Re: Tichy Train Group #3070 Boxcar Door Hardware


Dennis Storzek
 

On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 06:43 PM, Charles Greene wrote:
The tops of my doors are concealed by 1/16" angle stock which I think represents weather protection of the door track on a prototype car. Don't think I'll go for adding hangers with their rollers at the door tops....would require increasing the size of that angle stock to something out-of-scale. I'm already fairly satisfied with the detail I have added (!). 
Most Camel door hangers rolled on a flat steel track that had an angle section riveted to the underside that both restrained the door and provided the weather seal, so the hangers and their rollers were exposed. The angled sheet steel weather hoods were typically used with the roller guides which supported the door from the bottom.

Dennis Storzek

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