I am looking for Photos of 48' and 53' Spinecars. I have to decal my AC N-Scale models. The instruktion-sheet its not easy to understand!! To take my one pictures its inpossible Switzerland is to far away from the US-Track
I will look for some of those when I'm out railfanning. I need pics. of those too for my Alan Curtis cars! Problem is finding a set that isn't so dirty. It's always hard to see the lettering on these!
WoooooooooooooW ! ! ! Scott, That's real nice!!!! I am looking vorwarth to see your Pic's!?!? Thank's a lot!!!
Eugen, This is what they look like after a few years of use. Decals almost not needed! Actually these are 48' units. I think you can pick out most of the decal placement. I have individual shots of each unit if you would like to see more of the detail. [ 19. October 2003, 18:46: Message edited by: Scott Stutzman ]
Yes please, Scott I have photographs of each side of all five units of a spine car set, but cannot remember where they were posted or by whom, so I will not post them without permission.
Where are they Alan???? You make some great models!!!!! The hardest part is, to put the Decals on to the right place!! The Instructions - sheet from Microscale is not so easy to understand for the Swiss peoples!!! Good pic's will be very helpful!!! I am looking forward to see your pic’s!!!
Thanks Scott! you did a good Job! But the car's are very good weathered!!! I think that's what I should do!!! Where do you have the pics from each single car?? Do you have a Album on the Rail Images??? It will be great to see the photos from each individual car!!!
Eugen, They are in my Railimages album now. If you would like larger photos let me know. I will e-mail them to you.
Eugene. Hi there. If you are going to letter the cars this is how it goes. A car is called a cell. Each cell has a letter ( for loading and weight purposes). If you look at your pic you posted from left to right the letters go B,C,D,E,A. the A cell is always opposite from the rest.Reason being is no overhang on the coupler for the train crew to bump their head on when uncoupling cars. If I can help in any way let me know. I work on real intermodal in CNrail yard. Thanks Jon
Hi Jon...welcome to Trainboard. Hope you'll enjoy all your visits here. Many thanks for the info on the cells. That's valuable info that I'm sure all of our modelers will enjoy knowing (me included). Bill
When working as a conductor for BNSF each part of an intermodal car was called a "unit" not a cell. Where is cell used?
I know what you mean C.A. Transportation and Intermodal have different lingo. A unit is a complete 5pack ,4pack or 3pack or a single all bering the same #. In intermodal you need to know the "cell" you are loading be it the (A cell) or the (D cell). A single well car is always a (B cell). I think it is called a cell because it is part of a unit.
Guru You being from Canada,. is "cell" a Canadian terminology? On BNSF a "car" is anything w/ one #, be it a single unit or 5 units. We had to know how many units were in each car type for switching purposes, determing train lengths, etc.
Interesting. I have always seen them referred to as units. Didn't know there was a different term in Canada. On spine car decal sheets, there is lettering saying that the load limit is xxxxx per unit.
C.A. you are correct. Lets say your headend car is TTAX553124. This is a 53ft (5 cell) spine car setup the (cell) part may be just a intermodal lingo for (unit). I see it daily on cars A unit E unit D unit C unit B unit. All of these are different cells to make up a car. Lets just choke it up to it being intermodal lingo for now. I dont want to confuse the issue.
