
I like the detailing on the roof. Nice job RSC!


Ericmopar wrote:Ah contraire...
Some Fs did indeed have those forward steps.
Hack wrote:Ericmopar wrote:Ah contraire...
Some Fs did indeed have those forward steps.
FWIW, the photos you show are standard steps (angled steel), while the SP screen posted above is a frame step (casting) - quite a difference in both size and shape. Instead of modeling proper steps (better for this unit to leave 'em off), RSC chose to simply clone a frame step and move it forward. Might as well put truck tires on roller skates. Either way it's just wrong.
Hack wrote:Fooby alert!
SP applied icebreakers to the FP7s and not the F7s ....
Ericmopar wrote:I was responding to the comment above. "No 'F' ever had that!" more than anything else.
Ericmopar wrote:I wonder if they added a working Gyra Light?
ElphabaWS wrote:http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/sp6190rsc.jpg
Hack wrote:Ericmopar wrote:Here I go nit-picking again...Fs had Mars lights.ElphabaWS wrote:http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/sp/sp6190rsc.jpg
Wow - nice find, and I stand corrected. I had looked through a few dozen images and didn't bother to search through all.![]()
Nevertheless, the above unit is still a fooby, as I cannot locate any images of 6190 ever having icebreakers. SP didn't add these willy-nilly, as icebreakers were normally used to protect the domes on passenger equipment, and the unit would have to be permanently assigned from Portland down to Roseville - they would just be a nuisance in So Cal and elsewhere. Perhaps the unit pictured on George's site was an experiment so to protect auto racks up north? Though at this late stage in the life of SP Fs, the shops might not have bothered to add them. I'll have to ask around. I do see quite a lot of Donner/Cascades 6-axle units with these applied, however, so the auto rack theory makes sense.
I was only able to locate one other F7 with icebreakers, 6440, but here's a good shot of 6190 from the espee-railfan site (also good angle of the forward step):
http://espee.railfan.net/nonindex/f-uni ... stindt.jpg
Ericmopar wrote: If we want to start rivet counting, the plow is wrong too. It doesn't have steps in the right locations.
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