; other times it would be that a load Diagram of Lehigh Valley's first series of offset-rib outside-braced cars in series 12000-12899 of anthracite was needed out west. RMJ
I 33'.0" INSIDE l.ENGTH �33'-7�"� • �i 1 �T 10'-8"
L-.��------24'·0"' ------l 14«"------33',11%." ovER �TRI\S.. RS 1< 36'. 5%" ovER PULLINGFACE S RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 13 ------[ MODERN MODELING] ------LAS FROM ATLAS HO 8£ N SCALE MODELS By Edward S. Kaminski
n January 1978, ACF introduced the Coalveyer car, which was designed for unit train use by coal Ishippers. The car was available in four ] OO-ton-capacity sizes to match all coal densities across the country including: 3,640 cubic feet, 3,840 cubic feet, 4,040 cubic feet and 4,240 cubic feet. The 4,240-cubic-foot size proved to be the most popular during ACF's production run, which lasted into 1982. The 4,240-cubic-foot car is also the prototype of Atlas Model Railroad Company's latest release of models in both N and HO scales. The Atlas models feature prototypical road names and are available in multiple road numbers. The Coalveyer's reinforced circular bottom configuration provided a lighter car weight that dramatically increased the coal payload by as much as 5 to 8 percent when compared to a conventional open top hopper car. The reinforced circular bottom configuration also lowered the car's center of gravity. This increased the car's stability and resulted in better performance and longer car life. The car featured ACF's patented Center Flow sidesill an'angement that was known for its superior strength and reliability. The car could carry more than 106 tons of coal per car. That equaled more than any conventional open-top hopper car at the time. When compared to other coal cars handling a typical 10,000-ton unit train shipment of coal, the Coalveyer could save the shipper between 1 to 5.3 percent in overall transportation costs. The Coalveyer's high cubic capacity meant that the shipper would require fewer cars to operate. Since fewer cars were required, there were fewer to maintain, and the rotary dump unloading
RNDX 160, a 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer with 100-ton trucks built in January 1978. The overhead view shows the interior reinforcement poles. This "demo" car was painted bue with a yellow end panel.
14 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 UNSX 419, a 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer with 100-ton trucks built in June 1980 from an order for 138. The cars were built as UNSX series 400-537. Unitrain Services was an agent for Iowa Power & Light Company who operated the cars, with green ends.
KCLX 45243, a Kansas City Power & Light Company 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer built in July 1980 from an order for 120. The cars were built as KCLX series 45241-45360, with white ends
RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 15 ATLAS COALVEYER
The Coalveyer's high cubic capacity meant that the shipper would require ACF 41240-cubic-foot Coa.veYer: fewer cars to operate. Since fewer cars , were required, there were fewer to maintain, and the rotary dump unloading Length inside: 4,849 feet 0 inches used no hopper outlets, so there were no 50 feet 5-112 inches moving parts to wear out or replace Length over strikers: (except the rotating couplers). In Length over coupler pulling faces: 53 feet 1 inch addition, there were fewer cars to operate, Length between truck centers: 40 feet 6 inches load, and unload, which resulted in significant time savings throughout the Length over end top chords: 48 feet 10 inches coal-moving cycle. 9 feet 0 inches The ACF Coalveyer found its way Width inside at top: J into the fleets of a number of public Width inside top chords: 10 fe et 8 inches utilities and most of them are still in Width over sidesills: 10 feet 5 inches service today. All Coalveyers were manufactured by ACF at its St. Louis, Width over side posts: 10 feet 8 inches Missouri plant. In late 1982, ACF ceased Height, rail to of side chord: 12 feet 3- 1/2 inches manufacturing the Coalveyer due to the top low demand for new equipment in the Height, bottom of sidesill to top of side chord: 9 feet 3 inches marketplace. The Coalveyer design was 3 feet 112 inch sold shortly thereafter to Ortner Freight Height, top of rail to bottom of sidesill: Car as ACF decided to manufacture only Height, top of rail to centerline of draft: 2 feet 10-112 inches its core-type designs including tank cars 13 feet 112 inch and Center Flow covered hoppers. Height, top of rail to bottom at center:
Ortner was bought by Trinity Industries a Height, top of rail to center plate bearing surface: 2 feet J -1/16 inch few years later. There were a few orders Cubic capacity, level full: 4,240 cubic feet of cars built by these two companies in the 1980s, and these cars exhibit the Cubic capacity, lO-inch average heap: 4,640 cubic feet same design characteristics of the 50,700 Ibs. Coalveyer. RMJ Estimated light weight: Gross rail load: 263,000 Ibs.
AAR clearance: Plate "B"
RTPX 11389, a Wheelabrator Coal Services Trucks: 100-ton Company 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer built in A-end equipped with type F rotary coupler December 1981 from an order for 386. The cars were built as RTPX 11100-11485. This car had yellow end panels.
16 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 NPPX 1355, a Nebraska Public Power District 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer built January 1981 from an order for 300. The cars were built as NPPX series 1316-1615, with yellow ends.
WPSX 262, a Wisconsin Public Service Corporation 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer built in June 1981 from an order for 132. The cars were built as WSPX series 211-342. The car had dark grey ends.
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UFIX 14012, a Utility Fuels, Incorporated 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer built in October 1980 from an order for 110. The cars were built as UFIX series 14001-14110, with orange ends.
WEPX 995, a Wisconsin Electric Power Company 4,240-cubic-foot Coalveyer built in May 1980 from an order for 127. The cars were built as WEPX series 929-1055, with brown ends.
18 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER2002 [ONE-DETAIL-AT-A-TIME] ------
Photos from the collection of Louis A. Marre
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hiS is the tenth "One-Detail June 1996, Comai1 6022 in the July 1996 PAINT At-A-Time" article on the issue, CSXT 45 1 in May 2000, Conrail's CNJ Green: Tamiya military paints EMD SD35. Only the F-units 6002 and 6008 in August 2000, Pennsy Japan Navy Green XFl l is the closest, have received as much 6000 and 60 16 in November 2000, NS but early CNW green is close. Although T 1545 and 1550 in November 2001, B&O modeling pUblicity. Yes, there it weathered to a slightly more yellow (Chessie) 7400 and 7408 in December is a reason: the real railroads used the hue, you could use: Floquil 110262, S035 in virtually every way that the 200 1, Southern Pacific 69 15 and 6953 in Po]]y Scale 414188, Badger ModelFlex EMO salesmen promised they could. January 2002, and B&O 74 11 and C&O 1623 or Pro Scalecoat 36-VS. S035s were as often seen alone as part of 742 1 in July 2002. Roseman a lashup. All of EMD's locomotives (and The Central Railroad of New Jersey most of those of their competitors) were (sometimes known as the Jersey Central) CNJ DECALS: equally versatile, but only recently have acquired locomotives 2505 and 25 11 in HO Scale: Microscale 87-232, Walthers you been able to see, for example, an 1965 as part of number series 2501- 934-33760, or CDS 87-270 dry transfers SD80MAC operating alone. It was not at 25 12. They are pretty much standard N Scale: Microscale 60-232 or CDS all unusual to see a lone S035. The SD35 EMO issue except for the lack of cab 160-270 dry transfers is also one of the fe w locomotives that sunshades and the splitting of the three o Scale: Walthers 936-33760, Northeast horns,one on the engineer's side and two you can buy in HO, N and 0 scales. CNJ-04 or CDS 48-270 dry transfers Each of the articles on SD35s will on the fireman's side. provide a bit more information on both One-Detail-At-A-Time SCALE MODEL SD35s the prototype S035 and each real (HO Scale) HO Scale: Atlas and Con-Cor railroad's specific locomotives. The Step-by-step instructions on how to N Scale: Atlas articles that have been published so far in install many of these detail parts "The Journal" include: B&LE 862 in o Scale: Atlas
RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 19 appeared in the June ] 989 issue of "The 9-3 102 Fuel tank fittings 1.00/2 Keystone Locomotive Works, P. O. Box Journal." That article is also reprinted in (fillers) J, Pu/ltney, NY 14874: the book TUNING & UPGRADING 26-3209 Air tanks 1.50/2 29-Cab interior $9.98/set AT HEARN LOCOMOTIVES. 4-6206 Air hoses 1.25/6 3808 Overland Models, Inc., w. A-Line, P.O. Box 2701, Carlsbad, CA Details West, P. O. Box 61, Corona, CA Kilgore Ave., Muncie, IN 47304: 92018: 91718: 7-9008 Air horns $3.50/2 1-29100 Grabirons $3.50/50 8- 127 Bells $1.25/2 6-90 10 Air horn 3.25 ea. 2-29200 Wi ndshield wipers 1.85/8 27-132 Brake stand 1.00 ea. 20-9 150 Coupler lift bars 2.50/2 3-292 16 Chain 2.95/10 in. 16-148 Headlights 3.35/2 13-9250 Fuel sight glass 2.75 ea. 9-166 Fuel fillers 1.00/4 23-9327 Mirrors 2.50/4 Cal-Scale (division of Bowser Mfg. 12-172 Ditch lights J .25/8 1 8-935 \. MU hoses 7.35/4 sets Co., Inc.), 21 Howard St., 7-174 Air horns 3.25/2 (set of 4) Montoursville, PA 17754-0322: 6- 190 Air horn 2.50 ea. 25-9400 Sand fi ller hatches 3.75/2 4-320 Air hoses $1.8512 sets 28-193 Pilot beal11� 1.25/2 ]2-9708 Wa Jkway (ditch) 7.50/6 5-394 MU stands 2.70/2 25-20 I Sand fi ller hatches 1.25/4 lights 2-4 19 Windshield wipers .5012 pro 26-204 Air tank 1.50 ea. 6-420 Air horn 4.95 ea. 7-422 Air horn 4.95 ea. 8-430 Bells (left side) 2.95/2 9-43 1 Fuel fi llers 2.50/set
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Detail Associates, Box 5357, San Luis Obispo, CA 93403: 16-1004 Headlights $1.00/2 8-1202 Bells (left side) 1.25/2 17-1402 Drop steps 1.50/2 5-1 506 MU stands 1.25/2 1 '8-1508 MU hoses 2.00/16 7- 1601 Air horns (left side) 1.75/2 19-1703 Marker light lenses 1.10/12 1-2202 Grabirons 2.50/48 20-2205 Coupler lift bars 2.75/10 21-2206 Lift rings (eye bolts) 3.00/36 3-22 10 Chain 2.25/ 12 in. 22-22 17 Curved grabirons 1.50/3 23-2304 Wind deflectors 2.50/3 pr. 24-2504 .0 1 2-inch-diameter 2.50/10 wire (bandrails) 14-2807 Speed recorders 1.50/4 25-300 I Sand fi ller hatches 1.00/4
20 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 Precision Scale, 3961 Highway 93 31-39073 Extended-height 3.25/20 Ordering Information: North, Stevensville, MT 59870: handrail stanchions All of these parts are available to any 4-3 152 Air hoses $2.75/6 9-39080 Fuel fi llers 1.00/4 hobby dealer, so your dealer can order 29-3765- 1 Cab interior 13.75/set 27-39082 Brake stands 1.75/2 for you. [f you must order direct, order 16-3933 Headlights 2.25/2 7-39084 Air horn 2.75 ea. the full package quantities shown and 30-3935 Short handrail 3.25/20 23-39 150 Wind deflectors 2.25/3 pro include $5.00 per order for postage or stanchions 8-39 152 Bells 2.50/2 UPS and handling. RMJ 30-3937 End handrail 2.00/8 3-48237 Chain 2.50/10 in. stanchions 21-48277- 1 Lift rings 2.25/12 2-3968 Windshield wipers 1.25/4 (eye bolts) 24-4968 .0I2-inch-diameter 1.75/6 wire 13-3901 1 Fuel sight glasses 1.75/2 Smokey Va lley Railroad Products, 7-39014 Air horns 2.25/2 P.O. Box 339, Plantersville, MS 38862: 18-39059 MU hoses (4) 1.75/4 24 & 30-No. 10 Preformed handrail ] 2-39072 Step (ditch) lights 1.50/6 & stanchion kit $15.95 [MODELING STEAM] ------
IN HO SCALE
By Lee Freeman
Lee Freeman has matched the Proto 2000 USRA 0-8-0 to a specific Missouri Pacific prototype. There's an index ofall previous articles on modeling steam on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com
9761 being refueled at Kingsville, Texas in October 1948. -photo from the collection of H. K. Vollrath
22 RAILMODELjOUKNAL ' OCTOBER2002 Lee Freeman's HO scale model.
9737 awaiting assignment in 1948. Each railroad shop had its own idea of where the air tanks and pipes and other details should be located. -photo from the collection of Don Gruber
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IN HO SCALE FROM A·LINE. ATHEARN AND WALTHERS IN N SCALE FROM CON·COR AND DELUXE INNOVATIONS By David G. Casdorph
These brown, silver or blue containers are some of the .most common sights on intermodal trains or on intermodal pads. Part I of this series, on the 20-foot containers, appeared in the April 2002 issue of "The Journal." Part II of the series, the 40-foot general-service containers, appeared in the May 2002 issue. Here's how you can add the subtle differences so your models match the prototypes. There's an index of all previous articles .on intermodal modeling on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com
n N scale, Wa lthers makes an APC In HO scale Athearn now has three Monon-built sheet-and-post domestic dry version fo r their 48-foot exterior models available; the 48-foot Monon box. Walthers offers an HO version of the post domestic dry box. Con-Cor built sheet-and-post domestic box, the 40-foot high-cube refrigerator. has a 53-foot sheet-and-post model 53-foot lindo-built all-steel corrugated 1 especially thank Brian P. I Krei mendah I for his su pport, that will work (an APC pre-dec is domestic box, and the 53-foot Stoughton available). DeLuxe Innovations has two built exterior-post domestic box. A-Line encouragement, and the excellent model models including a 48-foot sheet-and has three models that apply to this group; photography seen in this entire APL article post domestic box and a 40-foot an exterior-post 45-foot dry box, the 48- series. 1 also thank Charlie Green of GP refrigerated box with the picture-window foot Monon-bu ilt sheet-and-post Moves Freight, LLC, and John L. Becker. RM Carrier Thinline reefer unit. domestic dry box, and the 53-foot J
APLU 380063. A surprise "hit" among container historians was the conversion of former 48-foot dry box containers to insulated 48-foot containers. This is former APLU 480063 (the first number was changed). Note the "Insulated" on the lower right side. -photographed in September 1997
24 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 APLU 462830 has a slightly different vent pattern: the vents are in the 2nd and 4th valleys inside the ISO post in each corner on this 45-foot container. -photographed in December 1997
APLU 452666 was screaming through Mojave, California in May 1985 when this photo was taken.
APLU 454757. "Half-bird." Repairs on this 45-footer have left only the right wing of the eagle remaining. -John L. Becker photo
APCU 535021 is seen here at the 1993 Intermodal Expo in Atlanta, Georgia. This is the rare 1l0··inch-inside-height 53-foot domestic container that APL experimented with for a short time. There were 30 of these built (29 by Monon, like this one; and one by Jindo).
APLU 484305 during the "APC" days (see left door). This 48-foot sheet and-post container was built by Monon. -photographed in February 1996
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N scale: Walthers 933-3456 APC 45-foot exterior-post domestic box. -Brian P. Kreimendahl photo
N scale: Deluxe Innovations C-810 APL 48-foot sheet-and-post domestic box. -Brian P. Kreimendahl photo
HO scale: Athearn APC 48-foot Monon-built sheet-and-post domestic box. Athearn also offers this container decorated for APL as kit 5701. -Brian P. Kreimendahl photo
HO scale: A-Line 25100 40-foot exterior post box (bottom) and A-Line 25200 45-foot exterior-post box (top) have been decorated using A Line's 25800 APL decal sheet. -Joe D'Elia photo from the Brian P. Kreimendahl collection
HO scale: A-Line 25300 48-foot Monon-built sheet-and-post domestic box (bottom) decorated with A-Line 25805 48-foot APC decal sheet and A-Line 25400 53-foot Monon-built sheet-and-post domestic box (top) decorated with A-Line 25806 53-foot APC decal sheet. -Joe D'Elia photo from the Brian P. Kreimendahl collection
26 RAILMODELJOURNAL ' OCTOBER2002 N scale: Con-Cor 530001 APC 53-foot sheet and-post domestic box. -Brian P. Kreimendahl photo
N scale: Deluxe Innovations C-403 APL 40-foot refrigerated box with a nose-mounted CarrierThinline reefer unit. -Brian P. Kreimendahl photo
HO scale: Athearn 2663 (single) and 2664 (five pack) APL 53-foot lindo built corrugated domestic box. -Brian P.Kreimendahl photo
HO scale: Athearn 2677 (single) and 2678 (five pack) Stoughton-built exterior-post domestic box. This is a pre-production sample made available by Athearn for photography for this article before product release. Model and decorating details may vary in the final kit release. -Brian P. Kreimendahl photo
APLU 691343 is a lindo-built sheet-and-post design high-cube 40-foot refrigerated container. Note the unit I.D. is blue, and the ISO type code is black. This container was photographed in September 1997. Recently, APL introduced a variation of this livery by adding their dot-com address.
