Re: Freight car siding
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Bruce F. Smith <smithbf@...>
Buck sez:
Time to fall back to the old dental tool method for making siding ifThanks for the offer - In looking at this project more last night I realized that I can use the Evergreen freight car siding...it may even simplify the "bash". My problem with this MOW car is that the window arrangement is different from any of the the MOW XLs that Westerfield sells. So my original plan was to cut the sides of one of Westerfield's kits up, rearrange whole pieces of side and add siding as needed to fill gaps. This would allow me to preserve details like the corner braces. Instead, I think that I will simply drop Al W's windows into a new side, after cutting them out of the XL kit side. The other details are pretty easy to add (DA NBW castings, styrene for the fascia and corner braces)...heck this might be easier! In both cases I would use the XL kit ends, and the board spacing is "close enough" that no one will notice the difference between the ends and the sides. Of course I'll use the XL unterframe as well. As it is, I'll need to use TWO XL kits to harvest the correct windows, but parts of the second one will get put to use building an FXL "living and idler" flat car... In the end, these bashes will fit right in with the other 8 PRR MOW XL camp cars that will make up three (or four) seperate MOW trains on my layout. Happy Rails Bruce Bruce F. Smith V.M.D., Ph.D. Scott-Ritchey Research Center 334-844-5587, 334-844-5850 (fax) http://www.vetmed.auburn.edu/~smithbf/ "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin __ / \ __<+--+>________________\__/___ ____________________________________ |- ______/ O O \_______ -| | __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ | | / 4999 PENNSYLVANIA 4999 \ | ||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__||__|| |/_____________________________\|_|____________________________________| | O--O \0 0 0 0/ O--O | 0-0-0 0-0-0
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