Weekend Update 9/25/16

[Mike Madonna]

Adam, using the prototype as your alignment guide, nice!

[draskouasshat]

Otto,mike, Gordon,  thanks for the back up! 
Doug,  as weird as it looks, and compressed at that, ive trotted to follow the track layout as much as possible. It most definitely looks wrong but oh so right! 
The benefit to the tracking is the speed at which trains will be going through summit is basically allowing for a stop to set tensioned or do a standing brake test. Passenger trains operate a tad differently as i believe they were allowed a rolling test in my 1947 time frame. Otherwise most freights and many passenger trains for both ATSF & UP, will have helpers to get off the head end and or rear.
Otto, thank you for the photos to help explain the layout here!
Gordon, ive gotta have that yellow stuff to be accurate!
Mike, thanks and glad to see you posting! Get some pictures up for your SP stuff! Hippie you and ginger are well!

Adam Draskovich

[dougnelson]

Shows you what I know about the ATSF.

[draskouasshat]

No worries Doug. It's more of a specific location issue rather than a system wide standard. They used purpose easements elsewhere,  just not at summit on cajon pass!

Adam Draskovich

[JMaurer1]

Trains were also much shorter in the 1800s. For every exception, there is a prototype.

[dougnelson]

and the finished coach:

[Philip H]

and the finished coach:

Well done sir. How hard was it to paint match?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

and the finished coach:

Looks good, but, Railwire time... can you get the roof to sit down any more? I feel like there's more of a gap there that isn't in the proto photos.
I love the rest of it, especially the window treatments: the shades and the bathrooms.

[wcfn100]

Looks good, but, Railwire time... can you get the roof to sit down any more? I feel like there's more of a gap there that isn't in the proto photos.
I love the rest of it, especially the window treatments: the shades and the bathrooms.

Is that really a gap?  It looks to me like it's just rolled under a little giving it a shadow.


Jason

[dougnelson]

The roof is pretty snug, and it is cinched down with a screw.  This is probably about as good as it can be given a resin roof.  This is always an issue in N scale, particularly if you are viewing the photo larger than N scale (depending on your screen size)[Ed- take your glasses off ].  Some manufacturers (Rapido) are moving away from separate roof castings even with injection molding to avoid seams.

Paint is Floquil Poly Scale Box Car Red - officially blessed as the best match for PRR passenger cars (I bought several bottles when they announced the end of Floquil).  Also quite close to the color used by MicroTrains on their PRR cars.  The cars on either side are probably done with the same paint, so no issue matching.

[chicken45]

Doug, permit me to have a little fun here. What do you think this is, the Pennsy?
(But I do see what you mean)

When Fred Peris laid out these curves in 1886 for the California Southern, they seemed good enough. Only about 90 years later did the Santa Fe fix it, at a great cost, see pics. Those of us attempting to model the pass find such engineering faux pas endearing...and worth modeling (as long as our equipment works reliably).

Otto K.

What a cool little story! Is this an example of Ed's Law?

and the finished coach:

Fantastic! Nice job to you too, @Lemosteam! When it comes time for me to look in to finishing my coaches, I'll have to see if I can make your doors and stuff fit on the MP versions.

[OldEastRR]

and the finished coach:

Where did you get the washroom glass?

[dougnelson]

Where did you get the washroom glass?

I created them on the computer, and printed on translucent vellum paper to simulate the etched glass. Here is the file which includes plain windows and windows with car numbers that were used on some Pullman cars. I cut them out and paste on the inside of windows with white glue that dries clear.

[Rich_S]

I got my 2 samples of my dual control stand cabs today from shapeways. I need to make a few tweaks to the design but all in all I'm very pleased with how they turned out and things fitted together like I designed them too.

Very nice, the PRSL GP38's. I have one question, weren't all of the PRSL GP38's non dynamic brake equipped units?

[bnsfdash8]

Very nice, the PRSL GP38's. I have one question, weren't all of the PRSL GP38's non dynamic brake equipped units?

I believe PC's GP38s with this cab came with dynamic brakes while PRSL's didn't. The with dynamic brakes that I'm doing will be BNSF #2047 which got rebuilt with dynamic brakes after CR sold if off.