There seems to be a lot of hoses on this locomotive
Im only familiar with BP, MR, Control air and Independent release
What would be the other 2 ?
Phil
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Modeling an HO gauge freelance version of the Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and the Utah Railway around 1957 in a world where Pirates from the Great Salt Lake founded Ogden, UT.
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Could be something for passenger service. It seems to have a lot of MU recepticles also.
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-Kevin
Living the dream.
I'll tell you one thing, the ones on the right are backwards. The heavier one is the main reservoir pipe and should be closest to the coupler. Not sure what the extra is, a 4th hose would be for air sanders. The extra electrical connections could be because this unit has connections for both the older style and the modern style cables.
Note too this is a preproduction model so now is the time they catch these sorts of things if they are wrong.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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rrinker I'll tell you one thing, the ones on the right are backwards. The heavier one is the main reservoir pipe and should be closest to the coupler
I thought the main air line is the one right next to the coupler. Is the "main reservoir pipe" somehting different?
Yes, the one under the coupler that is also on every piece of rolling stock is the train air line. 1 1/4" hose. The main reservoir line is different, that one is in the hose closter to either side of the coupler, and should be the one closest to the coupler on each side. 1" pipe. The others for brake and sander control are the smaller ones.
Randy, Thank you for clearing that up. I did not know the "MU Hoses" were different sizes.
It's possible that the extra hose could be because 'sand forward' and 'sand reverse' were independent on those locos.
rrinkerI'll tell you one thing, the ones on the right are backwards....
You're right, Randy, and if this is a pre-production version, I'd guess that the hoses on the other end are a reverse image of the end shown - the hoses are each likely a one-piece set, two lefts and two rights, but the end shown has used both lefts.
I recall this from when I modelled diesels, using Detail Associates m.u. hoses, each of which was a separate piece.
Wayne
Is anyone going to break the news to Bowser? It looks to me a like a detail that might get overlooked in the big scheme of trying to get a model out of the snake virus country.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
I did read something on steam generators , ,would they have anything to do with that ?
Steam lines would come out as a lagged pipe with rotating joints right by the coupler, to mate with the ones you see coming from passenger cars. Unless maybe it was a control line.
Railroads sometimes had their own things. The Rapido RS-11 has the expected 1 thicker, 3 smaller lines, so just the brake control and a single sander line. The extra line could be an L&N thing.
BigDaddyIs anyone going to break the news to Bowser?
I'm uncertain if they would listen: I get regular updates from them on new product development (as do many others) and not all that long ago, they announced r-t-r open hoppers with old-time BLT dates.
That's useful for those of us modelling earlier eras (my layout is late '30s, so cars built in the early 1900s would be quite acceptable). However, one of the roadnames being offered was CNR, which officially didn't exist until 1923. They certainly owned hoppers built in that time period, but the CNR car shown was some version of freight car red/brown. It could, of course, still be in-service within, I think 40 years of its BLT date, and might have been re-painted too.
However, the CNR's open cars - hoppers, flats, and gondolas - were black from the beginning, right up to WWII, when they began to get the freight car red/brown paint.
I did contact them about this discrepancy, but never got a reply. That doesn't necessarily mean that they weren't paying attention, but we'll see when the cars are released whether I want to buy some or not.