May/June 2010 - O Scale Trains Magazine Online

14RY ModelsArch BarOnce common under freight equipment, the Arch bar truckwas banned from interchange service in December 1939.$30/pair O Scaleused to bend the styrene tubing around the jig.The last item is the diesel fuel stand, which I built from a photo of a homebuiltone found in a Classic Trains Magazine (The M&StL at Peoria). Near thestand is a cabinet housing the pump controls and metering device for fuel storedin a nearby 8,000 gal. company owned tank car (Photos 15-16). Other detailsinclude fireplugs, fire hose cabinets and three-phase electric service.Many roundhouses also had a bunkhouse (usually from an old doublesheathedboxcar) available to visiting train crews. The track department mightalso be present, storing snowplows, camp cars, tool cars and emergency trackmaterials. Be judicial in the junk and scrap you leave around. No tripping orfalling hazards, and small enough that you don’t need a 250-ton wrecking craneto lift the pieces off the ground. Another rule of thumb offered by our assistantvice presidentof grunge, RichBougerie: ”If it is alight color – giveit a liberal dose ofalcohol thinnedIndia Ink, and ifit is a dark color,drybrush it withan off-white paintto bring out thedetail.”u15Andrews L SectionAndrews trucks were produced from 1910 through the 1930s.A single-walled truck, the big selling feature of the Andrewsdesign was that journal boxes from older Arch Bar trucks couldbe reused in new Andrews trucks.$30/pair O Scale or Proto:48VulcanVulcan cast trucks were produced in the 1920s. The re-use ofjournal boxes from Archbar trucks was an economical way toupgrade a freight truck, and the Vulcan sideframe was acommmon choice. $30/pair O Scale1640 • O Scale Trains - May/June ’10Andrews Caboose TrucksThis style came onto the scene in 1910 and remainedpopular through the 1930s. $33/pair O ScaleOther Trucks Also AvailableBettendorf Caboose$33/pair O Scale50-Ton Bettendorf $30/pair O Scale, $32/pair P:48National B1 $30/pair O Scale, $32/pair P:487 Edgedale Ct, Wyomissing PA 19610richyodermodels.comE-mail richyoder@richyodermodels.comPhone 610-678-2834 Direct Sales Only