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Upgrading Great Noethern 52 foot Cascade Models Imports
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gary laakso
Yes, it was time to up grade my 5 Great Northern 52 foot flatcars, 65000-65499 class , imported in 1986 flatcars by Cascade Models. I have replaced the Andrews trucks that came with the models with Tahoe Model Works Dalmans. Since Cascade did not model the metal support over the trucks, I want to use a laser cut wood deck and add plastic sheet to represent the plates over the trucks, see Great Northern Color Pictorial Book Two at page 80. One of the cars was imported without a deck and it looks good with the individual boards cut back in 1986!
Is there a straight edge laser cut flatcar deck that is 10 feet wide with straight sides (no cuts for the flatcar stake pockets)? Length does not matter as I have to cut it into a minimum of 3 pieces. Cascade used scale couple boxes that are very, very narrow so that Kadee 4s need lots of filing to squeeze in from the front of the coupler pocket. Are there any scale size that fit? The Kadee 58s are too wide as are the Accurail scale couplers. gary laakso South of Mike "two dome" Brock vasa0vasa@... |
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Anthony Thompson <thompson@...>
gary laakso wrote:
Is there a straight edge laser cut flatcar deck that is 10 feet wide with straight sides (no cuts for the flatcar stake pockets)? Length does not matter as I have to cut it into a minimum of 3 pieces.Gary, have you looked at the AMB deck? It has cutouts but the net width may be what you want. Cascade used scale couple boxes that are very, very narrow so that Kadee 4s need lots of filing to squeeze in from the front of the coupler pocket. Are there any scale size that fit? The Kadee 58s are too wide as are the Accurail scale couplers.The Kadee 78s are for narrow (scale) boxes. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, thompson@... Publishers of books on railroad history |
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Gary, my model has a brass deck. The boards are .0676" wide
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(about 5 7/8"). My car is equipped with Kadee #4's which is what the model's scale width draft gear is designed for. Only a tiny amount of filing was needed to slide in the #4. Let's lobby Kadee for a scale head #4!! A laser deck? Cascade made the deckless version for folks who like to model board-by-board decks. :-) These cars are among the nicest HO scale flat cars made -- and have complete scale underbody detail. Mine is equipped with Eastern Car Works Dalman trucks (but now I suppose I'd use Tahoe trucks) and lettered w/ CDS #321 which has exactly the right lettering for this car. Tim O'Connor Is there a straight edge laser cut flatcar deck that is 10 feet wide |
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WILLIAM PARDIE
I agree with Tim that this was one of the best flat car models produced. The discussion prompts me to resurrect a question that I have never had answered over the years.
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About the same time that Cascade released this model they also imported a Northern Pacific flat car in the 200100-200274 series. These flats were built from cut down box cars. The photo in their ad in Mainline Modeler did not adequately illustrate the lettering on these cars. Over the years I was able to obtain several photos of these cars, however,they all showed the cars late in life and the numbers had been changed to the 202000 series. The lettering consisted of NP plus the car number. My question is "Did these cars ever use lettering with Northern Pacific spelled out?" The new flyer from W&R for their Wheel Car #202769 hints that the spelled out "northern Pacific" was used early on with NP company service cars. I would like to verify this before doing my third refinishing of this car. Bill Pardie --- In STMFC@..., Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
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