wheel and brake gear. The left and right sides of the car are
identified as the left and right sides of the car when the viewer
is facing the B end. No matter which way you look at the car,
there is always a clearly defined A end, B end, left side and
right side of the car.
I assembled the underframe per the car’s instructions but dis-
carded the brake gear sprue and used a Cal Scale No. 294 brake
gear and set and Tichy .010” wire. I consulted prototype pho-
tos to ensure I mounted the reservoir, AB valve and cylinder in
the correct places. I omitted the train line. I used a short sec-
tion of Builders-In-Scale No. 252 chain to attach the cylinder
and the brake rod.
I took great care to ensure that no gear was hanging in a man-
ner that would interfere with the model’s operation on my lay-
out. I filed down the injection molding post in the center of the
car to make the underframe fit. I discarded the plastic coupler
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9. The underframe of the built-up model. I used the Cal
Scale AB valve, reservoir and cylinder but replaced all
the plastic linkage with brass rod. I did not include the
train line or connections from the train line to the valve.
I constructed the underframe on rest of the cars in this
article to the same standard. John Golden photo.
Seaboard B8 & B9 - 7
MRH-Jun 2014
