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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #30 on: October 04, 2011, 09:33:23 AM »
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Quote from: sizemore on October 04, 2011, 09:15:37 AM
Looks really good Skip, probably do the same with my 4-6-0. Is this close to the prototype?

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It's close, not perfect. The domes are a little different on the real one and tender water tank should be taller. For many the Model Power tender body is better. The best answer would be to shorten a USRA standard tender body to fit the short USRA frame by sectioning it behind the coal bunker and shortening the length at the tank.

 It makes a good stand in. B&O had lot's of 4-6-0's but none of them are spot on. Most of the modernized loco's are larger than the Bachmann model.

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo241s.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo245sa.jpg

There were a few high drivered 4-6-0's that match the boiler pretty good. I've been thinking about what it would take to swap to larger drivers. There is enough spacing between them to go to at least 65-70" drivers I think by blinding the middle driver. Just need to rebuilt the pilot and update the tender connection.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #31 on: October 04, 2011, 09:39:33 AM »
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Quote from: SkipGear on October 04, 2011, 09:33:23 AM
It's close, not perfect. The domes are a little different on the real one and tender water tank should be taller. It makes a good stand in. B&O had lot's of 4-6-0's but none of them are spot on most of the modernized loco's are larger that the Bachmann model.

http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo241s.jpg
http://www.northeast.railfan.net/images/bo245sa.jpg

There were a few high drivered 4-6-0's that match the boiler pretty good. I've been thinking about what it would take to swap to larger drivers. There is enough spacing between them to go to at least 65-70" drivers I think by blinding the middle driver. Just need to rebuilt the pilot and update the tender connection.

For me it's "good enough". I did the same with the tender, but I want to rewire the decoder. Now that I am thinking about it, may make it a Baltimore and York. Decisions...decisions!

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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #32 on: October 05, 2011, 01:09:55 AM »
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Work on Imperial Valley Feed and Supply continues in El Centro.





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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #33 on: October 05, 2011, 12:04:17 PM »
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Another late arrival.  Work was done over the weekend, just not the photo...   :oops:

My entry in the "beautification of Unitrack" sweepstakes...



See the Layout Engineering Report for the Saginaw Transfer for more info.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #34 on: October 05, 2011, 01:36:53 PM »
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That is good DRD.
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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #35 on: October 06, 2011, 12:46:54 PM »
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Forgot to post this picture this weekend, but seusscaboose allowed me to get my Seaboard System and L&N locomotives out of storage and stretch their legs on his layout last Friday.  Here they are in a warp of the space-time continuum on the approach to Bellevue Yard with a local (Train No. 13, if I remember correctly).



Thanks again, EP!
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P.S. It occurred to me while typing this post that these SBD locomotives are the very models that were pictured in Lee's article in the most recent issue of N Scale Magazine.  I still appreciate that, Lee!
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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #36 on: October 06, 2011, 01:24:06 PM »
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no worries dave....   that pic just shows i need to finish off the ballast there in the corner underneath the fast-clock..   which works splendidly by the way ;)

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Re: Weekend Update 10/2/11
« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2011, 02:29:07 PM »
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Quote from: seusscaboose on October 06, 2011, 01:24:06 PM
no worries dave....   that pic just shows i need to finish off the ballast there in the corner underneath the fast-clock..   which works splendidly by the way ;)

EP

Thank you very much.

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