Prototype modeling - how far can you take it?

[nachoman]

The more I think about it...some clerestory windows did not open. Instead, there was a shudder on the inside that could be opened or closed to keep the light in our out. I would suspect that such clerestories had some sort of ventilator systems on the sides. Thinking back to the various duckbill clerestories that I have in my memory, they usually (or always) had vents on the sides since the duckbill design precluded an air intake at the same location as on a bullnose roof.

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Man, I gotta get me some more reference materials. But I was talking more bout buildings than passenger cars. Buildings I would expect windows to be wide open on a sunny summer day. Passenger cars are a different conundrum - I would certainly expect windows to be closed if there are no passengers inside. I don't plan on modeling passengers in my cars, because I think that a passenger car full of people parked in a yard looks worse than an empty passenger car in a train. thus, I think I wil leave my passenger car windows closed.