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M ullet River odel Works 118 Huson Ct. • Plymouth, WI 53073 Phone 920-892-8159 WWW.mulletrivermodelworks.com Chicago & Northwestern Caboose > Laser cut plywood body with working windows > Full interior with roof ribs and purlins > Separate doors can be modeled in the open position > Urethane underframe > Decals for CNW, CStP M&O, and W&NW > Three different versions O Scale Kit #403004 Late version with no end windows $120.00 Kit #403005 Early version with end windows $120.00 Kit #403006 Original all wood underframe $120.00 12 • O Scale Trains - July/Aug ’06
Canadian Pacific Icehouse Tom houle I like smallish structures. They fit nicely on my modest O Scale layout, and don’t overpower my locos and rolling stock. I spotted this CPR icehouse while searching through an old stack of Model Railroader magazines. The icehouse ran as a one-page article titled “CPR Standard No. 2 Icehouse” in the March, 1978 issue. The article had a prototype drawing by Harold W. Russell and a few paragraphs of text ostensibly by the Model Railroader staff. What caught my eye was the outside staircase and louvered cupola details. It was a simple structure with details that wouldn’t challenge my scratchbuilding skills. I also had a string of wood-sided reefers and no icehouse to service them. The icing on the cake was its size. The structure was 40’ long and 32’ deep. In O Scale that’s an 8” x 10” footprint. I had no idea icehouses were ever built that small. All the icehouses I’ve ever seen, in prototype or kit form, were much longer with elevated platforms that could ice several cars at a time. Apparently, the Canadian Pacific saw a need for a single car icehouse. In any case, this beauty was perfectly suited for an unoccupied siding at a bend in my layout. According to the MR article text, Mr. Russell drew the structure from 1914 Canadian Pacific drawings. The structure has four bays, with a total ice capacity of 318 tons; small as icehouses go. Additional bays could be added in 12’ increments to increase icing capacity. MR says an average reefer needs about five tons of ice in chunk form. With its 318 ton capacity, this icehouse is not likely to run out of ice while servicing the handful of reefers I operate on my branch line. Interested? Let’s get started. I like to gather all of the basswood stock I need ahead of time. That way, when I’m in the middle of a sub-assembly at 9:00 at night, I don’t find myself running out of critical material before I finish whatever it is I’m working on. I began construction with the cupola, as I thought those louvers might be a bit pesky. I like to get the pesky stuff out of the way first. Cupola Construction I began by breaking out my Northwest Short Line Chopper and jigging it to cut 32 louvers for the four sides of the cupola. The louvers are cut from Evergreen 0.020” x 0.125” styrene strip. The cupola end louvers are cut 27/32” long. The cupola side louvers are cut 15/16” long. As shown in Photos 1 and 2, and in Figure 1 (see page 17) , the louvers slide into grooves notched into the 1/16” x 1/8” louver frames. The whole process of cutting the grooves, pinning down the louver frames over the drawing, and then 1 sliding each louver into its set of grooves is kind of tedious. A pair of tweezers helped me set the louvers in place. Bear with it. It’s what we scratchbuilders do, and you’ll end up with a respectable looking louvered cupola. Visitors to your layout might even take a second close look at your cupola and mutter, “How’d you do that?” My inclination when doing this sort of thing is to throw away a piece if it doesn’t quite fit and just re-do it. I believe that’s part of what makes great modelers great. They aren’t necessarily more talented than us peons but they are persistent and willing to toss-and-repeat until they get it right. A tiny dot of slow-setting CA glue at the end of each louver will secure the louvers to the louver frame. When the louver sub-assemblies were done, I cut out the cupola sides and ends from 1/32” basswood sheet. The louver frames were carefully positioned, and then glued to the inside faces of the cupola ends and sides. Before you assem- 2 July/Aug ’06 - O Scale Trains • 13
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