Ed,
I am sorry but I must have either failing eyesight or brain or both.
I thought I had looked at every single page in the reference books
you mentioned. Anyway, the Sd-45 photos in Dorin's book, "Everywhere
West the Burling ton Route" are perfect for clearing up the fan &
horn type questions. The Cannon fans look great in my model but are
a bit tedious to assemble. Smokey Valley (ex Train Station & Details
Assoc also have some of the correct see thru type fans (#139 & 140)
that are simplier to install.
With regard to the horn I had already cut a rectangular horn support
bracket off of an Overland 9015 horn and used it. Didn't realize it
might be triangular. If you use the Precision Scale two trumpet horn
#39085 I think it will save you a lot of fabrication work. Walters
currently has them in stock for $2.75. I will add the air line to
the horns on top of the hood.
Now on to the big task of trying to correct the trucks. I was
planning on replacing the sideframes that came on the model with P2K
SD7/9 sideframes and then repacing the bearing journals with sloped
top versions but due to a change in truck and gearbox design by P2K I
don't yet know if this will be possible. Maybe some Athearn SD9
sideframes would work easier. This is going to be the difficult part.
Regards,
Dale DeWitt
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--- In CBQ@yahoogroups.com, Ed Pavlovic <cbq168a@i...> wrote:
> 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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