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Art Director 4 The Bald Eagle & Northern Railroad Jaini Giannovario [email protected] George Eschbach started in HO Scale in 1948. Look where he is now! 17 A Sow’s Ear to a Silk Purse Editor Starting with an import, Gary Schrader made this 2-6-2 into a little jewel. Brian Scace [email protected] 22 ROTS: a Painting Jig Ted Horvath shares how he made this neat painting fixture.
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Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • THE BALD EAGLE AND NORTHERN RAILROAD George Eschbach
Railway Express building and Post Office. What’s the best way to get to Boston from Pittsburgh and The BE&N, being passenger oriented, likes those 60” the West? Look at the map. From Tyrone, on the PRR main- curves. The passenger yard is larger than the freight yard and line, note how the Appalachian Mountains turn towards the typical passenger trains run from six to nine cars. The Bald Northeast. Why go through Philadelphia and New York? Take Eagle station platforms will each handle eight full-length cars. the Bald Eagle and Northern Railroad—The Short Cut to New Passenger cars are either kit built, purchased or scratchbuilt. A England! few have interiors, such as the observations, diners, and parlor The Bald Eagle and Northern Railroad (the BE&N) inter- cars, but all have window blinds and a black partition so you changes with the PRR at Bald Eagle, PA, just north of Tyrone can’t see through them. on the PRR’s Bald Eagle Branch. The BE&N follows the moun- Freight cars? Like you, I have too many. They also are a mix tains through Williamsport, PA, to Binghamton and Syracuse, of kitbuilt, purchased and scratchbuilt cars. Of particular inter- NY, then (via trackage rights) over the NYC and B&A to Boston. est are some old (historic?) freight cars, such as the pair of PRR The BE&N started in 1948 when, as an 18 year old, I started X29 boxcars Paul Egolf built (and George Stock hand-lettered) model railroading in HO. There were numerous layouts, cul- in 1929, a PRR round-roof car made from screwed-together minating in a 16’ x 30’ layout in 1960, running HO trains. That aluminum castings (with a working brake system) manufac- was fine, until I found O Scale in 1974. The O Scale layout was tured by the Scale Model Railway Equipment Corporation of built on the benchwork of the HO layout. Then came 1986 Huntington, IN, and a 65’ mill gondola made from aluminum and time to build a new home. I’d always wanted a 30’ x 45’ castings and lettered SASCO. Even Dan Henon could not space for the railroad, so that’s how we designed a house to identify the manufacturer of the mill gon. Has anyone heard of keep the rain off the railroad. the SASCO (obviously a model railroad)? Cars from Walthers, Today the main tracks and the yards are complete. There Athearn, Scale-Craft, All Nation and the current manufacturers are still some industrial trackage to put in. Except for some ini- complete the roster. tial Atlas flex to get something running, all track, turnouts, and The BE&N, set in the late ‘50s, runs both steam and Diesel special trackwork are of handlaid steel rail, using code 148 on locomotives. Steam locomotives are a mix of PRR types. The the mainline and code 125 elsewhere. Curvatures are of 60” BE&N started to re-letter these ex-PRR engines for the BE&N, radius on most of the railroad. but the President (being a PRR freak) couldn’t bear re-lettering • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 1. Steam Engine Facility 2. Diesel Engine Facility 3. Passenger Yard 4. Freight Yard 5. Commissary 6. Passenger Terminal 7. Railway Express 8. Post O ce 9. City of Bald Eagle 10. Ziegler Cement 11. Vail Tower (Begin PRR) 12. Bald Eagle East 13. Bald Eagle West 14. Ono Light and Power 15. H. H. Rhoades Dairy Products 16. Port Martha 17. Coal Yard 18. Llewellyn Coal Company 19. Town of MacElhatten (Future Industries) 20. Taylor Engineering 21. Svikart Cloud Factory
“A” - To Tyrone and PRR staging “B” - To Boston and BE&N staging
Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • a Weaver RS3, and a pair of Sharknose units built from Penn- Erie castings fitted to Weaver drives. There are also two E9s, kitbashed from F9s, with new drives. Like the PRR, the BE&N will try anything. As we previously mentioned, this is primarily a passenger oriented railroad. An operating schedule has been developed, using sequence operation instead of a fast clock. Operations require that all trains traveling through Bald Eagle change locomotives and add or set out Pullmans, diners, baggage, mail or express cars (Talk about time consuming!)
Office of H. H. Rhoades’ Dairy Products looking through the windows. Mr Rhoades is not in his office as he is out with friends watching trains.
BE&N Commissary (Payroll) car in work train service.
Ziegler Cement Company.
BE&N “Dan Henon” and PRR’s “Creole” ready for departure.
BE West Tower with the city of Bald Eagle in background. a K4 for anything but Pennsylvania, so he put a stop to that program. The steam locomotives include several old models. A K4 built by Paul Egolf, which has a wooden boiler and is now about 75 years old, sees regular service. Two M1s, built in the ‘40s by a Sam Sahs of Chicago, also are in regular service. There is also a PRR V1, a direct-drive steam turbine that was designed but never built, which I scratchbuilt from the PRR drawings. Diesels are the normal varieties. Atlas F9s with P&D drives, PRR’s “Creole” departs. • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 Other trains originate or terminate here, and must be either made up or broken down. All locomotives go through either the steam or Diesel servicing facilities. The schedule also includes instruction as to the make-up of trains and/or the disposition of cars (for instance diners to the Commissary, mail cars to the Post Office). During all this switching activity, other trains are arriving or departing. Freight trains are run primarily to give the passenger station and yard crews a break. Freight operations on the BE&N are mostly through trains, thus not as complicated. There is some
Yard tracks and Commissary.
Railway Express building and downtown Bald Eagle. Scratchbuilt cover for track cleaning car built by Howard Fox.
Texas Eagle Pullman in the consist of the “Creole”. The car is scratchbuilt. Looking towards coal dock in the engine terminal. local freight traffic, such as coal for the Onoff Light and Power generating plant and other on-line destinations. Scenery on the BE&N is only partially complete. The city of Bald Eagle is complete, as are the yards. The roundhouse is under construction. The PRR portion is complete except for the fascia. The area around Port Martha has been started. All that comprises about 25% of the total required to complete the scenery. The city of Bald Eagle is approximately 40’ long. The backdrop is hand-painted using acrylic paints. There are numerous building fronts the length of the city with complete buildings comprising the downtown area. Bald Eagle contains several large structures. The BE&N Terminal is a 30” square building above the six tracks serving it. A block of stone buildings based on a block of build- ings in Ellicott City, MD, and the Post Office and Railway Express PRR K4 is passing Vail Tower. The K4 was custom built in 1929 by building were both made from Design Preservation modules. Paul Egolf and has a wooden boiler. Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • The yard includes the commissary, Diesel service area, ash- pit, sandhouse, coaling tower, a 28” turntable and a still-under- construction roundhouse. On the PRR portion there is Zeigler Cement, a large cement manufacturing plant. There are three towers controlling the interlockings. Vail, the interchange point between the BE&N and the PRR, separates the freight and passenger traffic entering Bald Eagle from the west. Bald Eagle West controls the west end of the passenger station. Bald Eagle East controls the eastern approaches to the freight yards, passenger station/yards, the engine terminal, Post Office and Railway Express tracks. As you might guess, Bald
BE&N “Sharks” and PRR FA/FB in diesel fueling facility.
Partial view of Bald Eagle.
View in BE&N passenger terminal.
BE&N (ex-PRR) M1 at coal dock.
H. H. Rhoades’ Dairy Products.
At work in the ash pit. Train Watchers Society, Herb, Bob, and Bob. • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 The hobo jungle being observed by the railroad police.
Bald Eagle.
Railway Express area.
Bridge repair crew.
