Santa Fe in China Basin

[Bob Bufkin]

I've been on this group too long.  Everytime I see the subject it looks like China Bacon.

[Spades]

Dave

Info from someone who worked China Basin for SF: http://www.coopersvilleandmarne.org/Story-MemoriesRailsinSanFrancisco.html

Sorry for the thread drift.

G

[JoeD]

I'll set up the laser blaster and cut you extra pieces this week no charge.  We can work out a price on the Dayton Tower, but I just want to cover molding expenses (roof casting).

Cheers

Joe

Joe
Any chance of the pier 29 structure  and the pier 43 headhouse are going to be made available for purchase?  It would only sit on a shelf but I would like to purchase the Dayton tower if that was available as a kit as well.    I look forward to Mirco Trains SP SW-1500 release.  I would like thank you for posting here on the Railwire, I would think it would require thick skin. anyway I think it is cool you show you modelling here on the Railwire.

G

[Spades]

I'll set up the laser blaster and cut you extra pieces this week no charge.  We can work out a price on the Dayton Tower, but I just want to cover molding expenses (roof casting).

Cheers

Joe

Joe

Thank you!  Email to follow.

Greg

[Spades]

I'll set up the laser blaster and cut you extra pieces this week no charge.  We can work out a price on the Dayton Tower, but I just want to cover molding expenses (roof casting).

Cheers

Joe

Joe

Not to do business in the forum, but did you receive my email.  Apologies to all

Greg

[JoeD]

Hey Greg, no I didn't...can you resend.  My Yahoo acct was messed up earlier this week.

[JoeD]

Here are some shots of a Z model I started as a commission that fell through.  Lesson is to never start till you get the deposit    It's a model of Pier 15...I think I will expand the drawings to N today and see what they look like.



Joe

[Spades]

Hey Greg, no I didn't...can you resend.  My Yahoo acct was messed up earlier this week.

Joe

Email sent. Your email is listed as a gmail account. 

My apologies to Joe and the forum for the public exchange.

Greg

[railnerd]

My day job has been consuming way to much time, but having a holiday weekend allowed me to creep along with some more progress on the ATSF Carfloat and Pier 52 float bridge.



The triple track float bridge is fabricated using PCB Ties and ME Code 40 rail, with the interim decking provided by scribed styrene sheet:



I have some cleanup work left to do (cut gaps and solder wicking), but I'm happy with the result so far. Plan on using this technique to build the rest of the track on Pier 52.

Here's how the float bridge and the barge connect:



The car float itself is unpowered, but I do plan on gapping and adding electrical power to the float bridge. Next step will be to permanently fix the rails on the barge.  The thickness of the Copperhead PCB ties, Code 40 rail, and cut out on the barge allow me to have the railhead tops flush. Have done a roll test with both MT Pizzacutters and BLMA super-low profile wheels and both seem to roll across the interface nicely.

[Baronjutter]

Isn't it fairly standard for both the bridge and barge to never have a loco on it, in most cases anyways?  In the barge ops I've seen the loco always uses a "reach" car or two to grab cars off the barge, never setting "foot" on even the ramp.

[railnerd]

The prototype had a set of dedicated "boat flats" as a to switch cars onto and off of the barge. I plan on using a set of 4 of the new Red Caboose 53'-6" flat cars with mid-string RNP-51010 Unimate couplers with MT couplers at either end.

Although a light engine move onto the barge was allowed— one of the photographs I posted showed an Alco S2 riding the ferry from China Basin back to Richmond, CA for an overhaul. Worst case, I'll add the drops on the float bridge even if I never hook them up— adding them later would be a PITA.

[jagged ben]

I recently heard a talk by a retired engineer about the ferry operations.   A locomotive was only allowed on the center track of the barge, to avoid capsizing.   It had to be loaded first and unloaded last, and had to be spotted like a car rather than run on and off under its own power.  I don't believe other cars were allowed on the center track if the locomotive was loaded.

The engineer told a story about a locomotive slipping forward and wedging itself between two cuts of cars on the side tracks (this being at the throat of the barge).   It was against the rules to have the locomotive running on the barge, but in that case they started it up to pull it back to get it un-wedged.

BTW... as usual, this is looking really awesome.

[Baronjutter]

Where I live there used to be a very old railway bridge that was not rated to have both a loco AND a loaded car on it on the same time.  The solution? The switcher would get up speed and push a loaded tank car over the bridge while stopping before it, like curling.  Then once the tank car was over the other side, it would quick catch up and stop the tank car.   Seems very safe!

[paggs]

Who came out with the laser kit that looks like Pier 43?  Are there any available for purchase? I would be interested> thanks

[Spades]

Who came out with the laser kit that looks like Pier 43?  Are there any available for purchase? I would be interested> thanks

Pier 29 & 43 headhouse are by Joe/Shipsure.  I am trying to purchase a copy as well.  I don't think they are kits, just something he decided to do in his spare time.

Just a little thread drift, have just lightly skimmed through the Kaufman State Belt book, great addition to the library.  Will read this weekend.

G

P.S. Great modelling/thread railnerd.