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It should. Dave H.

I've always liked the GP15 hood and the N&W certainly has enough tunnels where a "tunnel motor" radiator might be useful. I think MR had an article several years ago about kitbashing a model of an engine the SOO kitbashed where they essentially used GP35 hood components to rebuild a GP9 or 18...

GP9's had a 1750 hp 567C V16 engine. GP15's have a 1500 hp 645 V12. The difference is the radiator area. In a GP15 the "tunnel motor" area is open. In a GP9-GP18 that area has the air compressor in it. The shorter block on the GP15 allows the air compressor to be moved into the compartment...

The car shop doesn't look like any car shops I've been in. Its either too narrow or too tall. Normally you don't use overhead cranes for cars, you use floor jacks. You use overhead cranes on locomotives because the stuff you remove for maintenance is mostly on the top (hood, power assemblies...

The Library of Congress "Historic American Engineering Record" (HAER) and "Historic American Building Survey" (HABS) are full of plans for prototype buildings of all sorts. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ Dave H.

You can brush paint the shells, just use a very high quality brush to minimize brush marks. If the paint is not a high gloss, then spray it with a can of gloss coat or buy some Future acrylic floor polish and paint a coat of that over the paint to make it glossy and smooth. The decals are...

Just so you know those are some of the widest loads (over 14 ft wide) handled by railroads. they are so wide that they can't pass annother train on normal tangenet track. The track centers have to be over 14 ft. That goes for trains on mains or sidings, cars on yard tracks or industry tracks...

If you are starting with a painted shell, then you will need to strip the factory paint. Scalecoat makes a hobby paint stripper, don't use the type of paint stripper you would use on woodwork or furniture, it will eat plastic. People also use brake fluid and alcohol to remove paint. Normally...

Hauling passengers by any means is a losing proposition. How many passenger liners are there? (not counting cruise ships, a different animal) How many bus lines are still in business? How many airlines are going broke? If the airlines and busses had to build their own roads and airports...

Must been a tight fit putting a V16 into a hood and frame designed for a V12. 8-) Dave H.

Look for insulation contractors and people who pour concrete basement foundation walls (in some areas they put foam next to the concrete before its backfilled). They might be able to give you leads on where to get it. You might have to go to a building supply store that caters more toward...

Doesn't matter, it was unusual and thought it might point towards an interesting industry that used the cleaned boxcars. Dave H.

Windmill cowlings. The vertical pieces are where the blades attach (or more properly cover the prop hub) and the horizontal pieces are the hulls for the generator that sits on top of the tower. Dave H.

What are they loading in the boxcars? I'm not saying that they don't steam clean boxcars, but I've never seen a cleaning track (other than one for tank cars) that used steam. All of the cleaning tracks I have been associated with over the years were just guys with shovels and push brooms...

It not too much, but it not a team track. A team track is a public track, which means that any customer can use it. If there is a coal dump that belongs to a specific customer or a oil dealer's unloading spots and equipment then it isn't a public track. If its actually a team track then...

If you don't want a fast clock then use a "sequence" type of operation. Train 500 operates from A to C and meets No 1 at C. Then train 500 runs from C to Z. The switch works Industries 1 through 5, then should clear up to let No. 1 by. Then it can switch the rest of the industries. Dave H.

The only restriction on direction when entering a mechanical facility is for a steam engine entering a roundhouse, they preferred the engine to head in, so there would be more working room at the front of the engine where all the moving parts were and then at any facility where there was some...

You normally wouldn't have carmen stationed at an industry such as a coal mine. It is entirely within a brakeman's scope of work to couple air hoses outside a yard. So if the train is picking up cars at an industry it is the brakeman/conductor's job to lace the air. Even today. Dave H.