@Hot Water posted:Since you are modeling a Union Pacific E8/E9, and VERY NICELY at that, the one "add-on" part, characteristic to all UP E8/E9 units, are snow shields on top of each cooling system winterization hatch. The Overland Models E8/E9 units were really nice, and one could purchase those snow shields as spare parts. I have no idea where one could get those today, and the snow shields on the recent Lionel models don't appear to be var correct, to me.
Thank you @Hot Water 👍 Since your post yesterday I have been searching all my Union Pacific books. You are 100% correct! I don't know how I missed that part. Even the photos I took when the E9's accompanying the 3985 through Cajon Pass on May 24th 1994 showed they have snow shields on top of the winterization hatches. I'm not sure which member of the 1994 UP Steam Crew was in the 949's engineer seat that day.
All the other passengers were busy snapping photos of the 3985 during its run-by when I took this photo showing all three freshly rebuild E9's.
I will start searching online today to see if any manufactures carry these brass snow shields. Also, I have sent a email to @GG1 4877 to get close up pictures of the shields that came with his 3rd Rail E9s.
Thank you for the heads up!