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APLU 487209 brings us to the introduction of steel corrugated 48-foot APLU 488937 is one of the older exterior-post 48-foot containers with containers. Note the spread four vent (per side). -photographed in 20 posts per side. This one was photographed in September 1997. September 1997
APLU 490482 was built by Monon. Finally, APL gets some 19-post APLU 492413; APL sticks with the "international" standard of 19 side (between the ISO posts) exterior-post 48-foot containers. posts between the ISO posts on these 48-footers. Note the logo on the -photographed in February 1996 right side! -photographed in September 1997
APCU 530023 is one of the first 53-footers delivered to APL. Note the APCU 530725 is a sheet-and-post 53-footer built by Monon. Early 53- vents and (yes) 20-post sides. Built by Neptune. -photographed in footers were noted by the red, white and blue end panel. -photographed September 1997 in September 1997
APCU 531312 is a 19-post 53-foot container that was originally APCU 536747. American builder Stoughton took the side post business delivered to Norfolk Southern's Triple Crown Service (the original the other way with 21-post sides on these 53-foot containers (there are markings can barely be seen). Photographed in September 1997. side posts next to the ISO posts). -photographed in September 1997
28 RAILMODELJOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 APCU 537764 swings its 53 feet out a long ways sitting over a standard 40-footer. This represents the introduction of the steel corrugated 53-footers.
APLU 507321 is a Nippon-TraiJmobiJe-built sheet-and-post 40-foot refrigerated container. -photographed on December 27, 1985
APLU 590760 is owned by Transamerica (tower logo), but still has an APL eagle on its side. This is a high-cube 40-foot sheet-and-post design refrigerated container. -photographed in September 1997
APCU 537995 sits atop a Pacer Stacktrain 53- footer. This one was built by lindo. Note the similarity in the two designs. Pacer Stacktrain is a spin-off of the domestic unit of APL.
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APLU 591122 is more typical of what is seen on the APL refrigerated fleet (although maybe a little more weathered than others). The picture window-frame reefer unit has a gen-set attached that provides its electrical power. -photographed in January 1996
APLU 455719 was the standard APL 45-footer until the advent of the steel corrugated versions. This one was built by Neptune (lesser common builder for these). Note the replacement posts. Closest model in HO scale is the A-Line. -photographed in February 1996
APLU 461995 shows its corrugated roof and the new 45-foot blue box paint scheme. There are four vents per side. -photographed in November 1996
APLU 461998 in about a seven-eights rear view showing the three square reverse corrugations on the doors of the 45-foot container. -photographed in September 1997
30 RAILMODEL)OURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 [ DIESEL MODELING]
By Pelle Soeborg
Pelle Soeborg is modeling the Tehachapi area of California, including the majority of the locomo tives that pulled and pushed the trains over the mountains. There's an index of all previous articles on modeling diesels on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com
otive power is more Also, on a model railroad the I like most of the aspects of model than anything the face locomotives get the most attention. The railroading, but if I ever had to choose of a rai lroad. Looking at viewers eyes almost always fo llow the one of them I would pick the M the diesels allows us to lead engines on th eir way over the locomotives. I must admit that I don't run my trains much, but when do want identify what railroad layout. It is very much the same thing as I I company it is, though it can be a little with real locomotives: most people like them to work flawlessly and that is why spend time and money to have good difTicult now-a-days with all the engines watcbing them roll by, even if they are I leased from other companies mixed in running locomotives, and most of them not interested in model rai lroading at all. the lashups. believe that most people, are. I hate watching a jerking locomotive I My layout is located in a room next to whether they are interested in trains or crawl uphill. On the contrary, I love to Illy office, and when have cl ients not, are fascinated by railroad I watch a Jashup of smooth-running coming for meetings and the door to the locomotives. Watching a hard-struggling diesels work their way over the hill. lasbup of diesel locomotives brings out layout room is open, I can hardly get Also, for doing switching jobs, a good the little child inside you. You experience them out of there again, even though they running locomotive is a must. You can't the unreserved joy of looking at wouldn't dream of making a model work if the throttle has to be in position 7 something big and noisy. rai Iroad themselves. before the locomotive moves and when it
High up above us, a couple of Santa Fe B40-8Ws pop out of tunnel one leaving Caliente. Both engines are Overland brass models. These compact four-axle diesels are my preferred power for light intermodal trains. These engines were among the first warbonnets I acquired for my la¥out.
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finally starts it can't go any slower than most of them are based on Athearn due to two things. First, my brass 50 miles per hour. I prefer locomotives models. [ also use Rail Power shells on models spend most of their time in that creep so slowly with the throttle in Athearn frames or Overland Drive display cases on a shelf and in that position 2 that you can hardly see them systems. I always detail my plastic environment weathering looks wrong. move. I admit that only a fe w of my diesels to a certain level. I am not a Second, you can get better price for diesels are that good, but most of them su perdetai ler. I do moderate detai ling, them if the unthinkable should happen run just fine. My earlier plastic diesels but still so much that the model looks that I lost interest in trains and want to are equipped with Overland drive quite detailed. Also, I don't want my sell my brass collection. I do run my systems but later ones are remotored plastic models to cost the same as brass brass models occasionally, but I have with an A-line of NWSL motor. All engines. Newer models tend to be more plenty of plastic power to suit my locomotives are DCC operated. They are detailed than earlier ones A good paint needs. equipped with Lenz lLO decoders on job is just as important as the detailing A little more that half my which you can program the speed levels itself to create the looks of a "real" diesel locomotives are equipped with individually. That makes it possible to locomotive. I also prefer to paint my working head and ditch lights. 1 use make all locomotives run alike even brass models myself, but it becomes the 1.4 mm Mitey Lites from though they have completely different more and more difficult to get Cirquitron. These lamps look very motors and gear boxes. undecorated items. Almost all new brass realistic with their bright shine. Using My fleet is a mix of locomotives built models are factory painted today. I only the DCC I am able to switch on and from commercial plastic models and weather my plastic models. The bass off the head, ditch, and rear lights brass models. As for the plastic diesels, engines receive no weathering. That is individually. This is something which excites most viewers, watchJng a train come to life . First I turn on the head Down by the yard office at the far end of Bakersfield yard, you can find locomotives resting and getting refuelled waiting for their next assignment. BNSF C44-9W number 751 is an Athearn light, after a short while the ditch model with various details and an A-Line motor. This engine is among my favorites. I always lights, and then the train starts make sure that this engine in on duty when I have visitors. movll1g. The face of the motive power running over my Tehachapis has changed a lot since I started building this layout in late 1992. At that time SP owned the line and Santa Fe had access right. Santa Fe ran a lot more trains over the hills than SP did and that was reflected in my priorities. My very first model was a Hallmark SD45 which I detailed and painted for SP. Along with other older units this model has been take out of main line service. It is now permanently parked at Caliente siding and future plans are to let it serve as power for a not yet build work train. My next model was a Santa Fe C30-7. For that I used a Railpower shell on an Athearn U30C frame. Also this unit is retired from
32 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 road service. It now serves as yard Then everything changed. Santa Fe obviously didn't listen as it seems that switcher at my bakersfield yard. did merger BN and soon after Up took the orange and green paint scheme will With the return of the warbonnets my over the SP. I didn't build any be the official BNSF look. Well, I have collection of Santa Fe units soon out locomotives fo r a while until I was sure done mine to save the warbonnets. numbered my SP fleet. At the end of how the new paint schemes would turn When I started building locomotives 1993 I had 3 warbonnets and 3 out. I was very afraid that the warbonnets again after the mergers I started with a yellowbonnets running for Santa Fe and would disappear. Then the experimental GP60M in-yes, you guessed right-red only two SP diesels. I must admit that the dark green and cream warbonnet and silver livery. A large BNSF on the red and si lver warbonnets hit a soft spot appeared on a SD70MAC and I felt that hood revealed that it belonged to a new in me and the number of red and silver it was about time to do something about era. The competitor went through a more diesels kept growing faster than the more it. I wrote Krebs a letter, telling him that dramatic change. I built fo ur UP diesels plain colored locomotives. I started to in Europe many people believe that all right after each other. A SD40-2, a C30- feel a little guilty about that and bought a American diesels are red and silver Santa 7, a C44-9W and an AC4400. With these second hand Overland brass engine, a SP Fe warbonnets and it would be stupid to reliable high horse power units SP were SD40E. I even gave it speed lettering to waste such a fa mous paint scene. He coming back strong in the shape of UP. I make it look updated. That engine was actually wrote me back, saying that he was planning to build a green and orange never a success. It ran worse than bad would take it under consideration when BNSF C44-9W but not surprisingly it and I have never been able to con"ect he was going to make the final decision ended up in a red and silver livery. My that. about BNSF's future paint scheme. He next BNSF unit will definitely be in
Ex SP SD40T- 2 number 8330, now repainted as UP number 4462, is among the most recent engines on my layout. Trailing GE C30-7 has been aroun& a little longer. SD40T- 2 number 4462 is my first tunnel motor even though I hi! e pl1'O ed to build one many times but I always ended up build'ng something else-mo ly onnets
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green and orange (1 believe). My UP s with all the changes on the railroad front. building was going to be renumbered acquired the most modern power they After all, my warbonnets are going no 6800 but it ended up being number 6700. could get: an C60AC and a SD90MAC where and I can still run them if I like. Unfortunately I already had finished my H. Both true 6000 hp units. Even that There is one draw back in modeling model when that last information came wasn't enough for the always power present time: Renumbering! The railroad up. hungry UP and [ added a Tunnel Motor companies keep re numbering their Future plans for motive power will be in UP colors to the fleet. locomotives to make the newly acquired a couple of orange and green BNSF units As you might have guessed now, 1 engines fit into their rosters. I some times and some ex-SP units repainted in UP model present time. That is a challenge. 1 make an engine which I know will be colors. Exactly which specific type of must admit that 1 was tempted to freeze renumbered in the near future and the locomotives I want to build I haven't the date on my layout when Santa Fe information I receive about the proposed decided yet, but there is plenty of RM disappeared but 1 made up my mind that renumbering isn't always correct. When possibilities. J even if the warbonnets should vanish it I made my UP AC4400 I received would still be more fun trying to keep up informations saying that the engine I was
A very heavy eastbound BNSF stack train enters Caliente. This train features mid-train helpers: my very reliable helper set SD40-2 number 5083 and SD45-2 number 5919. Very long stack trains require helpers or else these relatively light cars will be pulled off the track going through the curves. I cut in the helper set two thirds down the train and it works fine.
34 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 Santa Fe C30-7 serves as yard switcher at my Bakersfield yard. This engine can creep so slowly that you can hardly see it move. This makes it the perfect switcher. This engine never runs mainline service as I programmed its decoder for low-speed operation.
Eastbound 6,000-hp UP C60-AC
Caliente behind. The model is an Overland brass import.
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BNSF engine roster Type Road Number Railroad ModeJ Type Drive system/Motor
EMD GP60 4022 ATSF Athearn Overland EMP GP60M 103 ATSF Athearn Overland EMD GP60M 124 BNSF Athearn A-Line EMD SD40-2 5083 AT SF Athearn Overland EMD SD40-2 5147 AT SF Athearn Athearn EMD SD45-2 59 19 AT SF Rail Power Products Athearn GE B23-7 6398 AT SF Rail Power Products Overland GE C30-7 8083 AT SF Rail Power Products NWSL GE Dash 8-40BW 520 ATSF Overland Model Overland GE Dash 8-40BW 581 ATSF Overland Model Overland GE Dash 8-40CW 864 ATSF Overland Model Overland GE C44-9W 645 ATSF Overland Model Overland GE C44-9W 75 1 BNSF Athearn A-Line UP engine roster Type Road Number Railroad ModeJ Type Drive system/Motor
EMD SD40E 7326 SP Overland Model Overland EMD SD40-2 3841 UP Athearn Overland EMD SD40T-2 4462 UP (ex SP) Athearn A-Line EMD SD45 9030 SP Hallmark Model Hallmark EMD SD90MAC-H 8500 UP Overland Model Overland GE B30-7 205 UP (ex MP Rail Power Products NWSL GE C30-7 2534 UP Rail Power Products NWSL GE B39-8 8026 SP Rail Power Products Overland GE Dash 8-40C 9133 UP Overland Model Overland GE Dash 8-40CW 9384 UP Overland Model Overland GE C44-9W 9702 UP Kato Kato GE AC4400 6800 UP Athearn A-Line GE C60AC 700 1 UP Overland Model Overland
36 RAfLMODELjOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 [DIESEL MODELING] ------
FROM ATHEARNIS HO SCALE KIT By Bob Rivard
Last year Athearn upgraded their SO 40-2 model. The fo ur non-prototypical mounting lugs are no longer on the sidesills of the body. The cooling fa ns and grilles have very nice detail. The motor and shafts are also a new design. I think the best features of the new Dash-2 are the handrails and stanchions. They have been totally redesigned as a beautifully detailed one-piece casting. I started my project with a undecorated model. I wanted to model the Soo Line 777 as it looked in the mid 70s, so I obtained a Cannon and Company "Early" Dash-2 cab kit to replace the Athearn cab. The Athearn Dash-2 model is based on the second EMD production run and has a nose 4 inches longer than the 777. I solved this problem by removing the Athearn nose and adding a Cannon and Company nose kit. For this proj ect I wanted to try Cannon's new brass treadwalk kit. I used Hot StuffACC to secure the tread plate to the Athearn deck. I installed Detail Associates grabirons and lift rings at this time. I decided at this point to concentrate on the underframe. Since Soo's Dash-2s had smaller fuel tanks, I need to remove four fe et of the Athearn metal tank. I remove the motor and trucks and use a vice to hold the underframe. I use a hacksaw to remove 4 feet of the tank. I airbrush my model using Scalecoat II white. When this coat is dry, I mask off for the red. I use Scalecoat II SF red and let this dry. I decaled the model using the Microscale 117 Soo diesel set. Unfortunately there is no longer a correct parallelogram logo available for Soo modelers. The key to obtaining those out-of-print decals is an Alps printer or finding someone who has one. A fe llow Soo modeler was able to "print out" the black parallelogram on clear decal stock. I came up with a credible "Scotchlight" background to apply first.
