BN 1976 Help

Model Railroader Prototype information for the modeler
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Got another challenge for my forum friends: I have come up with a couple of questions on the above referenced unit: One, what is the best detail part to represent the rear headlight as shown here? (The shell I have doesn’t have the right rear light detail.) Two, as can be seen here, did the gold stripes & the red extend around to the roof and around the fans or did it stop at the top of the grill?

In all the pictures I have found of that particular unit, I have not found a roof shot to answer the question I have on the roof.

As usual, thank you for any assistance the fourms can provide.

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Cant see the pictures unless you log in that site.

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Whoops [:$]. Let’s try these links: This one is the headlight and this one is the side shot. (I did check for logins this time.)

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The red band next to the cab, the paint does extends on the roof continuing on the other side.

The second band going into the exhaust fans does stop. Because the fans are painted white not decorated in red and gold.

I do know the band’s painted on Amtrak P32s Pepsi cans continued onto the roof connecting the other side.

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Possibly this?

http://www.needtrains.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=49_58&products_id=3507&zenid=a65fb8899515d3c696f5d0a81f872e58

Detail Associates 1003.

Hope that works, there may be other choices…

Ed

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That part seems to match up to me.

I see the fans aren’t red but what I was really wondering is the flat area red. I could see the stripes stopping at the fans but the red continuing on in the area.

edit: To clarify that statement, I could see a designer making the gold striping stop at the fans, but having the red continue on the roof in the area definded by the fans and the stripes but not have the fans red.

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I like red white and blue trains and planes, i have a bunch of planes painted up that way. Like the way that unit looks

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It looks as though the redstripes continue over the top but the fans are white…

As for the light fitting the product depicted in one of the previous thread links looks very similar to the below one as far as I can see.

Try this link for more pics…

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/locoPicture.aspx?id=85795

What a great shor eh…