Weekend Update 10/9/16

[up1950s]

More shots

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Update info on that diesel with shots inside and out .

https://hickscarworks.blogspot.com/2016/07/early-boxcab-locomotive-b-71.html

[peteski]

Interesting story and photo Richie, and I also learned something about the English language (when the word "busses", which you used several times, looked weird to me). http://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/plural-of-bus  To me Buss will always be a type of an electrical fuse (or a kiss).   

[jereising]

Additional information on that loco:

It was deaccessioned by the Minnesota museum and sold to Illinois Railway Museum, who received it around the first of September...



The picture is from the most excellent www.hickscarworks.blogspot.com

All it needs in this picture is the cables that held the trucks during shipping removed...

And whilst I was looking for the photo, Richie updated his info....

[up1950s]

Looks to me of a switcher wearing a Moo-moo .

[Chris333]

Wasn't that used at Armco steel?

http://sbiii.com/boxcab71.html

According to the link my buddy at the Youngstown Steel Museum was supposed to get this loco in 2010, but the deal fell through.

Sister locomotive:

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[jereising]

Correct, Chris333.  It becomes IRM's second ex Armco loco.

Correction - third, as Armco donated ex N&W 2050 (2-8-8-2) which had been used as a stationary boiler...

[mplsjct]

More info on the Minnesota Transportation Museum

http://transportationmuseum.org

I highly recommend visiting if you're in the Twin Cities, lots of neat stuff.

[eric220]

Made a few aquesitions. First up, got this beauty from  . It's destined to be the crossing of the Snake River in Keystone, CO.  This is about where it's going to go in.



I also picked up this beauty, many thanks to Atlas and a lucky opening of a particular thread here in time to be one of ten.



In a word... No, a word is not enough... this thing is [gratuitous string of expletives deleted] awesome! It's a tool built for exactly one purpose, and it does it very well. The tab in the middle of the slot holds the joiner very neatly, and the joiner goes on without the need to turn fingers into hamburger meat. This will be well worth the sub $10 that Atlas wants for it.

[Scottl]

That little tool is brilliant.

[nscaleSPF2]

Finished the Waynesboro, Pa station.

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This is the Walters Pella depot kit.  The prototype was built in 1906 by the Rock Island Line in Pella, Iowa.  The architecture appears to be similar to some of the PRR stations, so I adopted it for my layout.

Initially, I was disappointed with the model because its scale appeared to be larger than 1:160.  The doors, for example, measure 8 ft tall.  The lone passenger measures exactly 6 ft tall.  However, photos of many of the mid-sized PRR depots show that they were built to a larger-than-life scale, probably in an attempt to impress the passengers.

[bbussey]

Diner progress.  I milled new glass from a Lexan plastic sheet and added shades made from white electrical tape. I had to make individual shades for the pantry door and window because they are visible through the window on the other side and the cars will be illuminated. Time to start working on the roofs.

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[up1950s]

Wasn't that used at Armco steel?

http://sbiii.com/boxcab71.html

According to the link my buddy at the Youngstown Steel Museum was supposed to get this loco in 2010, but the deal fell through.

Sister locomotive:

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Damn , going through that turnout it sounds like It's playing heavy metal on a violin for a horror movie .

[C855B]

This week's project was wrapping up major mods to the club's long-in-the-tooth N-Trak yard modules, getting them ready for a show this weekend:



What I was fixing was a leg system that took too much time in setup. Note to future module constructors: "No tools!" is a worthy objective, but when the solution contains the phrase "wing nuts", find another way. Setting up the old legs required handling forty - that's right, count 'em - forty wing nuts. Both off and then back on, for setup and teardown.    The new legs fit in sockets, as shown in the module on the left, and are held in by neodymium magnets. It takes seconds. Ahh, much better.

[sirenwerks]

Finished the Waynesboro, Pa station.

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This is the Walters Pella depot kit.  The prototype was built in 1906 by the Rock Island Line in Pella, Iowa.  The architecture appears to be similar to some of the PRR stations, so I adopted it for my layout.

Initially, I was disappointed with the model because its scale appeared to be larger than 1:160.  The doors, for example, measure 8 ft tall.  The lone passenger measures exactly 6 ft tall.  However, photos of many of the mid-sized PRR depots show that they were built to a larger-than-life scale, probably in an attempt to impress the passengers.

In terms of architectural styling, it's a beautiful depot.  The only thing that throws me is the height of the bottom of the windows.

[peteski]

In terms of architectural styling, it's a beautiful depot.  The only thing that throws me is the height of the bottom of the windows.

That is an excellent point!  Slicing off a foot or two off the bottom of the building and then cutting off the top section of the doors (under the transom) by the same amount would get it to look better to the eye.