BILL OF MATERIALS
Athearn: 6300 Undecorated SD-40 Dash-2
Cannon and Company: 1103 81-inch nose 1501 Athearn Dash-2 cab 2005 Athearn Dash-2 safety tread and step kit
Detail Associates: 2202 Grabirons 2206 Lift rings 2301 All-weather window
Details West: 180 Snowplow 211 Winterization hatch, 48-inch
Miniatures by Eric: 30 Chime horn
PA INT & DECALS: Scalecoat: 201 1 White 2026 ATSF Red
MicroScale: 87-1 17 Soo hood units
RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 37 38 RA ILMODELJOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 39 [PAINT & DECALS]
THE RAILROAD-BUILT CARS. PART 2 IN HO SCALE FROM ATHEARN AND SOO LINE HS KITS By Jim Eager
P"�ct J" the August 2002 issue of "TheJoumal. U IDoealred in the June 2002 issue. ! J:JlIIlll' n'liIY 2002 Issue. cars built by PCS'F appeared in the March and May 2002 issJle•• the Evans-bunt cars appeared in the August, Se�m6er and
on the Berwick-built cars appeared In the January4' a.bruary,
the early cars, appeared in the June 2000 issue, and Part .2, me.deled in N scale with Micro-Trains mode", appeared in the lIulltr.!ttil1ll: more of the single-doo. and double-door Plate C cars Na¥8.nblar 2000 i.sues. with Part I, in the December 1999 issue, that Included a Mlntles. and Part II, also in the December 1999 Issue, and Parts issues, illustrated and described the ACF-built cars and the in the March 2000 Issue, began the coverage of cars bullt of which can be duplicated with Wa lthers kits. Part VI, in iJollt:of tl,. Pullman-Standard cars that can be duplicated with 'the MDC ,,,S1tariidalrcl car. in the May 2000 issue can be duplicated with Atheamfs ie eiiairllfast of these Pullman-Standard cars with diagonal-panel toofs �an ast dejicrilbed by Bob Rivard for his MNS model in the May 2000 Issue. on madeling modern freight car. on our website at
P&lE 6654, series 6500-6899, lot 974-B, built by Despatch Shops in January 1966 The New York Central's Despatch Shops began building X-post box cars in late 1964, turning out 450 cars for its subsidiary, numbered P&lE 6000-6449, lot 955-B. Another 400 cars followed in 1966. Both lots were 8-panel cars with centered 10-foot Yo ungstown sliding doors, fish belly sidesills, and cushioned centersills. What really set the cars apart was their proprietary Despatch R+3/5 stamped ends and twin-rib roof panels. P&lE 6654 had been shopped in 1975 to have its running board removed, its hand brake lowered, and its ladders cut down. These cars can be modeled by combining the SlH&TS 8-panel kit with the DS ends and roof sold by Branchline Trains. -Ed Hawkins photo, March 1977 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-317 for data and reporting marks plus 87-335 for the large P&lE, although it is not in the correct type face.
40 RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 NYC 48260, series 48260-48359, lot 115-B, built at Despatch Shops in November 1966 Despatch constructed a group of centered plug-door cars in mid-1966, P&LE 6900-6999, Lot 975-B, and then altered the design a bit to build 250 cars for the Central. NYC 78550-78699, Lot 112-B were insulated RBLs, while NYC 48260-48359, Lot 115-B were uninsulated. Both groups had offset 10-foot 6-inch plug doors, with eight panels to the left of the door but only seven to the right. At least some of the RBLs got Landis plug doors, but most cars had Yo ungstowns. All had cushioned centersills and DFB bulkheads. NYC 48260 still wore its original, though faded paint and lettering in 1984. -Jim Eager photo, March 1984 "0 Scale Decals: Microscale 87-58 (Revised)
LV 7181, series 7140-7189, built by Despatch Shops in January 1969 After the PRR-NYC merger, Despatch continued building cars until the shops were closed in 1970. Penn Central's X65 class, PC 265436-265535 and 266538-266819, were completed in 1969, essentially duplicating the NYC design. Like the Pennsy, PC constructed two lots for the Lehigh Valley. LV 7140-7189 were insulated RBLs, while 8300-8399 were un insulated. LV 7181, assigned to General Foods service, illustrates that the 10-6 door was centered on the cars built under Penn Central. -D. W. Golde photo, Chris Butts collection, Anaheim, CA, March 1981 "0 Scale Decals: Herald King B-851
LV 8324, series 8300-8399, class X65, built by Penn Central in January 1969 One of the uninsulated LV cars, its PC-green paint looking pretty ratty in 1984. -J im Eager photo, April 1984 "0 Scale Decals: Herald King B-851
B&O 481120, series 481100-481199, assembled at B&O's Debois, Pennsylvania shops in October 1966. The B&O built 200 X-post cars from Thrall Car kits in 1966, half for the Chesapeake & Ohio (C&O 481000-481099), the other half for itself. All were 8-panel cars with centered 10-foot Youngstown plug doors, straight sidesills, cushioned centersills, and DFB bulkheads. Although originally painted blue with yellow script "Cushion Underframe" slogans and B&O Capitol Dome or "C&O For Progress" heralds, this car had been repainted for the Chessie System in 1977. This is another candidate for a kit conversion from the SLH&TS 8-panel kit. -J im Eager photo, April 1978 HO Scale Decals: Champ HB-405, Herald King B-141
MEC 28119, ex-D&H 28300-28336 or 28400-28448, originally RDG 17200-17299, class RBLc, built at the Reading's Reading, Pennsylvania shops in October 1967 The Reading built a single group of X-post box cars in 1967. Although they were insulated RBLs, their construction was more typical of uninsulated box cars, with 8-panel welded sides supplied by Berwick, centered 10-foot 6-inch Youngstown plug doors, straight sidesills, cushioned centersills, and Equipco LD load dividers. At Conrail's startup, 85 cars were transferred to the Delaware & Hudson, and by 1999 some of the cars had been restencilled for the Maine Central. Yet another prototype that might be modeled using the SLH&TS 8-panel kit. -Doug Stark collection, Bangor, ME, 1999 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-144
IC 13089, series 12900-13099, built by the Ie's Centralia, Illinois shops in 1969 The Ie's home-designed X-post 50-footers were very distinctive thanks to their inset non-terminating R+3/4 Improved Dreadnaught ends and stamped waffle sides. IC 13089 is typical, with its 8-panel sides, centered 10-foot door, straight sidesill, and X-panel roof. IC and 560000-560999 were virtually identical. All of these cars can be modeled by adding strip styrene "waffles" to Athearn's SIECO box car, although you will also need to change out the door and reshape the sidesill. -Jim Eager photo, February 1984 HO Scale Decals: Daniel Kohlberg's Illinois Central Gulf Decals, set ICG-IO RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 41 IPD 50·FOOT BOX CARS IN HO Pennsylvania RR ends of an Accurail ACF kit, or just use produced by Branchline Trains (sold amous for designing most of Branchline Trains' end and roof separately). The Soo Line Railroad their freight cars in-house, the components to build a better model. Technical & Historical Society PRR's X58 and its subclasses Actually, the X58 is such a distinctive (SLT&HS), P. O. Box 2076, Manitowoc, Fwere the Pennsy's only signature Pennsy car that it warrants WI 54221 offers a kit that can be used as modern single-sheathed box being produced as a model in its own is for a stand-in for many of these cars. Between 1964 and 1966 the right, just as the Soo Line cars have been. railroad-built cars or modified with a railroad constructed over 2,600 of these Branchline Models roof to be a near exterior-post, single-plug-door cars in New Yo rk Central perfect match. This is Bob Rivard's their Sam Rea car shops in Not to be outdone by its arch competitor, model of the car from the June 2000 Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Although the NYC also began building its own issue. Unfortunately the NYC cars with they were all built to the same design, exterior-post box cars in 1964 at its offset doors can not be as easily there were some variations among them, Despatch Shops in East Rochester, New duplicated. mainly due to different component York. The Central was perhaps the only suppliers. All of the cars used Stanray's road to produce most of the steel cm'body Penn Central R+3/4 ends and overhanging-eave components themselves, including their Although the New York Central had diagonal-panel roof, but their 9-panel own proprietary Despatch end and roof constructed far fewer exterior-post cm's carsides were supplied by Youngstown, panel stampings, which made the Central than the Pennsy before being merged to Berwick, and possibly other fabricators. cars look quite different from any other form Penn Central, it was the NYC's Most of the cars had welded carsides, but road's. design that PC elected to briefly continue a fe w were of riveted construction. The in production after the merger. Once majority of cars used lO-foot 6-inch The first cars were actually built for again, the first cars were not even built Youngstown doors, but a few got NYC's subsidiary Pittsburgh & Lake for Penn Central itself, but rather for the distinctive Landis plug doors instead. At Erie when P&LE 6000-6449, lot 955-B, Lehigh Valley. LV 7140-7189 and 8300- least two groups were equipped with rolled out of East Rochester in 8399 were constructed at Despatch Hydra-Cushion sliding centersills, while November 1964. The cars had eight Shops in January 1969. The first group the rest used Keystone or other brands of welded side panels to either side of their were insulated RBLs, while the second cushioned underframe. Various groups of centered 10-foot Youngstown sliding were uninsulated. Both series had cars were fitted with Evans DFB and door, and drop (or fishbel ly) sidesills. centered lO-foot, 6-inch plug doors with Equipco LD bulkhead loaders, and there Distinctive Despatch R+3/5 ends and eight panels to either side of the door, were several series of insulated cars. overhanging-eave roof panels with twin and both had fishbelly sidesills and used stamped ribs completed the carbody. Despatch R+3/5 ends and roof panels. The first 400 cars, PRR 112000- 112399, Special equipment consisted of cross-bar PC 265436-265535 and 266538-2668 19 class X58, were constructed in October loaders and cushion-travel centersills. followed in April and May 1969 as the through December 1964. PRR 112400- P&LE 6500-6899, lot 974-B, were PC's X-65 class, although some of the 112536, class X58A, followed in March identical and followed in March 1966. PC cars had Landis plug doors. As with 1965, with 112537-112686, X58B, P&LE 6900-6999, lot 975-B also came the 8-panel P&LE cars, these LV and PC 112687- 113236, X58C, 113237-113386, in 1966, but they were built as insulated X-65s can be modeled by combining the X58B being built through the balance of RBLs with centered lO-foot, 6-inch SLH&TS 8-panel kit with Branchline's the year. PRR 112687- 113236, X58A, Yo ungstown plug doors. Otherwise they Despatch ends and roof. 1l3237-113386, X58B, and 113687- fo llowed the same design. 11398 1, X58A were built from 1965 to Atlantic Coast Line February 1966. Other series were Despatch fi nally built some X-post cars In the Southeast, only the ACL tried its 114222-114426, X58B, and 1l7813- for the New York Central itself in hand at building its own modern, single 118490, X58. The Pennsy also built 100 November 1966, but NYC 78550-78699, sheathed 50-foot box cars, and even then X58s for the Lehigh Valley, which the lot 112-B, which were also insulated it only constructed a one-of-a-kind PRR controlled. LV 7100-7 l39 were RBLs, came with offset 1 0-foot 6-inch prototype car using prefabricated sides insulated RBLs built in December 1965, Landis plug doors, resulting in eight side from Youngstown. ACL 33000, class 0- while LV 8200-8259 were uninsulated panels to the left of the door, but only 37, was completed in May 1965. The car cars built at the same time. Of course, seven panels to the right. NYC 48260- had a centered 9-foot Youngstown door many X58s were also repainted for Penn 48359, lot ll5-B, were uninsulated and with nine welded panels to either side. Central and Conrail as well. came in December 1966 with offset 10- The car had a fishbelly sidesill and used foot 6-inch Youngstown plug doors. Stanray's R+3/4 Improved Dreadnaught For more photos of X58s, see the PRR ends and overhanging diagonal-panel COLOR GUIDE, Vo l umes One and Two, Photos of both the P&LE and NYC cars roof. The only special equipment was and the CNJ/LV COLOR GUIDE. appear in the NYC COLOR GUIDE, and Freightmaster EOC cushioning. Athearn's exterior-post plug-door kit is the PC COLOR GUIDE. The 8-panel Although this car was not duplicated, it somewhat close to the Pennsy's class P&LE cars would make a great kit served as the prototype for the Seaboard X58 cars, except again for the 5/5 ends, conversion project as they can be Coast Line's similar X-5 class built by non-overhanging roof, and a slightly modeled by combining the SLH&TS kit ACF in 1967 (shown in the December wider door, but you could try plugging for the Soo Line's 8-panel Fond Du Lac 1999 issue of "The Journal"). For a the Athearn carside into the roof and cars with the Despatch ends and roof photo of ACL 33000, see the ACL
42 RAILMODELJOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 ATSF 15651, series 15641-15674, class Bx-190, rebuilt by Santa Fe's To peka, Kansas shops in March 1979 The Santa Fe rebuilt a group of retired class Fe-35 box cars with new Plate E exterior-post carsides in 1979. The first 34 rebuilds got 7-panel sides and 10-foot doors, while another 14 cars also got an offset 6-foot auxiliary door (ATSF 18200-18213, Bx-191). Both series reused the original Shock Control underframe, diagonal-panel roof, and 4/4 Improved Dreadnaught ends with flat extensions at the top. A variety of loaders was applied to individual cars. -J im Eager photo, July 1981 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-9, Oddballs 187-334, Herald King B-31
ICG 580628, series ICG 580600-580999, built at Centralia Shops in 1974 After the IC-GM&O merger, the ICG modified Centralia's design and constructed two more series of cars. Built to fit within the Plate E clearance diagram, these were much taller cars with a flat X-panel roof. The door height was not increased, however, resu lting in a prominent horizontal plate running between the top of the door and the eaves. -J im Eager photo, February 1984 HO Scale Decals: Daniel Kohlberg's Illinois Central Gulf Decals, set ICG-7 plus ICG-8
ICG 535509, series ICG 535500-535653, built at Centralia Shops in 1978 In 1969 the IC built a series of cars without waffles, IC 13400-13599, and nine years later the ICG built a group of almost identical cars. There area few subtle differences though, such as the use of heftier door posts on the 1969 cars, and the forklift push plates on the doors of the 1978 cars. Except for their smooth 8-panel sides, both groups pretty much duplicate the Ie's waffle cars. -Doug Stark collection HO Scale Decals: Daniel Kohlberg's Illinois Central Gulf Decals, set ICG-7 plus ICG-8, Herald King B-251
WLO 528264, series WLO 528000-528499, built at Centralia Shops in 1979 In 1979 the ICG constructed 500 cars for its subsidiary Waterloo Railroad. These were built to a completely different Plate C design with 7-panel sides and non-terminating box-corrugated ends similar to those used on Evans-built cars. This car had recently been shopped to replace a damaged door. -N.J. Molo photo, November 1992 HO Scale Decals: Herald King B-251
RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 43 IPD 50·FOOT BOX CARS IN HO COLOR GUIDE or the 1966 CAR AND These Reading cars could also be kit a group of non-waffle Plate B cars, ICG LOCOMOTIVE CYCLOPEDIA. converted from the 8-panel SLH&TS kit. 5305500-535653, which were virtually identical to IC 13400- 13599 of 1969. In Baltimore Ii Ohio Illinois Central 1979 the ICG built a final group of cars The B&O had a long history of building Another road that traditionally for its subsidiary Waterloo Railroad its own freight cars, such as its fa med constructed much of its freightcar fl eet Company. WLO 528000-528499 were "wagon top" box cars. This tradition in-house was the Illinois Central. The IC very different 7-panel Plate C cars with continued into the 1960s, but by then the began building its distinctive modern non-terminating box-corrugated ends B&O was mainly building cars from kits single-sheathed box cars at its Centralia, and a peaked X-panel roof. supplied by Bethlehem, Pullman, or Illinois car shops in 1969, and successor other carbuilders, and their only exterior ICG kept the production line going until Athearn's 8-panel South(fu 1ron & '·· post box cars were no exception. B&O 1979, with over 2,600 cars being turned Equipment box car, with·. jts �,j;ecessed 48 1100-48 1199 and C&O 48 I 000- out. IC 13100-13399 were the first X non-terminating Dreadna'ughl -ends and 48 1099 were assembled from post cars to roll out of Centralia in X-panel roof, makes an excellent starting prefabricated Thrall kits at the B&O's October 1969. These 5,024-cubic-foot, point for modeling the IC's distinctive Dubois, Pennsylvania car shops in straight-sill, 8-panel cars had centered cars in RO. Just changing the profile of October 1966. The cars had centered 10- lO-foot Youngstown doors and four rows the sidesi lis will get you pretty close to foot 6-inch Youngstown plug doors, with of waffle impressions stamped into their the IC and ICG non-waffl e cars, while eight welded panels to either side, and a side sheets to accommodate intermittent adding strip styrene "waffles" will straight sidesill. The ends were Stanray's DF-2 belt rails. Stanray's non capture most of the Ie's distinctive fl eet. R + 3/4 Improved Dreadnaught, and the terminating R+3/4 Improved In 0 scale, All Nation once produced a roof was an overhanging-eave diagonal Dreadnaught ends and overhanging X molded plastic kit for the IC cars that panel. The cars were equipped with panel roof completed the distinctive were built with Pullman ends and roof. cushion-travel centersills and DFB carbody. A second group, IC 13400- bulkheads. These cars are definitely 13599, completed in November 1969, Santa Fe another candidate for a kit-conversion were similar except that they lacked the The Santa Fe constructed what might be from the 8-panel SLR&TS kit. waffle impressions, although they were considered the first modern single equipped with continuous DF-2 belt sheathed exterior-post box car in 1952 The Reading Co. rails. A third series, IC 12900- 13099, when it rebuilt a single wood-sheathed The Reading also built a single batch of was constructed in December 1969. 40-foot car with new steel sides vertical exterior-post cars, in this case using These had waffles like the first cars, but Z-section posts, ATSF 35999, class Bx- cat'sides fabricated by Berwick. RDG they also came with Keystone 20-inch 65. Although the Santa Fe began 17200- 17299, class RBLc, were cushion-travel centersill s. A fourth group building 50-foot exterior-post insulated constructed at the road's Reading, of uncushioned waffle cars was built in RBLs at their Topeka, Kansas shops in Pennsylvania shops in October 1967. January through Apri I 1970, but IC 1963, the road did not construct any Although these cars were actually 560000-560999 were numbered in a new further uninsulated single-sheathed box insulated RBLs, their carbody series in anticipation of the IC-GM&O cars until 1979. Even then, the cars were construction followed typical single merger. A final group of 400 waffle-side actually rebuilds since they reused the sheathed box car practice, which is why cars was completed in November 1970, underframe, roof and ends from retired they are included here. The Reading cars but IC 580000-580399 were built using class Fe-35 cars, combined with all-new had centered 10-foot, 6-inch Pullman-Standard's non-terminating PS sides. AT SF 15641-15674, class Bx-1 90, Yo ungstown plug doors, with eight I end, overhanging-eave bow-tie roof, were rebuilt in March and April 1979 as welded side panels to either side. The and Hydroframe-40 cushioned 7-panel cars with centered 10-foot straight sidesill was not notched at the underframe. Youngstown doors, whjle ATSF 18200- sill steps. Once again, the ends were 18213, Bx-191, got centered lO-foot R+3/4 Improved Dreadnaught and an Illinois Central Gulf main doors, plus an offset 6-foot overhanging-eave diagonal-panel roof After the merger, the ICG revised the auxiliary door, resulting in only five was used. The cars were equipped with Ie's design to increase capacity, panels to the left of the doors, Both Freight Saver cushion-travel centersills resulting in a 5,336-cubic-foot Plate E classes were rebuilt to Plate E height, and Equipco Load Divider bulkheads. car with a flattened roof. lCG 580600- with a flat plate extension at the top their The last 50 cars also had sidewall fi llers. 580999 were the fi rst examples, 4/4 Dreadnaught ends. The original completed in October 1975. Other than overhanging diagonal roof panels were In 1973 the railroad converted 12 cars, the increased height, these cars were reused, complete with running board RDG 17088- 1 7099, to true refrigerators very similar to the IC cars with their non supports. Other features were a fish bel ly by adding a diesel-powered mechanical terminating Dreadnaught ends, X-panel sidesill, cushioned centersills and a refrigeration unit in the A end of the cars. roof, and Keystone underframe. Other variety of loaders in individual cars. The remodeled cars were not visible changes included a switch to RMJ renumbered, but their class was changed Superior 6-panel doors and a large plate to RPLa. When the Reading was folded spanning several side panels above the into Conrail in 1976, the remaining door. ICG 58 1000-58 1199 fo llowed in RBLs went to the Delaware & Hudson as April and May 1977. In 1978 the ICG D&H 28300-28336 and 28400-28448. duplicated the old IC design when it built
44 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 ICG 535636, rebuilt ICG 535500-535653 series In the 1990s the ICG rebuilt some of their smooth-side cars as high cubes, raising their roof and plug doors to increase both capacity and loading clearance. OK, who is going to be the first on the block to kit-convert one of these cars? -Doug Stark photo, August 2001 HO Scale Decals: Herald King H-252 plus data
PRR 113806, series 113687-113981, class X58A, built by the Pennsy's Sam Rae Shops in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania in March 1965 The Pennsy was well known for their own distinctive freightcar designs and their sole exterior-post box car class, the X58, was no exception, although they, too, were assembled from components purchased from outside vendors. All of these cars have nine side panels to either side of the 10- foot 6-inch plug door. Most cars used Youngstown doors, but a few were built with distinctive Landis plug doors. All cars had cushioned centersills, but only a few used the Hydra-Cushion brand installed on this car. A variety of load-restraining devices were applied, such as DFB bulkheads in this case, or Equipco LD Load Dividers. A few cars were even built as insulated RBLs. -Jim Eager photo, May 1986 HO Scale Decals: Champ HB-377, Herald King B-1800
CR 161680, series 161000-162446, ex-PRR 112687-113236, class X58C, built at Sam Rae Shops in 1965 All of the Pennsy's X58s were built with Stanray R+3/4 Improved Dreadnaught ends and overhanging-eave diagonal-panel roofs, but there is some variation in the carside and sidesill among different lots. Note the subtle difference in the shape of the sidesill drop on this Conrail car compared to PRR 113806. It is similar to cars built by Berwick in the 1970s. Indeed, Berwick did supply prefabricated X58 carsides, as did Youngstown. Athearn's exterior-post model strongly resembles the X58, although the door is a bit too wide, the roof is the non-overhanging type, and the 5/5 unimproved Dreadnaught ends are flat-out wrong. -J im Eager photo, October 1984 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-161 plus data, Herald King B-700
CR 230739, series 230696-230800, ex-PRR 112687-113236, class X58C, built at Sam Rae Shops in 1965 Although this car may look like just another X58, note that the carside is riveted instead of welded. -J im Eager photo, April 1984 HO Scale Decals: Microscale 87-161 plus data, Herald King B-700
LV 8210, series 8200-8259, class X58B, built at Sam Rae Shops in December 1965 The Pennsy constructed two series of X58s for the Lehigh Valley, which they controlled. The other group, LV 7100-7139, were insulated cars. Although physically indistinguishable from the Pennsy's own cars, the LV X58s were painted in their striking white scheme with black ends -Rail Data Services photo, Chris Butts collection, July 1966 HO Scale Decals: Herald King B-852
RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 45 ] AYOUT DESIGN � ,!-..., [L -=-:---� �����
By Bernard Kempinski
Modeling from the prototype certainly has no limits about era, but it is seldom that modelers select a specific mid-18th century scene. Alexandria, Virginia, is one of the most interesting sites possible for a model railroad. There's more information on layout design on our website at www.railmodeljournal.com
A Rivarossi 4-4-0 is working the carfloat in Alexandria, Virginia, circa 1862. Alexandria was not just a hub of Civil War-era railroading, it was one of the first applications of railroad car ferries. This is the three-track dock for the barge that was a significant part of the Civil War.
The model depicts the carl/oat-loading facility with a single center track. ALEXANDRIA. AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1862: hy would one build a aftermarket trucks are also available to several sets of painted Civil War figures model rail road set the scratch builder. Microscale has just from both the Union and Confederate during the period of introduced four sets of Civil War-era armjes as well as suitable horses, wagons the American Civil decals: 87- 1168 Ornate Striping for and cannons. Musket Miniatures (Box War? To this author it Steam Locomotives (1860s), 87-1172 1976, Broomfield, CO 80038) and K&M is attractive for several reasons, aside U.S. Military RR Freight and Passenger offer a line of HO and N scale figures, from the fascinating history. First you Cars, 87-1175 United States National mjlitary equipment and scenery items can fit a lot of railroad in a small area and Battle Flags 1861-1865, and 87-1 ] 76 appropriate for the era. Narrow gauge because railroad equipment used during Confederate States of America National model manufacturers also offer many the Civil War was relatively small. Most Flags 1861-1865 . components that can be readily adapted box cars were only 28 feet long. Train o scale modelers will find a scarcity to the Civil War period. lengths were also modest, with 15-16 of fi ne scale 4-4-0s and will have to Exploiting these positive attributes, freight cars typical. Such a train in HO scratchbuild most of their models, the objective of this article is to design a scale is only about five feet long. although Rivarossi did produce a kit that small bedroom-sized HO scale layout Because the equipment is small, tighter you might locate at flea markets. G Scale that depicts the American Civil War radii in model layout designs are (1/32) is also an interesting poss.ibility as railroad operations in Alexandria in l862. possible. Effectively, you can model there are hundreds of military figures and narrow gauge but with the reliability of supporting details available. However, Alexandria, Virginia, 1862 standard gauge. only Hartland makes a standard gauge 4- Early in the history of the United Thanks to pioneering photographers 4-0, and appropriate cars are not readily States, Alexandria rivaled Baltimore as such as Matthew Brady and Major available in 1/32 scale. the largest and busiest port on the Andrew Russell, there are many There are several challenges in Chesapeake. In 1862 it was still a excellent photographs of Civil War modeling the Civil War era in any scale. significant port while its proximity to railroad subjects. The official records First, railroads of the period used stub Washington and its rail yards made it from both sides of the conflict along with switches. In all scales these will have to militarily important. several other derivative sources provide be hand laid, though there are a fe w Two railroads served Alexandria. The detailed descriptions of the operations on manufacturers that will make stub Orange and Alexandria Railroad (later the railroads. Due to heavy demands of switches for custom orders. Secondly, the Southern) went west. The military operations, Civil War railroads cars used link-and-pin couplers. Alexandria, Loudoun and Hampshire were very busy yet suitable for timetable Operating Iink-and-pin couplers will be (AL&H, later the Washington and Old and train order operation. nearly impossible to model in all but the Dominion, and then briefly the In selecting a scale to model, one may largest scales. Furthermore, 1860s Chesapeake ancl Ohio) radiated be limited by the availability of railroad technology was relatively northwest towards Leesburg. Note that in equipment. Engines were predominantly primitive, many of the details we expect 1862 the Richmond, Fredricksburg and 4-4-0s with some 4-6-0s, 0-8-0 camels to see at trackside, such as lighted Potomac Railroad had not yet established and mug diggers used by a few railroads. signals, are not appropriate. a rail connection to Alexandria. While N scale has several suitable freight Fortunately there are several Union forces occupied the city early cars on the market, there is only one 4-4- manufacturers that make detailing parts in the war and took control of the the o locomotive readily available, and it is for the Civil War era. Preiser otfers railroad and related facilities. The United not known for good and reliable performance. HO modelers have the best availability of equipment and parts needed to make accurate models of civil war vintage equipment. Mantua (now produced by Model Power) makes 28- foot box cars with the correct trucks and details, and IHC offers box cars, flatcars and gondolas, but they have too-modern arch bar trucks. Several manufacturers, including Mantua (Model Power), Rivarossi and Bachmann make 4-4-0s that look good and run fine. Precision Scale just imported a new production run of "Promintory" 4-4-0s that can be adapted to Civil War replicas. The 2-8-0 and 2-6-0 locomotives that are available are all based on too-modern prototypes, and they would be difficult (but possible) to back-date using the Mantua or Rivarossi tender drives with ." Schuylkill-style barges were adapted for superstructures from lenghthed 4-4-0 ciufloat use. -National Archives photo locomotives. Craftsman kits and
