I have three of the Mainline stock cars that have a three piece roof with the middle section being flat. Unfortunately those cars, I've been told are actually 0n3 so to make them correct either we shaved down the middle section or eliminated it entirely (I've forgotten)--so that was a good thing. The wood used on those kits looked somewhat different than typical NE wood--it's a bit 'yellower' in appearance and a bit stiffer.
Need to finish them someday, as they are a 36' car and a good balance to the more modern SHS stock cars or Ambroid's USRA style. Bob Werre On 9/7/11 9:11 AM, David Engle wrote: > > It looks like Darrell's description of overhang stock is not what I > remember, so I may be off the mark. DJE > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Darrell > To: [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 8:26 AM > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: wood freight car roof stock > > Tom, > > Well yes indeedie I have seen such roof stock before, but in HO, not > S. It is from a verrrrry long time ago, and would probably have no > usefulness in today's modern train world. The reason it is made thusly > is that the maker didn't want to have to bother with all the little > teensy pieces that go under the roof walk, so instead a thicker piece > of roof walk was glued directly to the roof stock, thusly keeping the > 1/8" thick piece nice and flat, and the scribed roofing butted up > against it. It almost looked good if your bifocals were all smeared up > with vaseline. If'n it were mine, I'd be using my ultra sharp block > plane and removing said whump-in-the-middle before applying the > scribed roofing right up to the middle. > > Darrell (S)mith > > --- In [email protected] <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>, > Thomas Baker <bakert@...> wrote: > > > > Perhaps ten years ago now, a modeler who left S scale because of > illness offered a collection of wooden roof stock for sale which I > purchased. There would have been nothing unusual about this: Wooden > roof stock is still around, but among the items purchased was a > curious type of overhanging freight car roof stock. > > > > The overhanging type roof stock would be used for single and double > sheathed box cars, stock cars, and refrigerator cars. The odd feature > of the roof stock to which I refer is its profile. Rather than rising > to a peak, it rose from the sides--as one would expect--but then > flattened out at the top to allow--apparently--for one to place the > supports for the roof walk. The roof walk would then mask the fact > that the roof stock did not go to a peak. And one could, of course, at > the end mask the flat area with ends that did go to a peak. > > > > Anyone ever see such stuff before? It does not appear to be basswood > either. > > > > Tom > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