Eagle East is a very busy place. Port Martha, an under-construction town, is the location of the coal yard of the Onoff Light and Power Company and the Svikart Cloud Factory (manufacturing Bituminus Cumulus). Also to be built is the Llewellyn Coal Company mine. Two stor- age/staging yards represent Pittsburgh and Boston. Controlling this “mess” are three cab/block control panels and four radio-controlled, handheld throttles, each with its own ten-amp power supply and lots of wire. If I were just start- ing this railroad, I’d use DCC, but alas, eighteen years ago not many of us had heard of it and now I’d have to mortgage the U.S. Post Office with tracks underneath. house to convert to DCC. There is much to do before the Bald Eagle and Northern will be completed. Are they ever complete? We have a group that meets the last Friday of each month for operating sessions. If you’re ever in the Harrisburg/Gettysburg/ York area and want to run trains, give me a call. If I’m home, the trains will run. By the way, about a year ago a narrow-gauger joined our group. There are now plans to add a three-foot gauge feeder line called the Dutch Bottom Coke and Coal Company. More fun! u
PRR’s experimental V1 direct drive steam turbine passing through Port Martha. Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • O SCALE WEST
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10 • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 While quite a few of us are perfectly happy using commercial lowed by that telltale rumble of heavy things hitting ties. flex-track and ready-to-lay switches, O Scale is a very nice size for It appeared that the stiffness of the rail (I was working with those among us who love to replicate prototype practice with our curves) in O Scale is quite a bit more than those l’il tiny HO wire- trackwork. Many folks enjoy installing every tieplate, spike, frog, rail-things, and the load from my multi-pound locomotives didn’t anti-creeper, and jointbar in a most neurotic fashion. There are scale up very well, either. The joints, at the foot of the smaller rail, several companies who cater to this passion; John Pautz at Ameri- kept snapping. Now, don’t start writing the letters about how this can Switch and Signal, Old Pullman, and Irish Tracklayer are just method works just fine for you, because you rolled the rail in a a couple that come to this ever-so-slightly twisted mind. One of small slip-roll to reduce the springiness at the joint, and I need to the things this facet of the craft leads to, and a question I’ve heard be more careful in my trackwork. I’m wanting, in this regard, and asked more than once, concerns the use of different sized rail for I know it already. What I did do, though, worked well for me, and mainlines, yard trackage, and sidings, and how to transition reliably it’s easy. between them. I soldered a rail joiner on the larger rail, as before. By the way, I First, for those who may be joining us from the three-railed find TIX liquid flux works very well for great solder flow, and I use world, or are just plain new to model railroading and have shown my MOASG (Mother of All Soldering Guns) to quickly lay down the uncommon wisdom of choosing O Scale above all others (as it a lot of heat in a small area and get off just as quickly. Then, I should be), a definition of rail “code” is in order. The rail we use is flowed TIX into the entire inside of the joiner where the next (albeit not all the same size, or profile. Probably most of us, these days, are smaller) rail was intended to fit. I filled the slot with solder, heated using code 148 rail. What this means is that the rail is 0.148” tall, the second rail and slid it in. Then, I jacked the rail into alignment which scales out to a smidgen over seven inches. That’s a handy (inside edges of the heads) with the solder still hot. When it cooled, thing, as quite a bit of Post-Depression mainline was laid in 7-1/8” it had flowed into all the voids left in the big joiner/little rail inter- A.R.E.A profile 131 pounds-per yard rail, and the seven-inch 120- face, making a very strong, reliable joint that held the different 127 pound Dudley profile (on NYC and Espee). Nominal seven-inch sized rails in alignment with gusto. A little dressing up here and rail is still in common use today. there with a small flat file, and we were good to go. So far, these So far, for many of us, this is all just spiffy and, other than for a have proven to be very reliable as my industrial strength rail gets little academic mathematical calisthenics, pretty ignorable. I’m a work-hardened by my gravitationally advantaged locomotives. case in point. All I’ve ever used was code 148, while my trackwork- So, it’s off to yer basement, and a straight wake with ye! Now neurotic friends freely mix available rail sizes to model different you have two methods, one a little heavier duty than the other, for rail weights. Many use code 100 to model five-inch 70-80 pound mingling different rail sizes with impunity, better representing your rail, code 125 to model six-inch 100 pound, and some of the SPF’s passion for prototypically neurotic track structures. Meanwhile, I’m pound down code 172 to replicate the eight-inch 152-pound rail going to contemplate that creamery siding over a splash of Turkey unique to parts of the Pennsy. I’m not a tracklaying fan particularly, Nip. It might look pretty cool to lay in a little five-inch bolted-joint so I always used the easiest means to put down some solid (and stuff there. Ya think? visually marginal to many of my friends) trackage and move on. Let’s go Exploring u I ran headlong into the mixed-code usage issue from a some- what different direction, when I incorporated a couple sections of John Armstrong’s Canandaigua Southern into my new railroad. Much of John’s trackage dated to the mid-50s, and he used code 172 rail, which was the norm then. Add to it a coal dealer from another friend’s (John Rogers) former railroad, laid in code 100, and Scace runs head- long into the same old question that you, the aspir- ing track modeler/neurotic are also facing. So how do you reliably transition from rail size to rail size in O Scale? Here’s what I experienced. I remembered a tip, probably gleaned from one of those blissfully peaceful bathroom sessions perusing old MR’s, where the HO guys would take a rail joiner that fits the larger rail, solder it on, smash the free end flat, and solder the smaller rail onto the resulting “shelf”. Armed with this hard-won knowledge, I smugly sallied forth and did precisely that, mak- ing sure the inside edges of both heads lined up nicely. It was a beautiful transition from size to size. Worked like a charm. Being very taken with myself, I poured a stiff one and ran some trains. To shamelessly borrow a phrase from Walt Kelly, “all over sudden” there was heard a quiet click fol- Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • 11 Locomotive Servicing—Run-through Trains make the return trip back to North Kansas City. At this time, the Locomotives have to be fueled and properly maintained in DP setup is unlinked and the engines are combined into a single order to provide the maximum horsepower and performance consist with the two refueled units working and the remain- that they are designed to produce. A Diesel locomotive can ing three engines isolated. With the empty train ready to go, a operate for days or even weeks without being shut down, return version of the cycle is ready to begin. whether utilized in around-the-clock yard operations or in road As modelers, most of us have included some type of service service. facility for our locomotives. In times past steam locomotive ser- This column deals with the fuel servicing of Diesel locomo- vice facilities were located between division points to ensure a tives, especially those which are assigned to run-through and smooth and efficient flow of traffic. As modern-era modelers, unit train service. To set the stage, we will cover the trip of a we could include a service facility of the type shown on our unit coal train. layouts. A mainline location or yard lead would be appropriate Train BAMPAM0-24 starts its journey at the Belle Ayr Mine and would fill the need for engine servicing, in the event you complex in Wyoming, where it is routed through the mainline don’t have the space for a locomotive shop or roundhouse. service facilities at Guernsey. At this point, the train consists of The photographs that accompany this column were taken at 132 loads of coal, pulled by two or three 4000 hp six-axle road the Palos fuel station. The basic design consists of a fuel recov- units. At Guernsey, the engine consist is fueled, serviced, and ery concrete pad and fuel standpipes to accommodate a three begins the journey to the West Jefferson Steam Plant at Palos, engine consist. Also included are fuel storage tanks, power and Alabama. pumping stations, and a receiving dock since fuel is delivered Leaving Wyoming, the next scheduled service is at North by tanker truck from a local contractor. Lighting is also provided Kansas City, Missouri. Here, the inbound locomotive consist as this operation can occur any hour of the day or night. is fully serviced and reorganized into a DP (Distributed Power) As the photographs show, this facility is located on the steam configuration. This is the last full service the engines will receive plant lead that parallels the BNSF mainline, the mainline being until they return on the northbound empty unit train. the track to the left. Coal train consists are the only engines Memphis, Tennessee, Wednesday, 8:15 AM: I head out to fueled here, while other traffic continues southbound into Bir- the train to check the fuel and do a walk through of each loco- mingham Yard and the service facilities there. motive. Checking the rear consist first (BNSF 8911 Controlling The theme is an old plan used in the steam engine days that Remote and BNSF 5907 and 8984), we relieve the inbound has been modernized and applied to current operations, not crew and check the lead consist, BNSF 5940 Controlling Lead just here in Guernsey, but in many locations across the country. and CEFX 1017. We depart Memphis at 9:20 AM. Regardless of the period you model, from the steam days to the After several meets and an uneventful trip behind us, we modern-era, give this idea a thought. It will make an interesting arrive at Quinton Yard at 7:00 PM. We turn over control to conversation point on your layout. Railcon, a contract company that handles the unloading pro- A special thanks goes out to Mike Brown and the personnel cess and prepares the empty unit train for it’s return trip. The at Railcon who kept me posted as to the status of this train and next day, the train is unloaded and the two lead working units made the photo shoot possible. Until next time, “Highball”. u are spotted to the fueling rack for a specified amount of fuel to