48 RAILMODELjOURNAL · OCTOBER2002 system led him to the dark recesses of the A view of the transfer bridge from the docks with two car ferries on the right and another U.S. Military RR outside frame 4-4-0. -National Archives photo Hoosac tunnel in Westem Massachusetts. There he found Herman Haupt engaged in both a technically and politically challenging task of digging the longest rai lroad tunnel to date. The 42-year-old Haupt was a West Point graduate with distinguished experience in both teaching engineering and building portions of the Pennsylvania Railroad in his home state. Haupt answered Stanton's call to duty in spite of the fact that he had risked a large portion of his own personal fo rtune in constructing the unfinished tunnel. Haupt arrived in Alexandlia, Virginia to take command of the USMRR there just in time to help expedite the flow of reinforcements to the Second Battle of Bull Run. Haupt established his headquarters in Alexandria. States Military Railroad (USMRR) Confederacy. Perhaps the most Haupt recruited an assortment of quickly laid tracks in town to connect the significant, yet least heralded, was the frontier woodsmen, skilled craftsman AL&H with the O&A railroads. They North's superior railroad system. and freed slaves to create a railroad also laid tracks across the Long Bridge Furthermore, Federal forces captured construction corps that achieved amazing making an all-rail connection between many Southern rail lines and probably engineering and railroad-building fe ats. Washington, DC and Alexandria. The used them more efficiently than their One of his first notable achievements USMRR also expanded the O&A engine origi nal owners. These captured Ii nes was the reconstruction of the bridge over terminal at the intersection of Wo lfe and were organized and run as a single entity, Potomac Creek. The original bridge took Henry Streets. This terminal, called the the USMRR, by David McCallum and three years to build. Haupt and his men USMRR Station, fe atured a large the indomitable Herman Haupt. Through rebui It the 300-foot-long and IOO-foot covered roundhouse and numerous shop the USMRR, their operations were fully tall trestle in less than a week. Abraham buildings. Many photos and maps of this coordinated with the Northern Railroads. Lincoln, amazed upon seeing the bridge, area have been recorded and have been By 1862 American hope for quick commented, "that man Haupt has built a published in several books. victory was dashed by the surprise defeat bridge using beanpoles and cornstalks." Alexandria housed several important of the Union army at the First Battle of In his Alexandria headquarters Haupt industries at the time of the Civil War. Bull Run and the carnage at Shiloh, the also developed prefabricated For example the Smith and Perkins first large-scale bloody battle. Both sides components to rapidly repair destroyed Virginia Locomotive and Car Works realized they would need large armies to bridges as well as field methods to produced engines and cars fo r numerous support their leaders' strategies. These efficiently repair or destroy track. customers including the Orange and armies required vast quantities of supply Haupt's genius applied to both Alexandria and the Manassas Gap to sustai n them in the field. For the first organizational as well as engineering Railroads. The Pioneer Mills at the foot time, the re latively young railroads challenges. Upon taking command, the of Wo lfe Street was for many years the would be called upon to satisfy the strong-willed Haupt swiftly reorganized largest waterside grain elevator in the appetite of the nations' war machines. the railroad. He instilled timetable and U.S. This six-story, steam-driven flour Leaders on both sides were quick to train order discipline to operate the mill and tall smoke stack dominated the apply the rai Iroads toward their war railroad. On numerous occasions he southern end of the waterfront. Several aims. Last-minute Southern reinforce clashed with superior Union generals boat yards and lumber mills were also in ments moved by rail turnedthe tide at the over his perceived view of their town. Unfortunately, compared to the First Bull Run. Yet, managing a large interfe rence with railroad operations. USMRR engine terminal, these facilities railroad network with its diverse and While Haupt's skillful management were less well documented. For example, competing companies proved more than helped keep Union troops well supplied, the author knows of only one good photo a task for both governments. Union battlefield results in 1862 were largely of Pioneer Mills, a rare photo housed in Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, in disappointing. In spite of gaining a great the Alexandria Library Special surveying the tangled web of railroad Union victory at Antietam that led to the Collection, even though the mill lasted logistics that existed in early 1862, Emancipation Proclamation, Abraham until 1899 when it was destroyed in a fire. decided that a rai lroad professional Lincoln replaced General McClellan in would be required to bring the Union November 1862. In his place Lincoln General Haupt and advantage in railroad assets and selected General Ambrose Burnside, a Alexandria technology to bear. man who admitted he was incapable of In the American Civil War, the Union His search for a man to clean up the command. Nevertheless, General held many advantages over the morass that fo uled the Union supply Burnside initiated a plan to move down
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November &December 1862
To RlCHMOND -Alexandria Public Library collection the Rappahannock Ri ver to capture transport the cars on the Potomac River, Schuylkill barges performed admirably Fredricksburg as a prelude to an advance he designed, requisitioned materials, and and thus was formed a new era in on Richmond, the Confederate capital. built unique railroad float barges. military railroad transportation . "The The floats consisted of two large length of the barges were sufficient for Carfloat Operations, sized Schuylkill barges, across which eight tracks carrying eight cars, and two Circa 1862 long timbers were placed supporting such floats would carry the 16 cars which To support the plan, Haupt eight tracks. Loaded cars were run onto constituted a train." immediately began preparations to these tracks at Alexandria and towed 60 All of this construction occurred over change the Union Army's main supply miles by steam tug to Aquia Landing. a period of two weeks. Haupt was ready line from the Orange and Alexandria There railroad crews unloaded the barges to support further military operations by Railroad to one using a combination of by pulling the cars. They then fo rwarded November 17. On November 22, he water and rail transport visa carfloats. He the cars without the break of bulk along telegraphed General Burnside suggesting dispatched construction crews to Aquia the rebu.ilt line of the Richmond, that Burnside move to Fredricksburg Landing to restore the wharf there and to Fredricksburg and Potomac Railroad to before General Robert E. Lee, repair the connection to the Richmond, Falmouth, across from Fredricksburg on commander of the Confederate fo rces Fredricksburg and Potomac rail lines. He the north bank of the Rappahannock. opposing him, could occupy and fortify also supervised the construction of rail According to Haupt, this was "the the bluffs behind the city. However, to-barge transfer bridges at both fi rst known attempt to transport cars by General Burnside ignored the advice and terminals of the proposed water route. To water with their cargoes unbroken." The waited three more weeks at Falmouth
RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 51 ALEXANDRIA. AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1862: before advancing across the a tempting modeling subject, this layout situated on the top of the ridge along Lee Rappahannock. By then General Lee had design focuses instead on the equally Street near Jefferson Street (on the concentrated his widely dispersed army interesting waterfront area and the Quartermaster Map, the name Lee Street from its winter quarters and was fi rmly northern terminus of Haupt's carfloat has been erased and renamed Water entrenched on the heights behind operation in Alexandria, Virginia. I have Street). In the corner of this map barely Fredricksburg. On December 13, not been able to locate an exact track visible is an annotation of a short section Burnside launched a futile attack on the plan for this portion of Alexandria as of curved track labeled USMRR. These strong Confederate position. The Union built in 1862. Therefore the model plan I two clues support the conclusion that the army suffe red its bloodiest and most one present here is based on snips and pieces USMRR transfer bridge was located at sided defeat of the war. from several maps and photographic the foot of Franklin Street, two blocks The fact that Haupt would suggest evidence. I invite anyone having more south of the Wilkes street tunnel. strategic maneuvers to General Burnside information to please contact me through The transfer bridge itself was fairly was evidence of his own self-confidence "The Journal." well documented in photos by Andrew and strong opinions. As the war There is a low ridge running along Russell and Matthew Brady, and they progressed, he continual ly suggested Lee Street and parallel to the waterfront. have been published in several books, ideas and offered criticism to Lincoln Because there were several houses on especially Abdill's exhaustive survey of and Secretary Stanton on all matters, this ridge, the railroad tunneled through Civil War railroads. In a stroke of luck I some well beyond the realm of military it to reach the waterfront. Located on was able to find an additional close-up logistics: such as ways to reform the Wilkes Street, the tunnel saw rail service photo of the transfer bridge that I had Navy and methods to build ironclad until the 1970s, and it serves today as a never seen published before and have warships. Eventually this criticism, that bike trail. Page 31 of Abdill's CIVIL included a copy of it in this article. The transcended his military jurisdiction, WAR RAILROADS book (which has transfer bridge has three tracks, each angered Stanton and he forced Haupt to been in and out of print several times with its own ramp. Unlike modern leave government service. during the last 40 years) shows a photo cat'floats, the cars were mounted The changes and innovations Haupt of the tunnel as it existed in ] 862. transversely on Haupt's barges. This wrought in the USMRR lasted well after This tunnel makes an excellent meant that the float had to be moved at his departure. General McCallum and fulcrum on which to base the layout least twice to load all of the float's eight others continued to capably manage the design. Behind the tunnel is a staging tracks. USMRR. In the end, the superior resources yard representing the Orange and Sources to locate the remaining of the Union, transported in large part by Alexandria's lines to the south and west. tracks along the waterfront are rare. The the USMRR, brought peace to the nation. The foreground tracks emerge from the maps in Williams' book on the W&OD Haupt returned to Massachusetts to fi nish tunnel and curve to the right as in the show two tracks running along Union his tunnel. It's still in use today. prototype. These serve the various Street with a spur into the Pioneer Mills. The railroad facilities in Alexandria industries along the waterfront. The panoramic "bird's-eye view" remained busy through the end of the In designing the layout, a major drawing of Alexandria in the Library of war. In March 1866 the Federal Forces question was the actual location of Congress also shows two tracks on vacated Alexandria and their facilities Haupt's transfer bridge (carfloat-loading Union Street, though the spur to Pioneer were restored to the original owners. facility). A photo of Battery Rodgers in Mills is not evident. I assumed that these the Library of Congress clearly shows tracks connected to the tracks on the Alexandria, Virginia, the transfer bridge in the background. USMRR float bridge. Williams' maps 1862 in HO Scale The Plan of Quartermaster Property for also show spurs on piers on the north While the well-documented engine Battery Rodgers in the National Archives side of town. In this layout design, I terminal six blocks from the waterfront is shows Battery Rodgers to have been moved one of these spurs so that it is opposite King Street. While not in the con-ect location, it does add variety to the . General Haupt's men building an "ark" -type barge, with the Alexandria carfloat transfer bridge potential model operations as the piers in just visible in the upper right. -Library of Congress photo this area were for passenger fe rries and one could use this spur to spot passenger cars. Prior to the war, Pioneer Mills was extremely busy. But military operations in the farms around Alexandria reduced the level of business, and the mill was largely idle during the war. In any case, we can use modeler's license and work an occasion car into the mill during operations. Andrew Russell took a wonderful photograph of the Alexandria waterfront from the top of Pioneer Mills. This photo is an excellent reference fo r details of the structures, piers and ships that docked in Alexandria. Note the variety of ship types docked, including barges, sailing schooners, side-wheel steamers with
52 RAILMODELJOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 A view of the transfer bridge from the carfloat with the tracks in the lower right and an outside frame 4- 4-0 switching. -National Archives photo
RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER2002 53 Track plan.
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A portion of the Mangus "Birds-Eye View" of Alexandria, 1862-1863 with what is likely the Pioneer Mill to left of the ship with three sails unfurled. -Library of Congress photo
54 RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 ALEXANDRIA. AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1862: The barge held eight cars, placed side-by side, rather than end-to-end as was standard practice in the twenties.
The diorama includes a track-construction scene for one of the additional two tracks leading to the carfloat barge.
RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 55 ALEXANDRIA. AN AMERICAN CIVIL WAR 1862: A tug pushing a loaded barge (cartloat), circa 1862. -National Archives photo
walking beam engines, and screw-type Williams, Ames, WA SHINGTON In researching this project I was lucky to steamers with auxiliary sai ls. Model AND OLD DOMINION RAILROAD, find a previously unpublished close-up Shipways offe rs several one eight-inch 1847- 1 968, Arl ington Historical Society, of the transfer gantry at the National scale (I:96) ship models that are Arlington, VA , Fourth Printing, 1989. Archives as well as several views of the appropriate for this era. Detai led discussion of the history of the pier and barges. Expanding th is layout would be W&OD and copies of maps showing I built the model to fit an existing possible in two directions. If room is portions of the Alexandria waterfront in display case in the Lyceum, Alexandria available, one move could model the 1861. City's History Museum, and thus it is engine terminal just on the other side of Cooling, 8J. and Owen, WH., MR. slightly shorter than the prototype the Wilkes Street tunnel. If one extended LINCOLN'S FORTS, White Mane structure. The model is on display there the tracks on the right side, there was a Publishing, Shippensberg, PA , 1988. in their permanent collection. connection with the AL&H. They had a Contains a detai led map showing the I scratchbuilt the structllre usillg scale station and small engine terminal near location of Battery Rodgers and a lumber and Russell's photos for Fairfax and Princess Streets. During USMRR facility on Franklin Street. reference. I carved the barges from most of the war, the western portions of Alexander, Ed win, CIVIL WA R basswood and then planked them with the AL&H line were not as busy as the RAILROAD & MODELS, The Fairfax scale lumber. The tugboat is a slightly Orange and Alexandria. However, once Press, New York, 1989 Edition. An modified Model Expo Taurus kit. The the USMRR built a rail connection invaluable reference for civil war model box cars are repainted 28-foot Mantua across the Potomac, traffic from the rai lroads. It has a section devoted to kits with link-and-pin coupler pockets north came from this direction via the Alexandria that focuses on the engine and other sl ight modifications. The AL&H and the O&A connection. terminal. locomotive is a re-Iettered and weathered Rivarossi 4-4-0. Figures are by Preiser, References: About The Model Musket Miniatures and K&M. Other HO Abdill, George, CIVIL WAR The diorama depicted in the photos is details complete the scene. RAILROADS, Superior Publishing a HO scale model of the rail transfer RMJ Company, Burbank, CA 1961. This bridge and barge that Haupt built in thorough photographic treatment of Alexandria, Vi rginia in 1862. There are American Civil War railroads has several no plans available. Fortunately Major photos of wartime Alexandria including Andrew Russell took several the car'f1oat operation. photographs of the innovative structure.
56 RAILMODELjOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 USMRR transfer bridge Russell's photo taken from the roof or cupola of Pioneer Mills, circa 1862, shows the variety of ships at Alexandria, the piers and the buildings. -Library of Congress photo
A Coastal gun battery with the Alexandria transfer bridge (but no cartloats) in the center distance. -Library of Congress photo
