Contra Costa Ferry Under Construction

Pete Nolan Mar 6, 2015

  1. Pete Nolan

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    Here's one of the last images I have with me. I'm sure there are later images with lifeboats, decals and paddlewheels in place, but they must be in the camera back in Alabama (or I lost them).
     

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  2. Pete Nolan

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    This is the Contra Costa, but it has the many intermediate stacks of the Solano, which should be eliminated for accuracy. The ships were "sisters" but different in many details. The Solano had offset sidewheels and tracks that curved around the walking beam drivers; the Contra Costa had straight through tracks, with the walking beams in the side pods, and sidewheels that were straight abreast. I still haven't decided whether I want to offer this as a Z scale kit, although I ordered five sets of brass sides, railings an paddlewheels. A completed model is priced very high. Both were retired in 1930; I believe the hulk on one of them is still visible at the old slip.
     

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  3. markm

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    Great looking work and detail. The Solano was scuttled on the Contra Costa side of the strait and the remains were visible for decades until a fire burned the remains down to the waterline. When I was a kid we would go fishing around it.
     
  4. Pete Nolan

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    Always wondered how you scuttled a wooden boat. Guess you just let it get waterlogged?
     
  5. markm

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    You know, I always wondered how you get a concrete ship to float.
     
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  6. Thomas Rubarth

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    Nice job on doing the Solano in N scale! We did the Solano in HO and yes, it's a complicated build!
     

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  7. SMR

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    Peter finally built it in Z scale. It can carry a full Sunset Limited train with loco!! Very impressive.
    Here are some pictures after Dirk Kuhlmann finished and weathered the big ship.

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    A few details.......

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    Enjoy the sea!


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  8. Kurt Moose

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    Wow, that is beautiful!!:love:(y)
     
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  9. shamoo737

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    Nice work.
     
  10. John Bartolotto

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    Beautiful!!!
     
  11. JoeS

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    I’d like a closer peek at that steam locomotive!
     
  12. SMR

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    Here you go, Joe;


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    Best,
    Sven
     
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  13. JoeS

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    Real nice! Is that a brass model then?
     
  14. SMR

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    SP3310 has been custom build by Gerd, Joe,
    He may want to answer your question.
    Best,
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    (early morning shots with my I-phone, my apologies)
     
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