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Two Great New Books for Chicago and NYC Traction Fans the terminal area, as well as those taken enroute to the suburbs. While we wait for the release of Signature Press’s two prom- Cooperation is a book every traction modeler, from one ised books on electric railroading in the San Francisco Bay area, perspective or another, will want to add to their library. Coop- two books have just appeared that reflect the highest standards eration sets a high standard for future volumes in the Dispatch of quality and value in railroad publishing. series to meet. Details and an order form can be found at For Chicago Fans [http://www.shore-line.org/dispatch1-orderform.pdf]. At just Windy City traction fans will immediately want to obtain a $24.95, plus $3.00 shipping and handling, it’s too good a value copy of Bruce Moffat’s Dispatch #1, Cooperation Moves the to pass up. Public, published by the Shore Line Historical Society [www. Mainline Electrics in New York City shore-line.org] The Shore Line An equally pleasant surprise was The New Historical Society never disap- York Connecting Railroad: Long Island’s Other points, and Cooperation Moves Railroad, by Robert C. Sturm and William G. the Public is no exception. (The Thom. Published by the Long Island-Sunrise highlight of the changing seasons Trail Chapter of the National Railway Historical for me is the arrival of their lat- Society, this large-format, hard cover volume est First & Fastest newsletter to covers the construction and operation of the which all traction fans should line connecting New England with the West subscribe.) and South, over the famous Hell Gate Bridge. Author Bruce Moffat needs no This is the first volume to do its subject full justice. The New introduction; his writing on the York Connecting Railroad balances history with operation. Chicago freight subways (40 Feet It describes the turn-of-the-20th century context of creating Below the Streets) is compelling a connection between the New Haven railroad and the rest reading. Cooperation Moves the of the country through New York City’s Penn Station. It also Public describes train operations describes the handling of the New Haven Railroad’s extensive of the Chicago Aurora & Elgin and the Chicago Rapid Transit carfloat operations moving freight cars between Brooklyn and Company (later the Chicago Transit Authority), integrated over New Jersey. the Garfield Park Branch to serve the public living in the West Huge, sharp, photographs chronicle the building of the Side and western suburbs of Chicago. This is an interesting and bridge and its approaches. Also addressed are the challenges complex story of transportation and suburban development, overcome during the construction of the remainder of the line, some told by the participants. including swamps, tunnels, and complex junctions with the As good as the story is, however, it’s the photographs that Long Island Railroad. The huge scale of the line’s signature Hell make Cooperation Moves the Public so satisfying. The large Gate Bridge is illustrated by the way workers and trains were 84-page format, and art direction to the highest standards, dwarfed by the span. showcases hundreds of black and white photographs as well as I was fascinated to learn that electrification arrived almost numerous maps. Photos cover both the line’s operations over a decade after the completion of the line. There are several the Chicago El, as well as surface running in the suburbs. The photographs of steam engines crossing the line, high above the color photograph on the front cover, by itself, is worth the price neighborhoods and East River. This was new territory for me. I of admission. also enjoyed the details of the motive power used on the line, The complexity of the line’s operation puts many of today’s as well as the text describing how freight cars were loaded and highly-computerized operations to shame. Headways were unloaded from the carfloats. short, trains were long, and signaling was strictly line-of-sight. The New York Connecting Railroad was all about mainline Trains ran seconds apart, with three classes of trains on a two- railroad passenger service, of course, and there are numerous track line, without benefit of signaling or radio communica- photographs showing long passenger trains enroute to and from tions. That the line compiled the excellent safety record it did is New England and Pennsylvania Station. New Haven Railroad an example of cooperation at its greatest. electric locomotives are always interesting, and it is fascinating I don’t recall seeing any of the photographs in Cooperation to see them in action, especially in such a varied environment. before. There are dozens of large, detail-filled, shots of the line’s Very fairly priced at $35.95, this is another “must have” Wells Street terminal, numerous shots showing the canyon effect railroad book for fans of mainline electric railroading, or those of the elevated as trains were dwarfed by adjacent buildings in with an interesting in railroading in the New York City area. u
Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • 15 Whether to Weather… I am constantly looking for ways to make my model rail- As a serious modeler who is always looking for ways to road look more realistic. After making that trip, I immediately make my layout more realistic, I am contemplating the issue went to my local hobby shop and doubled up on my railroad of weathering. HiRailers operate model trains in realistic paints. Only a model railroad guy could be passionate about settings, so the question that faces a modeler is whether flat black as a color. Dust, grimy black, dirt, oily black are to weather. Certainly the layout of Norm Charbonneau, as basics on my pallet. Flat whites, flat grays, and lots of differ- featured in OST #29, displayed various levels of impressive ent flat blacks are a necessary addition. weathering. As someone who takes his model railroading Most of the buildings on my layout were already made to quite seriously, this old Hobo has grown up with a set of look old. I had worked on brick walls and wood-sided build- predetermined ideas as to what is right and what is wrong in ings to bring out the details. Dullcote has been used exten- building a model railroad. As you consider weathering, you sively to eliminate any shiny objects. I thought I had done must throw out the old rules! Blue-book values, mint-in-the- a good job. But, after that trip on the real train I recognized box standards, and the idea that my model trains were invest- that some adjustments were necessary. ments have all given way to the market realities. That bubble All of the structures and buildings on my layout have burst long ago. Gone are the days when pieces of my model received a dusting of flat white, applied sort of like an over- railroad were kept immaculate in their pretty boxes; you spray. Stand back a distance of about two to three feet, and know how you were told that you might destroy the value of spray lightly. Then, follow that up with a light spray of flat the trains if you didn’t keep them shiny new? As an operator, black. For some structures I chose a flat gray and applied it the word “mint” has little meaning. “New-in-the-box” carries very lightly. Try this at home. The results will amaze you. just as much weight. “Test run only” also ranks right up there. The only rule is to stand back. Don’t get too close. This I decided long ago that the trains I purchase were made to be has to be done from a distance. If you can remove the build- run. I get no enjoyment from being a static operator. When ing from the layout and take it outside the results are even a new locomotive arrives at my house, I can’t wait to get it better. Painting in natural sunlight is the best; you can actu- out of the box and onto the tracks to put it through its paces. ally see the results. Don’t over-paint. The light overspray Now that we’ve got that issue covered, let’s take a serious technique needs a couple of days to cure. Don’t overdo it. look at weathering. Quit while you are ahead… spray lightly. If you find that after The environment in which real railroads operate is a very a couple of days it still looks too light, give it another light dirty world. Grease, soot, steam, ballast dust, all take their spray. You will be pleased with the results. turns in coloring the scene. Rain, snow, sleet, sun and every Locomotives and rolling stock can also be enhanced other kind of weather produces rust, grime, and the fading of through weathering. I assign weathering in three main cat- paint and finish. Environmental issues have their cause and egories, light, medium, and heavy. Of course, each of those effect. Railroading is a mechanical business. These locos and categories can be broken down into subcategories such as rolling stock are machines. They are constantly subject to light-light, medium-light, and heavy-light. You can choose. wear and tear. Realistic model railroads should portray real On locos and rolling stock, I start with the wheels and life too. trucks. Try a rusty brown or a flat gray. Work in the paint so it Welcome to my model railroad. It is a dirty place. My covers the front and back of the wheels, trucks, and couplers. track and rails are no longer shiny. The ties have been I like to do this by hand-brushing, so that I get good control painted a dirty railroad tie brown. I have dribbled some of the weathering process. grimy black at certain spots to make them look like oil spills. On that impressionable trip on the real railroad I didn’t The ballast is realistic looking and multi-colored, and I have see any brand new locos or rolling stock. Most of what I saw added some trash, old tires, discarded ties, and debris. had some degree of weathering from wear and tear, falling A recent trip on Amtrak made me aware of the real world somewhere in the “medium” to “heavy” range of weathering. as seen from the railroad’s point of view. This time I actually I have found that if you go lighter, you can always go darker had a ticket, and my observations were made from a coach and, as a rule, that seems to work best. If you are hesitant rather than the usual open door of a boxcar. This glimpse of about weathering, give it a try on an inexpensive piece of reality made quite an impression on me as a modeler. I didn’t rolling stock. Our current market has created tons of candi- see one piece of rolling stock that was shiny and clean. The dates. Experiment and have some fun. You just may find that railroad right-of-way had lots of debris along the tracks. This your creation may be the source of more challenging weath- viewpoint allowed me to see behind the buildings, industries, ering projects. Meanwhile, you are discovering yet another and railroad facilities. Everywhere I looked I noticed some way to make your model railroad look real. u type of dust, dirt, or grime.
