Weekend Update 5/10/20

[SP-Wolf]

My inner LV fan is following intently. Did you scratch build the hood modification?

Hi Ed,

It's more modify then scratch build. I removed the angle part of the hood. Glued it back onto the long hood. - Making sure it was straight and flat. Then, I cut triangles to fill in the space left. Next I will use Tamiya filler to smooth it all out. Next challenge is to figure out the dynamic brake side grills/openings.

Thanks,
Wolf

[x600]

Nice work, Wolf, as usual. Can’t wait to run the E’s...
Otto

Wait now, Phoebe is heading back on the Santa Fe?
Somebody's got some 'splaynin ta do !!

Greg O.

[tehachapifan]

Hi Ed,

....Next challenge is to figure out the dynamic brake side grills/openings.

Thanks,
Wolf

This is what's kept me from attempting said bash myself. That and the access door beneath the grills. Looking forward to seeing your solution.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

This is what's kept me from attempting said bash myself. That and the access door beneath the grills. Looking forward to seeing your solution.

I am too.

I'd love to have a couple LV pups and a couple former LV pups, but this has always seemed like quite the hassle.

I actually think there's a part on Shapeways that you can use though.

[tehachapifan]

I am too.

I'd love to have a couple LV pups and a couple former LV pups, but this has always seemed like quite the hassle.

I actually think there's a part on Shapeways that you can use though.

It's been a while since I looked but, IIRC, the SW part was not quite correct for an SP unit. Will look there again though.

[NtheBasement]

NtheBasement:  I tried your link to nscale.net.  It says I have to log-in to see it...

Sorry about that.  Lots of people on this forum are also on that one, lots worthwhile over there.
Here are some of the photos - I've added some of the descriptions.  Hope they are visible.




2 I was looking for a bridge for spanning my aisle. It had to be a through truss to provide maximum duckunder clearance, and it had to be 400 to 550 feet in length. Spans this long turn out to be relatively rare. Scrolling up the Ohio on Google earth I found some candidates, but when I googled photos I found they were old bridges with lattice work. No lattice work for me!
I finally found the 425 foot prototype on the Missouri in Sioux City. It doesn't have lattice - it was built in the 1980s.




4 After finding the right bridge, measurements were taken from Google Earth's measuring tool. Ratios from measurements taken off the monitor screen of various photos found on google searches were used to find dimensions. The bridge was then drawn using my old drafting table to scale. By carefully setting the copier's scale settings I made true-to-Nscale copies for each side of the bridge and taped one to a sheet of glass on the tilted drafting table. I did the styrene cutting and glue-up over the drawings and created both sides first.


5 The two side chords and deck are done. Next are the interior braces, then the top bracing.

[Cajonpassfan]

Wait now, Phoebe is heading back on the Santa Fe?
Somebody's got some 'splaynin ta do !!

Greg O.

Ha, I’d be honored to have Wolf over to test tun the EL units on my Santa Fe LA Division layout, but my comment was about running them at their home layout, set in upstate New York.  That ‘splayn’ it for you?
Otto

[x600]

OK Otto, Got it.

Being a DL&W modeller and seeing wolf's nice job on the Es, got my attention. then when you came in it really got me corn fused.

Wolf did the Es for someone in NY.

I just had to get the rest of the story, as they are my all time favorite engines and we don't see them enough on here

BTW, I run my Phoebe Snow here in the Pacific NW on "GN/NP" trackage rights. She can turn up anywhere. 

Greg O.

[JanesCustomTrain]

Sorry about that.  Lots of people on this forum are also on that one, lots worthwhile over there.
Here are some of the photos - I've added some of the descriptions.  Hope they are visible.

No, not visible here. Easiest would be to upload the pictures to TRW and post them.

Jane

[Cajonpassfan]

OK Otto, Got it.

Being a DL&W modeller and seeing wolf's nice job on the Es, got my attention. then when you came in it really got me corn fused.

Wolf did the Es for someone in NY.

I just had to get the rest of the story, as they are my all time favorite engines and we don't see them enough on here

BTW, I run my Phoebe Snow here in the Pacific NW on "GN/NP" trackage rights. She can turn up anywhere. 

Greg O.

Actually,Wolf is doing it for someone in SoCal, modeling upstate NY. That’s the beauty of round-robin guys, each modeling different places and eras in one metro area. Of course, we’re all stuck at home now...
Love that observation car; what is it??
Otto K.

[NtheBasement]

At the risk of causing someone to miss out on another good forum...
Prototype: https://bridgehunter.com/ia/woodbury/sioux-city-rail/

Pics from 2011:

[chicken45]

Speaking of, one of the fun things about that model I'm working on is that the radio antenna is "backwards". Usually they're oriented the other way around for some reason or another but I saw a few photos of Pennsy 9s with them like this so I figured I'd do it for variation.

@Ed Kapuscinski pour one out for our homies. 

[peteski]

At the risk of causing someone to miss out on another good forum..

Pics from 2011:

If I joined bunch of "good" forums, Facebook, and Tweetster, I would never get anything done.  I already spend *WAY TOO MUCH* time on the only model RR forum I belong to - the Railwire. 
If I post photos here, I always make sure that every member can see them here - without strings attached.

[x600]

Love that observation car; what is it??
Otto K.

That's a scratch-bash  I did of one of the two 1949 Budd Tavern-Lounge cars, built for DL&W's
 new streamliner, The Phoebe Snow.

Greg O.

[SkipGear]

My hobbyshop opened back up for curbside last week and we opened back up for in-store today so it's been a busy week or so for me. I did do some more playing/learning on the Photon while I work on drawings for my project, these are files found and modified for my son. He wants to build a module with a bit of the Fallout video game 50's alternate time line reference. Still deciding on how to do the Red Rocket diner.

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