Carson Car Shops

Togog has done some good work on his locomotives, though the engine specs he uses are miserable. He also had help from yours truly to get the colors right. ;) There is a nice color rendition of the "San Juan" on PacificNG done by David Fletcher. Though it is lacking much of the ornamental ...

I always liked the M&P it had the look and feel of the desert in a small space. Have you tried my ground texture: "Dirt - Beneme, California" <KUID:476027:100090> Beneme is located in the Owens Valley on the SPNG south of Zurich. It should be correct(ish) for the area you're modeling. ...

A good example of standard / narrow gauge crossover would be items like the color cards. This link goes to the color card for SPC coach 39 (now down at Orange Empire Railroad Museum). What this card doesn't outwardly state is that the paint layers starting in 1887 are all standard CP/SP paint. :) ht...

It is absolutely welcome. Most of the PacificNG staff are CP/UP fans, understanding the standard gauge system out west is vital to understanding the narrow gauges themselves. If it hadn't been for games played by the CP and SP, many of the narrow gauge lines in California wouldn't have been built. T...

Mason used blue through the 1850s and into the 1860s. Shortly after Mason built the "Highland Light" in 1867, he was pleased with the appearance and made the scheme more or less the standard for all locomotives they built. There were exceptions of course, some larger railroads began moving...

I am OK with this. We have a lot of lurkers on the PacificNG forum that might have some answers to questions.

Would you want to use the Digital Modeling Forum, or create a "Carson Car Shops" forum alongside it?

Brakes one a single truck was common in the earlier days.

The bolster design is different from the Kimball cars but more commonly used by other car builders.
Here is an example of a similar design used by the V&T on the restored B&B flat in June Lake, CA.

On second look, I suspect they were six sill cars with two truss rods.

I'll get to work on some lettering...

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They are strikingly similar...

Part 2 in my on-going "Union Pacific Early Equipment Nagstravaganza".
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Doesn't this look sorta familiar?

Interestingly enough, in the view of the Laramie shops, the frame of one of these short cars was being assembled in the foreground. UP-Shot-Flat-Frame-Laramie-Shops-AJ-Russell.jpg The sill closest to the photographer is the outside sill, showing the characteristic rounded end used on captured sill c...

I've been nagging Curtis about making a few minor adjustments to some of his early rolling stock into slightly more accurate representations. The first two cars I've been researching are the 30' flat cars used in the 1860s and later. I have been unable to find much in the way of early UP freight car...

The blue used by Schenectady is very specific, dark Prussian shade used by the Scottish 79th Infantry during the civil war, and roughly the same shade as the Scottish flag. The current shade worn by the Jupiter was chosen in the 1990s before Jim Wilke was able to research Schenectady's practices ful...

Daniel is correct. The Caledonian Blue scheme was used by Schenetady only. It was meant to be a tribute to the management's Scottish homeland (Caledonian Railway). Brooks and Rogers did turn out blue locomotives early on, though they may have been different shades of blue and crimson. In those days ...