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2. Dirk Reynolds photographs his carefully built replicas
of Union Pacific excursion fleet cars on a prop yard at Ken
Patterson’s place. For more on the UP excursion fleet go to
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make the picture look right, the moon had to be lit for 15 sec-
onds, the farmhouse was lit for one minute, and the pickup truck
had its lights on for nine minutes. You can see the photo results
and the whole scene set up and running in this month’s video.
Excursion cars
Dirk Reynolds came by to photograph his excursion train sup-
port cars. He has built a gift-shop car, generator car, tool car,
and a baggage/support car. His four models represent some
of the Union Pacific’s current heritage fleet. In the video, Dirk
describes each car and the effort that was made to create real-
istic representations of the prototypes.
3-4. Dirk scratchbuilt the equipment car by combining two
Athearn plug-door boxcars and then making a roof from styrene
plastic and body putty. The car was converted by UP from an
express boxcar. It carried needed tools and parts, as well as steps
and other items needed when the train was on public display.
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