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NYCSHS Modeler's E-Zine NYCSHS Modeler’s E-zine An added focus for the Society on NYC Modeling nd 2 Quarter 2014 Vol. 4 Number 2 Table of Contents Vic Roman’s NYC Hudson Div By Victor Roman 1 & 25 Maurice Lewman’s ¼-Scale 35 Baker Gear Model The NYC Engineering Dept. 38 By Manuel Duran -Duran Modeling CR Tower 52 By Larry Faulkner Building a NYC DFA/B-1a 59 Victor Roman’s New York Cental Hudson By Rick De Candido Division layout shows off Vic’s fine modeling skills as illustrated here with his model of the A Young Modeler’s NYC 65 Albany, NY Union Station. (Continued page 25) By Philip Lee Check out the regular NYCentral Modeler feature, “From The New A Press Release: 12/27/1958 67 By Andy Szabo York Central Engineering Department” by Manuel Duran-Duran. It offers scale drawings of NYCS structures that you can model. My NYC N-Scale Railroad 69 The NYCentral Modeler focuses on providing information31 By Richard Feldman about modeling of the railroad in all scales. This issue features articles, photos, and reviews of NYC-related models and layouts. The objective for the publication is to The NYCSHS provides considerable NYC Railroad information that is very help members improve their ability to model the New useful for modelers. Pages 2 & 4. York Central and promote modeling interests. My NYC N-Scale Railroad Richard Feldman began his fascination with trains from an American Flyer train set he received as a child. He discovered N-scale later in life and has built a wonderful layout of the NYC. He shares that layout and his fine modeling with us in this issue. We have had very few articles over the years of layouts and models that are not HO-scale. We hope that this motivates a few more of you to send us articles in other scales. (Page 69) NYCentral Modeler 2nd Quarter 2014 1 New York Central System Historical Society The New York Central System publication of the NYCSHS. Historical Society (NYCSHS) was Only available to members, organized in March 1970 by the each issue contains a wealth combined efforts of several of information. From steam former employees of the New to diesel (and electric), from York Central Railroad. The freight to passenger, from NYCSHS is chartered as a non- branchline to mainline, and Board of Directors profit corporation under the laws from the early days of R.J. Barrett, C.J. Beargie, A.F. Biehler, Jr., J. Epperson, T.R. of the state of Ohio. The mission Vanderbilt to the waning Gerbracht, S.H. Lustig, D.T. of the NYCSHS is to perpetuate months of Young and Mackay, R.C. Schiring, D. the legacy of the New York Perlman, the Central Simonaitis, R.L. Stoving, J.C. Central System and its Headlight covers it all. Our Suhs, N.F. Widdifield predecessor lines and subsidiary Annual Meetings are also Directors Emeriti: A.K. Bush, roads through the acquisition and not to be missed, focusing on P.T. Carver, J.W. Mills, J.P. preservation of their various the preservation of New Quinlivan (Founder) histories, traditions, documents, York Central railroad history records, and artifacts; and with informative speakers, Editor: Noel Widdifield Asst. Editors: Tom Bailey through the dissemination of presentations, and tours. The John Martin accurate information in a manner Society also has many NYC Proof Editor: Julie Sanders that is consistent with good reference books and Engineering Dept: Manuel Duran-Duran stewardship and preservation. drawings available for Harmon Files: Larry Faulkner Your membership gets you four purchase. Membership is Layout Drawing Artist: issues of the popularly acclaimed open to all; so don't delay; Frank Knight Central Headlight, the official join today! The NYCSHS Modelers’ Committee For almost three years, we have had an official modeling committee that has focused on modeling the NYCS. This has been a hard-working committee. The members of the committee are: Ron Parisi, Brian Marotta, Dave Mackay, Ralph Schiring, Tom Ball, Jeff English, Noel Widdifield (Chair), Dave Staplin, Paul Pickard, Larry Faulkner, Manuel Duran-Duran, Kyle Coble, Dan Seligmann, Seth Lakin, and Rich Stoving. We have a Yahoo Group for the committee and have had a meeting a month to work on several projects. We continue to bring new modeling features to the Society. We released the NYC Panel- Side 55-ton hopper, the Accurail MDT Reefer, and are working on the 19000 caboose. (See caboose details on page 18.) We are working on several other projects, like gondolas, tank cars and passenger cars, but if you have some ideas for us or would like to join us, contact us at [email protected] NYCentral Modeler 2nd Quarter 2014 2 Color By NYCSHS President R. L. Stoving • It’s fairly easy to find