Rainbows in the Lehigh Valley Gorge

[TMo]

As I would have predicted, with decent weather this weekend, I was outside working the property set of spring taskings (it was a 3-load mulch-in-pickup-truck weekend and the weekly grass cutting of my 4 acres) and had almost no time for spending time down here in the office with my model railroad.  

However, the sun went down tonight and I had some energy left.  Turns out my order from Bowser is waiting in my mailbox and the wire is supposed to be delivered tomorrow as well, so if the weather turns sour again, I'll have lots to work on.

In anticipation of those deliveries, I started looking at airhorn brackets.  Reading had their horns mounted above the right side of the cab and they protruded way out in front of the cab.  It made me curious about how they supported those horns.  Strolled the internet and found a nice tight shot of a Reading C630 cab from the Reading Railroad Historical Society, but it took some blowing up of the photo to determine how the horn is mounted.

Quality is crappy, but here's the blow up around the horn mount:

   

I believe the bracket is the standard horn mounting bracket that I've sometimes seen placed above the top headlight, and I thought maybe I had a leftover extra from one of my Alco builds.  Alas, no.  I do like the option of gluing a bracket to the cab to mount the horn, so I may have to build me a bracket like the one in the photo and paint it to match the Reading yellow on my unit.  I'll be digging through leftover parts from other builds to try to find something appropriate (size, shape and ability to mount).