Pioneer Mills in the mid-nineteenth century from the land side. -Alexandria Public Library collection [MODELING INDUSTRY] ------woom eaRS
By J. Emmons Lancaster
Each wood-chip-Ioading facility was a unique design. This rig is more like a transfer crane. This facility was located at the Diamond Industries James River Mill in Maine.
58 RAILMODELJOURNAL · OCTOBER 2002 These four photos were all taken in January 1977 at the Boise-Cascade plant in Rumford, Maine. This is a wood chip unloading facility. The grates cover a car-shaking platform to help dislodge the wood chips from conventional hopper cars being unloaded through the cars' hoppers. The vertical posts supported and shook the car with cables.
RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER2002 S9 D�E:SEl MOD'ELING INDEX
Yo u can do it. Use these indexes of arti • S- 12 as MKT 24 and 34 Nov. 99 • GP40-2 as Chessie (B&O) 4302 March 92 cles on how individual modelers used proto • VO 1000 as AT SF 22 1 3,2228, 2229 & 2243, • GP40-2 as Conrail 3280 and 3295, July 00 type photos as a guide to installing detail May 01 • GP60 as EMD Demo 5 June 95 parts to recreate specific real railroad loco Budd: • GP60 as SSW 9704 March 93 motives. • RDC-2 prototypes, Dec. 00 • GP60M as AT SF 105 Jan. 97 The indexes include two types of articles: EMD: • MP15DC as CNW 1304 and 1307 Sept. 96 the first series includes articles that show only • BL2 as C&O 83 Nov. 89 • P40 "Genesis" as Amtrak 806/808 March 98 the prototype locomotive as part of "The • CF7 spotting guide Aug. & Oct. 90 • NW2 spotting guide Nov. 93
Journal's" monthly series of "One-Detail • CF7 in color AT SF, NS, MC, PV, • NW2 as AT SF 2405 Feb. 94 At-A-Time" articles illustrating prototype AMTRAK, BRW Aug. 90 • SD7 as SP 1431 Sept. 95 locomotives with part-by-part listings of all • CF7 in color FN, PV, lR, FM,CC&G Oct. 90 • SD9 as Southern (ex-CG) 207 April 90 the available detail parts needed to duplicate • CF7 as SEK 1000 (ex-ATSF 2542) Aug. 90 • SD9 as C&S (CB&Q) 823 Oct. 95 that full-size locomotive in miniature. • DD35A (DD40A) as UP83 June 93 • SD9 as Chessie (B&O) 1836 Sept. 93
The index of the second series includes • E7 A as PRR 5865 Oct. 92 • SD9 as SP 44 18 Aug. 91 articles on HO or N scale model locomotives • E8A as AT SF 81 and 85 Jan. 91 • SD9 as Southern Pacific 3914 June 97 that have been detailed and painted to match • E8A as C&O 4005 Feb. 95 • SD9 Phase IV, as Burlington (C&S) 83 the prototype locomotive in an accompanying • E8A as IC 4025 March 94 March 00 photograph. When two brands of models are • E8A as PRR 5793 July 93 • SD35 as Conrail 6022 July 96 listed, the first brand indicates the body and • E8A as UP 936 May 93 • SD35 as Conrail's 6002 and 6008, Aug. 00 the second listing is the chassis (in some • FT spotting guide Nov. 96 • SD35 as Pennsy 6000 and 6016, Nov. 00 cases, Rail Power provides the frame as well • FTA and FTB as Santa Fe 189 Nov. 96 • SD35 as NS 1545 and 1550, Nov. 01 as the body, while Athearn provides only the • F3 diesels in color B&M, GM&O July 89 • SD35 as B&O (Chessie) 7400 and 7408, motors, drive shafts and trucks). Each article • F3 diesels in color Erie, DL&W and E-L Dec. 01 includes a complete Bill of Materials of all Sept. 89 • SD35 as Southern Pacific 69 15 and 6953, parts, paints and decals used. • F3 diesels in color TP&W, SN(WP), CNJ, Jan 02 The articles in bold type include step-by SAL Nov. 89 • SD35 as B&O 74 11 and C&O 7421, July step instructions on how the project is done so • F3A as CB&Q 133A, June 02 2002 you can do it yourself. With the knowledge • F7A and F7B Phase [ spotting guide April 99 • SD35 as B&LE 862 June 96 you can gain from those how-to articles, you • F3 and F7 as Santa Fe 13C, 19 and 45 Feb. • SD35 as CSXT 45 1, May 2000 can use the "One-Detail-At-A-Time" articles & April 99 • SD35 as CNJ 2505 and 25 1 I, Oct. 03
(with the dozens of arrows and numbers) to • F7 A as Penn Central (PRR) 1903 Oct. 90 • SD40 as CR 6249 Sept. 91 apply detail parts to almost any locomotive • FP7 A as C&O 803 1 Dec. 90 • SD40 as C&O 7450 April 96 model so it matches that specific prototype in • FP7 A as PRR 9835 Nov. 91 • SD40-2 as Family Lines 8100 June 91 every detail. • F40PH as Amtrak 206 Sept. 90 • SD40-2 as Conrail 6409 and 64 10 Jan. 99
• F59PHI spotting guide, Aug. 00 • SD40-2 "Snoot" as Union Pacific 8008 &
DIESELS, One-Detail-At-A-Time: • GP7 Phase I as WM 21 Feb. 90 8009 Aug. 99
Alco: • GP7 Phase II as PRR 8557 Aug. 89 • SD40-2 as Milwaukee Road 167 and 174 • C628 as Southern Pacific 7102 and 7118 • GP7 Phase II as MEC 574 Jan. 92 April 00 June 99 • GP9 Phase U as Chessie (B&O) 6607 June 92 • SD40-2 as CP Rail 6037 & 6040, March • C628 as Lehigh Valley 626 and 628 Jan. 00 • GP9 Phase II as SP 5788 June 90 2001 • FA l as GN 310A July 90 • GP7 Phase II as AT SF 2837 March 97 • SD40-2 as Soo Line 6622 and 6623, May 02 • FA I as Union Pacific 1640 April 97 • GP9 Phase III as Southern Pacific 57 13 July 97 • SD40T-2 as SP 8304 May 91 • FA l as L&NE 70 1 Oct. 93 • GP15-1 as Conrail 1633 Oct. 89 • SD45 as C&NW 917 Feb. 93
• FA l & FB I as New York Central 100011010 • GP18 as B&M 1752 Sept. 92 • SD45 as CNW 8582 Jan. 95
& 3300, Jan. 01 • GP18 as RI 1352 March 95 • SD45 as CSX 8903 Oct. 91
• FA2 as NYC 1110 Aug. 91 • GPl8 as ICG 94 10 Oct. 97 • SD45 as SP 7558 Aug. 95
• FA2 & FB2 spotting guide Sept. 91 • GP18 as Norfolk & Western 92 1 Jan. 98 • SD45 as E-L 802 Dec. 95
• PA L as AT SF 58 Sept. 89 • GP35 spotting guide April 92 • SD45 as BN 6435 and 6485 Oct. 98
• PA l as New York Central 420 1 and 4204 • GP35 as B&O (Chessie) 35 10 July 95 • SD45-2 as E-L 3679 Dec. 94
May 98 • GP35 as C&NW 826 April 94 • S050 as CSXT (B&O) 858 1 July 94 • PA I as Union Pacific 600 and 604 June 98 • GP35 as CR 2276 April 92 • S050/SD60 Spotting Guide, Oct. 00 • PA2 as Southern Pacific 6023 and 6035 • GP35 as SP 6333 Sept. 94 • SD60 as EMD/Oakway 9038 Dec. 89 Sept. 98 • GP35 as UP 757 Aug. 92 • SD60 as NS 6591 April 91 • PA2 as Erie-Lackawanna 858 and Erie 859 • GP35M as MP (UP) 2606 Oct.OO • SD60 as NS 6634 Jan. 96
Nov. 98 • GP38 as B&O 38 16 Nov. 93 • SD60 as AT SF 40 11 Aug. 98
• RS 1 as Chicago & North Western (M & St. • GP38 as Chessie (B&O) 35 10, March 03 • SD60 as Conrail 6845 and 6853 Sept. 99
L) 211 and 221 May 99 • GP38-2 as MKT 314 (w/HO decals) June 89 • SD60 as Union Pacific 6028 Dec. 99
• RS3 as D&H 4085 May 94 • GP38-2 as Conrail 8077 April 93 • SD60M as UP 6259 Oct. 94
• S2 as NYC 8541 Aug. 93 • GP38-2 as BN 2088 Feb. 98 • SD70M as Southern Pacific 9805 and 9822
• S4 as NYC 9736 March 91 • GP38-2 Rock Island 4300 and 43 12 March Dec. 98 • S2 as B&O 9133 and 9166 Dec. 97 99 • SD75M as AT SF 205 Nov. 95
• S2 as Pennsylvania Railroad 8901 July 99 • GP38-2 as ICG 9601, 9606 & 9621, Feb. 01 • SD80MAC as Conrail 4101 and 4 109 July
• S2 as Union Pacific 1111 and 1151 Oct. 99 • GP40 as Penn Central 3252 Jan. 90 98 Baldwin: • GP40 as RI 4705 Nov. 92 • SD90MAC as UP 80 12 and 8024 Sept. 97 • DR-4-4- 15 Sharknose as PRR 9588, Sept. 01 • GP40 as CN 4007 Jan. 93 • SC90MAC as CSX 801 and Conrail 4100, • RF- 16 Sharknose as PRR 9736, Sept. 01 • GP40 as Penn Central 320 l and 3252 June 00 Sept. 02
• RS- 12 as SAL 1466 Dec. 92 • GP40X as 3804 and 3809 Feb. 00 • SD90MAC as Union Pacific 8077, Nov. 02
60 RAfLMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER2002 • SW I spotting guide Jan. 93 • E8A If-IC (Rivarossi)/Athearn /Proto Power • GP38-2 as Rock unit from Athearn and • SW I as BN 88 Jan. 93 West kit conversion how-to) as ATSF 87 by Atlas parts by Frank Jordan, Aug. 02
• SW9 as B&O (Chessie) 9620 May 96 Albert Hetzel Jan 91 • GP38-2W to match CN units from Jay's • SW9 as Union Pacific 1851 April 98 • E8A as Rock Island units from Proto 2000 Train Parts & Athearn kits, by Reg Neale • SW I 000 spotting guide Feb. 91 models, by Frank Jordan Jan. 0 I Nov. 00 • SW 1200 as Baltimore and Ohio (Chessie) • E8A as L&N unit form Proto 2000 model by • GP40 Cannon cab/Athearn as WM 3798 by 9620 May 96 Frank Jordan Aug.02 Ed San icky Sept. 92
• SW 1500 spotting guide Feb. 91 • F3A and B Stewart as KCS 30 by Tom • GP40 Con-Cor as RI 47 12 by Bob Rivard • SW 1 500 as SLSF 329 Feb. 91 Bartzen April 92 Oct. 92
Fairbanks-Morse: • F3A and B Stewart as CB&Q 125A & 125B • GP40 from Athearn and Cannon parts as • HI0-44 as PRR 9080 Feb. 92 Nov. 92 733 and 735 by Sob Rivard as Aug. 92
• H16-44 as N&W 114 June 94 • F7 A on the Sao, from Stewart's kit by Bob • GP40 as Soo diesels, from Atlas HO mod • H 16-66 "Baby Trainmaster" as CNW 1902 Rivard June 97 els, by Bob Rivard June 0 I and 1906, Aug. 02 • F7B Highliner body/Stewart as Soo 2204C • GP40 as Soo 355, 394 & 4708 from Atlas • H-24-66 "Train Master" as Pennsy 6706, by Bob Rivard Nov. 95 models, by Bob Ri vard Sept. 0 I Dec. 00 • F7 A as Rock Island 116 and 120 from • GP40 as CN 93 16 superdetailing from • H-24-66 "Train Master" as SP4806 & 48 15, InterMountain kits by Bob Rivard Jan. 00 Athearn's kit, by Tony HOI'vatin Dec. 01
April 01 • F7 A as Western Pacific 92 1 and 92 1 D from • GP40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as D&RGW General Electric: Athearn models, by Jim Providenza, Dec. 00 3099 by Mike Elkin Feb. 92
• AC44CW as CSXT 9100 Feb. 96 • F7A units on the Santa Fe from Stewart bod • GP40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn Reading 3673 • AC44CW as UP 9998 Dec. 96 ies on Athearnchassis, by Jim Bright, Feb. 01 by Ed Sanicky as July 92
• C23-7 as Conrail 1905 and 1968, August 01 • F7 A units on the Rock Island from Stewart • GP40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as WP 3548 • B30-7 as CSX 5562 Aug. 96 & InterMountain kits, by Bob Rivard, March 01 by Clyde Queen, Jr. Sept. 92
• C30-7 spotting guide Feb. 97 • F7 A and F7B on the Canadian National • GP40-2LW as Canadian National 9607, an
• C30-7 as Conrail 6582 Feb. 97 from InterMountain bodies and Proto 10000 illustrated kit-conversion from an Athearn • Dash 7 spotting guide Sept. 89 chassis, by Reg Neale, March 02 HO scale GP40-2, by Tony Horvatin April 96
• Dash 8 spotting guide May 90 • F40PH Life-Like/Proto Power West • GP60 as Santa Fe 4033 from Athearn's kit,
• Dash 8 spotting guide Sept. 90 (Athearn kit-conversion how-to) as Amtrak by Bob Ernst Aug. 98
• Dash 9 spotting guide March 96 229 Sept. 90 • GP60M Cannon cab/Athearn AT SF 100 by
• Dash 8 and Dash 9 spotting guide (the • F50PHI diesel spotting guide from Ernest Rizzuto as May 91
AC4400CW units) Dec. 96 Athearn's kit by Louis A. Marre Aug; 00 • GP60M Cannon cab/Athearn as Maersk 146
• Dash 8-32BWH as Amtrak 503 and 517 • GP7 Tyco body/Atlas as SOO 24 11by Bob by Ed McCaslin April 92 April 99 Rivard June 93 • NW2 Kato as Sao 300 by Bob Rivard July
• Dash 8-40B as LMX 852 1 June 0 I • GP7 as MoPac diesels, by Lee Freeman 95
• Dash 8-40BW as ATSF 507 May 97 April 97 • SD7 Proto 2000 as CB&Q (C&S) 810 (kit
• Dash 8-40C as UP 9162 May 90 • GP7 as Union Pacific diesels, superdetailed upgrade how-to) by Robert Schleicher Oct.
• Dash 8-40CW as CSXT 7777 Apri l 95 from Atlas or Proto 2000 models, by Steve 95
• Dash 8-40CW as CR 6055 July 92 Orth, May 01 • SD7 as M1LW and CB&O "half-fuel-tank"
• Dash 9-44CW as AT SF 632 March 96 • GP9 Front Range as SP 5603 & 5604 by Joe models from Proto 2000 kits by Jeff Goucher
• Dash 9-44CW as CNW 860 I Oct. 96 Swain June 90 Sept. 00
• Dash 9-44CW as UP 9735 Nov. 97 • GP9 Cary body/Athearn as UP 21 1 by Tim • SD9 as DM&IR "Hammerhead" 172 from
• Dash 9-44CW as BNSF 43 12 Sept. 00 Fornstrom April 91 Proto 2000 models, by Bob Rivard Feb. 02
• 44-To n as AT SF 460 March 90 • GP9 as Sao Line 409 and 414 fro m Proto • SD39 Santa Fe by Stephen Priest April 98 • U23B as Conrail 2744 and 275 1, July 0 I 200 models, by Bob Rivard, March 02 • SD39 from Cannon parts with scratchbuilt
• U23B as NOlfolk Southern 3909 and 39 14, • GP 15-1 Smokey Va lley body/Athearn, as body shell and walkways by Chris Zygmunt Oct. 01 MP 1680 by Richard Barnes Jan. 92 Dec. 99
• U23B as AT SF 630 1 & 6305, Feb. 02 • GP15-1 as Missouri Pacific 1562, from • SD40 Kato as Sao 738 by Bob Rivard May
• U23B as L&N 2736 & 2737, March 02 Athearn and Smokey Va lley parts by Lee 92
• U25B as C&O 8114 Dec. 93 Freeman Sept. 92 • SD40 "U-Boat Cab" as Sao 747 & 768 from
• U25B as Milwaukee 5000 Nov. 93 • GP 18 Proto 2000 as RI 1351 by Bob Rivard Athearn's HO model, by Bob Rivard August
• U25B as SP 6750 July 89 March 95 200 1
• U28C as L&N 1526 Nov. 90 • GP 18 Proto 2000 as MoPac 1858 by Lee • SD40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as UP 3440
• U30C as CR 6838 Dec. 91 Freeman Feb. 97 and 3493 by Tim Fornstrom July 90
• U33C as AT SF 85 11 May 95 • GP30 as Great Northern 3000, from • SD40-2 Athearn as UP 3593 "Desert Storm" Bachmann's model, by Duane Buck .June 98 by Warren Johnson Oct. 91
HO SCALE MODELING ARTICLES: • GP35 Rail Power body/Kato Motor/Athearn • SD40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as MKT 629 Alco: as RI 321 by Bob Rivard June 92 by Rick Groom July 92
• RS 18 (MLW) Atlas (kit-conversion how-to) • GP35 Rai I Power body/Athearn as Sao 730 • SD40-2 Athearn as Montana Rail Link 256 as CN36 18 by Jay Rotsch Jan 91 by Bob Rivard Aug. 92 by Tami McClung Feb. 93
• HH660 kit-conversion how-to from Atlas • GP35 Rail Power body/Athearn as AT SF • SD40-2 GSB body/Athearn as RI 4792 by S2 and RS3 parts, by Stan Rydarowicz Dec. 97 2858 by Dana Stark May 93 Mike Daniels Sept. 93 EMD: • GP35 Kato as SSW 6502 by Bob Rivard • SD40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as KCS 675
• Santa Fe 1450 "Beep" by Bob ErnstFeb. 98 Jan. 95 by Mike Daniels April 94
• • Wrecked Santa Fe GP 7 on flat car by Bob • GP35 as EMD Leasing 182, by Mike Rose SD40-2 Athearn as MKT 63 1 by Scott Ernst March 98 Oct.96 Simson May 95
• • CF7 Rail Power body/Athearn AT SF 2543 • GP38-2 Athearn (how-to add "One-Detail SD40-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as BN 7277 by by Gordon Cardell Aug 90 At-A-Time") as MKT 304 June 89 Mike Daniels Feb. 96
• • CF7 Rail Power body/Athearn as AT SF • GP38-2 Athearn as GTW 6223 by Tony SD40-2 as Norfolk Southern 6131, from 2634 by Gordon Cardell Oct. 90 Horvatin Dec. 94 Athearn's HO scale kit, by Alex King July 96
• • E8A IHC (Rivarossi)/Hobbytown as AT SF • GP38-2 upgrade to match Missouri Pacific SD40-2 as Norfolk Southern 6121, by Andy 87 by Albert Hetzel Jan. 91 prototypes March 99 Harman May 98
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• SD40-2 as Conrail 6420, from Athearn'skit • SD90MAC, superdetailing Kato's model to • E8A and E8B Upgrading the Kato Models by Bob Rivard Oct. 00 match UP diesels by Steve Orth Nov. 02 by Bill Pearce Nov. 96
• • SD40-2 "U-Boat Cab" as Sao 768 from • SW900 and SW 1200 diesels from Proto GP9B kit-conversion from Atlas Model to Athearn's model, by Bob Rivard August 200 I 2000 models by Frank Jordan April 01 match Union Pacific by Bill Pearce Nov. 99 • • SD40-2 as Sao 777 from Athearn's model, • SW 1200 Cannon cab/Athearn as Sao 433 & GP20 Proto 2000 (kit-conversion how-to) as by Bob Rivard, Oct. 02 437 by Bob Rivard April 92 AT SF 1122 by Bill Pearce March 96
• • SD40-2B Cannon cab/Athearn as BN 7500 • SW 1200RS Athearn (SW7 kit-conversion) GP30B kit-conversion from Atlas GP30 by by Richard Barnes Jan. 92 as CN 1396 by To ny Horvatin Oct. 93 Bill Pearce May 00 • SD40-2B on the BNSF, Kato and Cannon • SW 1500 Athearn as WP 150 I by Clyde • GP35 Atlas/N Scale of Nevada as UP 740 parts by Steve Orth June 02 Queen, Jr. June 95 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. Aug. 92
• SD40T-2 Athearn as SP 8352 by Kermit • SW 1500 as Missouri Pacific 1519 by Lee • GP38-2 Kato/N Scale of Nevada as SP 4843 Gaines May 9 I Freeman May 99 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. Nov. 91
• SD40T-2 Cannon cab/Athearn as SP 8338 General Electric: • GP38-2 as MoPac's diese l, from Kato's by Mike Daniels March 94 • Superdetailing the Dash-8s (a step-by-step model by Buzz Lenander May 97
• SDF40-2 on the Santa Fe from Athearn's how-to) by David Hussey Nov. 92 • GP50 KatolN Scale of Nevada as SSW 9620 SDP45 March 99 • B23-7 Rail Power body/Athearn as UP 124 by J. Fred Coots, JrJan. 92
• SD45 Cannon cab/Athearn as UP 25 by by Warren Johnson July 91 • GPSO upgrade to match Santa Fe proto Mike Daniels May 94 • B23-7 Rail Power body/Athearn as AT SF types, from Kato's model by Bill Pearce Feb.
