PRACTICAL GUIDE TO DIGITAL
COMMAND CONTROL
By Larry Puckett
(11,273); January, 1940 (10,485); April, 1951 (1,773); October, 1957 (46) and July, 1960 (12). Several cars that were modified with roof hatches for loading soda ash and coke continued in rev- enue service into the 1960’s. All 10,485 cars in service in 1940
Between the “easy as hooking up two wires” hype and complex elec- tronic theory, there exists a need for solid, practical advice for get- ting the most out of DCC. Carstens is proud to present our latest book, Practical Guide to Digital Com- mand Control. Written by veteran hobby author an DCC columnist Larry Puckett, the Practical Guide to DCC bridges the gap between the gee-whiz technology, and the simplistic starter installations with practical, useful tips and knowl- edge gained by people who have used DCC since its inception. Most model railroaders under- stand the advantages of using DCC in model
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now they’ll have the information to apply that technology to their lay- outs.
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had steel center-sills and were num- bered in several number series: 21000- 29999, 31000-31999, 36000-36699, 39000-39299, 39400-48799. 49300- 49999. After Northern Pacific retired these double-sheathed wood boxcars in the 1940’s and 1950’s, NP shops converted many to company service as bunk cars, tool cars and kitchen cars modified with various windows, doors and inter- nal configurations. They were renum- bered with scattered numbers in com- pany service series NP 203000-208000. Spokane Portland & Seattle acquired some of the old NP cars and converted them to m.o.w. service. The Butte, Ana- conda & Pacific Railway acquired one car, BAP 216, which remained in rev- enue service in January, 1972 . The new resin kit by Yarmouth Model
Works representing the 40-foot, double- sheathed Northern Pacific boxcar in- cludes a finely detailed one-piece, cast resin body of sides, ends and roof. Addi- tional resin parts are included for the underframe, doors and underframe de- tails. The resin material is light gray in color and similar to the resin used in kits by Sunshine and Westerfield. The mas-
ters for the excellent resin castings were made by modeler Aaron Gjermundson. The kit includes: lengths of straight
brass wire of diameters .008″, .010″, .012″ and .015″ formed straight grab- irons made of .012″ diameter wire, length of mono-filament line, laser-cut wood running boards and lateral boards. An etched brass sheet contains numerous detail parts including run- ning board braces, reservoir hangers, brake step, brake step bracket, lateral running board supports and corner stirrups. Plastic parts are included for air hoses and turnbuckles. A plastic sprue by the Tichy Train Group is in- cluded for K brake components. The trucks, couplers and weight are not in- cluded in the kit. As typical with resin kits, a small amount of flash must be removed from around the resin castings. The under- frame resin casting in the review kit was a little short and both ends had to be shimmed slightly to fit snugly in- side the body casting. The body casting has a ledge along each inside to posi- tion the underframe at the correct height. The doors are separate resin castings so the model could be built with open doors if desired. Construction of the kit is straightfor-
ward with the most time consuming steps being installing the brake system and grab irons. The needle beam cast- ings for the underframe have a beveled side so that they lean toward the car
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