Weekend Update 11/24/13

[Roger Holmes]

Here's a foobie on the Atlas double sheathed box car.  Clover House dry transfers set on decal film and applied.  Kind of neat.


Steve

Steve--Do you live in the  Waterloo/ Cedar Falls area?  My oldest son is a Professor at the University of Northern Iowa there.

[Roger Holmes]

That is a great looking city. If you have run out of Ceiling height it looks to me like you could lower the bench work giving you more room it make it right.

Jeff-- I can't lower the benchwork but could cut a hole in the ceiling and make the top 50 floors part of the living room decor   I don't think my wife would appreciate it though.

Thanks to all for the kind comments. I'll post photos of the 103rd floor "Ledge" when it's finished.

[nkalanaga]

C855B:  "BN Green" was officially (at least in the 1970s) "Cascade Green".  That gives you two colors to try asking for.

Jason:  To lower the car, without a mill, my first thought would be to cut the ends of the underframe off and build a new floor and bolster.  It wouldn't look good from the bottom, but as long as your car stays on the track, it shouldn't be noticeable.  Leave as much as you can in the middle and you can still use the kit brake gear.

[wcfn100]

Jason:  To lower the car, without a mill, my first thought would be to cut the ends of the underframe off and build a new floor and bolster.  It wouldn't look good from the bottom, but as long as your car stays on the track, it shouldn't be noticeable.  Leave as much as you can in the middle and you can still use the kit brake gear.

I decided to try and file down the bolster by hand.



All those years of lowering MTL cars really paid off!  It's not all the way down yet as this was just the rough cut with the mill file.  The final touch-up to make sure everything is level should take care of the rest.


Jason

[bbussey]

Got three more crossovers in place at the east end of New Haven, as well as the east approach tracks and station tracks 3 and 5.



Two more crossovers on the mainline to go, and then I keep laying track to the west end of New Haven until I have to build three turnouts.

[C855B]

C855B:  "BN Green" was officially (at least in the 1970s) "Cascade Green".  That gives you two colors to try asking for. ...

OK, recalling that should help, too. Now... does anybody know the color name for the yellow on the ends? I'm sure we can get in the ballpark on the green, even if it turns out there isn't an authoritative PPG formula. For the yellow, I've seen a couple of recent repaints which are too "lemony" versus what I recall from the '70s. If I were to hazard an edu-guess, I'd say that the yellow is likely to be the FGE yellow since that's what they had laying around in the paint shop. Confirmation there would be great.

[wcfn100]

Got three more crossovers in place at the east end of New Haven, as well as the east approach tracks and station tracks 3 and 5.



Two more crossovers on the mainline to go, and then I keep laying track to the west end of New Haven until I have to build three turnouts.

I've been meaning to ask, is that prototypical to have back-to-back double crossovers as opposed to overlapping them with double-slips?  It would save at least a passenger car length of track and reduce possible 's' curves.  I ask this of course without knowing the cost difference or being the one who'd have to build them. 


Jason

[bbussey]

It isn't, but I don't have the extra four feet needed to have the prototypical turnout arrangement needed to mimic even this condensed representation of New Haven's east end.  I also need to be able to move eastbound passenger consists from Tracks 4 and 6 to Track 1, as Tracks 1 and 3 become the two-track mainline east of New Haven while Tracks 2 and 4 become the freight line to/from Cedar Hill.  The prototype didn't use double crossovers or double-slips.  They did everything with standard turnouts.  Of course, the NYNH&H had miles of real estate to play with.

The passenger equipment does navigate the multiple double crossovers without incident, as does the Kato GG1 (the same wheel arrangement as New Haven's larger electrics), and Life-Like/Walthers PAs and DL109s.

[wcfn100]

The prototype didn't use double crossovers or double-slips.  They did everything with standard turnouts. 

Well there you go.  I would not have guess that.

Jason

[Ian MacMillan]

I don't know who specifically we spoke with, but I'm sure your offer would be able to help Mike-C855B out...


Yes. VERY helpful. Thanks!

You could also try NAPA as they carry Dupont Imron paint.

When we repainted our ex-UP GP39-2 at New England Southern about 4 years ago we went to our local NAPA and told them we were looking for Armour Yellow and Harbormist Gray. They were able to pull the codes and made us 5gal buckets.

[SAH]

Steve--Do you live in the  Waterloo/ Cedar Falls area?  My oldest son is a Professor at the University of Northern Iowa there.

I live in North Carolina Roger.  I bought the lettering set years ago on a whim.

[nkalanaga]

Mike:  I wouldn't be surprised if it was FGE yellow.  It could also be WFE Yellow, from the GN's reefers.  As the WFE and FGE were partners, they may be the same color, for all I know...  It could also be whatever yellow the NP used on reefers and caboose ends, although the few sunny pictures I have of NP cabooses look more like the WFE than NP reefer yellow.

Just in case, WFE Yellow is "Dupont Yellow No. 613" according to the GN Ry Historical Society Reference Sheet No. 28.

Also, there is a BN Historical society, the Friends of the Burlington Northern Railroad, at
http://www.fobnr.org/ .  They might be able to give you the exact paint numbers.

[Chris333]

The passenger equipment does navigate the multiple double crossovers without incident, as does the Kato GG1 (the same wheel arrangement as New Haven's larger electrics), and Life-Like/Walthers PAs and DL109s.

That is good to hear. 

[Philip H]

I've been working on the railroad https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=30300.msg346860#msg346860

And adding new rolling stock.  The KCS Geep (numbered in the GP-22 ECO rebuild program) came a while back, but only got decoder-ized this weekend while I was waiting for my trestle bents to dry.  The Flat car behind it is the new Exactrail Trenton Bulkhead flat.



the details on this are phenomenal, and the bulkhead ends are laser cut wood - which you have to glue on.  Although I was trying to get up close on the Exactrail car with this shot, I actually managed to get the see-through effect of the Trainworx PD-3000 hopper running boards:

[HuskerN]

I worked on this design over the weekend and finally finished it up last night.  Now, I'm just waiting for a couple prints.



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