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I'm a little confused now looking at #5. That's a Pyle Gyralite in the top of the hood mounted horizontally. The headlight and big hole Mars red light are mounted in the low hood. It appears that's standard configuration of these demonstrators but the other picture shows the top mounted lights with shields mounted below the light casing, which you usually see on head lights. It looks like someone just bolted the Gyralite on the top of the hood. Not sure what the deal is there. At any rate, all these parts are avaiable at Details West. You'll just have to figure out which had a high mounted headlight (if any) and which ones had the high mounted Gyralite.

The horizontal mounting of the rear head light was standard GM practice since at least the the GP-35, maybe earlier. Your model should have that feature already.

The outer two lights are larger than normal classification lights. I'm not sure why the GP-50 demo's had these. You can see the knockouts for class lights on that rear shot up near the top but rear class lights weren't normally installed except as a railroad option. I think you can use a fine tip black marker and just draw a circle around the existing class lights to give the effect you want without changing them out.
 
I just finished my first Fast Tracks turnout. Looks good and my test car rolls well. Doesn't need any more ties because it will be buried in the street.

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Nice work Chip. Fast Tracks is a nice system. What number is that switch? It looks really small. All I've built so far are #8's for my club. We are still waiting for our #6 and #5 templates to arrive.

What did you use to grind out the notch in the rail for the points to fit into? I find that to be the worst part since I don't have a bench top belt sander like they use in their demonstration video.
 


Nice work Chip. Fast Tracks is a nice system. What number is that switch? It looks really small. All I've built so far are #8's for my club. We are still waiting for our #6 and #5 templates to arrive.

What did you use to grind out the notch in the rail for the points to fit into? I find that to be the worst part since I don't have a bench top belt sander like they use in their demonstration video.

It's a #4. On my switching layout I designed it for my S1's and 40 ft cars. (I have an E7 but it just backs into the station with no turnouts.) The biggest thing running will be an RS-1 or a 2-8-0.

I used a heavy duty cutting wheel om my Dremmel went really fast. Then I touched it up with my file. Took about 30 seconds each.
 
Josh I need some help....

I have a pair of EMD Demos that do not have the accurate light config or gumball light and the A/C equip on the roof...

notice all the LIGHTS on this thing!

can you help me identify properly and find these items? thx!

Here is the pic I am going by for my units...EMD 5 & 7

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The ac unit looks like a prime type, avail from walthers, this is ho scale
http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/229-2308

hope this helps you
 
UP2CSX: Hi Jim,

I'd be interested in more information about that steam tank engine. It seems like tank engines were used a lot in mainline service in Europe compared to North America, where they were primarily switchers. Did they do this for wheel loading restrictions, because coaling and water stations were closer, or what?

The only things I can think off are the fact that steam engines, specialy in the far west were using wood and/ or coal and if you drive through the VASTE prairies in the west( dry and hot!) you can cause very easy fires. In "The west "don't live so many people so it would be very very difficult to fight against those fires...
Another fact could be: The costs.. You need many people to drive a steamengine: at least 2 on the train and at each "service"station some people who have to putt the coal/wood on the train..the water...the sand.. also someone who look after these things and write them down( so theu know how much coal/water/sand"disapears"..
I think on a "diesel engine"you need only one person..he drives..take fuil.and drives take fuil...( sound a little bit clumsy this explanation...but I hope you understand ..:o
Overhere in West- Europe the steamengine exists so long because the distances between the "service centers"where closer to each other and the fact that we had/have a lot of coal overhere almost in each country.. Also the fact that summer and winter there is almost no period od dryness.. so less danger for fires etc..
I think there are many more IMPORTANT reasons ...maybe some one on this forum knows more about it!
btw: the "Baureihe 78'was used for fast trains as wel on fast freighttrains over "long "distances"( European context!;) ) He/she could run over 100 km/h= 70 miles/h both sides...forew. and backw.!( * around the 1920ies)
add a picture(wikipedia)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:78_468_Dieringhausen.jpg

Jos
 
Thanks, Jos. I think the idea that there were more and closer servicing facilities in Europe is probably the answer about why there were more mainline tank engines. There were plenty of both coal and wood burning engines in the West (and they did start a lot of fires but there wasn't much there to burn) but they used eight wheel tenders to haul the fuel and water. I suspect it was because the servicing facilites were further apart and having the water and fuel in a separate tender spread the weight over more length of track. Our track, in general, was much more poorly constructed than in Europe so wheel loading was an important factor, especially on bridges.
 


What, one a day is too much? It's been my experience that if I save them up I get pounded for posting them all on the same day. No thanks.
 
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Jeff, I don't he meant the amount of photos posted but that you keep posting to last week's picture thread. Save up some pics and post them to this week's thread. I don't want this to be something like you feel you're getting bashed like what happened across the street.
 




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