UNION CITY PASSENGER DEPOT

All aboard! Passengers are now enjoying the brand-new passenger station in Union City, Tennessee.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Did I say doors?

Yes. We had good progress on passenger car building. Reporting marks. Car numbers. All ready for car side doors. Omscaler was getting ready to take care of business when to his horror, a glaring omission was detected. Not enough room was allowed to make door openings. “How did this happen?”, readers may wonder. Omscaler thinks that due to trying to make cuts for the prototypical number of windows, the allowed room was exceeded. Nothing for it but to go back and redesign the car sides. Make a new set of reporting marks and get it right. So that is what we did. After redoing the work, center beams were cut. And still more to be done, omscaler