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From: "William E DOT Botkin" webotkin AT ecentral DOT com
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 21:20:02 -0600
Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W F3 Questions
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Will and all,

Rich Pennisi kindly responded to this today in two parts with the referenced
photo:

Did F3s have diaphrams? "American Models Limited, I believe, makes the
diaphrams for Genesis units. And yes, there were diaphrams on the F3's up
until the mid 60's."

Were the diaphrams gray or black? "It might be best to get the American
Limited Models for Stewart rather than Genesis as the Stewart are closer fit
and look more realistic. The Genesis ones tend to leave a big gap between
the units unless you can get the units closer together with various
couplers.

As I recall, the diaphrams on DL&W were gray. Under EL the stripes only
folded over the ends of the units a few inches, the rest of the rear portion
was black as were the diaphrams.

Here is photo of an EL B unit 6342 former DL&W 634 showing the black ends of
the units during EL days.

I'm afraid this is the best I can do as proof at this moment. I hope this
helps."

Thanks to Rich!!!

Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "William Shultz"
To: "William E. Botkin"
Cc: "Erie Lackawanna Mail List"
Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: Re: (erielack) DL&W F3 Questions


> Bill,
>
> Your first question is one of those which one has a natural tendency to
> respond with "yes but of course!" But then you start looking to confirm it
> and the answer isn't quite so simple. So you look through a bunch of
> photos and it just seems to muddy the water.
>
> The fact is, since the doorways were so far inset from the edge they are
> almost always in the shadows if you can even see them at all. I found two
> photos of 800 series units which kind of shows the door frame area and one
> seems to suggest yes there is a diaphragm there and the other is
> inconclusive. I had always assumed there were diaphragms and was planning
> on using the American Model Builders part. When you find out the
> definitive answer let me know. :)
>
> Now for question two, I "thought" when we were dealing with Athearn on
> this we said to match AccuPaint AP-60 Light Imitation Gold for the yellow.
> Maybe Paul can verify or dispute that. AP-60 is what I used and it seemed
> a good match to me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Will
>
> William E. Botkin wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have two questions regarding DL&W F3s as it relates to the HO Athearn
>> Genesis freight and passenger F3s.
>>
>> 1) Did either the freight or passenger F3s have diaphragms between the A
>> and B units in A-B-A sets in the early 1950s? If so, has anyone modeled
>> this and with what diaphragms? 2) I purchased the red emergency light
>> casting and lens from the ELHS for my freight F3s. Does anyone have the
>> yellow paint match for the casting for the Athearn Genesis F3s? My
>> existing bottle of Scalecoat EL Yellow is too yellow. The color seems
>> more toward the orange shade. The article in the ELHS "From the
>> Workbench" by Tom Schmieder references the match for the Stewart F3s
>> using Poly-S CP Orange-Yellow.
>>
>
>
>


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