16 • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 A Sow’s Ear to A Silk Purse
Gary Schrader Right side of completed model with headlight, class lights, and number boards illuminated. Making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear is a favorite way of describing the conversion of something rough and crude into a fine, highly desirable article. It applies very well to the trans- formation of this Santa Fe 1800-class 2-6-2 Prairie, originally imported by Pecos River Brass, into a smooth running and highly detailed replica of ATSF 1875. The 2-6-2 Prairie type was a very popular locomotive wheel arrangement on the Santa Fe. There were 238 of them in seven different classes, culminating in the 1800-class built in 1906 and 1907. The 1800-class comprised 88 engines num- bered 1800-1887. Most of the class, along with many of the earlier classes, lasted nearly to the end of steam in branchline and switching service. The Santa Fe really got its money’s worth out of the Prairies, and any ATSF modeler needs at least one example of the class on his layout. The only O Scale ATSF Prairie ever imported was the 1800- class example by Pecos River Brass. It came with either the 12,000 gallon tender, as on my engine, or a smaller, 8500 gallon tender, which was even more commonly used behind this class. The model could be had either factory painted or unpainted. I got mine unpainted, knowing that I would want to increase the level of detail. While the basic dimensions are pretty close to the prototype and the detailing is decent, the mechanism should really be rebuilt if one intends to run the model. Searching through all my available photos of 1800-class engines, I found that I had really good photos of both the Top is the model as factory built. Center shows all modifications completed, left and right sides of number 1875, in the 1947-1951 period, just prior to painting. Bottom is the painted, lettered, and lightly weathered model. which is the era I model. Also, the 1875 had the 12,000 gal- lon tender. That determined the choice of engine to replicate. nism, using a North West Short Line (NWSL) 23:1 ball-bearing There is no substitute for having clear detailed views of a spe- gearbox, a large Pittman ball-bearing can motor, and ball-bear- cific engine when doing an exacting detailing job. ing shaft support. All the kinks were worked out of the valve The first thing I did was a total rebuild of the entire mecha- gear and side rods, so the whole mechanism coasted freely
Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • 17 Notice the addition of the sander line to the front Twilight front view of completed model with Close up view of cab area showing the cab driver, the builder’s plate, a small flag holder headlight, class lights, and number boards curtains done with real cloth. Also shown is bracket behind the class light, plumbing fittings illuminated. Notice how much brighter the the light fixture on back edge of cab roof and on all piping, and the re-positioned and better headlight is as compared to the side views. electrical cable from cab roof to top of tender. detailed number boards. Focusing action of a real parabolic reflector casting on a scratchbuilt stand, electri- causes this realistic “beam” effect. Also notice cal conduit to the backup light, and red the uniform lighting of number boards. warning light on the tender rear. Also added were a new coupler cut lever, an airhose and stubbed-off steamline, a steamline along the lower left and air lines along the lower right of the frame, an air release valve in the right rear channel underframe, electrical conduit from the engine to the tender, scuppers (drain holes) on top of the water cistern, and oil heating plumbing. Small holes Re-built trailing truck, new injector and associated were drilled in strategic places to pro- piping, bell and whistle cords, electrical junction vide for lighting of the backup light and box for the generator, and the sander line to the the red warning light. rear driver. I unsoldered the cab from the boiler, then modified it to be removable with four screws. That allowed for easier painting of the cab interior, plus detail- ing of the backhead with numerous PSC castings, and the addition of cab light- ing. Other details added to the cab were the armrests, curtain rods and holders under the rear of the roof, electrical conduit lines under the rear of the roof, seats, and the small vertical light fixture on the back edge of the cab roof. This light fixture serves to illuminate the top A view of the new injector, associated piping and of the tender for the fireman at night and control rods. Also shown is the completely rebuilt is found on all ATSF steamers. It is just trailing truck and new Westinghouse distributing large enough to take a small 1.5V bulb, valve and piping. Rear view with special tender and cab lighting so I hollowed it out to make it func- illuminated. The light on the left rear of tender is tional. The support rods for the awnings a red warning light found on all ATSF tenders. and new handrails completed the cab The light on back edge of cab roof was used to detailing. illuminate the tender top at night for the fireman. The very distinctive trailing truck This light also appeared on all ATSF steamers. A was pretty crudely modeled for my good view of parabolic reflector and scale-size tastes, so I completely rebuilt it with a bulb in the backup light. new frame and other detailing to make with just a slight shove. After adding the it look a lot like the real thing. One new gearbox and motor, everything was does have to compromise mechanically tested thoroughly for smooth operation on a mechanism such as this trailing in both directions before any detailing truck, because friction does not scale was started. properly and our curves are tighter than Left side of completed model. The illuminated I added virtually all of the visible ten- the prototype. Consequently, this truck headlight, class lights, and number boards are all der detailing. This included the backup does not operate exactly like the pro- independently controlled using DCC. light, which is a Precision Scale (PSC) totype, but it looks as if it does. Since
18 • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 the closer one gets to prototype, the larger the radii required white decal film is added on top of the black decals. When for operation, this trailing truck limits the engine to about 70” one turns the styrene around and looks through it, the num- minimum radius curves. It works fine on my 72” minimums, bers look correct, and they are white on black, as they should but would have to be modified further for anything less. be. The white decal film also helps to diffuse the light even The mounting point for the pilot truck had to be moved more, much the same as the frosted glass on the prototype. forward about 1/4” to match prototype dimensions. There is The cab curtains were fabricated from actual cloth. I use plenty of room for this modification. Other frame changes CA to seal the edges and prevent unraveling, then more CA include a new fabricated piece in each side of the valve gear helps to shape and stiffen the cloth into position. Since the to replace a stock piece that detracted badly from the engine’s cloth is still slightly flexible and non-conductive, it gives no appearance, modification of valve gear brackets, ladders, and problems during operation the way shim brass curtains can grabirons, re-doing the cylinder cocks on the bottom of each when the tender gets close to the cab on curves. cylinder, and adding the sander lines to the drivers. This silk purse is now one of my favorite engines, and heav- In the pilot area, I re-routed the air-line, added the second ily utilized rather than hiding in the roundhouse. The lessons air-line and regulator, and added flexible air hoses and scale learned have already been applied to other engines. u gladhands to both. I modified the pilot with the large step boards for switching. The handrails on the smokebox front were redone to match Buy Direct! ASSEMBLED photos. The smokebox hinges were converted to operational TWIN WHISTLE SIGN & KIT CO. 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Jan/Feb ’07 - O Scale Trains • 19 train collecting because of its accepted compromises, i.e. 3-Rail high rail track, large flanges and couplers etc. However, there comes a time to some of us that a more to-scale model is wanted, and this is where I always have been. Another wireless add-on [duplex radio] should be revolution is due in 2-Rail and that should available in mid 2007. be Proto-48. I hope the importers are The NMRA weighs in… Even it’s smaller brother, the Prodigy listening including Atlas. Proto 48 options In “Letters to the Editor”, Issue #28, Express (1.6 amp output) has many fea- should always be offered. Nice scenery Sam Shumaker seems to express a lot of tures that cannot be compared with the on that 3-Rail layout, to be sure. I will others feelings in his attitude towards the many entry-level DCC systems on the give credit there, but there are many 2- NMRA. Yes the dues of $45 are steep market. Although both systems are eco- Rail layouts to be seen. Why not start and a National Convention registration nomically priced, there is nothing cheap with one of the finest in the country, the runs about $150 for seven days, not the or entry-level about them. Plus all of the Youngstown Model Railroad Club layout? $140 for four days at an O Scale conven- add-on components to the Advance/ Sam Shumaker, via email tion. True they are bigger cities due to the Express DCC system are plug-and-play, space for the train show requirements. no wires to cut and splice, nothing that This 62 year-old 2-Rail modeler would OK ya’ll, don’t “think” about what the has to be purchased separately at an elec- like to make a few [comments and sug- NMRA is and “poo poo” it from outside. tronics store. gestions]. I have been modeling in 2-Rail You want it fixed, join and participate. The 3.5 amp district power booster O Scale ever since the mid-1970s when It’s like anything else, you need to be in is presently available, and two can be there were even fewer products on the it to change it. Many of you joined the piggy-backed for a 7 amp output to market in 2-Rail. If you weren’t into HO NMRA at some point in your modeling your layout. There is no rumored 8 amp or N scale, you were odd-man out. Yes, career and let it slide, most likely without booster in the works. We also make one Walthers published an O Scale catalog participation. Heck, your local clubs and 3.5 amp output DCC decoder, and two (devoid of Lionel) but most of the prod- shows (Kirtland is nice) would fail if not 8 amp output on-board DCC decoders ucts were craftsman-type kits of wood for participation. (one with Diesel sound and one without and cast metal. Nowadays, the shelves Support is nice but you need to get sound) that are suitable for O Scale. at my local train store