• SD45 as Guilford (S-T) 683 fro m Athearn's 743 1 by Dana Stark July and Oct. 93 99 kit, by Mike Rose, Feb. 01 • B30-7 as CSX5672, from Athearn and Rail • GP60 Kato/N Scale of Nevada as SP 9704 • SD45B as AT SF 5502 from Athearn & Power Products parts by Alex King Aug. 96 by 1. Fred Coots, Jr. March 92 Cannon parts, by Eric Goodman March 01 • C30-7 Rail Power body/Athearn as NW • Upgrade Life-Like or Kato SD7 to match
• SD45MK Morrison Knudsen SD45 fro m 8024 by Gordon Cardell Oct. 90 the Union Pacific's "Laramie Switcher" by Rail Power and Athearn Parts by Bob Ernst • C30-7 Rail Power body/Athearn as ATSF Bill Pearce October 1998. Jan 99 8077 by Great Escape Hobby Feb. 91 • Upgrade Life-Like's SD7 to match CNW
• SD45u as AT SF unit, by Eric Goodman, • C30-7 Rail Power cab/Athearn as UP 244B prototypes by Keith Kohlmmann Apri l 01 June 02 by Mike Daniels June 94 • SD9 Kato/N Scale of Nevada as SP 44 18 • SD45T-2, kit-conversion from Athearn • B30-7B Smokey Va lley cab/Athearn as BN (Kodachrome) by 1. Fred Coots, Jf. July 91 SD40T-2 to duplicate SP prototypes from 40 18 by Gordon Cardell Feb. 91 • SD40 KatolN Scale of Nevada as SP 7360 Athearn, Rai l Power and Cannon compo • C36-7 Rai I Power body/Athearn as UP9029 by 1. Fred Coots, Jr. Sept. 91 nents, by Steve Orth Oct. 01 by Warren Johnson May 93 • SD40 Kato as SP7347 by Bill Pearce Jan. 93
• SD45T-2 prototypes by D. Scott Chatfield, • Dash 8-40B Rail Power body/Athearn as • SD40-2 BachmannlN Scale of Nevada as Oct. 01 AT SF 800 by Dana Stark July & Oct. 93 SP 5022 by 1. Fred Coots, Jr. Aug. 91 • SD45T-2 (and SD40T-2) weathering tech • Dash 8-40CW Rai l Power body/Athearn as • SD40-2 Bachmann/N Scale of Nevada as niques by Steve Orth Nov. 01 AT SF 800 by Dana Stark Nov. 92 UP 3526 by 1. Fred Coots, Jr. May 92 • SDP45U as Santa Fe 98 from Athearn's kit • Dash 8-40CW Rail Power body/Athearn as • SD40-2W as Canadian National 524 1 and by Bob ErnstNov. 98 AT SF 814 by David Hussey Nov. 92 5248, N scale kit-conversion from Kato and
• SD50 Rail Power body/Athearn as • Dash 8-40CW as Santa Fe 803 from Power Prototype N parts by Michael Livingston D&RGW 5507 by Gordon Cardell Nov. 91 Products kit with etched-metal detail parts May 96
• S050 on the Rio Grande fro m Rail Power, (includi ng step-by-step information on • SD60 superdetailing the Atlas model with ' Cannon and Athearn parts by Steve Orth July installing etched steps) by Stephen F. Cerka scale-size handrails by Bill Pearce Dec. 99 00 Dec. 98 • SD60MAC superdetailing the Atlas model • SD60 Rail Power body/Athearn as EM D • Dash 9-44CW Rail Power body/Athearn to match Unjon Pacific prototypes by Bill Demo I by Bill Schultz as Demo 90 (kit-conversion, how-to) as CNW 8503 by Pearce April 00
• SD60 Rail Power body/Athearn as NS 6672 Ray Meyer Feb. 95 General Electric: by Warren Johnson April 91 • CN Dash 9-44CW from Athearn's kits by • Scale-size wire handrails for N scale diesels • SD60 Rail Power body/Athearn as NS 6632 Reg Neale July 99 (step-by-step how-to) by Bill Pearce Feb. 96 by Alex King Jan 96 • U23B as Penn Central unit from Atlas' • Dash 9-44CW as British Columbia Rail • SD60 upgrading Atlas factory-painted mod model by Frank Jordan Aug. 02 4645, an N scale kit-conversion using els, by Steve Orth July 01 • U23 B as MP 4503, by Lee Freeman, Sept. 02 Prototype N's body on a Spectrum Dash 8- • SD60 matched to EMD "Demo" units I adn • U28B Stewart as RJ 253 by Mike Daniels 40CW chassis, by Michael Livingston July 4 by Bob Rivard Jan 02 Aug. 93 96
• SD60M Rail Power body/Athearn as BN • U30C from cut-down Athearn body shells • Dash 8-40B Kato/N Scale of Nevada (kit 922 1 by Gordon Cardell Nov. 90 on Atlas chassis as Sao diesels by BobRi vard conversion how-to) ATSF 7432 by Bill • SD60M Rail Power body/Athearn (kit-con Feb. 00 Pearce Aug. 94 vers ion how-to) as UP 6292 by Robert • U30C as SP unit from Athearn body and • Dash-9-44CW Kato factory-painted diesel Schleicher Oct. 94 Atlas chassis by Frank Jordan Aug. 02 upgrade with decals and details by Buzz • SD60M Phase II as Burlington Northern Lenander July 98
9289, an HO scale kit-conversion from N SCALE MODELING PROJECTS: • Dash 9-44CW as BNSF diesels from Kato's Athearn drive train components & Rail Power Alco: model by Buzz Lenander Sept. 98 Products body & chassis by Mike Daniels • PA I, Upgrading Con-Car's models, step • U30C Kato as UP 286 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. June 96 by-step by Bill Pearce April 97 March 92
• S070, SD70l, SD70M, SD751 and S075M • RS-2 superdetailing with wire handrails • U30C Kato body/Minitrix as Western prototypes for the Genesis (by Athearn) mod from Kato's model by Bill Pearce Oct. 0 I Pacific 7924 by Kent Charles Oct. 92 els by D. Scott Chatfield Jan. 99 • RSD4/5 superdetailing with wire handrails • U33C Kato body/Minitrix as ATSF 873 1 by • SD70I on the Canadian National from from Atlas model by Bill Pearce Dec. 0 I Kent Charles Oct. 92
Athearn 's kit by Reg Neale June 00 • S2/S4 suerdetailing with new sideframes • U33C Kato as BN 5704 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. • SD90MAC in HO scale with Rail Power from Arnold's model by Bill Pearce Nov. OJ Oct. 91 EMD: Products and Athearn parts Sept. 97 • U33C Kato as CR 6569 by J. Fred Coots, Jr. • SD90MAC-H from Rail Power Products, • Scale-size wire handrails fo r N scale diesels Dec. 91 Athearn and Cannon parts March 00 (step-by-step how-to) by Bill Pearce Feb. 96
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The more significant figures from Dean Windsor's, Guy Thrams' and Bob Higgins' evaluations of model locomotives in past issues of this magazine. The issues with asterisks are out of print, but photocopies of these reports are available for $2. 00 each (allow 30 days for shipment). Explanations of how these locomotives are test ed appeared in the March 1990 and September 1992 issues. . . HO, N, 0, S & G SCALE LOCOMOTIVES . '. :'.� Manufacturernmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Manufaeturerllmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Speed No. 6 Speed Tractive Response Date Speed No. 6 Speed Tractive Response Date Switch (smph) (smph) Force (oz.) Mldtoad (v.) Switch (smph) (smph) Force (oz.) Midload (v.) Model Power EMD GP9 .26 HO Scale Diesels 104.2 2.71 1.7 Nov. 1990' Aiin/Overland Models EMD SW1500 .36 74.3 2.53 1.2 Aug. 1990' Alhearn (as·is) EMD GP38·2 .24 t26.4 2.76 3.4 Jan. 1990' Aiin/Overland Models EMD SD60 .37 80.3 4.49 2.0 April 1991' Atheam (wIHelix Humper EMD GP38·2 .89 112.1 2.76 2.8 Sept. 1995 (Chassis) can motor conversion) AjiniOverland Models EMD GP38·2 .42 79.2 1.95 2.0 Nov. 1991' Proto Power Wesl EMD F7A (& F7B) .35 98.2 4.46 2.4 May 1990' (Chassis) (Atheam w/cBn motor) (.26) (95.0) (8.92) (2.6) May 1990' AjiniOverland Models EMD GP15T 3.55 76.2 4.69 1.2 March 2000 Atheam/PPW, weighted EMD GP9 .20 94.2 4.01 3.0 May 1990' Mantua EMD GP20 .30 78.2 3.07 1.6 Dec. 1991' Athearn wlNWSL motor EMD GP38·2 .21 60.9 2.30 1.8 Aug.1990' MRC (Model Rectilier Corp.) EMD F7A .52 86.1 2.90 1.0 Aug. 2000 Athearn w/NWSL molor, EMD GP38·2 Proto 1000 (Life·Like) EMD F3 .19 80.8 3.69 3.7 January 1999 weighled .24 61.2 3.88 2.2 Aug. 1990' Proto 1000 F·M C'Liner 0.61 90.0 4.97 3.2 April 2000 AthearniProto Power Proto 1000 (Life-Like) Budd RDC·2 3.71 65.3 1.87 4.9 Dec. 2000 West w/replacement Proto 2000 (Life·Like) Alco FA2 .20 90.7 3.14 4.2 July 1991' Wheelsets: Proto 2000 (Life·Like) EMD BL2 .31 90.7 3.53 5.4 Nov. 1989' NorthWest Short Line EMD GP38·2 .23 97.4 2.56 1.6 Oct. 199D- Proto 2000 (Life·Like) EMD GP9 .OS 79.2 3.29 4.8 March 1998 Jay·Bee EMD GP38·2 .27 97.4 2.40 1.5 Oct. 1990' Proto 2000 (Life·Like) EMD GP18 .58 99.8 3.40 Feb. 1993 Athearn GE C44·9W 1.85 100.7 3.18 3.6 March 1996 2.6 Proto 2000 (Lile·Like) EMD GP30 .23 78.2 4.17 Jan. 2000 Athearn GE AC4400W .10 95.8 5.06 4.1 Dec. 1996 4.0 Proto 2000 (Life·Like) EMD E8A .51 95.8 Athearn EMD SD40·2 1.94 103.3 3.01 3.3 Jan.2001 5.94 5.6 March 1994' Proto 2000 (Life·Like) EMD SD7 .52 73.3 3.58 5.0 Atlas Alco S2 .65 82.5 3.52 4.4 Feb. 1991' July 1995 Proto 2000 (Life·Like) EMD SW9/SW1200 .57 55.5 1.36 May 1996 Atlas/Roco EMD FP7A .35 97.4 4.23 6.0 Dec. 1990' 3.7 Spectrum (Bachmann)EMD F40PH Phase 11 1 .39 80.3 3.79 3.8 Feb. 1992' Atlas GE U33C 1.18 89.3 3.81 1.8 May 1995 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE Dash 8·40C 1.96 87.4 3.69 3.4 May 1990' Atlas GE C30-7 .71 78.2 3.92 2.2 Feb. 1997 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE Dash 8·40CW 3.3 109.0 4.54 Feb. 1996 Atlas EMD GP40 .33 81.9 3.41 1.7 Nov. 2000 S.4 Spectrum (Bachmann) GE 44·Ton 1.28 55.0 0.81 1.3 April 2002 Baehmann·Plus GE B23·7 1.75 84.9 3.17 2.9 July 1992' Spectrum (Bachmann) F·M H16·44 2.32 49.5 1.27 Baehmann·Plus EMD F7 A (& F7B) .93 88.7 3.38 2.5 Jan. 1996 2.4 July 1997 Spectrum (Bachmann) EMC Gas Elec. .41 (.93) (84.9) (5.82) (2.4) Jan. 1996 82.5 2.34 3.0 Aug. 1994 Speclrum (Bachmann) EMD Con·Cor/Roco EMD GP40 .97 112.1 2.93 9.5 March 1991' DDA40X .68 133.5 6.68 3.2 Aug. 1997 Stewart Hobbies EMD FTA (& FTB) .18 Con·Cor/Roco EMD GP40 .29 99.0 2.91 3.2 April 1991' 70.3 3.94 2.6 Nov. 1996 (with Mashima can motor) Stewart Hobbies Aleo C628 1.20 69.5 2.92 2.2 Aug. 1999 Atewart Hobbies Baldwin VO 1000 1.05 Con·Cor EMD MP15DC .51 69.7 1.46 1.1 Sept. 1996 77.1 I.S5 0.7 Feb. 2000 WaltherS/Roco EMD SWI .21 Con·Cor EMD SW1500 (SW 7) 1.99 265.9 .57 2.2 Dec. 1997 53.3 2.47 1.4 March 1993 WaltherslTrainline Alco FAI (& FBI) .31 E·R Models (Frateschi) Alco FAI 1.95 114.2 2.39 5.4 Oct. 1993 68.7 4.47 4.2 April 1997 (.16) (65.3) E·R Models (Frateschi) Alco FAI .64 89.3 3.70 3.0 Dec. 1995 (8.22) (3.8) WaltherslTrainline EMD GP9M 1.18 73.8 E·R Models EMD FP7A 3.70 92.8 3.24 3.4 May 1999 2.64 4.0 March 1995 WalthersITrainline with Alco FAI .98 Genesis, by Atheam SD751 2.12 110.0 4.01 3.5 July 1999 92.1 3.9 nla Sept. 1998 MRC acc Decoder Genesis, by Athearn EMD F7A .14 95.0 4.19 4.1 March 2001 IHC EMD E8A (& E8B) 1.96 144.9 2.51 5.0 Feb. 1995 HO Scale Electric Locomotives (1.50) (136.6) (5.03) (4.8) Atlas EMD AEM·7 2.42 123.8 4.33 1.0 June 2000 (with 25 ouncesadded we ight) 2.97 146.7 4.38 7.4 (1.88) (136.6) (8.75) (6.4) Feb. 1995 HO Scale Steam Locomotives
IHC EMD SD35 4.38 123.75 2.48 2.0 July 1996 Bachmann·Plus SP 4·8·4 .18 112.1 2.31 1.9 Sept. 1993
InterMountain EMD F7A 0.78 77.6 3.79 1.7 June 2001 Bowser 8&0 0-4·0T .90 102.4 1.46 1.8 Dec. 1992'
Kato EMD SD40 1.18 81.9 3.29 3.0 June 1991 Bowser PRR H·9 2·8·0 .64 89.3 3.70 2.8 Nov. 1995 Kato EMD SD40 2.86 74.3 3.48 2.2 Dec. 2001 Bowser PRR Ml·a (stock) 4·8·2 1.30 78.2 5.97 2.8 July 2000 Kato/Stewart EMD F3A (& F3B) .38 83.1 4.28 2.9 Sept. 1989' Bowser PRR Ml·a (w/Helix Humper can) 1.81 '69.1 5.40 NA July 2000 (similar GP7 models by Atlas) (.31) (81.9) (9.00) (2.8) Sept. 1989' Bowser PRR Ml·a (sW/NWSL can & gears) 1.37 49.1 7.99 2.7 July 2000 Kato EMD GP35 .29 82.5 2.87 2.2 Nov. 1992' Genesis, by Athearn USRA 2·8·2 Light .58 52.8 2.51 1.4 Dec. 1999 Kato EMD NW2 .76 67.9 2.44 3.0 Feb. 1994' Genesis. by Athearn USRA 4·6·2 Light 1.90 64.6 2.20 1.0 Sept. 2001
Kato G.E. Dash 9·44CW 1.52 78.7 4.35 2.0 Oct. 1996 Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 2·8·8·2 2.25 4S.0 3.52 3.0 Feb. 2000 Kato Alco RS2 1.48 78.7 3.40 2.0 Feb. 1999 Heritage, by Proto 2000 USRA 0·8·0 2.80 51.0 2.09 3.5 Sept. 2000
Kato Alco RSC2 2.58 75.2 4.19 2.1 Feb. 1999 IHC 4·4·0 1.17 56.0 1.14 3.5 Dec. 1994
Keystone/NWSL GE 44·Ton .17 36.9 1.52 2.0 March 1990' IHC/Mehano 8&0 0-4-0T 1.42 132.0 .92 2.0 Dec. 1992'
Hobbytown EMD E8A .60 81.4 5.92 3.3 Jan. 1991' IHC/Mehano SP 2·6·0 .81 77.6 1.90 4.2 Jan. 1994 InterMountain EMD F7A .78 77.8 3.79 1.7 June 2001 IHe/Mehano C&O 4·8·2 .36 89.3 2.71 3.0 Sept. 1994 MDC Roundhouse Aleo RS3 .61 94.3 3.98 2.8 April 1994' IHC 2·8·0 .42 74.7 2.53 2.5 March 1997
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Manufacturerflmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Manufacturer/lmporter Prototype Min. Max. Max. Throttle Magazine Speed No. 6 Speed Tractive Response Date Speed No. 6 Speed Tractive Response Date Switch (smph) (smph) Force (oz.) Mldload (v.) Switch (smph) (smph) Force (oz_) Mfdload (v.)
