Conductor’s Car

Rick White

• Flat car with conductor’s station.

• Comfortable seat.

• Place to store ice box and a jacket.

• Copied, in part, from my Engineer’s Car, see photo.

Conductor’s Car

Box to support seat with ice box

part and drawer for storage.

Waybill storage and sorting table

at front of the car.

Ice box that goes under seat is 9.25 high by 13 by 10 inches. The

engineer’s car holds a taller ice box 10.75 high by 14 by 9.5 inches. But,

that puts the engineer’s seat too high. Make the Waybill holder have space

for a tall ice box.

Front view where ice box goes

10 in.

15.125 in

Side pieces are 9.25 inches tall

Top is 15.12 inches wide.

Center support is 15 and 1/8 minus 3/2 =

13.62 inches or 13 and 5/8 inch wide by

9.25 inches.

Top view, top is 15 and 3/8 wide by 22 and ¼ inch long. Small

overhang of the box all around like on Engineer’s car.

Cross support under seat is shown in grey.

15.375 in.

10.125 in

13.375 in.

22.25 in

Drawer: build to fit the back opening of the conductor’s seat box. Has four

sides and bottom with no top. Space for drawer is 11.0 in front to back, make

10.5 in. Have 13.625 in. wide, make 13.375

in. wide. Have 9.25 inch high,

make front 9.125 high with hand hold, back 8.75 in high to clear bolts for

seat, sides sloped to match both front and back.

Drawer

11.875

Bottom fits

Sides, tall in

inside all four

“front”.

sides.

9.00 in

Back of

8.75 in

drawer.

Visible “front” of drawer.

Cut off corners for finger

hold to pull out drawer.

13.375 in

Waybill or conductors station at front of the car. Need to build seat first and check

my reach to see what height will work for me. Found that 24 inches works well.

Card holder board 13.625 by 2.5 in.

1.5 in for cards

Drink holders 4.3 inch with hole in center - 2

Shelves 13.625 by 7.25 inches - make 2.

Back 15.125 by 24 inches.

Sides 7.25 by inches - two needed.

2.5 in

When testing seat

to determine height

of the waybill

station, I found that

the seat box has to

be six inches rear

of the car center to

give me foot room.

11 in min

And my feet have

to go inside bottom

of waybill station.

8.0 in

15.1 in

Construction

All pieces cut out on table saw to the “exact” dimensions

given in the drawings. Chop saw on a couple of cuts.

Glued (Gorilla Glue - water proof glue for out door use) and

screwed together.

Flat head screws that were counter sunk and then had plastic

wood put over the top to hide the screws. Stainless screws

used #8 by 1.25 inch.

Sanded smooth, repeat the plastic wood as many as three

times to get smooth. But still, not perfect because you

cannot see the problems until painted.

White painted first. Then masked for stripes.

Red painted last. Both red and white were sprayed with

automotive type spray rig and Tractor Supply enamel paint

with hardener. Use a gas mask, rubber gloves, and goggles.

The white under the red makes the red brighter.