North Coast Limited Project

[hegstad1]

I'll skip over another coach and dome coach and move to the Travellers Rest and Diner.  The TR is another Brass Car Sides set on a core kit. The Diner is a M&R sides set. The roof top detail on the diner required some scratch built vents.

[Mark5]

All I know is there were cars - don't know how many, or years - lettered for N&W in UP colors. Maybe the same sort of deal with C&NW vs. MILW traffic in and out of Chicago, where the C&NW repainted back to home colors after losing the UP contract. (Very little expertise in this niche on my part, just casual awareness.)

Yup - all ex-Wabash equipment (I have lots of photos of em in yellow lettered for N&W). I got off my butt and dug up my N&W Passenger Train book, only to realize that it only covered N&W "proper" trains and not the Wabash and/or NKP trains that continued as N&W after the 1964 merger.

I believe the joint Wabash/UP train connected in St. Louis Kansas City.

https://streamlinermemories.com/2014/03/22/union-pacific-wabash-later-up-norfolk-and-western-city-of-st-louis/

More research for me to do.

Mark

[hegstad1]

The next two cars are the first of the dome sleepers and an 8-6-4.  The dome sleepers are brass cars sides that need a little "dimension"  The prototypes were known as "slab sides" and the sides needed the slabs.  I used .10 styrene and the Silhouette cutter to make them.  I'm sorry I don't have good picture right now.  I'll get a more detailed shot later.  The 8-6-4 sides are from Athabasca Scale Models. 

[C855B]

... I believe the joint Wabash/UP train connected in St. Louis Kansas City. ...

Yep, KC. A wnile ago we railfanned the ex-Wabash across Missouri and the imagination tingles at the idea of a "premier" passenger train on this otherwise bucolic line.

[hegstad1]

Another Dome Sleeper and a Brass Car Sides 8-6-3-1



Finally the Obs.  This Is a Centralia Car Shops model with a few modifications and is the only car that is not completely accurate.  One window was filled on the vestibule end. This results in a car with one extra window on each side.  This is because the model has slightly smaller windows than on the prototype.  One would really have to pay attention to know it's not correct.  I also had to remove the Pennsy style antenna and replace it with a simpler one.  The center skirts also need to be removed.

[hegstad1]

Below is a more detailed picture of the Dome Sleeper.  I'm unsatisfied with the picture.  Comes across as a bit blurry when hosted on Railwire.  Anyway.  This shows the "slab sides" cut and scribed on the cutter.  A .01 square strip was also added above the windows to simulate the fluting on the prototype.  Another detail is the little vent thingy above the windows under the dome.  This was shaved off a donor Con-cor car and glued in place.

[keeper]

How did you bend the end skirts?

Thomas

[sirenwerks]

This was the case... in the later years..  Extras and Specials... typically 4 car sets, 3 sleepers and a Bdr/Lounge... "Leased from the East" is how the station agents in Chicago would refer to them as...  placed on the larger name trains originating out of the Midwest, usually Chicago… NCL in this case,  (and Chief and Zephyr) to the final destination(s), typically National Parks.

Boy Scout jamborees too. There were always visiting passenger equipment during BSA jamboree season.

[nickelplate759]

Below is a more detailed picture of the Dome Sleeper.  I'm unsatisfied with the picture.  Comes across as a bit blurry when hosted on Railwire.  Anyway.  This shows the "slab sides" cut and scribed on the cutter.  A .01 square strip was also added above the windows to simulate the fluting on the prototype.  Another detail is the little vent thingy above the windows under the dome.  This was shaved off a donor Con-cor car and glued in place.

Wow - nice detail work.   Also - impressive masking of the dome windows.  Con-Cor often punted and didn't paint the frames at all.

[diezmon]

man, this is nice work.   After all this Covid Nonsense I'm going to invite myself over to see your projects

[hegstad1]

Wow - nice detail work.   Also - impressive masking of the dome windows.  Con-Cor often punted and didn't paint the frames at all.

Thanks.  It probably takes about 45 minutes to mask one car. 

[Frank Amato]

Indeed @hegstad1 masking always takes way more time than spraying!

  Frank

[hegstad1]

How did you bend the end skirts?

Thomas

Tapping them gently with a hammer over the curved edge of my desk pull-out.

[nickelplate759]

Tapping them gently with a hammer over the curved edge of my desk pull-out.

Now I need a new desk!  Mine has sharp corners.
Looking at your picture, I'm even more impressed with your skill at forming the skirts.  I tried a somewhat similar technique once and ended up with lumpy skirts.

[hegstad1]

Now I need a new desk!  Mine has sharp corners.
Looking at your picture, I'm even more impressed with your skill at forming the skirts.  I tried a somewhat similar technique once and ended up with lumpy skirts.

It is not easy.  The most difficult part is the "seam" where the skirt meets the body.  The brass wants to bend at that point.  I use the ruler to help prevent this from happening.