Source for WM horns (Nathan M5?)

[brokemoto]

Those look good, and help with placement on mine, too (once I have horns in hand). I'm guessing those are ones that turned up and you can't part with; they look great!

Thank you.

You would also do well to consult prototype photographs, but that is the approximate placement.


I did these a number of years past; 2003 or perhaps even further back.


Those horns were the only five chimes that I could find at the time.  I figured better some kind of five chime than the pair of single chimes that came from the factory.

I still must find the other five chimes to do my one RS-2 and for the hammerhead RS-3, once I get 'er done.  A Cheap and Nothing Wasted modeller who posts here sold some C&NW RSD shells with the paper carbody filters.  It is not the filter arrangement on WM's, but, as these are the only non-louvered paper carbody filters available, better they than Atlas' louvered model.  Another poster to this forum sold the hammerhead short hoods with the cab.

Only five hammerheads left Schenectady that way:  WM's four and one for the Penn.  The Penn later transferred its to LV.

I will look for the things and see how many that I have. 

[ChristianJDavis1]

Thank you.

You would also do well to consult prototype photographs, but that is the approximate placement.


I did these a number of years past; 2003 or perhaps even further back.


Those horns were the only five chimes that I could find at the time.  I figured better some kind of five chime than the pair of single chimes that came from the factory.

I still must find the other five chimes to do my one RS-2 and for the hammerhead RS-3, once I get 'er done.  A Cheap and Nothing Wasted modeller who posts here sold some C&NW RSD shells with the paper carbody filters.  It is not the filter arrangement on WM's, but, as these are the only non-louvered paper carbody filters available, better they than Atlas' louvered model.  Another poster to this forum sold the hammerhead short hoods with the cab.

Only five hammerheads left Schenectady that way:  WM's four and one for the Penn.  The Penn later transferred its to LV.

I will look for the things and see how many that I have.

Prototype photos are always king, but it's nice to see what other modelers have done as well. A lot of prototype photos are "trackside," and you don't get a good overhead view of where everything should be. I have a single FA, which is what started this thread, but would love to make more in the future. The RS3's sound cool, too; I'm guessing the carbody shell was Skytop, and the short hood was Piper?

[brokemoto]

I have a single FA, which is what started this thread, but would love to make more in the future.

I painted these plain black then added the lettering from the Microscale speed lettering set.  I had to cut up three nose heralds to make something that approached correct for #302.  As Messrs. Stakem mentioned that the wings on #301's nose herald were shorter than the other three, I only cut up two.  My era generally demands fireball, but the FAs and the F-3s-that-came-back-as-F-7s had speed by the mid-1950s.

The wings on the nose herald in the Microscale speed set have been a sore point for many WM modellers for some time.

The RS3's sound cool, too; I'm guessing the carbody shell was Skytop, and the short hood was Piper?

There is one RS-2 and parts for one RS-3.  Your guess would be correct.

 There is one WM passenger train that appears on my pike.  It is supposed to be a joint Erie/P&LE/WM train (which actually did operate until the 1930s or so).  The idea is that usually the RS-3 will bring it from Connellsville through Baltimore to my pike.  When the RS-3 must go to the shop, it will be a P&LE PA.  Now that MT has a single window coach, I can put fireball lettering on it.  It will have to pass, for now, as no one sells WM passenger lettering.