Weekend Update 12/5/21

[up1950s]

https://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/t/133041.aspx

[daniel_leavitt2000]

https://cs.trains.com/ctr/f/3/t/133041.aspx

WWI era camo/shrouded geared steam engine?

[Chris333]

It's a Shay in New York City with shrouds to keep the horses from getting scared 

[jargonlet]

I’ve had a shell for a shay for a few years so I can do one of those.

[nkalanaga]

I've seen it before, and heard the story, but still find it strange that NYC horses were afraid of the sight of a Shay, but not the noise, smoke, smells, etc.

[garethashenden]

I've seen it before, and heard the story, but still find it strange that NYC horses were afraid of the sight of a Shay, but not the noise, smoke, smells, etc.

Well, they were probably afraid of all of it. But covering the working bits keeps everyone a bit safer.

[Maletrain]

Horses are particularly skittish about motions of things that they don't understand.  So I expect that the rod motions would probably be an issue for most steamers, and even shays have some smaller rods moving up and down.  But, although I have spend a lot of time riding and driving horses, I have never seen one around an actual running steam locomotive.  I have seen them jump when somebody inside a car opens a door.

[packers#1]

Got the staging area for my switching layout built yesterday; I might extend it some more but for now this is exactly what I needed.

[Kentuckian]

I have seen them jump when somebody inside a car opens a door.

I’ve seen them jump when the breeze blows!

[eja]

Got the staging area for my switching layout built yesterday; I might extend it some more but for now this is exactly what I needed.

Extend it now.  This is similar to the old question "how many yard tracks do I need ?"   Answer:  "one more!"

fixed quote tags -gfh

[packers#1]

Extend it now.  This similar to the old question "how many yard tracks do I need ?"   Answer:  "one more!"

I may, but it ultimately really doesn’t matter if I do it now or later, it’s the same amount of work and I’m not doing anything that’s gonna add or remove work from that with the rest of the layout. I’d have to set my saw up to cut a piece to the right length and there’s several other house setting up chores in front of that, plus this is eventually going to be replaced with a scenery shelf instead of the stick. If it bugs me while running trains I will change it out though.

fixed quote tags -gfh

[voldemort]

I thought that the shay thing was a joke.  I see it now.  Way cool!

[jargonlet]

I don’t know that much about the nyc shay but the other side shows the locos origins a bit better.  This picture shows an unskirted view. Not sure if it was in for maintanance or if it lost its skirting at some point.

https://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,290060,290065

[Chris333]

The skirts only lasted till 1926:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufman_Act

[milw12]

A recently finished project, and my first successful attempt at locomotive weathering: the N scale version of Milwaukee Road VO-1000 #935.

During lockdown @Bryn and I found we had the same model but different sides of the ocean, and thought this would be a fun little project:





More details in the new thread:
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=53136.0

Lucas