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Cut and install two steel or brass 1.0mm<br />
rods from the ends of the brake levers to<br />
the trucks. It is not practical to fit the<br />
brake connecting rods to the trucks, so I<br />
cut the rods so as they just past the truck<br />
bolsters and leave them sitting on the top<br />
of the bolsters. Once these rods are<br />
soldered to the brake levers they can’t<br />
drop below the bolsters.<br />
Lastly I made two non-prototypical<br />
brackets to support the<br />
airlines at each end<br />
of<br />
the car. These brackets are strips of<br />
4mm<br />
brass with a short length of tubing<br />
soldered to the underside. I slipped then<br />
slipped the brackets over the airlines and<br />
secured them with NBW castings to the<br />
frame. I used striped PVC cable insulation<br />
as flexible hoses between the airline pipe<br />
and the brake valve.<br />
This<br />
is a photo of the <strong>com</strong>pleted underside<br />
of<br />
the flatcar showing the brake rigging<br />
and<br />
airlines. This is a basic attempt to<br />
represent<br />
the details found underneath a<br />
typical<br />
flatcar. Extra detail would include<br />
air<br />
pipe flanges at the bends of the lines,<br />
clevises<br />
on all brake rods etc.<br />
We now have a scratch built flatcar, with I think,<br />
a reasonable amount of detail.<br />
Next<br />
chapter we will paint and decal our flatcar
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