Hi Hillary;
It is a great article, and excellent modelling. Makes me want to try
some boxcab electrics using AF Reading cabooses and an AM GG-1
drive, but I doubt I could come close to this work. Maybe a CNJ 1000
(early boxcab diesel)?
I think you mis-read one point, the real NYC 1550 was built by
GE/Ingersoll-Rand, no doubt riveted together from steel sheet in
their shop. Mr. Karne's fictional NYC 1551 was supposedly built in
the NYC shops using various bits and pieces, including the Reading
caboose bodies, so no true 1-1 scale diesel was assembled from cast
off bits of cabooses and passenger cars as described.
In addition to Dick Karnes article, this months installment
of "Essential Freight Cars" covers three reefers that could be built
and detailed from the SHS wooden reefer. And on the top of page 83
in the Bucyrus/Eire article is a color picture of C&NW 43685, a
prototype match for the American Flyer flat car at 46 ft long with
13 stake pockets!
Pieter Roos
--- In [email protected], "smithhilary1947" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> S Scalers:
>
> I was pleased to see Dick Karnes get such good coverage of his NYC
> boxcab diesel in the April 2006 RMC, pages 72-73. This model has
an
> excellent pedigree, winning Best in Show at the 2000 NASG
convention.
>
> What impresses me most, besides the wonderful craftsmanship, is
> Dick's approach to scratchbuilding this locomotive. I'd call it
the
> Dr Gizmo method. Some might carve this beauty out of a solid
brass
> billet but not Dick. Listen to some of what he used: Precision
> Scale On3 Forney locomotive frames, HO scale GG-1 lead trucks with
O
> scale journal lids, cut-down Model Shipways railing stanchions,
two
> Flyer Reading caboose bodies (the prototype, according the
article,
> also used Reading caboose bodies!), Grand Line On3 Rio Grande
> caboose cupola windows, parts from a BTS ALCO FA dynamic brake
grid,
> a short clerestory piece from an O scale Japanese meter gauge
> electric locomotive kit, sections from an HO scale F7 diesel
> shell, . . .
>
> Ingenious and efficient -- my hat's off to you, Dick. And that's
a
> pretty amazing spares box you have.
>
> Hilary Smith
> Northern Virginia
>
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