Weekend Update 9/13/20

[Chris333]

The Russian Decapods didn’t require any modifications to the machinery.   The only real work was putting special tires on the driver centers with extra wide treads (moving the flanges in to 4’-8 1/2”).   (Note on the engine above even the lead truck wheels were retired and the treads overhang the rail). This made them a problem as self-guarding frogs came into broader use. (Thump thump thump thump thump).
The embargoed production (Russian revolution) was distributed under USRA control. In spite of having Left Hand drive and appliances not normally used in North America they were well suited to lightly built lines and most had long service lives.
But they were doomed to be announced in N but never released....so far.
Charlie Vlk

I was going off the caption to this photo:

[BCR 570]

A fair bit of activity on the Dawson Creek Subdivision today.  With the autumn yard job reinstated at Dawson Creek, diesel fuel is needed so a short train was run up the hill comprising a single OCS diesel fuel car:




Upon arrival at Dawson Creek the tank car was spotted on Shed 2 next to yard engine 567:




The train which had been brought up to Dawson Creek during last week's op session was taken down the hill to serve as a test train for one of my new chip cars:




BCOL 9590 is up on trucks and wheels and about to be inserted into its first train for a test run:




Also, Mike Mohr showed up with one of his new Rapido Dash 8-40CM locomotives and we took it for a test run:




The remainder of the weekend will be devoted to installation of the brake equipment on my HSC-RMC chip cars:





Tim

[CBQ Fan]

I was going off the caption to this photo:

Frisco 1630 at Illinois Railway Museum is one of the Russian decapods and it runs!

[milw12]

JFRTM



Lucas

[Jim Starbuck]

JFRTM



Lucas

Looks great Lucas!

[nkalanaga]

On the Russian Decapods, I imagine that the various roads where they ended up used whatever regauging method the shop crews were most comfortable with, or had the materials/machinery to do. 

[wazzou]

I mean, we're only talking 3-1/2 inches total, it can't be too hard.

[Chris333]

I mean, we're only talking 3-1/2 inches total, it can't be too hard.

That's only .021" 

[wazzou]

That's only .021" 

Much less than the amount the 44T hood is reputed to be too wide.   

[Bryn]

Looks great Lucas!

Seconded, great to see progress on this!

[peteski]

On the Russian Decapods, I imagine that the various roads where they ended up used whatever regauging method the shop crews were most comfortable with, or had the materials/machinery to do.

Since those locos as-produced (5' gauge) would not have been able to travel on their own anywhere on the North American rail system, wouldn't all the regauging have been done at the factory that produced them?  If that  is the case, they would all have been regauged the same way.  I just can't imagine them being sold and transported (not under their own power) to all the purchasing railroads, just to be regauged in their individual shops. 

[Chris333]

Anyone know how to use the JSTOR site?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43518384

I figured out how to log in.

Says they were converted by applying 7" wide tires. Couplers and headlights were removed.

I also says my photos were taken in Cleveland in 1925 and it lists a different photographer, but I got them from an Erie book that says there are in Youngstown.

EDIT: I just went through my photos. There is no way those photos are in Cleveland. The peak of the roundhouse behind the locos matched the Brier Hill round house in Youngstown. The arrangement in Cleveland wouldn't match the photos.

[DKS]

I was going off the caption to this photo:

Evidently, whoever captioned that photo got it wrong. Only thing they did was add wider tires, and that was done before distributing them to the US railroads that got them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_locomotive_class_Ye

[DKS]

Late addition: a neon OPEN sign. The effect is extremely difficult to photograph—I'm almost embarrassed to show this video. It looks infinitely better in person--just ask @VonRyan who saw it run for the first time this morning.

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=49183.msg680703#msg680703

[CRL]

It works better than some neon signs I’ve seen in the 1:1 world.