STEP 7: The Floor, Bolsters and Under Frame 75000 – 76499 Series
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27: The finished frame is set adjacent to one of the
car sides. This provides a good visual of how the
cross bearers line up with the door posts and the
seams on the car. Now that the floor is finished I
compared the sides with the floor to make sure that
they were all the same in length. They weren’t, which
wasn’t much of a surprise.
I took the shortest piece, one of the sides, and placed it in
my Northwest Short Line true sander. This part set the length
that all of the other pieces would be sanded down to. This is
a necessary step to make sure that the cars will be square and
all of the parts line up once the cast pieces are put together.
This ends part 1. In part 2, I finish up the process by discuss-
ing how to do the different car roofs and ends. Then I will go
through the casting process and the construction steps so
you can see how to build any sized fleet you want of these
Erie cars.
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