Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2014 8:57:45 GMT -5
I am trying to finalize my Copper State Railway copper concentrate car decals. The last thing I need to do is the dimi data. So I was hoping someone could explain this to me.
I am patterning my car after the Copper Basin Railway ore hoppers such as this one. It has the most readable markings.
www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=32599
This is what I read.
EXH 10-5 W 10-11
EXW 11-0 H 3-10
EX 10-11 H 10-5
CUFT 1720
I understand the EXH and the EXW and of course the CUFT. But what is EX and the data printed next to the EXH, EXW and EX?
I am just guessing here.
The W 10-11 is the width of the car at its extreme height (EXH 10-5)
The H 3-10 is the height off the rails where the extreme width (EXW 11-0) happens.
I have no idea what EX is representing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated so I can properly dimension my cars. Or at least give a good representation of the cars dimensions even if they are not 100% correct. I am sort of winging it with creating my own prototype car.
I have to edit this and add an additional question.
I measured the inside dimensions of my N-Scale car. It comes out to the following. All dimensions are inside to calculate CUFT.
W = 0.64" (proto 102.4" or 8.53')
H = 0.55" (proto 88" or 7.33')
L = 1.975" (proto 316" or 26.33')
Calculating the cuft I get 1646 cuft. Now there is also a triangular feature inside the car that allows the material to slide out through side dump doors like on the CBRY car. This is a 45/45 triangle. So I made a square and calculated the area and then divided that by 4 to get the CUFT for that piece. It came out to 472cuft. I subtracted that from the interior cuft and came up with 1174cuft. Just wanted to make sure I did this correctly.
I am patterning my car after the Copper Basin Railway ore hoppers such as this one. It has the most readable markings.
www.railcarphotos.com/PhotoDetails.php?PhotoID=32599
This is what I read.
EXH 10-5 W 10-11
EXW 11-0 H 3-10
EX 10-11 H 10-5
CUFT 1720
I understand the EXH and the EXW and of course the CUFT. But what is EX and the data printed next to the EXH, EXW and EX?
I am just guessing here.
The W 10-11 is the width of the car at its extreme height (EXH 10-5)
The H 3-10 is the height off the rails where the extreme width (EXW 11-0) happens.
I have no idea what EX is representing.
Any help would be greatly appreciated so I can properly dimension my cars. Or at least give a good representation of the cars dimensions even if they are not 100% correct. I am sort of winging it with creating my own prototype car.
I have to edit this and add an additional question.
I measured the inside dimensions of my N-Scale car. It comes out to the following. All dimensions are inside to calculate CUFT.
W = 0.64" (proto 102.4" or 8.53')
H = 0.55" (proto 88" or 7.33')
L = 1.975" (proto 316" or 26.33')
Calculating the cuft I get 1646 cuft. Now there is also a triangular feature inside the car that allows the material to slide out through side dump doors like on the CBRY car. This is a 45/45 triangle. So I made a square and calculated the area and then divided that by 4 to get the CUFT for that piece. It came out to 472cuft. I subtracted that from the interior cuft and came up with 1174cuft. Just wanted to make sure I did this correctly.