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Volume 1, Issue 1 Volume 1 Issue 1 ® A F Publication Vol. 1 L SPEEDWITCH 1 CONSIST SPEEDWITCH®L STAFF William G. Dulmaine, Jr....…......PUBLISHER NHRHTA, INC. Manufacturers Update ...................................................................................................... PAGE 3 Charles O. Dunn..................….....EDITOR SPEEDWITCH BY PETER R. NESS Peter R. Ness...................…….....EDITOR MODELING MODELING THE NEW HAVEN TECHNICAL REVIEW and RESEARCH... Richard Abramson, Thomas Curtin, William G. Dulmaine, Jr., Wayne Drummond, IMPROVING YOUR OVERLAND NEW HAVEN T-2-B, 0-6-0 ........................................................... PAGE 6 Marc J. Frattasio, Peter Lynch, J. W. Swanberg BY JOHN PRYKE PROOFREADING....Richard A. Fleischer, Bill Lupoli, READVILLE SHOPS: ARCHER RIVET DETAILS .......................................................................... PAGE 8 Christopher Pey, Bill Reidy, Edward Sweeney BY JOE SMITH AND PETER R. NESS Chris Adams.................................PHOTO ARCHIVIST REVIEW-RAPIDO OSGOOD BRADLEY PASSENGER CARS ............................................................. PAGE 10 BY JOHN SHERIDAN ―Library of Congress card catalog no. 78-6451543‖ MODELERS’ GALLERY ............................................................................................................ PAGE 12 Web Site and New Haven RR Online Forum www.nhrhta.org ON THE NEW HAVEN TODAY HOUSATONIC RR TO START OWN STUDY OF REOPENING PASSENGER LINE ..................................... PAGE 13 The SPEEDWITCH is published by volume by the New Haven Railroad Historical and Technical Association, Inc., a non-profit, tax exempt organiza- STATE'S NEW M-8 RAILROAD CARS MAKE FIRST INDEPENDENT TEST RUN ...................................... PAGE 13 tion, an Alabama corporation. Each volume consists of four issues which are MBTA 1030 CAME HOME AGAIN ........................................................................................ PAGE 15 published on a best effort basis. The frequency of publication is influenced by, among other things, the availability of volunteer resources, and the BY PRESTON COOK submission of written articles and photographic materials. Third Class postage paid at State College, Pennsylvania 16803 Welcome to the first SPEEDWITCH consist on his layout for us, SPEEDWITCH! As Bill Dul- you may get to see your layout on the cov- Subscriptions in USA: $35.00. Canadian Postage: $13.00 additional surface mail. All others $16.00 additional. Air Mail: please inquire. Make check maine noted in your most er of the SPEEDWITCH. We need articles payable to: Treasurer, NHRHTA, Inc. recent S, we from you on New Haven-specific tips and Copyright © 2010 by NHRHTA, Inc. All rights reserved. The contents of L this publication may not be reprinted without written permission from have retired the Bulletin, techniques that might help your fellow PUBLISHER, NHRHTA. and before I go any further New Haven modeler. We need to know I want to extend my thanks and congratula- what is going on locally in former New tions to Chris Pey for his very successful Haven territory that may be of interest to OFFICERS ~ NHRHTA, INC. stewardship and dedication to the Bulletin all of us, whether that be the current rail- William G. Dulmaine, Jr. ..........................................................PRESIDENT PO Box 1125, Sterling, MA 01564 over the last several years. Having been the roads or preservation activities. Tel: (978) 422-9746 Email: [email protected] Editor of the Bulletin for a number of years If you‘d like to submit photos, we can Marlin B. MacLaughlin...................................CORPORATE SECRETARY Thomas Curtin..........................................................................TREASURER myself, and knowing the amount of time accept print, slide or electronic file for- 160 Riverside Boulevard #11A New York, NY 10069-0708 Email: [email protected] required to put out an issue, I can appreciate mats. Prints and slides will be scanned Richard Pedersen.............................................MEMBERSHIP CHAIRMAN the effort he devoted to achieve the excellent and returned as promptly as possible; how- results he did, issue after issue. Chris, job ever to safeguard your photos if you have well done! the ability to scan them and send files in BOARD OF DIRECTORS Initially the SPEEDWITCH will be a 16 page, JPEG or TIFF file formats that is what we Wayne D. Drummond, Chairman A.A. Lawrence, Dir. Emeritus semiannual publication with color anywhere recommend. Scans must be at least 300 William G. Dulmaine Jr. ........................................Marlin B. MacLaughlin we need to put it. The major emphasis will dpi with a physical print size of at least Thomas Curtin ................................................................Richard Abramson Richard Dupuis.........................................................................John Walther be on full modeling articles and modeling 3‖x4‖. 