Pieter, That is the article to which I referred. I guess it was longer than two or three years ago, but I do recall that the author did an excellent job. The only "model" magazine I subscribe to is the "Dispatch," and I am about to renew my subscription to that. The other model magazines have little that I find relevant to my modeling. I purchase at the newsstand what I view as having a future or current use. For that reason I have photocopied a number of articles from MM at the NMRA Library in Chattanooga. My son lives within ten minutes from the library, and whenever we get down there I manage to visit the library. Then I found the RMC articles by Ted Culotta valuable and have most--but not all--of them. His article on the D&H car just made the project with the SHS car too tempting and doable. The January 2004 issue of MR is another such issue, but I still don't have that one.
Thanks for the correction to my post. Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of Pieter Roos Sent: Mon 7/14/2008 9:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: {S-Scale List} "Short" AM streamlined cars Hi Tom; If the article you are referring to was in the January 2004 MR, "Styrene to Streamliner", I recall the author built up the fluting using two sizes of Evergreen half round styrene on a flat backing, not the pre-made corrugated siding. You would have to look closely at Budd vs. P-S corrugations to see if the same technique would work for the Budd built cars. The roof fabrication method looked like it would work well for any smooth roofed car, anyone stalled for lack of correct milled roof stock would do well well to find a copy of the issue and give the styrene construction a shot. Pieter Roos Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dave, Would the Evergreen corrugated plastic work for the fluted sides of a RI car? MR had an article a two or three years ago about someone who scratchbuilt such a car in O scale using the Evergreen corrugated plastic, and it did look prototypical. Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] on behalf of David Engle Sent: Sun 7/13/2008 3:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} "Short" AM streamlined cars I'm the one who said A-M cars were too short, so I better explain. One of my projects here is to build an 80-foot baggage car by taking a piece out of the A-M baggage-dorm. The coupled length of the GN series 1200-1205 Baggage dorm built for the "Mid-Century" Empire Builder, which I understand is the prototype for the A-M car is 85'-0 feet. So I figured it was a case of taking 5 feet out of the shell in the least obtrusive place. When I checked the shell and realized I would cut out only 4 feet, I adjusted accordingly. Now if I just had some postwar-Pullman Standard corrugated siding to install, it would be closer to prototype, but I'll wait until then before I slick on some putty to raise the roof contour to what it should be. The same Randall book shows at least three groups of coaches on GN, all coupled-length 85 feet. The actual body length of these and the dorms is 85' 0 minus 14-1/2 inches on each end, total 82'-7. 82'-7 equals 991 inches, 991/64=15.48 model inches. The side I took out of the shell to make room for the pre-war sleeper side is 15-3/8. After consulting with Dennis Sautters, he dialed up 1:64.3 on his laser, made the sides, and they fit the shells. ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Karnes To: S-Scale Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2008 9:16 PM Subject: {S-Scale List} "Short" AM streamlined cars TC Carr et al -- The complaint about the shortness of the AM smooth-side streamliners has nothing to do with the cars' length per se. It has to do with the Laser Horizons car sides being a scale foot longer than the AM cars used as core bodies. That's why Laser Horizons has to use a scale slightly smaller than 1:64 to create sides that match AM cars. This is just a fact, not something we can "get over." Dick Karnes [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [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: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[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/
