BLW/ZT Conn River Passenger Set - Progress Shots

[bootednancy]

Thank you Rick
I will be talking to you near year's end............perhaps the LI's P-72 would be the easiest first start to get the correct body shape. It was a diesel hauled coach (80 cars) and doesn't require electrical equipment or cab controllers..though that's simple too............all MU's (MP-54, MP-72c) except the double deckers and from the M-1 cars onwards used the standard "center off" Otis Elevator controller.

It is good to see some decent heavyweight NYC-Pullman cars being done. The ones in the Library leave a lot to be desired from the "Generic Heavyweight" set with bad window and door placements (re: Santa Fe heavyweights, et al)

[dcarleton]

If you have contrary evidence, please let me know!

Evidence is that in 1956 all of the NYC cars shown above were painted as you have them.

[rfranzosa]

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[Unoriginal]

Was just curious, but are you guys using .DDS textures for this set? or still the old .ace textures?

[rfranzosa]

Currently these are 1048x1048 ace. I need to investigate .DDS,


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[dcarleton]

This is the car formerly known as Clover Trail in a storage line in Mexico:

https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/rwy/id/113

Note the window spacing, and that the sections are at the end of the car closest to the vsstibule, and that the blister covering the air-conditioning duct does not extend beyond the end of the sections. On this particular car. Not all Clover cars were of the same plan!

[rfranzosa]

Thanks, David!

I went back to the photos I had used. The window arrangement on the right side of the car came from the Southern Railway version (Clover Pasture, Clover Way), which has an extra window near the vestibule, and the sections were shifted more toward the rear of the car. In other photos (Clover Meadow, Clover Trail and a generic Precision Scale model), the extra window is missing and the sections are closer to the vestibule. I will need to investigate further!

Rick

EDIT: Checking the Pullman Project spreadsheet, the two 8-5 sleepers assigned to the Montrealer/Washingtonian (Clover Trail & Clover Glen) are both plan 4036A, both owned by NYC (Michigan Central), with Clover Trail sold to Sonora Baja 7/30/67 and renamed "Escarcega" - as shown in your message above. Southern Railway's Clover Pasture and Clover Way are plan 4036E. Good catch!

[dcarleton]

There is a plan 4036A Pullman in preservation, Clover Glade:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/48288130@N02/7491732950
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23711298@N07/3201391533

Note that this was originally a Gothic Pullman from before WW1, as were Clover Trail and Clover Glen.

[rfranzosa]

Nice!