Carbon Limestone Co.

[wcfn100]

Man, they had a lot of paint schemes.

I really like the shadow line lettering schemes that they had.





Is this the latest modeling era you've done?

Jason

[Chris333]

Is this the latest modeling era you've done?

Jason

Yep. About 1967ish.

[Chris333]

So after sitting in Cleveland for 6 days...


There are 4 pieces there: Deck, cab, hood, hood front. And there is a separate compressor housing not shown. The hood front has a curved front and sides. I will curve the top by hand to match the hood. I have no idea how to do that in Sketchup. Lucky for me the name plate down the center is covered by their home made winter louvers so only the "W" shows at the top. Parts are soaking now.

Oh yeah the air brush fits in the ultrasonic cleaner 

[Chris333]

Gave it a little chug around the layout.

[Chris333]

I did some work to the hood nose piece and re-ordered from Shapeways. Since the couplers line up perfectly I also ordered the etched brass parts from PPD. If Shapeways "helps me out" again the PPD order from Scotland might get here first.

Also the layout is a simple oval with flex track and hand laid turnouts. When all the track was down and mounted I had a short. The turnouts are dummies so the gaps were super simple in the PC ties. Looked every inch over with a magnifier and still couldn't find the short. So I hooked it up to the AC of my Control Master 20 and looked for the whiff of smoke  It was a PC tie that had a gap in it, but somehow the short didn't go away till I sliced all the way through the tie.

Everything was fine after that. Ran trains, no problems.

Painted the ties and the rails, weathered the track. Cleaned the rail tops to run a train and there was a short again. This time nothing would find it for me. So I sliced every gap all the way through and that worked. Never had a problem like this in all the track I've built. 

[Lemosteam]

I will curve the top by hand to match the hood. I have no idea how to do that in Sketchup.

Try designing the hood and front as one piece, copy into two new parts, and chop off the front of one and the rear of the other to make two pieces from the original design, add interlocking tabs and you will have two parts that assemble.

This process could be used for the entire loco as well. just chop away the features to leave the remaining features for each part.

[Chris333]

This was the original part. Printed so the louvers face up.


I was just going to round of the top front by hand, but I have since did this:

So now I just have to sand down the very corners. There are like 3 different radius's coming together at the corner and I'm not smart enough for that.

The back is keyed to fit right into the hood:

[Chris333]

You should be able to see this:
https://www.shapeways.com/product/ZU2ZKKM2G/carbon-whitcomb-hood-6?optionId=64314415&li=shop-inventory

If you click the 3D icon you can pan around it.

[Lemosteam]

Yeah. Complex filleting.  Thought you had Solidworks?  Can you spit out a step file and email it to me?  I may be able to do that in a jiffy and send you a STP and STL file back.

[Chris333]

Yeah. Complex filleting.  Thought you had Solidworks?  Can you spit out a step file and email it to me?  I may be able to do that in a jiffy and send you a STP and STL file back.

I appreciate the offer, but I just ordered the one above. I'd have to place another order and waste more on shipping just to save a few swipes with sand paper. I good with it.

[Chris333]

Made sure my decals would work on the MDT. 

And did a little more work on the crusher.



Also found out about another quarry operation that was near me. This one was a sand pit that had two 36" gauge Plymouth's and a standard gauge loco to shuffle cars for the Erie. This line didn't run in a loop though, just 2 trains back and forth with a run-around in the middle. I grew up in the wrong period!

This is a quick layout of the place in 1950. The yellow is the Erie main to Cleveland. Green is standard gauge and red is narrow gauge. I remember riding 4 wheelers down the road that would have need the old narrow gauge roadbed. Didn't even know at the time.

It was called Industrial Silica Company and was later called Pennsylvania Glass Sand. This is the area today:
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2591765,-81.0192985,803m/data=!3m1!1e3

[Chris333]

Did a little more on the crusher.



Of course it represents only a small part of the complex:



So now lets play with the color. To me all the buildings look like they have a blue tint.

Wonder how long it will take me to get that color right 

[narrowminded]

I just love scenes like this!   Now everybody sing,  "I don't know why, I just do".

[wcfn100]

So now lets play with the color. To me all the buildings look like they have a blue tint.

I think the whole picture has a blueish tint to it.  Here's a corrected image to have something to compare to:



Jason

[Chris333]

Still looks colored. Maybe more green than blue. 

What I did on the loco was crop a small square and blow it up to 800. Here is the crusher:


BTW I'm glad I saved the bing images a couple years back since they are all gone now.