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Re: CN engine WIP
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lugnet.trains
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Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:08:14 GMT
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In lugnet.trains, Aaron M. Sneary wrote:
Aaron,
If I’m suppossed to try and get my MBM done before your train is done, you
better slow down. I’ll have mine by the next SandLUG meeting. I’ll get cracking
on this ASAP, but not until after the Thomas the Train event at LL in 1 weeks.
All three of your MOCs look great. The striping looks good on the engine.
And you picked the right engine to add a safty cab to. CN was the first NA
railroad to use a safty(wide nose) cab. These were fitted to thier GP38-2(w) and
later some GP40 varients. These were developed by CN in cooperation with EMD.
However the CN version has a differrent window arrangement then the later US
version.
http://www.cnrphotos.com/gallery/album54/4800a
EMD liked the idea and developed their own version with the UP and Sante Fe
railroads. The only other production GP to carry a safty cab was a GP60 for SF.
Otherwise they were an option on SD60 and later and standard on the SD80 and
later engines.
As for proportions, to match the CN version I would recomend extending the nose
by 1 stud and reducing the front porch, and shortening the cab by 1 or 2 studs.
BTW none of the GP38-2(w) were equiped with dynamic brakes (the center flanges
and fan on the roof). Also notice the box behind the forward cooling vent. This
is for the paper air filters. And it looks like a yellow train baseplate would
be more accurate.
Take care,
Mat
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