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RE: (erielack) EL depressed flat cars

Michael,

	You're right, I haven't gotten to detailing the Walthers deck ends. I am planning on putting stick-on diamond-tread pattern onto these "plain flat" ends and redoing the brake wheel, "triple valve" and other brake gear on these ends.

	- Paul


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Dye [mailto:luxpan_@_hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 9:41 PM
> To: erielack_@_lists.railfan.net
> Subject: RE: (erielack) EL depressed flat cars
> 
> 
> Doesn't the brake gear need to be rotated 90 degrees from 
> where Walthers has 
> it sitting? Seems to me that the 7600 cars had the brake 
> cylinder mounted 
> 'fore and aft' (To the left side, with the triple valve to 
> the right, as you 
> look in the direction the train is moving), while the 
> Walthers model has it 
> 'left and right'.
> 
> Somewhere around here is a model waiting for the completion of that 
> change/modification... And some decals.
> 
> Michael Dye
> 
> 
> 
> >From: "Tupaczewski, Paul R (Paul)" <paultup_@_lucent.com>
> 
> Biggest differences: Span bolster intra-truck spacing needed 
> to be tightened 
> by 1 scale foot, the well "ends" needed to have the downward 
> "dip" removed, 
> and the spacing of the side gussets need to be redone.
> >
> >That last item is where I'm at now. :)
> >
> >	- Paul
> 
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