Nice work. There is a lot of satisfaction in coming up with a good representation of a unique locomotive that you know will probably never get made. And the early diesel models like this haven't been produced much at all except some expensive and limited run brass stuff.
Got a little further toward completeion on the Class A. Added the bell, pops and whistle, sand lines from sand dome and the single lung air pump to front deck and a Pyle generator on the roof. Reflecting a modernisation a compound air pump was added to rear deck along with a third airtank. Also added MT 1015s and installed the fiber optics to the lights and tested them. Each light has three fiber optic strands in it. Still have to install steps below cab doors. Debated whether to go back and retro the lights on the two previous ones, but considering the trouble to drill everything out I will probably stay with the MV lenses that are in them. url=http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showphoto.php/photo/155757/title/rlw-class-a-climax-conversion-to-n-from-nn3/cat/910][/url] Also added the Class A truck sideframes after filing off the truck details using Goo to attach them. A day or two letting the truck frame set up good and then hopefully I'll finish this up and be ready for the test track.
Here's some odd video - the Colorado Springs consist of the Rocky Mountain Rocket rolling through Hope, MN. Go figure! [video=youtube_share;fMiww8S_Po4]http://youtu.be/fMiww8S_Po4[/video] Cheers, -Mark
The Rock only had the two AB6's (#750 and #751), so I'm assuming just two "sets" of power (if I understand your question correctly). -Mark
I am very interested in your shrinkingprocess I bought some Hydroshrink to make some reductions; until now I was using a french productused by dentists to make moulds it is a colloidal product that meltsat 80° Celcius and that I pour on the model to make a mould Whenthe mold is cold (20° Celcius) I can make a resin casting to geta copy or I can let the mould dry to get reductions rates from 10to30% according to the degree of drying and percentage of water inthe original Product the pb is that the mould is much morefragile than traditionnal rubber molds the plus is that i can melt the productas many times as Iwant to make other molds … I will probably try to pourhydroshrink in that sort of mold Could you sell some of your n scalevehicles could I have your list ? What would be the price ? I live in France but my cousin lives inthe US if you cant ship to france . I could send you sample of my productand eventually some n scale vehicles I can sent you a list if you areinterested (some us vehicles 1940/1960 era and more than 200european vehicles from the same era ) I would be very happy to have youranswer best regards patrick
looking for n scale vehicles (reductions from larger scales) I am very interested in your shrinkingprocess I bought some Hydroshrink to make some reductions; until now I was using a french productused by dentists to make moulds it is a colloidal product that meltsat 80° Celcius that I pour on the original model to make a mould Whenthe mold is cold (20° Celcius) I can make a resin casting to geta copy or I can let the mould dry to get reductions rates from 10to30% according to the degree of drying and percentage of water inthe original Product the pb is that the mould is much morefragile than traditionnal rubber molds the plus is that i can melt the productas many times as Iwant to make other molds … I will probably try to pourhydroshrink in that sort of mold Could you sell some of your n scalevehicles could I have your list ? What would be the price ? I live in France but my cousin lives inthe US if you cant ship to france . I could send you sample of my productand eventually some n scale vehicles I can sent you a list if you areinterested (some us vehicles 1940/1960 era and more than 200european vehicles from the same era ) I would be very happy to have youranswer best regards patrick
Yes , you got the gist of my question. Evidently the Rocky mountain Rocket wasn't a daily train (unless they didn't have the EA engines on all the trains). If the train ran on a 2 day out schedule daily it would have required 3-4 sets of motive power and cars. I know the NP had 5 sets (complete consists) running to the coast on a daily (3 days out schedule and the Milwaukee used 6 sets with one set held out for servicing. Randy
According to my timetables the RMR was a daily train, but I have no idea how the power might have been juggled. They definitely just had the two AB6's, though. Here's a 1941 schedule - http://www.streamlinerschedules.com/concourse/track8/rockymtrocket194106.html -Mark
Modeling the Rock was my second choice. I think this train was very interesting from an operation and equipment point of view. Who says passenger trains just shuttled between two points with thier consists unbroken ? Mysterys like these are worth unraveling. Was the train still daily train in the time of the AB-6's ? How exactly were the power requirements met ? I model the Milwaukee trains like the Southwest, the copper country and the Arrow that had some interesting online work to do as well . Randy
From what I gather, there were apparently just the two sets of power. The westbound train (7) left Chicago at 1:55 PM while the eastbound train (8) left Denver at 1:00 PM. The westbound train arrived in Denver at 8:25 AM the next day and then would become that day's eastbound train at 1:00 PM. Similarly, the eastbound train arrived in Chicago at 8:50 AM and then would become that day's westbound traiin at 1:55 PM. -Mark
Sure is, the Early SD40-2 had the right radiator grills and no dynamic brakes which works well for my current project. to make it easy I just chopped it behind the blower duct. I also had to add the brake ratchet to the front as I was out of the early style short hoods.
Roddis Lumber and Veneer Started on my next building. I built this in a few hours but I had 2-3 days thinking about how to do it. That is the way it usually goes. Saves false starts of which I have many.
I have been working on false starts for the roof on my pier nightclub. I built a cardboard mockup 3 weeks ago to try out the roof design-- Since this picture I revised the design somewhat. I built and installed the "real" in styrene, cutting off the little dormers in the second story roof to simplify- BUT I also complocated matters by adding a little upturn in the end of each of the extending gables to give a bit of an exotic Oriental architectural twist. I intended to quickly thatch the roof to show at the Galveston train show Oct 5 and 6 in an almost finished state, but I found I did not have the material I thought I did to make thatch. So I showed it unfinished, with a drawing paper covering over the styrene roof to cover the gaps and to provide a porous surface where I could white-glue my thatch material when I found the right stuff. This week I start experimenting with thatch. I didn't want to mess up my real model with the experiment, so I thought I would do a little thatching on the cardboard mockup. I marked off a portion of the cardboard roof with 3/16 inch guide lines to locate thatch. My first attempt was a cheap natural color twine. It was tightly wound so I tried to unwind it and straighten it out into strands as best I could and cut it into length about 1/4 inch long to glue a row at a time, like shingles. Trouble is, the 1/4 inch long bits of twine were too short to have a way to hold and lay them straight. They came out more like fluff than thatch. Second I tried some decorative floral material that looked like strands when I saw a whole bundle of it in a floral arrangement. When I tried cutting them in quarter-inch lengths and gluing them on the other roof surface of my cardboard mockup, they came out looking more like random 2 inch diameter sticks than thatch, and did not lay close enough to cover. I needed something finer, and I needed a way to hold them straight while gluing. Cutting into the quarter-inch lengths I wanted on the finished model before gluing would not work. I adjusted my technique. Third try likewise unsatisfactory. I wanted thatch because I thought it would look sort of exotic. I have seen it on pictures of 1950s Tiki bars. However, I remembered the prototype on which I am basing my model had a shingle roof before Hurricane Ike blew it away. Next, I guess I will look and see what I have in the way of shingle material. Because of the funny nbshaped roof, it will have to be individual shingles or at least individual ROWS, now a sheet material that would hve to be cut too exactingly to fit the odd roof shape. And that is what is on my workbench.
