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Running on DC, I managed to get things running on all available routes. In order, they are-
Santa Fe El Capitan
B&O Capital Ltd
UP City of San Francisco
PRR freight transfer to B&O yard
Santa Fe Grand Canyon
Great Northern Empire Builder
Santa Fe El Capitan (2nd section, sort of)
CB&Q Twin Zephyr

Out of view is a CNW bi-level commuter out of La Salle Station (I haven't the room to stick Northwestern Station on the layout, so ...

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Dumb little things that annoys one when trying to backtrack through volumes of references for that single tidbit, I present...

Pullman-Standard Library #14, Union Pacific 1937-1958
by W. David Randall & William G. Anderson
Index
pg1 Introduction
2-7 Plan 7385, Lot 6510 48 seat coach 7/37-9/37 28 blt, 5300 series
8-11 Plan 7386, Lot 6510 56 seat coach 7/37-9/37 16 blt, 5200 series Nurse Rm
12-20 Plan 7387, Lot 6510 Kitchen ...

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An update here offered, and other thoughts on the layout and a perceived vision of what lays ahead. There is (as always) much to do, and lately, keeping a focus on the follow through has been a weakness, merely starting a sub-project but never seeming to carry on to a completed cycle. Examples would be my one linear foot of ballasted track with 499 to go, one strip of trees, one quarter square foot of turf; you can see where this is going.


My latest pet projects are switch machine ...

I'm knee deep into getting these 3D printed bodies painted and lettered. Missed the true mask point across the air intakes on purpose to get a good seal, and also to align the bottom lines up...the printed E2's are just a bit short and tall.
The new decals for red stripes didn't hold together, almost as if there were no top coat to seal the ink to the backing slip. So I'll be working on that. These bodies were made for Kato chassis's, but required quite some touch-up to actually fit the mechanism. ...

The new info is on what I term WoT type 1 4 wheel trucks (with a tapered coupler pocket)

axle l = .546
axle d = .054 to .069 tapered
wheel d = .225
flange d = .264
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I can't swear that the WoT 4 wheel truck type 2 has the same wheelsets. I changed out the axles with InterMountain's on the lone car I had with that truck type without thinking to measure ...