Well, that's no good! I've already got the roof glued on! :)
I have that RMJ issue on the kitchen table next to the car
(very tolerant wife!). I'll have to take a close look at the photos
tonight.
The shot of the prototype car is low angle, I just don't recall
if there are seam caps showing on it or not. (The model in the
article has the standard Red Caboose/IMWX kit roof.)
Are you saying that the roof is flat like the CGW 1932 cars? Or
are they more like a rectangular panel roof, except that the panels
are like those which are typically found on only the two end panels
of such a roof (flat panels between seam caps)? The "1937 AAR Box
Car As Built Roster" on your web site doesn't have any note on a non-
standard roof for the CGW cars. (The same column shows those cars
which had Viking roofs, for example.)
Thanks!
Phil Buchwald
--- In STMFC@..., Ted Culotta <tculotta@s...> wrote:
On Nov 8, 2005, at 12:32 PM, buchwaldfam wrote:
Yup,
Good article. The CGW car is really a 10 foot IH 1937 AAR
car with
the PS-Zero ends. Ted Culotta's web site has a list of 1937 cars
and
this CGW series is listed there.
The RMJ article also shows similar 40 foot cars for other
roads,
one shot of a SAL round roof car, as well as CGW and KCS 50 foot
cars
with those ends.
The kitbash is pretty straightforward. Just remove the old
ends
and graft on the new ones. I made replacement ends by sawing and
gnawing off the cast-on ladder a brake details from a set of old
MDC
round roof car ends. The resin ends are a better way to go if
you can
get them: it took me the better part of a saturday to get rid of
all
the unwanted ladder details! Then I still had to add a rivet
strip
between the top and bottom panel. But it did work.
These cars also had flat riveted roof. By the way, these ends are
not
"PS-0" ends. They are simply Pullman-Standard proprietary ends.
Similar ones were also used on the WLE, TC and B&O cars. On the
CGW
cars, the ribs terminated before the radius of the end that wraps
around the corner post. On the WLE/TC/B&O cars the ends of the
ribs
actually and terminate on the portion of the end that can be seen
from
the side of the car.
Regards,
Ted Culotta
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