Key Imports UP 4-8-8-4 .44 62.2 6.47 4.6 Aug. 1991' Life-Like EMD SW9 .45 106.9 .40 2.0 April 1998 Lile·Like B&O 0-4·0T 1.37 104.2 1.01 .9 Dec. 1992' Life-Like EMD GP20 3.59 116.6 .57 1.6 June 1999 Mantua 2-6-6-2 3.00 70.2 5.27 7.0 June 1991 Model Powerl Mantua 0·6-0T NA 126.4 2.09 3.2 June 1991 Mehanotenika EMD F40PH 3.14 184.7 .83 3.8 Sept. 1990' Mantua 2-8-2 .65 76.2 3.36 3.5 June 1994 SamhongsalHallmark EMD F3A (& F3B) .29 150.3 1.03 3.2 July 1989' Mantua wlMashima 2-6·6-0 .24 50.6 2.17 4.2 June 1991 (.35) (151.4) (2.04) (3.2) July 1989' Mantua 0-4-0 .90 107.0 3.55 4.0 June 1995 Mantua with 812 Can Moto. 0-4-0 1.86 84.9 3.39 1.8 June 1995 N Scale Steam Locomotives MDC (Roundhouse) Class B Shay 2.54 33.1 1.54 2.2 Ocl. 2000 Kato USRA 2-8-2 3.10 111.8 .7 2.5 April 1996 Model Power PRR 2-8-0 4.77 73.8 0.85 1.5 Aug. 1996 & Oct. 1997 Ajin/Overland Models NYC 2-8-2 .50 74.3 3.79 1.6 Sepl. 1991 ' Kato USRA 2-8-2 4.80 122.5 1.04 2.9 June 1998 Precision Scale (Iron Horse)UP 4-10-2 7.02 53.0 3.08 2.9 Jan. 1998 (GHQ PRR L-1) Rivarossi 4-6-6-4 5.90 71.6 9.47 3.3 Jan. 1997 Key Imports C&O 2-6-6-6 .59 96.9 1.27 3.8 June 1997 Rivarossi USRA 2-8-2 1.78 70.7 4.47 2.4 May 1997 MDC (Roundhose) Baldwin 2-8-0 .10 110.1 .51 Jan. 2002 SamhongsaJPowemouse USRA 2-6-6-2 .28 57.1 8.78 3.0 July 1989' 1.6 Spectrum (Bachmann) Reading 2-8-0 .22 104.2 2.38 2.1 Dec. 1993 Pecos River ATSF 4-6-2 .44 87.2 .88 4.4 Jan. 1995 Spectrum (Bachmann) PRR 4-6-2 1.21 91.4 2.32 2.2 Oct. 1994 Rivarossi USRA 2-8-2 3.00 177.2 1.14 9.0 Oct. 1991 Spectrum (Bachmann) PRR 4-6-2 _72 80.8 2_50 2.4 Oct. 1999 Rivarossi (wiN Scale of USRA 2-8-2 .49 160.3 .66 4_5 Oct. 1991 Spectrum (Bachmann) Baldwin 2-8-0 _30 83.7 2.83 2.4 July 1998 Nevada frame & NWSL Spectrum (Bachmann) USRA 4-8-2 2.75 64.9 2.41 2.8 Nov. 1999 Sagami 1420 can motor) Spectrum (Bachmann) ClassB 3-Truck Shay .46 15.3 2.26 1.8 April 2001 Spectrum (Bachmann) Russian 2-10-0 .33 64.2 1.86 4.5 May 2002 S Scale Diesels Spectrum (Bachmann) N&W J2 4-8-4 .71 73.3 2.88 3.9 June 2002 American Models EMD GP35 .54 78.0 7.85 2.0 June 1993 Trix UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4 1.40 53.0 5.61 4.3 March 2002 S Helper Service EMD SW9 .29 55.6 4.32 1.7 Oct. 1998 Westside 'Classlc' SP 4-6-0 .49 49.1 3.24 1.7 Aug. 1992'
N Scale Diesels o Scale Diesels Central Loco. Works EMD F7A (& F7B) .25 72.0 20.68 4.4 Sept. 1989' Amold Alco S2 1.90 151.4 .44 2.0 Mar. 1991' (.20) (65.5) (39.10) (4.0) Sept. 1989' Alias EMD GP7 .48 237.0 .57 2.0 Oel. 1995 KeylSamhongsa Aleo PA1 .41 76.2 21 .85 5.6 April 1992' Atlas (with DCC decoder) EMD GP 40-2 .42 203.7 .73 3.6 May 1998 P&D Hobby EMD F9A (& F9B) .25 77.1 5.79 1.2 June 1990' Alias EMD SD 60 1.63 222.4 0.90 1.6 March 1999 (.24) (74.1) (12.80) (1.9) June 1990' AliaslKato GE U25B (two) .29 222.4 .64 2.0 June 1989' P&D Hobby EMD F3B .25 77.1 5.81 1.6 Jan. 1993 (.31) (189.6) (1.37) (2.0) June 1989' Red Caboose EMO GP9 .27 81.9 12.78 2.2 June 1992' AtlaslKato EMD SD7 1.29 231.9 .60 1.7 April 1990' Weaver (0 scale) Aleo FA2 .22 72.8 15.31 1.9 July 1989' Weaver (Hi-Rail) Aleo FA2 .21 100.8 12.53 2.2 Aug. 1995 Atlas/Kato EMD GP35 1.07 213.7 .61 2.2 Nov. 1992' Alco FA2 (& FB2) .25 (94.9) (19.25) (2.0) Aug. 1995 Bachmann EMD SD40-2 .74 148.3 1.03 2.4 Sept. 1989' Weaver EMD E8 .30 105.6 14.45 2.1 July 1993 Bachmann wiN Scale of EMD SD40-2 .82 155.7 1.25 2.6 Sept. 1989'
Nevada Chassis o Scale Steam Locomotives Bachmann/Spectrum EMC Gas Elec. 20.0 110.1 0.38 3.2 Aug. 1998 SamhongsalHallmark On3-EBT 2-8-2 .22 33_8 9.09 2.4 Aug. 1989' Bachmann/Spectrum GE Dash 8-40C .44 113.0 1.15 5.2 April 1993 Lionel (HI-Rail) UP2-8-0 12.64 89.7 20.01 7.6 May 2001 Bachmann/Spectrum EMD DDA40X .35 163.9 1.13 3.8 Sept. 1997 Con Cor EMD E7A .57 99.B 4.19 3.4 Oct. 1992' G Gauge Diesels E-R Models Baldwin Shamose A-B .38 75.2 .52 3.4 Feb. 2002 Atlas EMD SW8/9 .63 60.1 12.49 2.1 April 1999 Kato Alco PA1 (& PB1) 1.43 167.7 1.25 1.7 Dec. 1998 LGB Aleo DL535E 2.67 48.0 27.01 NlA April 1990 (1.07) (156.8) (2.328) (1.8) Dec. 1998 Lionel EMD GP7 .38 55.6 14.74 5.9 May 1991 .26 .96 2.0 Aug. 1993 Kato EMD E8A 222.4 Railway Express Agency Alco FA 1 3.79 68.2 15.25 NIA July 1990 EMD E8A & (E8B) (.26) (220.4) (1.92) (2.3) Aug. 1993 Kato GE U30C .48 242.2 .88 2.4 Feb. 1990' G Gauge Steam Locomotives Kato GE Dash 9-94CW .11 198.2 .84 1.4 Nov. 1997 Aristo·Craft (ART) B&O 4-6-2 1.15 51.9 28.08 2.0 Oct. 1991 Kato Alco RS2 _30 167.7 .52 1.4 Sept. 1999 Arlsto-Craft (ARn & PRR 0-4-0 .94 72.7 12.13 1.6 Jan. 1992' .22 211.7 0.50 1.2 Sept. 2002 Kato Budd RDC1 Lehmann (LG E) 0-4-0T 2.40 28_7 7.24 NIA May 1992' 234,4 0.50 1.3 Sept. 2002 Budd ROC-3 ,54 Bachmann 0-4-0T .31 25.6 6.38 2.6 Aug. 1992' Budd RDC1 & ROC3 .44 218.0 1.00 1.2 Sept. 2002 Bachmann Radio- Key/Endo EMD F7A (& F7B) .39 145.3 .57 3_8 Mar. 1992' Controlled Baldwin 4-6-0 .55 25.2 28.81 NlA June 1989' (.50) (150.3) (1.27) (3.0) Mar. 1992' Bachmann Track- Ufe·Llke EMD F9A (& F9B) 2.04 177.2 1.41 5.0 Aug. 1989' Powered Baldwin 4-6-0 5.50 38.4 11.23 1.0 Oct. 1990' (1.84) (166.4) (2.78) (4.7) Aug. 1989' Bachmann 2-Truck Shay .95 14.0 29.22 3.3 May 2000 Life-Like Alco FA2 (& FB2) 1.19 158.0 .91 4.0 May 1993 Delton Loco. Works D&RG 2-8-0 .12 40.9 17.00 2.0 Dec. 1989' (.66) (149.3) (1.81) (3.4) May 1993 LGB 2-6-0 2.65 54.8 22.45 N/A Nov. 1991' Life-Like Alco PAl 2.97 139.7 1.21 3.4 Nov. 1998 LGB Forney 0-4-4T 2.74 36.1 26.39 NIA July 1994 Life-Like EMD GP18 1.20 167.0 .84 3.0 April 1994' Lionel Baldwin 0-4-0T .12 54.5 9.60 1.8 Oct. 1989' 13.47 1.1 Jan.�I' Life-Like EMD E8A 1.63 149.3 1.27 4.0 April 1995 Kalamazoo Toy Trains 0-4-0T 048 50.1 Kalamazoo Toy Trains 4-4-0 .82 67.1 13.18 1.3 Jan.1991' Life-Like EMO S07 .29 121.11 .48 2.45 June 1996 Life-Like EMO E7A 3.14 140.6 1.33 4.3 Feb. 1998 Note: Figures in parentheses are for two locomotives operated together.
64 RA ILMODELJOURNAL ' OCTOBER 2002 What's New HO Scale
B.lS. Structures, p.o. Box 561, Seffner, FL 33583 is producing this com plete McCabe Lumber Co." sawmill complex as a series of laser-cut wood kits with Grandt Line and Tichy windows and doors. The complex includes 10 sep arate structure kits plus a choice of 7 different bunk cars. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for price list.
This Greenville 70 and 100-ton wood chip hopper is a cast-resin kit from Kirkland Hobbies, 187 Concord Circle, Panama City, FL 32405. Send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for price list.
Tichy Train Group, P.O. Box 39, Plainview, NY 11803-0039 is producing injection-molded plastic kits to build the converted pulpwood gondolas used by the ACL.
State Tool and Die Company, 4780 Briar Road, Cleveland, OH 44135 is offering this iniec tion-molded plastic kit to build the "Universal Mill Car. " The kit is $8.95 including trucks and couplers or $23.95 for a three-pack plus $4.50 shipping and handling.
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66 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 UP 8039 eastbound at MP 814, East Green River, Wyoming. You can superdetail the Kato HO scale EMD SD90MAC to be an exact replica of these massive diesels without repainting the model. Learn how you can do it beginning on page 26 of the November issue. -Steve Orth photo
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.:.' l.!:� ' . ( ! FROM LIFE·LIKE1S PROTO 1000 HO SCALE MODEL By Da niel Risdon I
The Ufe-Uke Proto 1000 Newsprint box car is a perfect match for this car. QGRY has several Newsprint box cars that were purchased from Canadian Pacific, 50 I used a fa ctory-painted CP car. I used Mike Rose's technique for fa ding freight cars (DullCote and alcohol), but instead of spraying the alcohol, it was brushed on using a thinned mix of Polly Scale Engine Black with some Roof Brown added to it, thinned down with rubbing alcohol. This fa des the car and at the same time adds weathering. Next I painted over the "Multimark" logos and removed the "CAPY" stencil from the data and added a few repair patches using Polly Scale BN Green. Next I added "QGRY" reporting marks with decals from my decal collection, over the old "CPI" reporting marks where I had painted them out. Finally, I added some graffiti as these cars always seem to have that all over them. I now have a unique car that was very easy to model.
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS RAILCAR (SIRX) ACF 4650 CENTER FLOW COVERED HOPPER IN HO SCALE FROM ACCURAIL'S KIT
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Overland Models Inc., P.O. Box 248, Yo rktown, IN 47396-0248 is shipping ready-to-run and fully painted brass replicas of the EMD E9l A-B-A sets to duplicate the locomotives currently being used as "Executive" units. See your dealer.
Overland Models Inc., P.O. Box 248, Yorktown, IN 47396-0248 is import ing a series of imported brass replicas of the Union Pacific "Heritage Fleet" passenger cars including this replica of the "Fox River" track inspection car. See your dealer.
Con-Cor is offering ready-to-run replicas of the 4-8-4 Southern Pacific GS-4 locomotives in four SP paint schemes including this black-and-sil ver with either SP or 'liPmarkings to match specific prototype locomotives. The models are $298.98.
Blair Line, P.O.Box 1136, Carthage, MO 64836 is producing a laser-cut wood kit to duplicate the Park City mine in Utah. Blair calls it the "N-Cash Mine" and the kit is $74.95.
70 RAILMODELJOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 Model Die Casting (Roundhouse), 5070 Sigstrom Dr., Carson City, NV 89706 is now shipping ready-to-roll 30-foot old-time passenger cars in four packs that include the coach, business, combine and baggage cars. The sets are $50 in a choice of Sp, Milwaukee or ACL. Both Rapido-style and dummy knuck le couplers are included for each car.
This injection-molded plastic model is MDC (Roundhouse) new "wood" caboose that is available in a choice of ATSF, PRR, Cp, New Haven, CN&W or D&RG paint and markings.
Kato is now shipping four-car sets of Amtrak Superliner cars that include the five basic coach-baggage, coach, diner, sleeper and lounge cars. There's a choice of two four-car sets in either Amtrak Phase III or Phase IV paint schemes. Kato is also offering the General Electric P42 diesel in Phase II or Phase IV paint schemes to match the cars. Kato has a lighting kit available for these Superliner cars.
The Amtrak MHC-2 Materials Handling Car is now available from Kato. These cars were built for Amtrak in 1989. Kato has also offered the earlier MHC-1 car with a different body and trucks from ex-REA cars. The MHC-2 cars are available in two car packs in the Amtrak Phase III paint scheme. The models include Kato's fully-automatic knuckle couplers. See your dealer.
Micro-Trains will ship ready-to-run N scale replicas of the EMD FT A and B-unit diesels in October lettered for ATSF (blue and yellow), NYC, Cotton Belt ("Black Widow") and Reading. The models are offered in powered A-B sets with separate grabirons, diaphragms, etched-metal grilles and accurate paint schemes. Prices range from $189.00 to $210.75 depending on color scheme.
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RAILMODELjOURNAL . OCTOBER 2002 73 Atlas' spectacular HO GP-38 and GP·40 models are back with new paint schemes! Features include a realistic die-cast under frame, five-pole skewed armature motor with dual flywheels for optimum perform ance at all speeds, directional lighting, AccuMate® knuckle couplers, detailed cab interior with crew, separately-installed scale windshield wipers, metal grab irons, fine scale handrails and more.
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• PROTO 2000 magnetic knuckle couplers
• 5-pole skew wound armature motor
• All Wheel Drive & Electrical Pick-up
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In response to consumer demand, Micro-Trains® is now offering thejollowing Tr ucks, Assembled Couplers, and Unassembled Couplers in Brown
Unassembled Assembled and Unassembled Brown Trucks with Regular
Brown Brown Couplers or Low Profile Wheels(1 pro each) rno pair of assembled body Couplers Bettendorf trucks with mount couplers with short standard wheels. shank. 1001-B .... $3.15
lOIS-I-B ..••.. $8.35 Bettendorf trucks with Two pair of assembled body low profile wheels. mount couplers with medium 1004-B .... $3.15 shank.
1016·1-B ...... $8.35 Archbar trucks with Te n pair bulk pack of standard wheels. unassembled body mount 1011-B .... $3.15 couplers with short shank. Archbar trucks with 1015-IO-B .... $11.50 low profile wheels. Two pair of assembled RDA 1005-B .... $3.15 universal body mount ~ couplers. r"' Roller Bearing lrucks 1023 $5.95 , _ with standard wheels. Three pair of unassembled body mount couplers ...•..... � 1 � 1031-B .•.. $3.15 short shank. regular shank) with draft gear Two pair of unassembled �, (2 boxes and reverse draft angle. RDA universal body Roller Bearing trucks
1015/1016-B •.•...•.•...... $5.20 mount couplers. with low profiJe wheels.
1025 ••..•••.. $3.45 1006·B .•.. $3.15
Available through your local authorized Micro-Trains® dealer
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