groan under the down and dirty. Expensive? How about Frank Verrico, Product Manager, Model weight of Lionel, K-Line, Williams, Weav- those brass pieces you’ve got on the lay- Rectifier Corp. er, and Atlas, all in 3-Rail of course! Any- out (you do have one?) or on the shelves. thing 2-Rail “Has To Be Special Ordered”. Submit some articles, join and run for “Off With Their Heads!” Dept. I am going to give OST a trial run, but office in related organizations. To me it’s OK now, enough is enough! No more if the coverage leans towards 3-Rail, I’ll like not voting and then complaining! O 3R, okay? OST #29 has the front cover, drop out, just like I dropped a magazine Chuck Hladik, Rustburg, VA centerspread, and a five-page article called 48/ft. O Scale News a few years Director Mid-Eastern Region NMRA devoted to O 3R. If I want this amount of ago when they began to include Hi-rail (See Page 21 for more discussion of coverage I can always purchase CTT or articles. I will explain it to you like I did this issue. -ed) OGR. I suspect you may be running short them: 3-Rail has more than ample cover- on O 2R material to publish. If this is true, age in the pages of CTT and OGR, I do OST Misinformed I would rather you go to a quarterly publi- not want to wade through 3-Rail articles I read your “Observations” column cation cycle containing only O 2R model- in a 2-Rail publication. where you mentioned our Prodigy ing (with a splash of P:48), than remaining Gary L. Gross Advance DCC system. Please let me cor- bimonthly with O 3R “filler”. At first I rect some of the issues you mentioned. thought OST was created to fill the O “Then again, hold the ax!” The Prodigy Advance is not an entry- 2R periodical void that resulted from the I’m a 3-Railer who appreciates your level DCC system. It has more functions irregular nature of 48/ft. OSN’s publica- article on Norm Charbonneau’s fine lay- than the frontline and more sophisticated tion cycle, but now I’m not so sure. out. His attention to detail on his layout DCC system that you mentioned, and a John Kernan, via email is outstanding and a source of inspiration lot more than the entry-level system you to me. Unfortunately, I do not currently compared it with. The Prodigy Advance I just wanted to pass this on to you have room for a 2-Rail layout, however I presently goes up to Function 19, [F19], that the 3-Rail photos were noticed with am continuing to improve my small 3-Rail whereas most other DCC systems pres- comment in your latest issue. The com- pike and occasionally get compliments ently made only go up to either F8 or F12. ments were not bad but with question. on my modeling. I particularly like the There is also an upgrade that can be done We are wondering if you are going 3- detail and scratchbuilding facet of the to the Prodigy Advance that brings it up Rail on us. I know from past editorials hobby. Thanks for showing Norm’s layout to the present NMRA RP’s and Standards that you have a large 3-Rail following in your fine magazine. to use up to F28. It has all the features but many of us would like a 2-Rail purist David Gauss, via email that put it up at the top of the DCC crop, magazine. Besides there are many other such as advanced consisting, routing for 3-Rail publications. In fact I would like accessory decoders, four-digit addressing to see a Proto-48 section, as this is the without hexadecimal conversions, a large direction I think we should be going, not easy-to-read LCD screen, Ops Mode Pro- back toward 3-Rail. Don’t get me wrong, gramming, and many other features that I was in 3-Rail years ago. It is a fine part far surpass the other systems. Also the of the train hobby but is just not 2-Rail. I believe the 3-Rail hobby is all about toy 20 • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 O Scalers should/shouldn’t join the NMRA. this. Understand that it is not some “duty” I’m sorry, the oft used “If you don’t like it, for an O Scaler (or any model railroader, join it and change it.” argument expressed for that matter) to join the NMRA. It’s a in the letter has little merit in the practi- personal choice based on the appeal and cal. In my life, I’ve fallen for this one perceived relevance of the organization. more than once (dopey me!), what Understand that someone indeed does have with having been on the boards of sev- the right to an opinion without having to eral curatorial non-profits and engineering be a paid-up member of an organization. professional organizations, as well as being To discount that opinion is to never learn a member of the very organization in ques- how to make the organization relevant tion. Using the Society of Manufacturing and appealing to today’s potential mem- Engineers (SME) as an example, I allowed ber. Understand that, to gain and maintain Brian Scace, OST Editor myself to be frocked as a “Chapter Chair”, enthusiastic membership, it is incumbent on Recently, I’ve heard from several folks firmly convinced that I could do something the organization to appeal to that potential that feel the columns in OST have been positive about the not-so-slow decline of membership’s expectations and desires, drifting more towards editorial comment, at the local chapter. The results were not very and to deliver on those expectations and the expense of the how-to content that was satisfactory for either party, mostly because desires. To put forth the argument that the original intent. I must agree with that the organization was very comfortably I’m somehow expected to create my own opinion. I also have to assume all respon- staid, such that it could chose to either benefit after paying the price of admission sibility for letting that trend continue (and ignore or assimilate us “young Turks” into is akin to the expectation that I write my even leading the charge) for far too long. the collective. I didn’t absorb very well, and own play after buying the theatre ticket. For We introduce “On a Rail” in this issue as the SME hasn’t changed much. It also (Is this the management of any organization to not a single repository for editorial rantings starting to sound familiar?) was operating as recognize these truths is to preside over the (because some of us just can’t resist con- it had for many decades, and membership eventual decline and death of that organiza- structive commentary). The columns will, was on the slow decline. I expended a lot tion. henceforth, return to the more meat-and- of idealistic energy in such situations, and To that end, consider this. If you, the potatoes focus that you rightfully expect. found that tilting windmills from within was NMRA, are serious about increased O “On a Rail” will not necessarily appear in often akin to teaching pigs to sing (frustrates Scale participation, and if you are seri- every issue, just when we have something you and annoys the pig). ous about the original idea of a co-joined that’s (hopefully) worth discussing. From a slightly different direction, mov- Convention, get together a bid for one of Amazingly enough, I just happen to ing towards that previously promised poten- the uncommitted O Nationals. Come and have a topic for comment. In the last tial solution to the original question, comes present that bid at the 2007 Ind’y SONC on several issues of OST, there has been dis- another example. I’ve had a rather intimate the same footing as any other organization cussion about a proposal to hold the O relationship with a couple of the military bids the O National. You might get it, and Scale National Convention (SONC, for us services in my (soon to be previous) career. you might not. If you don’t get it, whatever somewhat moldier folk) co-joined with I didn’t sign on because I thought my par- you do don’t quit (realizing that you do the NMRA National. If you flip over to the ticipation would somehow have a measur- have some history to get past with a lot of “Letters to the Editor” section of this issue, able affect on how we project power as the older generation of O Scalers). Keep you’ll find a response to Sam Shumaker’s an extension of national policy. I joined trying until you succeed, then “show us previous letter on the subject, submitted by because there was something of the organi- what you got!” Show us what’s new, fresh, an officer of the NMRA. Although I believe zations (Talk about “large” and “staid”!) that and appealing about the NMRA. Do it right, the opinions expressed are honestly and appealed to my psyche, and they made the and keep doing it from time to time. Then honorably held, I’m still going to shoot a effort to show me what that something was. you’ll achieve the goal, but realize it is up to missile on his foxhole, then offer a potential These associations became long-term, and you to give us a good reason to (re)join and, solution to the whole question. were most satisfactory to both parties. more importantly, to stay. u The original topic, predictably, has now My point to our esteemed NMRA Direc- degenerated into a discussion about why tor (and the NMRA as an organization) is
Jan/Feb ’07- O Scale Trains • 21 square tubing. Two 5-1/2” pieces of 3/16” Decaling/Painting Jig square solid rod are each soldered to an Ted Horvath attachment tab. The tabs are one-inch lengths of 1/16” x 1/4” strip, bent at a right One of the joys of modeling in O Scale is angle in the middle and drilled with a 7/64” that the pieces are large enough to permit hole. The hole allows the piece to be secured even those of us with ten thumbs to perform to the body bolster of the car using truck various kinds of detailing work. This jig, mounting screws (See Photo 2). These constructed of standard brass stock, is a pieces slide down into the vertical members handy way to position a piece of rolling stock to mount the car on the jig (See Photo 3). for applying decals, paint, or other detail enhancements. The two base legs are nine- inch pieces of 3/16” square solid brass. The 3 pieces of the jig are shown in Photo 1. The main spine is made of 1/4” square and 7/32” square tubing; one piece slides inside the other and, in addition to providing a rigid spine, allows the jig to expand or contract to mount cars of various lengths. The main vertical members are 5-1/4” lengths of 7/32” 1
As shown in Photos 1 and 3, the right side vertical member is mounted at the end of a 12” length of 7/32” square tubing, and the left vertical is mounted two inches in from the end of a ten inch length of 1/4” tubing. In this configuration, the jig’s range is approximately 8” to 16” between the bolsters, which is adequate for 50’ to 65’ cars. For smaller cars, reversing the left base piece will produce a working range of approximately four to ten inches between 2 the bolsters. Using longer pieces of 1/4” and 7/32” tubing for the spine, or simply making a spine extension piece, would accommodate longer O Scale cars, such as passenger coaches. This little jig is easy to make and will really come in handy when you do some decaling, detailing, or painting.
