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RE: (erielack) PA noses

> I am out in Ann Arbor away from my own library but 
> impatiently curious about one question. I had lunch with a 
> friend in Michigan who brought along a stack of old Erie 
> photos, one of which was of a brand new Erie PA. The angle of 
> the sun from the side was such that it created a shadow 
> delineated by a very subtle vertical crease in the middle of 
> the nose of the PA from the headlight down to the pilot. I 
> had never noticed such a crease before. Was it just on the 
> PA1s or on all the PAs -- and FAs? Hey, there are lots of 
> things I have missed over the years but I was rather 
> surprised by this detail, having always assumed that the big 
> Alcos were completely rounded. Thanks.


Yes, that VERY shallow "V-point" on the nose was common to all PAs and
FAs. It's so subtle that it's very difficult to portray in model form
without exaggerating it too much.

One other thing that's always annoyed me about the FA/PA nose is the
harsh "lip" at the top of the nose, between the nose face and the nicely
rounded nose top. It almost looks like Alco cheesed out and didn't
bother filleting in that gap, and on a model, it just reminds me of a
mold parting line. See the prototype:

http://www.rr-fallenflags.org/el/loco/erie-pa-ana.jpg

	- Paul

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