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cut seven railing’s worth of it to fit. The larger grille has 1″×2″ styrene di- viders.


It is easier to remove all of the old door guide detail on the spliced carbodies, as on the Rr-91 side here, and then go back and apply new guides made from suitable strip styrene.


piece of 1″×4″ fit vertically between two of the horizontal 1″×4″’s to create the door section on the lower half of the vent on the left side. Finally, I cut HO scale 1″×2″ strips and centered them between each of the horizontal 1″×4″’s. (Again, refer to the photos.) The vent was glued flush with the edge of the car side and backed with pieces of HO scale 2″×4″ styrene to re- inforce the joints and hide any gaps be- tween the pieces. This also provided a larger surface for later attaching the car side to the end. When the cement cured, I sanded the edge of the side sheet and vent to be sure they were flat and even. Next, an Evergreen HO 1″×4″, 3′-0″


long, was glued horizontally on the car side directly above the vent. I added a row of Archer rivets along the center of the strip, then stopped working on this side for now. The hinges would be put on when the final detailing was done. Going on to the right side, the photos show that the refrigeration compart-


ment had two vents, the top one per- manently mounted on the car side and the lower one as part of a sliding main- tenance door mounted on horizontal rails. (See the photos.) For the fixed vent above the door, I used two pieces of CMA roof walk, glu- ing them together to create a rectangu- lar grille 2′-3″×3′-0″ in size. (The long sides are on the top and bottom.) The frame around this grille (top, bottom and right edge) was made from HO scale 1″×4″ placed flat. The flange on the left edge was modeled with a length of 1″×4″ on edge.


The vent on the right side of the slid- ing door used three pieces of CMA roof walk material with various Evergreen strips forming the frames. The stepped section at the bottom was made with a short piece of 2″×8″ under the right- hand grille and a 2″×12″ across the width. The verticals were cut from 1″×4″ strip. For the dividers in the narrow grille, I turned to BLMA No. 705 wrought iron fence material and


The final work on this vent was to cut and attach the three pieces of .010″ styrene rod for the grab irons. Their length was estimated from photos. Once the vents were dry, they were test fitted on the car side and glued in place. The door tracks were made by first gluing a scale styrene 1″×4″ flat to the top of the door extending from the car end to the first exterior post. Next, I cut a piece of 1″×6″ the same length and narrowed it for half its length as visible in the photos. This was glued to the 1″×4″ previously ap- plied to form the upper door track. The lower door track was cut from HO 2″×3″ strip styrene, 7′-0″ feet long, and glued to the car side below the sliding door.


Main door guides


On all three cars I found it was bet- ter to bite the bullet and remove both door guides entirely, rather than trying to patch the pieces remaining on the spliced-together sides. The upper door guide was made from scale 4½″ chan- nel cut to length per prototype photos. The bottom door guides were made from Evergreen HO 2″×3″ strip styrene cut to length. The left end of the guide was placed to be even with the left-most wheel on the plug-door assembly. For the supports on the bottom door guide I cut 24 pieces of 2″×3″ strip styrene a scale 3″ long using a NWSL Chopper. These were glued to the bot- tom door guide and bottom sill spaced about 18 scale inches apart.


Underframes


The folio sheets for the Rr-87 and Rr- 91 listed the truck centers as 41′-3″, and my working assumption was that


The brake rigging and the location of the reservoir on the Santa Fe Rr-91 are much like any house car. Most of these parts were


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salvaged from Athearn PFE kits. The fuel tanks for the refrigera- tion units were made wider by splicing two halves together.


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