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Since I found the ideas about enlarging and printing photos graph the prototype and even climb on it real H-16-44, this model has served as on ordinary paper, then writing dimen- and measure it, I didn’t use Brian Scace’s a reference that told me what measure- sions on them. I thought maybe some- “grid/projection” method. ments I needed. I feel it’s important to body else had been doing this, or had The locomotive I found was in Puebla, mention this, that you can’t just go off an organized system he’d been using for Mexico. It’s at the FNM museum (Fer- and say, “I’m going to get drawings and years. The whole point was to find a way rocarril Nacional Mexicano, or Mexican take photos and measurements and build to photograph and measure a prototype National Railway), which is also the place a model!” Little details and problems will in such a way that you don’t have to visit where two ex-AT&SF, ex-D&H Alco pop up, especially if the model is to be it again. PA’s reside. Like most modelers, I took an operating one. Working on an actual Brian recommended finding draw- pictures and made some sketches. They model, instead of a dream, will help you ings. I took his advice and found a plan decide which details are essential and source for a locomotive I’d like to build which you can fudge or skip altogether. someday. For about $160, I received two You’ll do a lot of problem-solving. You’ll drawings; one was 11’ long, the other 12’. also discover a few things you can’t skip, These were for a Baldwin Diesel locomo- some measurements that you absolutely tive, and the folks at the Pennsylvania need to know, or the completed model State Archives in Harrisburg were very will look wrong. If the wheelbase is too well-organized and helpful. As long as it’s short, for example, the model will look for something made by Baldwin, they’ll like the “Toonerville Trolley”, or if you probably have a drawing for it. You need make the windows too big or it sits too to supply the Sales Order number. A high . . . it’s okay to make mistakes, but volunteer will look for it, someone will some are worse than others! Another way email you which drawings are available, of saying this is, some mistakes are more along with size so you can calculate what difficult to cover up than others. It’s a a copy will cost. Once you make a deci- good idea to have your project on your sion, send them a check and, in a week mind so you can visualize how you’re or two, you’ll receive tubes of original going to do it, instead of in a box on a Baldwin drawings. Getting them feels like dusty shelf that you’ll get to “someday”. being a kid at Christmas! Here is the URL But who has the time for that? When for their website: [http://www.phmc.state. do you visualize building a model? Why, pa.us/bah/dam/overview.htm?secid=31] when you’re at work, of course! 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26 • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 times called class books, used by railroad Knowing that this was going to happen, I engineering and operating departments to made two lists, one called “Needed Pho- determine clearance dimensions of equip- tos”, the other called “Needed Measure- ment -ed) drawings for measurements ments”. They looked like the lists below. such as wheelbase and overall height. The purpose of these two lists was to These pages can also tell you the wheel cross each item off as it was measured diameter, whether or not the locomotive or photographed. When you’re pressed had dynamic brakes, whether it had or for time, you don’t want to do the same didn’t have a steam generator, and other useful information. Knowing these things will help you decide which parts you need to purchase, make, or skip. These pages usually have the order number on them, which is helpful if you can find an archive with drawings. Diesel Unit Data Books are available on the Internet or, if you were lucky as I was, a bored railroad employee might photocopy some pages for you. You may have noticed than the prototype I found was made by Fair- banks-Morse, but the Diesel Unit Data Book drawing was a for a Canadian Loco- motive Company unit. Diesel locomo- tives often shared “family traits”, so major from my first visit to Puebla. Those prints dimensions, such as wheelbase, were the looked like the first three photos on this page. This helped get the measurements thing twice or miss something important. out where I could see them; it’s hard to Above is one of the 8-1/2” x 11” photos constantly refer to chicken-scratch notes. after the second visit. Once I started trying to put the model Using Photoshop to Make Parts and together, I also realized which measure- Enlarge Plans ments were missing. I drew lines and Some of the photos I wanted “flat-on”. arrows for these, too, and put a white This is because, if they are not taken at dot of liquid paper beside each one. For an angle, you can draw over them with white areas, I drew a small circle. These a computer program like Photoshop and dots and circles were something I could use them to make actual parts. Once you same, though the locomotives were con- cross off with an “X” when I got the mea- have “cleaned up” a prototype photo, you structed in different countries. surement. have to make it O Scale. With Photoshop, I printed out some of the pictures I Making a List of What You Need this is done by selecting the “Image” took onto ordinary 8-1/2” x 11” paper, I still couldn’t build the model. There menu, and then clicking on “Image Size”. then drew lines and arrows for dimen- were too many things I needed to know In the window that appears, you can sions. I copied all of the dimensions that the measurements from my first visit select the measurement of the image to didn’t cover. Luckily for me, my father- be in inches, centimeters, or pixels. Pix- in-law lives two hours from Puebla, and els offer the most control, since they’re hadn’t been to the museum for several smaller than millimeters or 64ths, but if years. He wasn’t with me on the first trip, you measured in inches you should stay so we made arrangements to go again. with inches. The border at the edge of
Needed Photos Needed Measurements Straight-down Photo of Drop Step Drop Step Straight-on Photo of Dynamic Brake Length/Depth of Small Louvers on Intake Grill Short Hood Straight-on Photo of Headlight Length/Height of Dynamic Brake Air Flat-on Photo of Class Light Intake Grill Left Side of Unit (Short Hood is Front) Service Door Height/Width Along Are the four louver groups placed Long and Short Hoods right behind the cab? Height of Handle Locations End Profile (Shape) of Fuel Tank Spacing of Service Doors Along Hood Stanchion Spacing Fuel Tank Clearance Above Rail Louver/Door Spacing Left Side of Unit
Jan/Feb ’07- O Scale Trains • 27 the screen in Photoshop is incremented was to make a ruler to use as a refer- in inches, so you can drag the picture ence in photographs. Archaeologists beside this ruler and find out exactly have been using these for years. Lionel how long or high it is. Then you need to Strang made a very large one in an article figure out what number to multiply it by for Model Railroader a couple of years to make it O Scale. For example, if you ago. I wanted to make a smaller one that have a rectangular dynamic brake grid would fit in a suitcase. It has three hinged that is 29-1/2” high on the prototype, and The HO Scale drawing on the left was correct, two-foot segments, and is made out of a it’s 0.75” high in your photo, you need to but the O Scale enlargement on the right was too white-finished particle board called “shelf crop exactly around it and enter “0.615” short. The photocopier had “compressed” it.” material”. I would have preferred to make in the “height” box. Length and height are it out of aluminum, but I kept putting off automatically linked, and should match going to the metal store, and I didn’t feel the O Scale dimensions you were expect- like spending $40 on it when the wood ing. was right there leaning against my base- Photocopy Error ment wall. The black stripes are made You can use the same technique for from tape; it’s durable and won’t chip like enlarging plans in other scales. Some- paint. times you need to. I got plans for a loco- I really tried to find a way to gather motive from an issue of Railroad Model all necessary prototype measurements Craftsman. I measured them, and they and photos in one visit, but you can see are correct for HO Scale. I enlarged them I haven’t succeeded. The only thing I can on a photocopier in two stages, follow- think of that would prevent a second visit ing the steps in a 1980s Model Railroader to a museum would be to use a digital article; first enlarge HO Scale to S Scale, camera, and bring a laptop computer and then S to O. It looked good, but hori- battery-powered printer along. This way zontally it got squished. If the plan was you could do all of these steps on-site. your sole reference, and you thought it Still, there wouldn’t be enough time for looked okay, it wouldn’t matter. But what you to think about it, to let your brain if you wanted to make a brass frame with turn the problems over and over to solve a scale wheelbase of 32’ 3” in O Scale? them. Plus, if you travel with a spouse You calculate that to be 8.06”, then go or family members, there might be some off to your shop and make it. When eye-rolling and unpleasant remarks. Now, you bring your newly-made part back, I think that gathering information and you discover the plan says 32’ 3” but building the model are parts of one grand shows 7.88”. Wouldn’t that be frustrat- process. You just keep plugging along, ing? I almost did this. Using Photoshop and you eventually get it done. You still or a similar computer program to do the might have to go back to the museum just enlarging is more accurate than a photo- one more time. u copier. Make a “Photo-ruler” One last thing I did, for “next time”,
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effects can make. Compare the wall on the left to the one on the right. Which would you like to have on your layout? Putting on the Mortar the wall (Photo 13). I then make a chalk If you go out and look at any brick wash (water and chalk-powder mix) and building, you will see a white material brush it down the same edges and around 17 between the bricks. This is mortar, a type the tops of the windows (Photo 14). Also, of cement used to hold the bricks togeth- er. To create this effect, I use white pow- dered weathering chalk. You will need 14 a stiff-bristled brush to apply the chalk over the whole surface of the wall (Photo 10). Next, take your finger and rub off the 10
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put this wash along the edges of the brick rows at the joints in the wall, and run some down from the bottom corners of the windowsills (Photo 15). If you put this wash on, and it looks too dark for your tastes, just add a little bit more water to thin it out. Allow the water to dry off, walls, painted and weathered them, and 11 12 and what’s left is the chalk leaving dirty they’re all ready to assemble into a build- streaks as if the rain and wind have blown ing (Photo 18). That will be the topic of and washed the dirt down the wall (Photo the next part of the series. I will show you 16). In Photo 17, you can see the steps how to assemble the walls into the build- used to produce a realistic looking wall, ing, how to make the roof, then we’ll fin- starting from the right and working left. ish off with some details. u There you go, we have assembled our
