April 30 is the day that President Lincoln would pas though Indiana on his way to his final resting place. To commemorate the event, I have built a model for a friend of mine, (Yeah, Dad and I. Who’da thought?)a fellow history buff, and into the Ghost train lore as well. I’m gonna share it with you.
I’ll share some prototype pics with you to compare with in a minute. But first, I want to go through the basic regular mumbo. Start with a Roundhouse Ovrland coach painted fr Central Pacific (guess at the right color) and a spare set of trucks.
I WOULD reccomend this for new people. If it were to interest you. BUT, the car hails from the 1860s, which I do believe eliminates 90% of the posting board era-wise. The Lincoln car was built as his private Palace car with 4, count them, 4 sets of wheels. But Lincoln never rode it, for possibly two different reasons. 1) he simply didn’t have the time due to it’s construction dates, or 2, he hated the thing, which makes sense since he was an economy minded president. One of the reasons I like this project is that even if you screw up, all the color pictures come in black, white, and grey. SO even if smeone says you did it wrong, they can’t say what’s right, cept for one thing Dad and I missed.
Step 1) Everything must go. Start with the roof, the trucks, and all the undercarriage parts that are glued on. I stole a pair of trucks off another car, for time, but you can order replacement parts from Roundhouse. I’ll replece the other car’s trucks soon.
Next, you need a strip of stiff plastic to build the truck bolstwer out of. , needs to be about 1.5 inches long, and wide enough to fit around the molded-on bolster. Drill a hole
