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Post by mvlandsw on Aug 27, 2024 19:06:21 GMT -8
What are those conduits on the end of the FTs? They look way oversized. And no rear door to enter the car body?
Mark
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Post by edwardsutorik on Aug 27, 2024 19:26:10 GMT -8
Yes, very poorly done.
Ed
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Post by voyager989 on Aug 27, 2024 20:08:30 GMT -8
What are those conduits on the end of the FTs? They look way oversized. And no rear door to enter the car body? Mark The conduits on the back of the A units are really huge, though I don't have a lot of pictures, and the configuration seems to differ. |
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Post by edwardsutorik on Aug 28, 2024 5:58:03 GMT -8
One of our very own (Mark) posted a useful photo on this forum: atlasrescueforum.proboards.com/thread/10543/emd-ft-locomotives?page=3The conduit and fittings are two different sizes, and not as clunky as on the back of the model. They're likely there to bring wires from one side of the loco to the other. It's odd they'd do the run on the exterior. I'm assuming the interior routing was way too much of a PITA. I do see that two of the radiator cooling fans are all the way to the rear--a radiator would have been below them, I think. On the plus side, most of us (all?) will be running our A's with a B attached, so the view will be limited. And the lack of a door in the end rather unimportant. NOT so for the other end of the B unit! If the rear of the A is the problem here, I can easily live with it. I am seriously wanting to run an FT set in 1970! Ed |
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Post by cpr4200 on Aug 28, 2024 6:17:05 GMT -8
I seem to recall that there were NO doors between drawbar connected FTA's and B's. But there was a diaphragm. The RDG FT photo referenced above shows that.
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