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Practice, Practice, Practice. Some may consider this a waste of the mock-ups and several sets of draw- I started a new project this summer, a precious modeling time and materials. I ings helps me become familiar with the scratchbuilt boxcar. It’s a Pullman Stan- disagree with that thinking. In years past, car and minimize any errors. dard design from the mid-70s, commonly my normal approach would have been to Since this is such a common car in the known as an IPD (incentive-per-diem) or just dive into the project only to discover modern era, I’m going to want several Railbox car. They’re also known as 5344s, that something was off, either in a glaring on the layout. In thinking through the for their capacity in cubic feet. Athearn way or some little mistake that would bug construction of the various components, makes a nice model for HO Scale but, to me to death. Maybe I’d see some easier it has become clear that scratchbuilding my knowledge, nothing like it exists for O way to do some aspect of the project. each part, like the end panels and side Scale. Weaver makes an accurate model I’d then agonize about whether to keep doors individually, would be a major of an FMC exterior post boxcar that can going or start fresh. I’d often start over. effort and a real pain. be the foundation for a nice model, once Now, that’s a waste of time and materials. Did I say this was a simple car? Mak- the detailing has been improved. The Making practice pieces, like those in ing a master of these various complex Weaver car differs in design from the the photo, helps me work out the con- parts, then casting as many pieces as Pullman Standard cars, having a peaked struction methods and sequencing. It needed, would be easier and a real time roof compared to a flat one on the PS gives me a chance to analyze what I’ve saver over several cars. This is an option 5344s. The end panels are different, done, simplify or reconsider the construc- I might not have considered if I’d just along with the sidesills and the spacing tion, and catch mistakes before they find plunged ahead with the first car. Doing of the exterior posts. Since both of these their way into the finished model. I did the mock-ups also lets me consider what cars were, and still are, as common as the two sets of 1/4” scale drawings based on combination of materials is best. The 40’ boxcar in the steam era, a layout set the Athearn model, and will likely do a basic car will be out of styrene, with brass in modern times will need several. third (and maybe even a fourth) set before wire and flat stock for the grabirons and Scratchbuilding rolling stock has been I get all the errors out of them. I want to stirrup steps. Brass is a better choice for on my to-do list for several years. It’s one do an accurate model, but I’m not a nut these delicate details since this will be an of the reasons I switched to P48 from about fidelity. operating model, not a museum piece. HO, so I could see and appreciate the A prototype car will show up in town For me, this is time well spent. I’m bet- detailing in a model. Since it had been on occasion, but be inaccessible for the ter acquainted with this particular class decades since I’ve scratchbuilt any kind thorough job of measuring I’d love to do of boxcar and the final models should go of rolling stock, a simple boxcar seemed since trespassing on railroad property together nicely. Learning to cast multiple like a good place to start. I decided to isn’t an option. Therefore, I’ve had a hard parts will add a new skill set to the mod- make some mock-ups of the different time finding the kind of accurate dimen- eling toolbox that will find other applica- components, the sides, ends and so forth, sional data that I’d like for these cars (Any tions on the layout in the future. Not bad to test the waters before plunging ahead help or donations of prototype info on for a small investment of time and mate- on the final models. these cars would be appreciated.) Doing rials. Best regards, Mike. u
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Living in the metropolitan Milwaukee area, I purchase a lot with 1/8” basswood sheet and rolled asphalt roofing. The addi- of my O Scale modeling supplies and kits from Walthers’ retail tion would have a distinctly different type of roofing, perhaps a outlet, Terminal Hobbies. They have several display layouts in tin roof or, more correctly, a galvanized ribbed-steel roof. The the store, including a small nicely done HO layout that features steel roof would imply that the addition was not part of the orig- many of the Walthers HO Cornerstone series structures. One of inal structure, and that the freight forwarding business had been these was their feedmill, which I examined with interest every good enough to add on some floor space. time I visited Terminal Hobbies. What I liked about that kit was I also decided to make a couple of other changes before its prototypically correct long low profile. With three different I began construction. The plastic loading platform and faux rooflines it just looked right, a typical Midwestern lineside struc- supports would be discarded and replaced with a weathered ture that you’d likely stop at and sketch or photograph while basswood platform and deck. The two loading doors on the railfanning. addition would be placed inside the structure rather than on Since I’d already scratchbuilt a feedmill for my Soo/CNW external tracks, as they are on the main structure. This was how branchline layout, what I had in mind was a freight-forwarding it was done on the HO model, and it creates a subtle distinction operation where boxcars could drop LCL (Less-than-Car-Load) between the addition and the main structure. Finally, the tor- shipments for sorting and delivery to off-line customers. Con- nado grain loading blower atop the main structure would have versely, those same customers could ship LCL from the same to go, because the building was no longer a feedmill. facility. Before construction began, I made up full-size drawings of I was aware of the Walthers O Scale Cornerstone series feed- the walls I was going to modify. I also made up platform eleva- mill kit (#933-3308), however, the O Scale version doesn’t have tions from which I would scratchbuild a new basswood plat- the extension found on the HO kit which, to my eyes, gives the form. Doing the drawings first allowed me to think through and O Scale structure a sort of chunky look. Possibly Walthers omit- avoid the dreaded “cannot-reverse-the-error” kind of mistakes ted the addition because the length of the structure, with the which can occur after construction has begun. If you elect to extension, would increase from 13-1/8” to 20-1/8”. scratchbuild the addition, which I believe would be as easy as Terminal Hobbies personnel allowed me to measure the key bashing from a second kit; my drawings will provide enough dimensions of the HO model, which I multiplied by 181% to dimensional detail to build the addition in either styrene or arrive at my O Scale addition. The added length is 7-1/8”, while basswood. I’d suggest using Grandt Line windows if you go the width remains the same as the original structure. this route. The two loading doors would be Northeastern Scale A study of the kit’s front, back, and end walls showed I could Lumber 1/16” basswood or Evergreen 0.040” styrene with 1/8” cut a new set of side and end walls to make up the addition. wide board scribing. I built the addition first, then the main Preferring not to buy a second kit, I planned to scratchbuild the structure. addition from Evergreen 0.040” x 1/8” scribed sheet styrene, The Addition a near perfect match to the kit’s 1/8” drop siding. As luck and I began construction by adding the roof and wall support serendipity would have it, though, I ran across a second feedmill strips to the peaked end wall of the original kit. See the end wall kit at a swap meet. drawing (Figure 1) for the roof lines. I glued 1/8” x 3/16” styrene The second kit was kind of beat up and a few of the parts strips to these lines, using Plastruct Plastic Weld liquid cement. were missing, but the parts I needed (front, back, and end walls Note the vertical styrene strips are recessed 1/8” from the out- and enough windows) were there. I didn’t care about roof mate- side edges of the trim boards. The molded trim boards must be rial. I had already decided to replace the molded plastic roofing notched to clear the new roof. In my case, the new roof was
42 • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 however, I work carefully and feed the and 5 will help you with the steps in this 1 work gently so as not to create a lot of section. heat. There will be a tad of plastic-melt, Main Walls but if you work slowly it won’t affect the Except for the windows, I followed piece you’re cutting. Try a few practice the Walthers instructions for the main cuts on some scrap and get comfortable structure walls and floor assembly. Since with the process before you cut into the I was going to trim the windows in a good stuff. You can go the traditional different color than the walls, I did not route of scribing and snapping the plas- paint or install the windows until after tic, but this is pretty thick plastic (on the the entire structure had been painted and order of 0.090”). When it’s that thick, I assembled. I also like to paint and detail prefer the bandsaw method. Incidentally, my structure walls while they are unas- for cutting door and window openings sembled and in the flat. I attached the into plastic this thick, I use my Dremel loading doors, outside cellar access, and tool and a cut-off wheel with the motor the platform roof supports, then masked set to slow speed. Again, I work slowly to off the joints where the addition walls ensure the cuts come out nice and clean. would attach to the main structure and where the roofs would be glued to the 3 walls. The new loading dock platform was built and attached after the main structure was finished. The addition and main structure walls were laid flat on sheets of newspaper and given two light coats of Model Master 2 spray can FS33722 Desert Tan. Spraying Evergreen 0.040” thick styrene. These in the flat minimizes the potential for notches should be cut flush with the face paint runs, especially when using a spray of the drop siding. You’ll also need to can. When the paint had thoroughly add .060” thick styrene filler strips to the 4 cured, I assembled the three addition foundation where the addition walls meet walls, using an inside right-angle plate the main structure walls. Use Photos 1 taped to the workbench to ensure the and 2 for reference. When that was done, corners were square. A pair of 0.090” I turned my attention to cutting out the x 1” styrene strips was glued crosswise side and end walls for the addition. beneath the addition walls to stiffen them See my addition drawings (Figures 2 and keep them square. These strips were & 3) to layout the new end and sidewalls. also