Weekend Update 5/24/15

[up1950s]

[glakedylan]

remembering those who have served our nation
and those who have given the supreme sacrifice of
their life...G-d, have mercy.

[Catt]

Since JIMMO's Shapeways page (and projects) are in another thread I thought I would post a pic of a couple of his older units. This is one of his CPS/Manac grain trailers and one of his clear cast Dura Star semi tractors.I've done some clean up on the rig since I took the picture.

 

[dougnelson]

Nice photo for the Weekend Update.

Newsflash:  Feather River Trains has a new home:







Doug Nelson

[Miles]

Doug,

I love that you used the Laginatas Grocery store as the basis for your model. This has to be one of the nicest versions I've ever seen of this building. Did you know the narrow gauge North Pacific Coast used to run past it?

http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=13802

[up1950s]

Love that FRT Shop . With that location so close to the tracks , Chuck would do well with a covered roof and a picnic table on the roof of his store . Maybe even a refrigerator and a BBQ . Finally an old shower stall which has a funnel and hose leading to a pipe which goes right into the FRT waste pipe .

[GaryHinshaw]

Challenge accepted @tom mann.  Well done Doug!

Richie, you lost me at the shower stall, but otherwise I'm right with you on the FRT rooftop garden idea.

[up1950s]

Challenge accepted @tom mann.  Well done Doug!

Richie, you lost me at the shower stall, but otherwise I'm right with you on the FRT rooftop garden idea.

It's a blind to take a leak .

[Chris333]

Put some details on my HOn30 shay



And a buddy of mine with a steel mill museum got a steel mill to give him an Alco S2.


It hasn't ran in about 8 years so they are working on firing it up. There was a split in a hose so all the water drained out before freezing and cracking the block. But the turbo housing is cracked. Anyone know where an Alco S2 turbo charger housing is available?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10202946649386822&set=pcb.10202946654546951&type=1&theater

[peteski]

But the turbo housing is cracked. Anyone know where an Alco S2 turbo charger housing is available?

JB Weld baby!  According to their spiel, it will fix anything!   Just ask Max. 

BTW, nice work Chris!

[arbomambo]

Precios little modeling time for the month of May...
did manage to pull out the PAs and get a teenie bit more done (renumbering and adding the cab roof numberboards to the remaining cab units.)











Thanks for looking,
Bruce

[C855B]

... Anyone know where an Alco S2 turbo charger housing is available?

Yes. Your most likely source is National Railway Equipment in Mt. Vernon, IL. They are both a breaker yard for old locomotives AND one of the last ghosts of official Alco parts support.

http://www.nationalrailway.com/
618-242-6590

[tehachapifan]

Regarding the FRT shop, wouldn't that have to be the old home?

That is one great looking building! I would really like to hear how the old mural sign on the side was made. That looks fantastic!!

[jagged ben]

Doug,

I love that you used the Laginatas Grocery store as the basis for your model. This has to be one of the nicest versions I've ever seen of this building. Did you know the narrow gauge North Pacific Coast used to run past it?

http://www.sparselysageandtimely.com/blog/?p=13802

Thanks for that link.  That round of cheese on the platform is almost a worthy excuse for selling all my late 20th century Class I stuff and focusing on Marin narrow gauge.

[dougnelson]

West Marin has changed little over the last hundred years, but the trains are just a memory. Some of the right-of-way is now trails.

By the way, the photos of the Lagunitas grocery/FR Train Shop are right out of my IPhone's- no Photoshop tomfoolery.

The model was made from photographs of the building laminated onto illustration board and cut with a sharp cacti.

Doug Nelson.