600 dpi or higher gives us more information, even articles on prototype as- flexibility in sizing the photo during layout pects of the New Haven or its equipment and we can scale a photo down in size with that would be useful to a modeler of the excellent results but cannot scale up in size WHERE TO WRITE without the image pixelating. Most digital S......................................……….................William G. Dulmaine New Haven. ―The New Haven Today‖ will P.O. Box 1125, Sterling, MA 01564 Tel: (978) 422-9746 return with articles and news of contempo- cameras that are 5 megapixel or higher E-mail: [email protected] will produce a file sufficient to our needs, rary goings on in the former New Haven SPEEDWITCH Editor .............………………………...……...Charles O. Dunn territory. and as with all close-up modeling photog- 59 Holley Place, Torrington, CT 06790-4840 E-mail: [email protected] Bill was right on the mark when he indi- raphy, watch your focus and depth of field. Membership Information....................................................Richard Pedersen Articles can be sent via email in the cated that you, the members, will ultimately 59 Waterfall Court, Bloomingdale, NJ 07403.......E-Mail: [email protected] determine if the SPEEDWITCH is a success or if body or as text files or in MS Word com- Dealer Inquiries.........................................................................Bill Nickerson we can increase either the frequency of pub- patible file formats. You will find my Shoreliner Distribution and Sales ……...….9 S. George Washington Rd, Enfield, CT 06082 Tel: (860) 749-3795 E-Mail: washington [email protected] lication or the number of pages, or both. To postal and email addresses in the Where To make this work we need your support, and Write section to the right. Manufacturer’s Inquiries, Members Technical Assistance Service Technical Committee.........................................................Richard Abramson not just your moral support. We need your Finally, special thanks to Peter Ness for 56 Beardsley Parkway, Trumbull, CT 06611 E-mail: [email protected] all his help in getting the SPEEDWITCH roll- input in the form of photos of your layouts, or projects. We can‘t put your face on the ing and to Bill Dulmaine for his artwork S BACK ISSUES cover of the Rolling Stone, but like John on the lady who graces our cover. NHRHTA and NEW HAVEN RAILROAD MERCHANDISE Grosner who graciously put together a Charlie Dunn, Editor Richard Dupuis 88 Hemlock Dr., Stamford, CT 06902 Front Cover: New Haven Class R-1-b #3345 heads up the SPEEDWITCH on John Grosner’s E-Mail: [email protected] New Haven layout. Photo: John Grosner PRINTED IN USA Back Cover: T-2-b #2416 rumbles across the Buttermilk Bay outlet in Wareham on the way to switch the sections of the Cape Codder in Buzzards Bay on John Pryke’s model F railroad of the New Haven’s Cape Cod Division. Photo: John Pryke 2 L SPEEDWITCH Vol. 1 mMANUFACTURERS UPDATE BY PETER R. NESS S SCALE NEW HAVEN cars. Cost for this set is $6.00. Sheet two will letter the 80000 series 3- CABOOSE DECALS bay hoppers (5 cars), 81000 series 4-bay Great Decals! Bill Mosteller offset side hoppers purchased in 1964 (5 P. O. Box 994, Herndon, VA 20172 cars), and 36000 series leased boxcars cars email: [email protected] in the black large billboard scheme (2 cars). website: www.greatdecals.com. Cost for this sheet is $8.00. Sheet three will letter the 117000-117014 there is photographic evidence that some series covered hoppers in either the delivery cars were converted to work train service scheme or the repaint script scheme and the and still on New Haven property into the 117015-117099 series covered hoppers (5 mid-‗50s at least. The Accurail car is a cars). Also included on this sheet is lettering relatively accurate model of this series of to decal the New Haven‘s ―K‖ series tank New Haven hopper. Accurail previously cars (5 cars). Cost is $10.00. released similar hoppers painted and let- tered in the 120000-series. This is not a highly detailed model, however; the last fairly accurate HO scale Set WSM-112 includes lettering and num- model of this car previously available was bers for classes NE through NE-6 with both an Athearn ―blue box‖ hopper custom- ―NEW HAVEN‖ and New Image N heralds, painted by 3rd Rail Graphics more than and ―NEW‖ stencils from 6-17 through 10- two decades ago. If you model the steam 47 to cover many modeling eras. Each set era, this car is a welcome addition to your provides 12 "canned" road numbers, some roster. If you model the late steam era to for each of the
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