Custom PSC Western Pacific Harriman baggage project

Gonna be awesome.

That and the shortie are the PSC Harrimans I failed to get.

That will be neat car.  I am looking forward to your progress!

What they said ^. Looking forward to it.

Thanks guys, I love going all out when it's a single car. Some progress...

Pretty cool Santiago, seriously watch out for those soldier joints. 

I might pull out my consist of expo cars and photo them all. The mods I did on my 10/1/2, and 8/5 are extensive. Black sashes are sweet, Dr Allen is a big help. I will see if I have the G.O.D’s for these cars from Sam Tech and email them. They are confidential 

Erik C Lindgren posted:

Pretty cool Santiago, seriously watch out for those soldier joints. 

you're not kidding! Couple of parts already fell off.... gonna go through all of them w some heat!

Erik C Lindgren posted:

I might pull out my consist of expo cars and photo them all. The mods I did on my 10/1/2, and 8/5 are extensive. Black sashes are sweet, Dr Allen is a big help. I will see if I have the G.O.D’s for these cars from Sam Tech and email them. They are confidential 

If you could I'd appreciate that, of course I'd keep them confidential. Your expo consists belong in a museum, Erik. And those E5's are the ultimate Expo power for sure!

While reinforcing solder joints in the underframe of my Harriman baggage I compared it to DP's and a couple of prototype photos, and I realized I have to change everything down there! Challenge accepted .

Oh well...

Tremendous work!!!!

Good luck! 

jpv in France

Roof  stuff gone...

True dedication.  Yow!

And nice video.  Did I see a Lobaugh Pullman truck under one of those?

Work on the undercarriage continues....excuse the rough quality of the solder, I will sand it down before I prime and paint. 

From th expo bulletin...

Levers 

Love it when a talented modeler takes on a project like this. Few, would go to this length, but having it right is important to some of us. Nice job sir!

BH

Thank you, B!

Testing rubber cast diaphragms...

Was able to solder chains to the correct spot on the trucks...

Awesome

Some notes:

Ive found the most authentic look for the diaphragm on this particular PSC installation is a rubber cloth cut and inserted since the originals were not a cast diaphragm. Bill McClung was very successful in creating imho the best diaphragm assembly yet with these all of these heavy weight models  

Example: 

Sorry about the low resolution I’m not at home on my computer for the original. 

On the chains may I suggest double insulated wheels. 

Thankfully the wheels are insulated on both sides

Those look great. I've seen a few different styles of diaphragms on Harriman prototypes though. The ones I'm using are modified to fit this car and come from a different PSC car. 

Can you guys tell me what this part is called? Is it a card holder? I mean that rectangle divided into three. Want to add it but don't think PSC makes it...

I love soldering jail bars!

Those look great.

SANTIAGOP23 posted:

Can you guys tell me what this part is called? Is it a card holder? I mean that rectangle divided into three. Want to add it but don't think PSC makes it...

It is a mail car destination card holder used when mail / express cars were sealed and carried to a specific location. Not used when cars were worked en route as the information would have not been accurate.

I worked for the PRR / Penn Central on mail and express cars and we used them. For cars that were worked en route they were not used. Just for solid mail to a specific point. Baggage cars, express reefers, and express box cars had them.

As I recall from the 1960's most cars just had the outer assembly - not the inner pieces but my memory could have faded.

Ron H posted:

Those look great.

Thanks!..... 0.015 wire ftw!

rheil posted:

SANTIAGOP23 posted:

Can you guys tell me what this part is called? Is it a card holder? I mean that rectangle divided into three. Want to add it but don't think PSC makes it...

It is a mail car destination card holder used when mail / express cars were sealed and carried to a specific location. Not used when cars were worked en route as the information would have not been accurate.

I worked for the PRR / Penn Central on mail and express cars and we used them. For cars that were worked en route they were not used. Just for solid mail to a specific point. Baggage cars, express reefers, and express box cars had them.

As I recall from the 1960's most cars just had the outer assembly - not the inner pieces but my memory could have faded.

thank you, rheil. I'll see if I can come up with a couple somehow...

Great great work! I like it! 

jpv in France

http://www.wrm.org/visit/car-r...-western-pacific-128

There are some interesting details at one end of this car that I'd like to model, just don't know what they are. My guess is they are brake related, maybe some valves? 

Filling holes and sanding is as much fun as it looks

Holes for road specific details, will kitbash some details and for the grabs some P&D grabs with bolt details 

Just so you know that I'm still watching . . . 

Thanks, Max. Some progress...

My trucks are not equialized, they were falling apart so I soldered the parts together. It's ok, a car this light really doesn't need equalization. Since I don't need springs, I upgraded the look of the springs by making them with thicker wire and making new loops. The springs will be painted pullman green along with the trucks.

End details are only suggested and not 100 percent correct