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Weekend Update 8/5/12
« on: August 03, 2012, 07:20:22 PM »
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Nothing from me as I just got back from Provincetown Mass for my Daughters wedding . 
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Re: Weekend Update 8/8/12
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2012, 07:31:47 PM »
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I spent the past week assembling and installing 126 pairs of Micro-Trains 1025 and 1027 couplers. Jeez, my fingers hurt from tapping all those holes, especially in those Micro-trains metal underframes.

I doubt if I'll do much else this weekend as I recover.


Hmm...I hope Kiz buys
some termite-flavored
ice cream...



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Re: Weekend Update 8/8/12
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2012, 09:22:07 PM »
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Well, I guess since I have a new lens, I can begin to share some things again.

This is the first of 6 40' NP Double Dr Leaser Boxcars.  I cannot remember if this one came from the Erie or DL&W without looking.



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Re: Weekend Update 8/8/12
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2012, 10:08:40 PM »
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Quote from: jmlaboda on August 03, 2012, 08:37:25 PM
Ah... hate to say it but it is not near the 8th...

I start it on Friday eve so everybody can post at their own time . We use the Sunday date for ease in searching . Been doing it this way for quite awhile .
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Re: Weekend Update 8/8/12
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2012, 10:10:14 PM »
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Quote from: up1950s on August 03, 2012, 10:08:40 PM
I start it on Friday eve so everybody can post at their own time . We use the Sunday date for ease in searching . Been doing it this way for quite awhile .

RIght, but today is only 3 August, which makes Sunday 5 August not 8 August . . . .
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Re: Weekend Update 8/8/12
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2012, 10:28:07 PM »
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Quote from: Philip H on August 03, 2012, 10:10:14 PM
RIght, but today is only 3 August, which makes Sunday 5 August not 8 August . . . .

Ahhh , thats what I get when I leave town , come back and don't flip the Pages O' Dates to the next month . Sorry , and corrected .  :oops:
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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #6 on: August 03, 2012, 10:29:06 PM »
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I tested the FVM above box cars for durability via a drop off my trestle... :facepalm: Touché' Matt... The boxcars didn't break :)

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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #7 on: August 03, 2012, 10:35:36 PM »
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Was over at Eric's (seusscaboose) this evening testing the FMs and Alco S-2 (which will soon be replaced) that Lee decoderized for me several month back. 





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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #8 on: August 03, 2012, 10:47:50 PM »
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This week's fun project. More in next week's Proto Photo.

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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2012, 12:15:20 AM »
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Kisatchie:  Been there, done that, fingers hurt for a week afterwards....
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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #10 on: August 04, 2012, 12:32:35 AM »
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I went to work on the railroad with gusto. Then I remembered why I stopped last week. I'm out of terminal rail joiners. I spent some time making new ones, and then I was spent. I'll update later with some photos of what I've managed to accomplish.
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Re: Weekend Update 8/8/12
« Reply #11 on: August 04, 2012, 12:35:13 AM »
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Quote from: wazzou on August 03, 2012, 09:22:07 PM
Well, I guess since I have a new lens, I can begin to share some things again.

This is the first of 6 40' NP Double Dr Leaser Boxcars.  I cannot remember if this one came from the Erie or DL&W without looking.



I sense an article coming? Or at least a web post?
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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #12 on: August 04, 2012, 12:43:33 AM »
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PRR K4 problem solved thanks to a Starmans special.  Here is the detailing of the Trix shells I have been working on.  For 30 or 40 year old tooling, these MiniTrix shells are actually quite nice expecially when detailed and painted.





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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #13 on: August 04, 2012, 03:16:18 AM »
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Nothing spectacular, reflocked some trees.
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Re: Weekend Update 8/5/12
« Reply #14 on: August 04, 2012, 07:22:52 AM »
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I received my package from Lou yesterday. The 62' beer car has already been stripped and I dug out my old photos of the FGE 5237/5145.

I have no way of measureing the outside of the real car, so I had to do some math with the photos. The ribs appear to be on 36" centers when measured against the 68" truck wheelbase. With seven ribs each side, you get 42 feet, plus 12 feet for the door an another foot for the box corrigations on the ends. That gives me a rough carbody length of 55 feet. This sounds about right as the interior length is 52'6"

Just wish I could measure the rear car and get a hard number.

Now I have to figure out how to splice the body without making any seams. Anyone have any good ideas?
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