Weekend Update 2/12/17

[Chris333]

Nope, none. The layout is only 13x44" witg 5.25" curves. You could add another scene or a selector plate back there. I wanted to be able to put it up on shelf brackets. Plus I run small locos on it.

[robert3985]

Nice!  But, you really need some NBW castings on your trestle as well as some cross-bracing.  It shows up in the video as super-clean, with no obvious hardware holding it together.  A crew with a lot of character in your engine would be fun too, because with the brakeman on the rear hopper, it emphasizes no crew on the other end.

Sure runs nice & smooth!

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

[Chris333]

That video is a week old, already have cross bracing

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As for NBW I don't think a dinky backwoods coal mining railroad would do all that. One of the real Mann's Creek bridges:
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,275629,275631

[robert3985]

That video is a week old, already have cross bracing

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As for NBW I don't think a dinky backwoods coal mining railroad would do all that. One of the real Mann's Creek bridges:
http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,275629,275631

Yup, the cross bracing makes a big difference...

So, what'd the real "dinky backwoods coal mining railroad" do to hold their trestles together?  Use carpenter's yellow glue???  Nails? Wood dowels? Baling wire? Dovetail joinery???

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

[Chris333]

Nails I think. You can't see a single bolt is any of the photos.


If it is bolts they are really small.

[Lemosteam]

Yup, the cross bracing makes a big difference...

So, what'd the real "dinky backwoods coal mining railroad" do to hold their trestles together?  Use carpenter's yellow glue???  Nails? Wood dowels? Baling wire? Dovetail joinery???

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

Fine mortise and tenon joinery!

[Lemosteam]

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[wazzou]

I thought Frosty had a carrot for a nose?

[cbroughton67]

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WANT!!! 

Is that a bearing or grommet of some sort you're using for the headlight? Is that a photo-etch "cap" on top of the boiler?

Chris

[peteski]

That's very cool John!  And I'm not just saying it because it looks like a snowman! 
An iconic PRR loco!  And I'm not even an SPF - but I can recognize an excellent design.  What will you use for mechanism?

[Lemosteam]

All in due time.  Pete, I knew I revealed too much.

[nscaler711]

Yay S1!! 6-4-4-6 trucks will be hard unless they will be 3D printed as well, as I think only it and the S2 turbine used those.


Though I could be wrong... perhaps a streamlined K4???




Side note... I'd love if a S2 Turbine made it into N scale... really popular with Lionel... but nowhere to be found in N...
(I also know they only made one... but still...)