Dale,
This time I dug out the books, there is an overhead photo of
a group of the Q's SD45's taken at EMD's plant in LaGrange
on 1/20/1969 on page 12 of Dorin's "Everywhere West The
Burlington Route". Unfortunately, they cropped the horn
bracket out of the bottom right corner of the photo on the
motor parked in front of the 527. It still gives you a good
look at the two chime (both bells facing forward) Leslie
horns that the Q seemed to favor on the GP30, GP35, GP40 and
SD45's. Also note the routing of the air line to the horn
that runs along the right side of the forward radiator fan
before it runs down into the hood just forward of the
radiator hatch.
The bracket is a little more visible on 529, it is basically
a triangular bracket, Overland offers this bracket as their
#9000, but you have to remove the three chime horn and
replace it with a two chime. I use the Custom Finishing
#220 Leslie RSM-25-2R horn for the manifold, and then use
the two long bells off of their #221 Leslie RSL-3L horn to
represent the Q horns. The Custom Finishing horns are
unassembled brass kits that can be either soldered or glued
together with ACC. Once you file off the small amount of
flash they go together pretty easy, a set of small tapered
reamers helps in cleaning out the holes in the manifold.
(Note that the brackets used to support the horns on the Q's
SD45's were different from the more square shaped ones used
on the GP30 and GP35 locomotives, and maybe the GP40's.)
While it doesn't show as much detail as the above
photograph, you may want to look at "Classic Locomotives The
Series, Volume 2:EMD SD-45" by Bob Warren on page 16
departing Maybrook, NY on the Eire Lackawanna in pool
service in October of 1969. The same photo, although
smaller, also appears on the bottom of page 110 of Holck's
"Burlington Route Color Pictorial, Volume 2" it might come
in handy if you want to lightly weather your motors after
you finish detailing them up.
Good luck on your models, I started a Q SD45 model
originally with the Rail Power Products shell, gave up on
that and started on a Kato SD45 when they came out, and
partially painted it, but for whatever reason have never
worked on it again, and now P2K comes out with one already
painted up. Oh well......
Ed Pavlovic
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