Time has rolled over the Scale Rails boxcars.
This is what they look like now:
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Pure genius! If a hurricane threatens, you send the layout to Kansas City, or wherever, and return after the crisis!!
doctorwayneAll grabirons, nose handrails, eyebrow handrails, handrails at rear steps, ladder rests, and cab-interior handrails are 1 1/8" in diameter.
This boxcar was home to the Scale Rails of Southwest Florida N scale layout from the late 1980s to the early 2000s.
I can verify that the ladder rungs on This Boxcar were 1 1/8" because I measured them myself with a caliper.
That is all I know on this subject.
A friend, who does volunteer work at Steam Town, did some measurements (at my request) for handrails and grabirons on F-unit diesels.
All grabirons, nose handrails, eyebrow handrails, handrails at rear steps, ladder rests, and cab-interior handrails are 1 1/8" in diameter.
The handrails at cab doors and engine room doors are 1 1/2", but the mounting points are 1 1/8"...this seems to indicate that the handrails are pipe, with the 1 1/8" rod continuous within the pipe.
While this info isn't of much use for a 1920's era layout, perhaps it's useful for those modelling the diesel era.
Wayne
Ed,
Thanks....I've been using the 1919 Car Builder's Cyc. of Amer. Prac. for various details and just hadn't dug deep enough. That edition shows 1 in. also for the uncoupling levers and 5/8 in. (min.) for grabs which equates to about .0125 in. and .007 in., respectively, in HO.
-Chuck
At first guess I would have said no larger than 3/4" OD. But, given the size of the cars - 1" OD does seem about right.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
This shows arrangements of passenger uncoupling levers circa 1938:
AAR_Uncoupling Levers by Edmund, on Flickr
I might have other info but this was something I already had a scan of.
Regards, Ed
I've been able to find lengths, distance from car/locomotive/tender surface and ends from Car Builder's Dictionaries and FRA documents, but not diameters. Think it's somewhere near an inch, but I'd like to know for sure so I can choose the correct gauge wire to model these parts. My modeling period is the 1920s if that makes a difference compared to the 2020s.
Anybody know if there's a pub. I've missed where such specs. might be?