using 4″ - 5″ angle bars or perhaps nar- row steel plates welded to the top. WAG 3001 at some point in its life re- ceived a near-full-length angle to rein- force the damaged bulb angle. On each side this was simulated with HO scale 1″×4″ styrene (46¹₂ feet long) glued in place using cyanoacrylate. The vertical piece was first, keeping it flush with the top. The horizontal piece was next, overlapping the first. When these as- semblies are set up, sand and file smooth both surfaces thinning the strip stock while truing up the overlap where necessary.
Consider other
Bulb angle stiffeners were added along the top of each side (left). These were made from 1″×4″ styrene strip. The finished slack adjuster, seen on the left (above), was fashioned from styrene and wire. Kadee No. 153 couplers were used on the model (right). Reproduced from a snapshot, this photo (below) shows the freshly repainted 3005. The author based his model on WA&G No. 3001 (below). Note the steel reinforcement added to the top side bulb angle.
on page 63.) Since the lever is not other- wise supported when the brakes are re- leased, the lever sits on two ³₄″ round rods. The long support is mounted just outboard of two crossbearers and is 6″ above the side sills. The short support, as well as the one under the cylinder’s lever, is 21¹⁄₂″ long and formed like a drop-grab iron. These should be placed
to hold the levers in the same plane de- fined by the cylinder clevis’s vertical po- sition. This is scaled from the Bethle- hem drawing as 6″ above the side sills. Mill gondolas took a lot of beatings with the loads and abuse they re- ceived. At some point one might need new side panels or ends. Repairs to the top-side bulb angle were very common
lengths and shapes for these stiffeners. Two other lengths found on other WAG O-59’s were estimated at 15.4 and 15.7 feet long and centered on the car. Other B&O images show repairs similarly varied reinforcement. Sadly, modeling the commonly battered out side panels will await another day.
The detail improvements are com-
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plete and the model may be painted as desired. WAG 3001 was painted with a combination of Scalecoat II Red Oxide darkened with a bit of Boxcar Red. Pre- cise formulation is not critical but go easy on the dark; the WAG did not con- sistently maintain their freight car red and variation was common. The under- frame and trucks were done with Flo- quil Grimy Black. The model was let- tered using a combination of Jerry Glow’s WAG decals for “Galeton” (or “GL”) cars providing the WAG specific material. The labeling data came from a Sunshine Models O-59 kit as the WAG largely copied the B&O style to include labeling “O-59.” Weather the car to suit your tastes. These cars were known for shipping scrap metal, “fleshing” material from on-line (and one near-by) tanneries, and second-growth hardwood logs from Potter County, Pennsylvania.
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