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Smoke signals IV - and also a view of why I started coming to the hills of Eastern Kentucky in the fall - is this view of a true rarity, L&N C420 1319. Built as Monon 502 as 1 of 2 steam generator equipped C420's for Monon passenger service, they were sisters in kind with Long Island RR hi-nose passenger service C420's and cousins to N&W's small fleet of high short hood freight service C420's. I spied L&N 1319 on the Loyall KY ready track this fine October 21 1978 morning parked in a bad spot. So, I went into the roundhouse to inquire whether it could be moved. Sure, was the friendly reply from the hostler, who promptly went out to 1319 and asked where I'd like it. I pointed out the spot and brakes hissed, 12-251 throttled up and 1319 glided to "the spot". The hostler then came out and asked if I'd like to see her smoke. Well, of course I would Boy, do I miss those friendly L&N people and no-hassle terminals. Yes, we knew how good we had it, but it just wasn't possible to get it all - but i sure tried.
Was able to move on one of my ongoing projects.
Those express trucks look good. Where are they from?
Playing some more in developing a protolanced railroad for when a basement comes along. Whipped up two box cars today in the spare time I had. Need to do some versions of the slogan for variety's sake but you get the gist...
Continued progress om the LIRR G5s class #39...
This one's for the carpenters out there. I am building an AMB Rooming House. This is the one AMB kit I've built of many that required pretty extensive modification. Every one of the windows required trimming to fit in the frames. It's not as if the windows aren't a pain in the a$$ already.I substituted 3 Tab asphalt shingles instead of the supplied rolled felt. I also changed the stairway from the ground level to the 2nd floor.As built, it would go from the top to the bottom on one long flight along the end wall from front to rear. This didn't seem plausible to me in the 1960's. I thought the stairway should begin closer to the front, commissary/lobby area.That is the genesis of my question...I built a landing and new railings at the end of the landing that match the height of the OEM railing and built the inclined railing from styrene to match the pitch of the OEM railing, but as can be seen in my photos, the diagonal railing at it's top is higher than the railing at the back/bottom of the landing.This kind of crap bothers me. How should I address this?
The railing for the upper flight of steps does not extend to the bottom step. And if you extend the upper railing to the bottom you are going to have a really narrow landing.Good luck re-engineering the whole thing.
I never post on the work I'm doing on my chassis so I thought I might do one. Give some idea of what I'm up to. Especially as I get closer to something ready for prime time. Spent time at the shop programming and running 60 worms for a twenty-five piece prototype run of the mine loco. Ran excellent. Took two pieces to get the worm dialed in to the final dimension. Three wire measurement of the pitch line holding one tenth. The first two were within spec but the first was about two tenths over then the second was one tenth under the target. Even both of those were well within spec but it's nice to have a machine that holds a tenth all day. Then it was 60 pieces ALL within one tenth. BTW, a tenth is one tenth of one thousandth or .0001". Here are some pics for the extra curious machine lovers. It's REALLY nice to have access to some REALLY nice machines.
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