Weekend Update 3/17/13

[Lemosteam]

I need some newsprint rolls for the dock. Any thoughts on a typical size? I guess something like 4 ft diameter and a 5 ft length.

Best wishes, Dave

Judging on the pic in your engineering thread:



Those rolls are 8 feet long and about 4 feet in diameter comparing them to the 11R22.5" tires on the truck and thre gernally used 8' bed width that is now a federal standard.

[jpf94]

I added the roof to the Milwaukee Journal newsprint dock. It took awhile to get all those beams aligned and plume. Still a ways to go but a bit of progress.



This is what I am aiming for.



I need some newsprint rolls for the dock. Any thoughts on a typical size? I guess something like 4 ft diameter and a 5 ft length.

Best wishes, Dave

Dave,

Great work so far.  Newsprint rolls come in a variety of sizes.  We handle newsprint for 2 customers at our warehouse and they are both 4 feet 8 inches in diameter.  One firm likes the 4 foot tall rolls, the other likes the
5 fet 4 inch rolls.  I've not seen photos showing the rolls outside of the shot in the post below, but I agree with the dimensions posted there.  Will be a specatular model scene when completed.

Please keep us updated.

Joe

[engineshop]

I finished another little project for my HO layout. It started a year ago but I finally figured out, how to do the wheels. For the end station in Zermatt, I need a large assortment of electric cars. Most of them are just variations of the same body since there are only one or two local manufactures.





I still have to design a small dashboard and a steering wheel.

[chicken45]

[Chris333]

I need some newsprint rolls for the dock. Any thoughts on a typical size? I guess something like 4 ft diameter and a 5 ft length.

Best wishes, Dave

Out newprint rolls are 50" dia and 55" wide back when the press was installed in 1992. It was cut down an inch to 54" and then cut down 2 more times, right now the rolls are 44" wide, still 50" dia.

[SecretWeapon]

Really wonderful stuff!!!!

[delamaize]

No trains this weekend, but I FINALLY was able to get back into my own place after the divorce, witch means I got space for a workbench again....

[C855B]

This weekend (and last, and the time between) was all trains, all the time. We are four hours away from home, at the moment resting comfortably in our seats on #393, with departure from Chicago Union Station in 15 minutes. Our itinerary was City of New Orleans to CHI, Cal Zephyr CHI-Sacramento, Coast Starlight SAC-LAX via the Tehachapi detour (gloat gloat), Surfliner from LAX to Fullerton, Southwest Chief FUL-CHI, then the southbound Illini (#393) to home.

Modeling stuff - I think I noted last weekend that the train show we attended last week I was able to pick up a copy of the LA&SL book by John Signor (long out of print) and also a copy of Jim Ehrenberger's Union Pacific Stations in Nebraska. Both are research material for the layout. This trip was too-tightly scheduled, so there was no time to explore hobby shops or do much railfanning other than what we could see from our trains.

EXCEPT... having a couple of moments in Fullerton, I stopped in and said "Hi!" to Craig Martyn of BLMA fame at his office across the tracks from the station. He was a gracious host for my unannounced visit, and regaled me with the nickel tour. Thanks again, Craig!

[chuck geiger]

Judging on the pic in your engineering thread:



Those rolls are 8 feet long and about 4 feet in diameter comparing them to the 11R22.5" tires on the truck and thre gernally used 8' bed width that is now a federal standard.

I'm smelling dowels cut to size, painted manila or brown and stacked....

[pjm20]

Well, this weekend I went to the NRHS Harrisburg Chapter Show in Steelton, Pa. Grabbed a Minitrix slopeback tender and a book highlighting K4 practices.

[Puddington]

Judging on the pic in your engineering thread:



Those rolls are 8 feet long and about 4 feet in diameter comparing them to the 11R22.5" tires on the truck and thre gernally used 8' bed width that is now a federal standard.

Newsprint roll size has changed over the years, both in roll diameter and size. The average wide web press of the 60's and 70's could handle between 48 - 96" and the roll diameter would have been no more than 54" - most likely less due to thre weight that a clamp truck could handle; a 40" diameter roll of newsprint would weigh in at well over a ton and a half. (Lots of fibre in that there roll)

[Puddington]

Containerboard rolls - newsprint would be white (ok, off white) and would be smaller in diameter - I used onion skin paper strips for the "white top", sat and watched a Leafs game (they lost) and rolled them (like 'rollin yur own eh") and then used a bit of glue stick to adhere them.

[Dave Schneider]

Thanks for the newsprint info everyone. Chuck, the dowel was purchased today at Lowes. Four feet for .79.

Mike,

What do you think of the way the paper is being handled in the photo with the truck? It seems like these are stacked upright in the rail car and then turned with the clamp forklift. How could they load them on the truck this way? Seems like the clamp would be in the way. It looks like they are loading the last roll on the truck in this photo, but I don't get it.

Also, having grown up in Milwaukee, I can attest that the weather isn't always nice. Seems odd to move the paper on an open truck like this. I doubt that the newsprint wrap is waterproof. Thoughts?

The Milwaukee Journal used to print the comics section on green newsprint, called, wait for it, the Green Sheet. Made it way too easy to be a kid. Its surprising that I turned out as well as I did considering how this spoiled us. I may toss a couple of green rolls with torn covers in there someplace.

Best wishes, Dave

Best wishes, Dave

[M.C. Fujiwara]

A hot, sunny spring day up in the Sierra Nevada when the Ten Wheeler rolls the supplies into the Eggel River Mining Co. Freighthouse and Store:



Watch out, gents: the man's got Helicon and he's not afraid to use it!
(probably because he doesn't know what he's doing with it)

But focus stacking + sunilight = photo fun:





Helicon rocks.
Now just have to figure out how to use all of it's nifty features 
Happy St. Paddy's Day

[Erik W]

I sanded the molded on cut levers off the pilot, drilled mounting holes for new cut levers, and drilled holes for wipers.  I then gave everything a coat of reefer white.  It's looking a bit more SOO Line-ish.  I'll do a second pass with the white tomorrow on some parts and then let it dry for a few days before tackling the masking and painting the red.

A quick grab shot on the white:


Erik