Weekend Update 3/1/20

[up1950s]

The Erie Lackawanna Dining Car Preservation Society, based near Scranton, has three restored diners, a sleeper car, two dieseliner coaches and a power car. They regularly run excursions, including full dining service, on the Delaware-Lackawanna freight lines.

https://www.eldcps.org/

Wow , that's cool . Do you know if the EL had to do a special track inspection for that to be allowed ?

[Jesse6669]

Would these happen to be for the guy who just scratchbuilt a Zn2 shay?

Indeed they are for Mr. Lavender, and he's quite a brilliant modeler!!! 

[Jesse6669]

Those macro photos of the T scale track really show the excess rail head width.  I wonder if there will ever be code 15 rail available?

That would be nice indeed, but it's not so bad for the narrow gauge stuff.  When DKS was experimenting with hand-laid T gauge track, he used strip wire with a thinner rail profile  and it looked much better. 

That being said, I think there's some logic behind the size of the rail having to do with the need for magnetic force between the wheelsets and rail;  Rolling stock is so small and light it needs that force to stay on track. 

Anyway,  I'm picking my battles and am just using what's available for now.  Incidentlally there is a commercial TGauge"narrow gauge" flex track--they call it "Wider Sleeper Flexi-Track".   I just got some and painted properly it looks pretty good I think (for 1:300 or 1:220 narrow gauge).  [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[dougnelson]

Regarding the vintage of the Artitec Massey Ferguson combine, I believe that the 830 model dates from the late 1950s, however there were earlier models that looked very similar.  The Massey Ferguson name dates from 1953 merger, but the Massey name dates from the nineteenth century. Here is a video of a 1950 Massey Harris combine that looks very similar:

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And here is a 1950 Massey Harris magazine ad:

[elnscale]

Wow , that's cool . Do you know if the EL had to do a special track inspection for that to be allowed ?

Richie,

I have no idea, I'm just a railfan! I'm also a member of the ELDCPS (as well as the ELHS) and there are many excursions on that DL line throughout the year with the dining cars as well as other daily excursions run out of Steamtown by the (National Park Service) in Scranton. Some, including steam powered, go all the way to the Delaware Water Gap which is about 70 miles.

Steve