needed to elevate the addition, to If you can’t find an extra kit, it wouldn’t match the height of the main structure be a big deal to cut these walls from with its 0.090” thick floor. Evergreen 0.040” thick 1/8” sheet styrene The main structure literally snapped or Northeastern Scale Lumber scribed together at its interlocking bosses, a basswood. You could match the existing design for which I heartily thank Wal- drop siding or go with clapboard, cor- 5 thers. It’s easy to put the finished walls rugated, or even board-and-batten siding. together and then glue them up with no The windows in the addition need not fear of misalignment. When the main match the main structure. Perhaps the structure had been assembled, the addi- owners just weren’t too fussy about the tion was glued to it and reinforced at architectural impact of their add-on, so the attachment points with right-angle they might have instructed the builders to styrene braces. I did this on a flat surface use whatever windows they had on hand. to ensure the addition aligned with the This could mean using those windows main structure. lying around in your junk box, left over The last bit of wall painting involved from another project. the foundation faces, which I brush- You’ll notice on the drawing that the painted with a thick coat of Delta new roof pitch doesn’t match the original I cleaned and squared up the cuts with a Ceramcoat acrylic Mudstone paint. Delta peak. My dimensions were taken directly large flat file and a sanding block. Ceramcoat Mudstone looks like aging from the Walthers HO model and I liked Next, I glued 1/8” x 3/16” styrene concrete. You can find it in hundreds of the difference in the roof angles. You can roof strips to the inside face of the new hues in craft stores; many of the colors vary the roof peak of the addition to suit peaked end wall and beveled the tops are perfect railroad colors. I brushed the your own inclinations. At the same time, of the two sidewalls to match the new paint onto the styrene to create a poured you can increase or decrease the length roof pitch. This is necessary to provide concrete look. of the sidewalls. I chose to exactly follow adequate gluing surface for the new roof. While the foundation paint cured, I the Walthers HO prototype. An extra pair of loading doors was glued spread out the windows on a clean news- I cut out the addition side and end to the inside faces of the sidewalls. Strips paper and sprayed them with a spray walls on my bandsaw. Yup, I said my of 1/16” square styrene at the bottoms of can of Model Master FS34102 Medium bandsaw. I know that sounds pretty wild, these doors act as bumpers. Photos 3, 4, Green. When the paint had cured, I
Jan/Feb ’07- O Scale Trains • 43 deck framing. 1/16” x 1/8” basswood 6 strips are assembled over the platform plan view. Note that I made my platform slightly longer than the original. Next, I assembled the upright 6 x 6 posts and 2 x 6 diagonal bracing, again right over the plan front elevation. I cut the staircase risers from 1/32” basswood sheet. The treads are 1/32” x 3/16” strip. I pinned 10 the risers to parallel lines drawn 15/16” apart and then added the treads. The staircase is assembled treads-up over the two lines. Tiny amounts of CA or white glue hold the treads to the risers. 7 After the steps were attached, I test fitted the un-decked and unpainted plat- form to the structure and sprayed it with the same Model Master Medium Green as the window trim. I added the decking 11 after painting because I wanted unpaint- ed weathered decking. The decking is cut from 1/32” thick 1/8” scribed Northeast- 12 ern Scale basswood. After the decking was attached, I beat it up with an X-Acto blade, making cuts both with and across the grain. I finished off the deck with three coats of AIM Products Quick Age, a brush-on weathering solution carried by Walthers and others. I glued the finished platform to the foundation, using Aleene’s Original Tacky Glue. This glue adheres well to the acrylic foundation paint. Scratch building the loading platform can be fussy work, but it’s work that I happen to enjoy. There was a time when I wouldn’t have thought of trying to build a staircase. Now I find it to be a rewarding 8 and do-able challenge. Roofing glazed the windows and installed them Refer to Photos 16 and 17 for this into the structure. Photos 6, 7, and 8 section. I didn’t care for the roofing that illustrate the steps in this section, and came in the Walthers kit. I assume it was now we’re ready to scratchbuild the load- meant to represent 36” rolled roofing. ing platform. 13 However, it simply had too much relief, Loading Platform looking too thick to suit me. I replaced I elected to replace the plastic plat- 14 the plastic roofing with 1/8” thick bass- form with a new basswood platform. As wood sheet from Midwest Products. The the old saw goes, nothing looks more neat thing about using this material is like wood than wood itself. I precut that the basswood sheet ends simulate everything on my Northwest Short Line six-inch fascia boards and boxed eaves, Chopper, which works great for this sort eliminating the need for dummy rafters of work and ensures a uniform length for and fascia trim boards. like components. For me, pre-cutting or My addition received an Evergreen “kitting” the parts seems to make these projects go faster. Figure 4 and Photos 9- 15 illustrate the steps in this section. 15 16 I began construction with the under-
9 44 • O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’07 per (the color isn’t important), which I cut 17 into 3/4” wide strips. I attach the strips to the ruled roof panels with Aleene’s Origi- nal Tacky Glue. This glue is available in craft stores. White or yellow glue will also work. As I apply the strips of sandpaper, the glue will likely cause the sandpaper to curl. I correct the curl with strips of masking tape to hold down the roofing while the glue cures. The tape readily pulls away from the sandpaper after the glue has set. I cap the ridge with a strip of sandpaper creased into a V-shape. I let the roof sit for a day to allow the glue to thoroughly cure. I’ve brushed and ribbed steel roof. I’ve always wanted correct panel widths. This is easily done sprayed my sandpaper roofs with Floquil to try this stuff, and the Walthers kit- with slow-setting CA glue. Using mask- solvents, Ace Hardware spray cans, and bash gave me the impetus to do so. The ing tape, I tape two sheets together, then Delta Ceramcoat acrylics. An overspray Evergreen roofing comes in several rib open the joint and run a bead of CA glue. of Testors Dull Cote flattens and seals the spacings. I chose 1/2” spacing to repre- I hold the sheets flat until the glue kicks. roof forever. On the Walthers project, I sent two-foot rib spacing. Each sheet is It takes about five minutes to glue up a liked the variegated look of the tan sand- grooved to accept individual ribs. The rib six-inch wide sheet. paper and decided to let it show through. strips are approximately 0.010” x 0.060” The main roof panel dimensions are A drybrushing of Floquil Roof Brown and come loose in the package. After the 4-1/4” x 10-1/2”. The dock roof is 2” x provided just the right amount of weath- two roof pieces were cut to size and the 9-3/4”. The three pieces at the short end ering. mating ridge edges mitered to meet at the are 3-3/8” wide x 2-3/16”, 2-5/8”, and Some added details, a bit of clutter, correct angle, I taped the two roof pan- 3-1/16”, respectively. These dimensions a few figures, and a dusting of Floquil els onto the addition and then inserted allow for beveling at the joined edges. To Grime will finish off the job. I thought a 0.030” x 0.090” styrene vertical rib hide the exposed end grain, I glued 1/32” about adding a sign to the structure. Then strip where the roof panels meet at the x 1/8” basswood strips to the exposed again, everyone around these parts, well, ridge. This strip simulates a rib running ends of the panels. I glued 1/8” x 3/16” they already know the name of the place. the length of the ridge. I’ve noticed some styrene strips inside the main structure At one time or another just about every steel roofs have this ridge rib and others at the ridge and at the eaves to act as an local stops by to chew the fat and/or pick do not. I glued the roof panels and ridge additional gluing surface for the bass- up or ship a package. rib from the inside with Plastruct Plastic wood panels. The roof panels were then Thank you, Walthers, for a good look- Weld glue. attached to the structure with 30-minute ing structure. The bashing possibilities are The ribs went on next. I cut each rib epoxy, and held in place with masking nearly endless. u about 1/2” too long, then cut a miter at tape while the epoxy cured. the top end of each rib before I glued Before I glued the platform roof in them to the roof. The miter cut should place, I cut off the roofing alignment pins Bill of Materials match the angle of the roof to the ridge from the dock roof supports. These pins Evergreen Styrene strip. Using a pair of tweezers, I set each are not needed when you epoxy the roof 1/8" x 3/16" Strip rib in its groove and, with a soft sable in place. The small end roof pieces will 0.060" Smooth Sheet brush, brushed Plastruct Liquid Weld require a bit of trimming and alignment. 0.040" Thick 1/2" Spaced Ribbed Metal alongside the rib I was holding in place. Don’t worry about small gaps. They will Roofing I found it easiest to hold the rib about be hidden beneath the roll roofing. Now, 0.040" Thick 1/8" Scribed Sheet (if your 1/2” from the ridge rib while I applied the we’re ready to nail down some tar paper addition is to be scratchbuilt) glue. Make sure each rib is in its groove and roll roofing. Midwest Products & Northeastern Scale top-to-bottom before you apply the glue. In previous O Scale Trains articles, Lumber Basswood Work slowly here. I’ve described my technique for replicat- Since the roofing was only 0.040” ing asphalt rolled roofing. For those who 1/16" Square Strip thick, I added 0.030” x 0.100” trim haven’t seen this material, I’ll reiterate. I 1/32" x 3/16" Strip boards at the roof ends. I masked off my begin by drawing spacing lines to guide 1/32" x 1/8" Strip new tin roof and airbrushed it with Flo- my roll roofing as I work my way up from 1/16" x 1/8" Strip quil Old Silver solvent paint. Following the eaves to the ridge. The first line is 1/32" Smooth Sheet that, I drybrushed on some Floquil Rust. I drawn lengthwise 3/4” up from the eaves. 1/8" Smooth Sheet must admit attaching those ribs and keep- Successive lines are drawn lengthwise Paint ing them straight while applying the glue 5/8” apart. Floquil Old Silver was challenging, to say the least, but the Some people use 3/4” wide masking Model Master FS34102 Medium Green end result was definitely worth my effort. tape to simulate roll roofing. I’ve tried it, Spray I cut the main structure roofing from but I don’t care for the look of the over- Model Master FS33722 Desert Tan 1/8” thick Midwest Products basswood. lapped masking tape. The tape is too thin AIM Products Quick Age Depending on how wide your sheets are, and the relief at the overlap tends to be butt-gluing may be required to get the too much. I like to use 180-grit sandpa-
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