UP Woodchips

[burgerbern]

As had been posted on the MLTD forums in my BEW Shop section but now sadly lost, i have over the last few weeks been making up a pack of 8 UP woodchip cars based on the BN Woodchip from SLI's BNSF Scenic Sub 2 route.

the pack contains 5 PCF built examples which UP had in great number purchasing a batch numbered from #147925 to #148124 , UP also purchased a large number from FMC nos #147825 to 147924 which are almost exactly the same except they had a brake wheel rather than PCF's brake lever as well as a distinctive joint running the full length of the long side and passing through the UNION lettering, i have done 3 of those , Jeff Auberpine made up the FA for that one.

the pic below shows the FMC built at the top and the PCF at the bottom



the units are with the Beta tester at the moment and will be uploaded as soon as testing is finished

[gkhager]

Those look great Bernard. Sorry about the loss of the BEW shops over at MLTD. Thank you for all of your efforts in supplying top quality repaints for the MSTS community over the years!

Geoff

[oldgreyowl]

Thank you very much, Bernard.

keith

[TrainSimulations]

Those look really great Bernard. I'm happy to see there are others out there who not only find rolling stock interesting, but also take an interest in the subtle differences between manufacturers. When I built that model, back in 2008, it was one of the assets that was going to appear in MSTS2. The drawings I got from Rick Selby, who was project manager at Microsoft at the time, as well as a freight car nut like myself, provided me with the research assets I needed to complete the model. The drawings I worked from were in fact FMC drawings, not Pacific Car & Foundry, although the two prototypes are almost identical. Again, great job on these cars.

Regards,
Jason@SLI

[burgerbern]

Thanks Jason, love the new UP FRC 1984 pack and the many new shapes in it, re the woodchips i have altered the blurb at the top, the cars i painted are the right nos for each car in the config shown as each one was painted with reference to an actual pic of the number included in the coming pack and in the pics of the FMC cars you could see the FMC logo on the side of the car as well as the panel line accross the long side so it must be that FMC did the cars in two configurations one with brake levers and one with brake wheels and panel lines, the site stated that UP had units from GBEC (Gunderson #147325 to #147424 units with brake wheel on the end and different end configuration. Magor #147525 to #147624 weird units with plug doors in the centre of the long sides. FMC #147825 to #147924 and PCF #147925 to #148124. guide photos were on the Railcarphotos and Railroadpicturesarchives websites

[burgerbern]

and i just thought i spent ages removing the white BN logo remnamts from the sides of all the ribs, if i had waited i could have had a UP one to kickstart this without all the BN stuff to remove as there is a UP one in the new FR act pack, thats life

[mword77]

Fantastic!

[TrainSimulations]

I had no idea you happened to be working on the same livery for that model...Funny coincidence

I have the UP freight car diagrams from 1982, and if these drawings are accurate, they received:

- 100 from Gunderson in 1970 (with brake wheel)
- 100 from Ortner in 1972 (with lever style brake)
- 100 from FMC in 1975 (with brakewheel)
- 200 from PC&F in 1977 (with lever style brake)

Again, if the drawings are right, I guess it would make the one I put in the UP FRC set closer to the PC&F prototype after all

[ossie]

They look fabulous. Nice job!

[CSRX]

These will be perfect along side the NBSR/EMRY woodchip hoppers.

[burgerbern]

Jason

i thought the same about coindidences, i only started the pack about 4/5 weeks ago as i wanted some to run on Sherman hill and when i discovered some pics with brake wheels i ended up having to do loads of research and collect 20 or 30 good pics to give me the starting point, but most of all it forced me to actually remove the white texturing from the ribs which has held me back from doing any thing other than BN renumbers for ages. and of course Gunderson have rebuilt loads of the older GBEC ones (cannot remember when now though offhand)

[burgerbern]

Beta testing is done, and the files have been uploaded and are in the queue, testing found a couple of small gliches now dealt with, using MS wordpad for saving as unicode files seems to depend on which version you have, in win98 and before i had no trouble, in Win 7 it seems to work for some and not others, so the readme was altered to reflect this and in the setting up if you are using a different editor with SFM than wordpad just read your program name instead of wordpad when following them. I got over it by importing the wordpad.exe file from my win98 PC and renaming it wordpad_XP.exe it works as well as the native win 7 wordpad without clashing but saves in unicode with no probs. but there are other programs such as Context which do the job.

[Keystoneaholic]

I have found that, with Windows 7, copying the file in question to the 'my documents' directory and using Wordpad works fine, trying to edit without moving it doesn't work.

The caveat I would make is that I am editing activity files to amend timings to reflect actual schedules.

Rob.

[timothyskinner]

Bootifull Bernard...