The goal of the DSL car company is to product layout quality kits to facilitate the modeling of the Denver & Salt Lake in the 1920's.The 1920's was chosen to allow the use of available locomotives and is the interest of the producer of theses kits. We have been off the market for a long time but the goal is the same, use one piece kits to allow the modeler to assembly rolling stock in the shortest time possible. Layout quality, well this means if it not seen don't waste time modeling it and ensue that the kit can be handled on the average model railroad with out incurring damage, simple.
All kits masters are hand made and produced in selected urethanes. This limits what we can produce and one piece construction increases costs dramatically but our goal is to produce the best kits to meet our goal. These models are produced to meet a specific need and we hope our kits help with your modeling of the D&SL.
52000 Boxcar
The masters for the 52000 are now underway, we will be experiment on new techniques for the manufacture of this master .
The 50000 master was essentially constructed from a series of brass laminates and we employed a model maker for most of the project and while successful it did impose some limits on what could be achieved due to rising costs and the all brass construction. This time we have chosen a completely new method that used the best of the last project while allowing for some improvements.
The shell or mandrel is to be constructed from CNC machined ABS plastic using a STL file created with a 3D Solid model using Mechanical Desktop 6. The car externals will be chemical machined brass sheet and only one 0.010" layer will be applied to the model to provide the external detail. This should allow the application of additional detail without the problems associated with multi laminated assembly of the 50000 master.
I will be doing more of the detailing on the master to keep the cost under control while the body will have the roof incorporated into the shell unlike the 50000. The model will be designed to use the Kadee No 78 semi-scale couplers.
We hope to have the first casting ready in 2 to 3 months.
G Spencer-Salt
