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9: The freight car diagram for the Erie 75000-75499
series of cars. While some of the data is not legible,
the important dimensions in the drawing are readable.
car. This gives equal spacing at the desired dimensions.
The procedure is repeated for all areas where the pan-
els are. Once all of the panels were marked, I scribed the
seam for the panels.
I got the cart ahead of the horse and placed a piece of
1” x 6” styrene across the top of the car sides using the
T-square to make sure that it was straight. While this step
did not hurt anything, it made transferring location infor-
mation from the 8’-8” to the 9’-3” car side a little more
difficult.
STEP 1A: Car Sides 75000 – 75999 Series Continued ...
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STEP 1B: Car Sides 76000 – 76499 Series
Since there are no models that I am aware of that have the
9’-3” inside height I assumed that you just add 7” to the
height of the side of the car. This provides a side height of
9’-11” (9’-4” + 7” = 9’-11”). I verified this by pro rating the
differences between the 8’-8” car and the Sunshine 10’-0”
car sides. I came up with the same dimension of 9’-11”.
Once I was comfortable with the dimensions I measured
down from the top of the styrene the 9’-11” distance and
scribed a horizontal line to mark the limits of the side. Now
to the easy part; all the vertical information was transferred
from the previous car sides to the 9’-11” car sides by using
the T-square along with a drafting triangle. When I was
done I had duplicated everything that is needed.
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