two color photos Something like fifty years ago, Nancy and of the same prototype showing I hopped into our ’57 Volkswagen Beetle considerable variation in color. and drove to a hobby shop in New Jersey that I’m told is still in business. Some • It’s also fairly easy to find a photo of a outlandishly decorated AHM HO-scale string of cars that were supposedly boxcars were on sale for 98 cents each, and painted the same, but with I sprang for sixteen of them and sixteen considerable variation in color from sets of Champ Pacemaker decals with the one car to another. hope of adding a 16-car Pacemaker freight • Scale may affect color perception. It to my then growing roster of NYC has been said that this effect occurs in equipment. scales smaller than O-scale. At the time, I was doing Lionel repairs at • Colors on prototypes fade. The grays Carmen Webster’s Model Railroad on Pacemaker cars “chalked” very Equipment Corp. in New York City, and a quickly, causing the railroad to shift to fellow employee who was friendly with black reporting marks. someone at NYC’s West 72nd Street Yard gave me two little cans of genuine NYC • With rare exceptions, a color Pacemaker paint – gray and red. “It’s photograph of a prototype is not likely lacquer-based,” he said, “just thin it and to be very accurate. spray it on.” It was, and I did, and soon I had sixteen “sort-of” Pacemaker boxcars. • People see colors differently. I can Nancy still talks about cutting out the little easily tell the difference between blue “footballs” – NYC ovals – from the decal and green, but I think one of our cat’s sets. Sure, the cars had wrong font toys is closer to green than blue; Nancy numbers, incorrect doors, ends, and other thinks it’s closer to blue than green. stuff, but I thought that nobody could argue about the colors. My hat’s off to anyone who wants to chip away at an old railroad structure to get a But they did. “Gray’s too dark,” was a paint sample. That’s a special kind of frequent comment. That started me railroad archaeology and fine for those thinking about color, and I’m still thinking who enjoy it. And I salute any modeler about it. And what I’m thinking now is who strives for color accuracy – that’s that it might be that some of us get a little commendable. Model railroading should too concerned about getting the colors of a always be a “to each his own” hobby. car, a locomotive, a structure, or anything we might want to model exactly “right.” I experienced a little color match issue a Consider the following: few years ago. I wanted to paint the front contour board of my layout Pullman • Viewing a model under artificial light Green. I think it’s a lovely color, very differs greatly from viewing its evocative of the era that I model. So prototype under sunlight. having found a color photo of a Pullman car that looked about “right” to my memory and eye (two major variables NYCentral Modeler 2nd Quarter 2014 3 Color (Continued) By President R. L. Stoving right there!), I headed for the local showcase, silent auction, layout tours, Sherwin-Williams with the photo. “Can NYCSHS Archive open house, evening you mix up a can of semi-gloss latex to speakers, a tour of Age of Steam match that color?” I asked, pointing to the Roundhouse, banquet, keynote speaker sleeper in the photo. “Well, we can try,” and members’ meeting. the clerk said, “but could you bring in the real thing?” When I explained that it was The committee bringing all this includes: about 80 feet long and weighed about 86 Chuck Beargie: Chairman tons, she agreed to go with the photo. Dave Nethery: Registrar Jeff Koncal: Assistant Registrar, Assistant So what became of my half-century-old Tour Coordinator Pacemaker boxcars? They still ramble Joe Epperson: Treasurer, Banquet around my layout; see the January issue of Coordinator Modeler Railroader, page 56. And the gray Sheldon Lustig: Tour Coordinator color hasn’t “chalked” one bit! Dick Wilkinson: Silent Auction William Feth: Layout Tours and Convention Booklet Bud Speirling: Train Show Joe Quinlivan: Publication Chair Kyle Coble & Manuel Duran-Duran: NYCSHS News Model Showcase Coordinators Stephen Titchenal & Frank Bongiovanni: Clinics The 2014 NYCSHS Annual Ray Bottles, William & Karen Feth, John Convention will be held in Cleveland, & Harold Persuit, Jim Semon, Paul & OH, on April 25 – 27 and it is almost sold Pauline Handman, James & Judy Wenter, out. and Dick Wilkison: Committee members. Planning has begun for the 2015 NYCSHS Annual Convention to be held in Utica, NY, on May 1 – 3, 2015. NYCSHS Director, Richard Barrett, will head the committee to bring us another wonderful convention for next year.
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