Baldwin S-12 hood width-prototype or Bowser

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
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I seek to narrow an Athearn S-12 hood to a more accurate width. The dieselshop website is no help; if anyone knows the prototype’s width or can measure their Bowser model, that would help get me started on this project.

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Why do you say that? I just looked and it says that the hood width is 9 feet, 10 inches.

https://www.thedieselshop.us/Data%20BLW-S12.HTML

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That is not correct - there would be no room for the walk-ways…

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Measuring the drawing of a VO-1000 in Kalmbach’s “Diesel Locomotive Cyclopedia-Volume 2”, I get a hood width of 67.9 HO inches. The S-12 certainly had the same dimension.

I also measured my Bowser VO-1000 and got .817". Which is 71.2 HO inches.

The Diesel Shop has a lot of dimensional errors.

Ed

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Thanks, Ed.