Erie Lackawanna 2012 Calendar
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these items are already cored out on the door posts. The carbody is plated in a bright stainless steel color. It reflects light nicely, but does not have a mir- ror-like reflectivity associated with freshly electro-polished stainless steel. Of course, modelers seem to hold a con- tinuous debate over what color and re- flectivity stainless steel lightweight passenger cars really were, (sort of like what color is PRR Brunswick Green?). I will simply state that to me it ap- pears to look like clean but lightly weathered stainless steel, but let each modeler decide for him or herself. The side windows are trimmed in sil-
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ver to represent the stainless window frames. On the underside we again find the fundamental brake and elec- trical equipment. While the intricate piping and junction box equipment are not provided, none of this would be vis- ible with the car in operation on the layout. The Santa Fe RPO rides on four wheel trucks with integral brake cylinders (thus there is no brake cylin- der or fulcrum bars on the under- frame). The trucks are painted a slightly different shade of silver. This non-reflective color is indicative of the paint used by the Santa Fe on the trucks of its locomotive and stream- lined passenger equipment. As a re- sult, the trucks appropriately look dif- ferent from the shiny carbody. As with
the PRR RPO, articulated ProtoMAX couplers and sprung diaphragms adorn each end. These RPO cars were taken to a
large home layout with minimum 24 inch radius curves and two percent grades for test runs. Both carton ends have the notification that they should be run on minimum 24 inch radius curves, and they ran well together and with other passenger equipment. On the 24 inch curves these long cars have some overhang, as might be expected. I checked the positioning of the di- aphragms on the curves, and found that there was a small amount of day- light visible between the closest sur- faces, resulting in no interference on the 24 inch radius curves. The El Capitan baggage car repre-
sents a 73-foot Budd Built baggage car with fluted sides and roof. The car body is different from the previously released car for the Super Chief con- sist. While both cars are 73 feet in length, the car for the El Capitan has two windows in each door as opposed to the three per door in the Super Chief car. Its detailing and finish parallel that of the ATSF RPO car. These three cars represent the ap- proaching end of the Broadway Limit- ed consist and the beginning of the El Capitan equipment set. Our samples are well detailed and closely match
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