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Photo 4: Close up inside the nose of the dummy unit with the LED headlight installed. Note the slot cut from the bulkhead for the antenna. Photo 5: Part of the fuel tank had to be cut away for the battery leads. Photo 6: The little camera is only about an inch square. Photo 7: The camera installed. Note how the antenna was run along the cab roof and secured with tape. cut out. Of course this was done before I painted the body. It is prototypically correct, too, as NYC had two C-Liners with Mars lights. Numbers 4506 and 4507 were so equipped, although their lights were later removed. Those same two units also had three-axle rear trucks to support the weight of their steam generators. My models will never have this feature but, frankly, I’m not that much of a rivet counter. I numbered the camera unit 4507 and the motor unit 4505, as that unit was not equipped with a Mars light. I used Miniatronics yellow white diodes for headlights; 5 mm clear plastic diode holders fit exactly in the headlight openings. The tiny camera was a tight fit in the nose. I had to cut a slot in the vertical bulkhead that runs across the body so that the camera’s antenna could lie against the cab roof. The camera is held in place with short strips of aluminum furnace tape, which doesn’t ever stretch or sag. It is not installed permanently, as I might want to try something else with it in the future. The 9v battery which powers the camera lies in the fuel tank, and is held in place with Velcro®. I had to cut away some additional pieces of the chassis unit to make it fit properly into the body shell under the camera. I installed a mini-slideswitch under the side skirt to turn the camera on and off. Kadee #6 short shank couplers were screwed to plywood spacers glued to the undersides of the chassis units. The plywood was painted flat black and doesn’t show. The completed C-Liners look great, run smooth as silk, and can be operated with the camera on or off. In the “off” mode, I turn the units around so that the non-Mars light equipped end faces forward. The only non-scale look to the Diesels is the darkened Mars light that the camera looks through. I had to sacrifice some air-hose detail around the couplers, as the frame units must be twisted 90 degrees when removing them from the bodies, so that the couplers will go through the smaller size openings. Brass windshield wiper castings add realism to the thick molded windows, and I enhanced the plastic air horns by carefully drilling out the bells to give them some inside dimension. I haven’t done any weathering on the Diesels, but may do so in the future. That lightning stripe paint job just looks too nice to dirty up! The little camera operates as advertised, and it’s really fun to get an engineer’s eye view of the layout “as the train goes rumblin’ through”. It’s even fun to see the unfinished portions as the loco passes the giant screwdrivers, baby food jars and 62 • O Scale Trains - July/Aug ’06
Photo 8: Nose of the power unit showing the added on railings and grabs Photo 9: View through the camera lens. other assorted junk lying at trackside. I have one long section of track that passes under the scenery, so if anything ever goes awry in there I can at least run the Cam-Liner in to see what the problem is. Watching the “TV train” is a great draw for the grandkids, too. u Photo 10: The Cam-Liners on the author’s layout. July/Aug ’06 - O Scale Trains • 63
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