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Post by packer on Aug 21, 2022 13:15:01 GMT -8
I saw there was no thread, so I guess I’ll start: Newly acquired PCF 6033, added Moloco cut bars and air hoses. But cut off the curve on it and just attached it to the draft gear (to lazy to install the actual Moloco draft gear.    My bench is a sty, but the stripped covered hopper is ready for the Plano conversion kit.  |
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Post by fr8kar on Aug 21, 2022 17:11:32 GMT -8
You can't go wrong with nearly any Plano parts, but the kit for the Atlas cylindrical hopper really elevates the model. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. And as much as I love Mopac, it's a shame that UP dropped the aluminum running gear with armor yellow after the merger. Those boxcars with the big "automated railway" logo are some of my favorites. Speaking of UP, here's what little I've been able to accomplish this summer and it's only about half done. These two Atlas C40-8s still need some proper details added topside. So far I've applied some Tamiya Panel Line Accent to the trucks, grilles and exhaust before I go back and drybrush the base color over the black and brown washes. These two will pair with my Atlas C36-7 kitbash to power an APL stack train. I need to get those handrails knocked out... just too hot in the garage this year!   |
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Post by simulatortrain on Aug 21, 2022 17:24:38 GMT -8
I had a friend visit last night from overseas, and he showed me the brass K28 he bought on this trip. I dug out my EBT 14, and the narrow gauge bug took hold. I've got a Blackstone K27 that I occasionally work on, trying to freelance it into something that looks more at home in Pennsylvania. I had previously done some work to that end: replaced the steps and ladder, altered the coal bunker, changed to a small backup light, and switched from archbars to Andrews trucks just to further differentiate. It still bothered me that it retained the boxed in water valve handles of the DRGW original, so this morning I took care of those. I then printed the tender trucks I really wanted for it. Looks like a TT scale Reading tender now!  I also mocked up the lettering and I have to say it looks as good as I imagined.  |
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Post by packer on Aug 21, 2022 18:17:30 GMT -8
You can't go wrong with nearly any Plano parts, but the kit for the Atlas cylindrical hopper really elevates the model. Looking forward to seeing what you do with it. And as much as I love Mopac, it's a shame that UP dropped the aluminum running gear with armor yellow after the merger. Those boxcars with the big "automated railway" logo are some of my favorites [/snip] Well that actually answered my question on when they changed schemes. I'm thinking of changing the reweigh or patch date on the car to fit it into my '78 focus.
Good work on the GEs BTW. Are those the DW sunshades on the C36-7?
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Post by fr8kar on Aug 21, 2022 19:14:09 GMT -8
Well that actually answered my question on when they changed schemes. I'm thinking of changing the reweigh or patch date on the car to fit it into my '78 focus. Good work on the GEs BTW. Are those the DW sunshades on the C36-7? Thanks! They are, but they haven't held up well since that photo was taken. I'll replace them with some brass parts when I tackle the handrails. I don't have any definitive info on the change in paint schemes, especially for freight cars, but the Mopac Canaries were the reintroduction of the gray trucks to the UP fleet. Freight cars began to be painted in a simplfied scheme with boxcars being changed to brown and covered hoppers changed to a bluish gray that resembled Missouri Pacific's covered hopper color. Certainly for 1978 you're safe in using the yellow carbody with aluminum running gear. |
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Post by Baikal on Aug 21, 2022 20:56:26 GMT -8
Well that actually answered my question on when they changed schemes. I'm thinking of changing the reweigh or patch date on the car to fit it into my '78 focus. Good work on the GEs BTW. Are those the DW sunshades on the C36-7? Thanks! They are, but they haven't held up well since that photo was taken. I'll replace them with some brass parts when I tackle the handrails. I don't have any definitive info on the change in paint schemes, especially for freight cars, but the Mopac Canaries were the reintroduction of the gray trucks to the UP fleet. Freight cars began to be painted in a simplfied scheme with boxcars being changed to brown and covered hoppers changed to a bluish gray that resembled Missouri Pacific's covered hopper color. Certainly for 1978 you're safe in using the yellow carbody with aluminum running gear.
Just a sample:
February 1984 - Gray Color On Trucks The use of aluminum-colored trucks, dating from 1953, has always been one feature of Union Pacific's trademark paint scheme. In 1953 the new aluminum color was first used on turbines, and from 1954 and 1957 on the newest E9s and GP9s. The use of aluminum paint on locomotive truck assemblies replaced UP's use of Harbor Mist Gray, which was first used on the E6s when they were delivered in 1940/1941, and on the Erie-builts with their delivery in 1945. The use of gray paint was changed to aluminum paint on selected units in 1953 to 1955. With the projected costs of repainting the entire MoPac locomotive fleet, the cost of aluminum paint was considered, along with its high maintenance costs, since aluminum color wears off rapidly, and must be refreshed at least three times as often as most other colors. To save the added cost of aluminum paint on upcoming MP and WP repaints, in 1984 the aluminum color was changed to gray on the railroad's locomotive trucks. The change to the painting diagram was dated February 15, 1984. One of the first units to be completed was DDA40X 6922, which had its trucks painted gray in late May 1984 in Salt Lake City, in preparation for a Memorial Day excursion special between Denver, Colorado, and Speer, Wyoming. During mid 1982, possibly as a brief test of different colors, some units were reported as having received gray trucks, but the gray was a bit lighter than the standard Harbor Mist Gray. During mid 1986, the gray trucks of the six GP40Xs were repainted back to silver because of these units' high visibility on Amtrak trains and on special passenger moves for company directors and shippers. May 1984 - First MP Units in UP Yellow and Gray No Missouri Pacific locomotives are known to have been painted to UP's yellow and gray until mid 1984, almost a full 18 months after the January 1983 date of control of MP by UP. On May 31, 1984, because Missouri Pacific was to remain as a separate corporate entity, the two roads announced that they would paint MoPac's locomotive fleet into UP's standard yellow and gray colors, but with Missouri Pacific lettering. The formal announcement actually came two weeks after the first unit was completed. Between May 1984 and November 1985, there were 395 locomotives painted in MoPac yellow (including 120 new units: 60 SD50s and 60 C36-7s), all with the unique MoPac North Little Rock style lettering. Most were lettered for Missouri Pacific, but a few UP units were completed with Union Pacific spelled out in the MoPac style lettering, at least temporarily. (Read more about Missouri Pacific units in UP's yellow and gray paint scheme)
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