You can, if you wish, get something exactly correct - NKP Car offers
the commuter cars - unfortunately, it appears as though his web page
is down and has been highjacked.
Note that the proper term is not "bubbles" but ducts. The reason I
mention it is that it is very important to realize that these ARE A/C
ducts, and the ducts can be routed outside or inside the car. In
some strange cases (like the abomination that became the A/C WP
diners), the ducts were placed on top of arched roofs making that
series of cars one of the prime candidates for ugliest on the
planet. Some of the CB&Q cars had interior ducts (in other words,
the ducting was in the clerestory between the decks) while some had
them on the exterior. It is also necessary to understand that the
exterior furnishing can make the car look like it has an arched roof,
while in reality, new seething was applied to the exterior of the
roof that fared the roof between decks. These aren't true arched
roofs, as the top deck is still flat instead of arched. From the
side though, they can look arched. Whole roofs could get the
faring/sheathing making the cars look like they had arched roofs -
note the Walthers modernized B&O coach is one example.
At 04:06 PM 6/17/2008, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
>I have always wanted to model the suburban cars in what some call the
>"Circus Paint Scheme" or the Forest Green with tan window
>band,yellow pinstriping
>and Alum. roof and vestibules. It's clear (at least to me)
>that short of major
>kit bashing nothing is a "close enough" conversion for the Aurora Shop built
>7100's. We won't even broach the subject of the "power cars".
>
>However using the many available source books and BRHS Bulletins I've pretty
>well narrowed it down to nine potential reasonably easy conversions. The
>four 4500 ACF built 4500 series cars (4506,07,27 and ?) and the five Pullman
>built 6100 series (6151,6135.....). Lets make that 7 relatively
>easy conversions
>as the 6135 and (?) had the air conditioning bubbles.
>
>What I'm hoping you guys can confirm is that the 4500's didn't have the A/C
>bubbles and which H.O.scale ,available off the shelf cars are reasonable
>likenesses for these cars. "Close enough" is good enough for me.
>If the window
>counts and spacing are right,correct roof ,ends and trucks. I'd be a happy
>modeler. Just looking for something that can be painted,lettered and called
>"close enough".
>
>Does it exist ?
>
>Thanks,
>Leo Phillipp
>
>
>
>
>
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