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With the body is dry, glue the end as- semblies into the body and check the fit and be sure no glue is in the tab slots. Insert the floor into the body to ensure everything is square, but do not glue it into place yet. Wrap the carbody with rubber bands and allow it to dry, then fit the roof over the carbody. Once this is done, glue it in place. Glue the parts for the roof running board from the inside, making sure they are square. Attach the wooden carline at each
end, and drill a hole for the chimney and toilet vent stack (which I modeled using a part I had in my scrap box). I used tissue paper applied with canopy glue to simulate the canvas coating on the roof of the caboose and trimmed it just short of the roof saddles. I also cov- ered the cupola roof. Install the window sills, window trim and body fascia. The end windows have bars on them, so cut some .012″ wire to represent them. The car body is paint- ed with Floquil Signal Red. Once the sides are dry, install all the glazing. The cupola roof can be glued in place now, too. Paint the roof sections black, and in- stall the roofwalk and paint it black. The cupola roof had handrails on the top. I used a pencil and scale ruler to mark the location of the stanchions. Then, I drilled a No. 78 hole at each lo- cation and inserted a short length of .012″ wire.
Next, I bent the two DIGITAL Newsstand
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handrails and attached them to the roof. I preferred to solder the stan- chions to the handrail, but cyanoacry- late will also work. Paint them black. The kit includes brass etchings for the toolbox and handrails. Assemble the toolbox and glue it in place on the underframe and then spray the under- frame a grimy black.
Bend the end railings as per the in- structions. They are very finely made, so take your time, and sprayed them black. At this point put them aside un- til the car is completed. I added the cor- rect amount of weight to the inside of the floor and glue it to the car.
Drill out the holes for the end and side handrails with a No. 78 drill. The side grab irons are formed from .012″ wire bent around a round form. The bottom of the grab is connected to the car frame, so drill a No. 78 hole four feet from the end in the frame to con- nect this. They are painted black with white stripes. Paint them black, then use white to finish. The end railings are then bent, painted black and glued in place. With this complete, glue the end step units in place and next bend up the ladder tops to fit the end platform. I drilled two No. 78 holes in the platform and glued the ends to the platform. The final step was to decal the car using the data sheet as a guide. I used a No. 87-757 Microscale GN caboose set. In- stall trucks and couplers and you are ready to roll. Kit No. 203029 sells for $45.00.—DAVID J. LEIDER
Grasselli Interlocking Tower: HO scale Mfd.
by RSM (Regional Specific
Models) and dist. by Reynauld’s Euro Imports, Inc., 122 North Main St., El- burn, IL 60119.
The railroad area around Chicago
with its many junctions, yards, level crossings and interchanges had a rich assortment of interlocking and signal towers that both expedited and protect- ed the thousands of daily train move- ments in the region. The adoption of electronic detection, signals and inter- locking devices allowed the oversight of these routes to be centrally controlled, often at facilities located hundreds of miles from the site of the local opera- tions. These advances in technology have made the manned tower obsolete to the railroads and they have become part of the vanishing vista of railroad history as they are decommissioned and frequently dismantled. Those idle tow- ers that remain are ghosts of the past. Located in East Chicago, Indiana, the Grasselli Interlocking Tower was one of the holdouts against time. The
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