PRR Antenna Kits?

Bowser sells them as part of the Cal-Scale line.

http://www.bowser-trains.com/h.../oscalecalscale.html

Am not sure what Bowser still offers, but they used to offer antenna kits made by Cal Scale for some PRR applications including cabin cars and a few diesels.

I did my cabin cars and K4 by buying the transmitter supports from Lionel and fabricating the receiver discs from scraps of brass & steel. Haven't found an inexpensive source for transmitter supports for my FA, RS1 and RS3. The induction train phone system was not used in the electrified division due to electrical interference from the overhead wires.

If you find a reasonably priced source let me know.

jackson

Bottom of this page, as Bob noted.   Part number #190-3018  F Units.   I believe you still have to supply the brass wire (.030"????)  . 

A U25 B and my E units done with Bowser parts.

Contact Bowser, there has been a lot of parts discontinued.  Cal Scale may require a wait, until they have enough orders to do a lost wax cast run.  You may get lucky.

Mike CT

Those long engine antennas may not have been not used on all F units. I do remember seeing them in photos of old PRR E8 units and porthole PRR cabin cars. They were either painted black or the color of the car.

I used Athrean HO scale hand rail supports for a few I did.......but those may be hard to find today.....

Precision Scale has handrail stanchions close to 1 scale foot high. No idea what the height of these antennas are though. If the height was OK you would just need some of these and some wire.

Pete

As of January Bowser had Cal Scale PRR EMD F unit antennas in stock - part number 190-3018.  I ordered 2 sets to replace broken ones on a Key E8.

All PRR EMD E and F units carried train phones through most of their service lives on the PRR.  While EMD delivered early order E and F units without antennas, they were soon retrofitted with them in PRR shops. To see where PRR locomotives were assigned and what special gear they had (like train phones) see Keystone Crossings' file of PRR MP229's (Pennsy's monthly Assignment of Locomotives report.) 

  tp://pennsyrr.com/index.php/data/93-operations/motive-power/156-form-mp229s-assignment-of-locomotives .  

Ed Rappe

You may have to do some research on the exact installations/entrance into the unit on both ends of the antenna.

Detail on the E8's

Anyone have any information on the proper location for the antennae on Baldwin Sharks?

Weaver's BP 20 models had antenna.