Weekend Update 1/14/24

[samusi01]

One of the things I did this week was design a new top for my tamiya turntable, hopefully this will allow easier car painting.

[jpf94]

One of the things I did this week was design a new top for my tamiya turntable, hopefully this will allow easier car painting.

Who makes the 89' flatcar you have there?

Joe

[Jim Starbuck]

We received 24.4 inches of snow in eastern Iowa this week so I brought out the donkey patrol for plow duty.

[dangerboy81]

The GN, NP, MILW, etc in the upper Midwest and Northwest loaded pulpwood that way, including the vertical log "bulkheads".  Most "saw logs" in the Northwest were longer, and loaded lengthwise.

I could have sworn I saw a picture of gondolas loaded this way on Chris Vanderheide's blog. It has been an awesome resource, but I just went looking again and can't find the picture.
https://vanderheide.ca/blog/tag/pulpwood/

Royale Models has some very nice 3d printed trucks. Also specifically loggers.
I’ve used a few of them and they are very nice and reasonably priced.

https://www.royalemodels.com/Shop?spage=8&scpp=16#wbs1

Thanks, I thought I saw some somewhere, thats them!

[Dave V]

I've decided to build the iconic snow shed at Lizard Head Pass for my HOn3 Rio Grande Southern. Right now I have nothing to show for it but piles upon piles of stripwood...some stained and some still raw. When construction commences, I may do a separate build thread. I do know I've purchased all the 1/8" basswood dowel to be found in Colorado Springs and still probably need more!

In the meantime, we had a toasty -10°F at the house this morning and the daytime barely broke into the positive, so I tinkered a bit in the warm basement.

Learned today that retired USAF Lt Col and famed railroad author Mallory Hope Ferrell passed away on Christmas Day. His book Silver San Juan is what captured my interest in the Rio Grande Southern in the first place when I read it concurrent with a 1988 visit to southwest Colorado and a ride on the Durango and Silverton. Silver San Juan starts with a treatment of the three narrow gauge shortlines that ran north out of Silverton. Here are just a few of my pieces that represent the Silverton roads (SG&N stands for Silverton, Gladstone & Northerly). Not enough tribute for an author who fundamentally changed my railroad fandom, but it's something.


Two of the three men most responsible for my love of Colorado narow gauge passed on in 2023... Malcolm Furlow and now Mal Ferrell. By the grace of God, the third--my father--is still with us.

[Scott1984]

Sounds like an awesome project Dave!! Look forward to the start of it.

[brokemoto]

Shay #2, station switcher at Short Creek Junction,, with two idler flat cars (also called "handles" or "reachers")..........

[lock4244]

We received 24.4 inches of snow in eastern Iowa this week so I brought out the donkey patrol for plow duty.

Is that how much we got? I feel like I shoveled more than I have in a long time.

[wm3798]

I was up to my knees in water this weekend...



The Potomac finally got filled in from end to end, at least the first coat...



And Wills Creek got a similar treatment on my new set of TTrak modules depicting the west end of the Narrows.

Lee

[samusi01]

Who makes the 89' flatcar you have there?

Joe

Joe,

That particular model, a 141000 series JSH90, is equipped as (or rather, has the alignment holes to be) a PTTX variant. My design.

Sam

[dandopinski]

Added number boards class lights and other touch-ups to the M420s. Adding road numbers one digit at a time is a PITA!








Also painted a Bedarail CN SD40

[garethashenden]

Made some new axles to replace the steamrollers Bachmann use, but it didn't quite go to plan. More in the Ashuelot Branch layout thread.

[Roger Holmes]

We received 24.4 inches of snow in eastern Iowa this week so I brought out the donkey patrol for plow duty.

Jim--Love your photo.  It makes my Milwaukee Road heart happy.

My son is a Professor at UNI and he and the family were going to travel from Waterloo, Iowa to see us in Springfield, IL last weekend. He also got 20+ inches there so, obviously the trip got cancelled.  We only got 1 inch on our end but had actual air temperature of -12 with wind chill in the -30 range.  A balmy 24 degrees today.

[Jim Starbuck]

Jim--Love your photo.  It makes my Milwaukee Road heart happy.

My son is a Professor at UNI and he and the family were going to travel from Waterloo, Iowa to see us in Springfield, IL last weekend. He also got 20+ inches there so, obviously the trip got cancelled.  We only got 1 inch on our end but had actual air temperature of -12 with wind chill in the -30 range.  A balmy 24 degrees today.

Roger,
Glad your family is safe. Good call on canceling the trip. They would have gone through the worst part of the storm.
Here’s a short video of the donkeys.

[cv_acr]

I could have sworn I saw a picture of gondolas loaded this way on Chris Vanderheide's blog. It has been an awesome resource, but I just went looking again and can't find the picture.
https://vanderheide.ca/blog/tag/pulpwood/

Various prototype shots:

Not with the vertical logs, but various bulkhead flatcar and gondola cars with cross-wise ~8' logs:
https://vanderheide.ca/blog/2015/11/13/pulpwood-and-log-traffic-on-the-acr/
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=wc63241_2&o=wc
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=ac1129&o=ac

Various gons with makeshift vertical-log retainers as being discussed:
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=soo8061&o=soo
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=wc65035&o=wc

SOO Line gon with metal brackets for pulpwood (loaded with fresh ties here):
http://canadianfreightcargallery.ca/cgi-bin/image.pl?i=soo7827&o=soo

My model loads:

https://vanderheide.ca/blog/2020/01/21/pulpwood-loadsjigs/