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Another Lionel O Gauge Car Needs a New Life

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Thursday, March 22, 2018 11:08 PM

wrmcclellan

Scratch - your facility needs to have a bright light/flash fire off every so often to accompany the conversions  - something like all the movies where some kind of contraption shrinks someone/something - with electric arc sound effects!

 

Indeed! I was thinking flashing LEDs around the portal door connecting the two gauges, but sound is a great idea.

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Posted by wrmcclellan on Thursday, March 22, 2018 7:52 PM

Scratch - your facility needs to have a bright light/flash fire off every so often to accompany the conversions  - something like all the movies where some kind of contraption shrinks someone/something - with electric arc sound effects!

Regards, Roy

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:20 PM

Another locomotive.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:17 PM

As a storm approaches Dartmouth, I am relaxing while working on the HO wash shed for the HO to O conversion facility. Drawings are in full size.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:11 PM

Tested my completed roster of four industrial freight cars at the hobby shop in Halifax today. Cars run well,nice and smooth.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:03 PM

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I like the creativity you used on this project.  Dilly-dilly.Idea

 

Thank you. 

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Posted by fifedog on Wednesday, March 21, 2018 10:00 AM

I like the creativity you used on this project.  Dilly-dilly.Idea

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 3:55 PM

Here is a component to a complex chemical facility in O scale using the HO tanks.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 1:59 PM

BigAl 956
 

Just wondering, how do you reattach the trucks without a rivit tool?

 
From the top to the bottom: machine screw, washer, car body, washer, truck, nut, lock-tight or equivalent, paint to hide the nut. Also made a wooden cap, painted it black and used a bit of sticky tack to cover the screw head. The trucks turn smoothly and the nut will not loosen off. The wooden caps turn as well.
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Posted by BigAl 956 on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 1:28 PM

OldSchoolScratchbuilder
rucks were riveted on so they had to go

Just wondering, how do you reattach the trucks without a rivit tool?

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 12:26 PM

Picked up a used gondola with matching colour today. It's carrying used rail. The flatcar is finished. Will run the flatcar on the track at the hobby shop tomorrow.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Tuesday, March 20, 2018 6:58 AM

O scale side of the H2O factory has been developed. When a fuel/chemical tank arrives through the HO-O portal, it is painted in the O paint shop. Another overhead crane lifts the tank onto an O guage flatbed that can be moved in and out of the building.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Monday, March 19, 2018 2:19 PM

Eastrail11

I absolutely love the look of it, I can't wait to see the finished building(s).

Will there be a seperate layout of HO trains or will it just be a small section with the plant for conversions? And remember, you can always have N scale as 7.5 Inch gauge conpaired to O gauge :)

-Eastrail

 

Full HO layout based on mining in Nova Scotia. Full O, also based on mining in this province.

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Posted by Eastrail11 on Monday, March 19, 2018 10:55 AM

I absolutely love the look of it, I can't wait to see the finished building(s).

Will there be a seperate layout of HO trains or will it just be a small section with the plant for conversions? And remember, you can always have N scale as 7.5 Inch gauge conpaired to O gauge :)

-Eastrail

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Monday, March 19, 2018 5:14 AM

From the bottom of the page to the top we have a service track for HO tank cars to fill three storage tanks with various cleaning fluids. The cleaning fluids are pumped into the wash shed as needed. Surplus cars enter the wash shed on a separate track for cleaning and flushing. The waste materials are pumped into tanker trucks and hauled away by road.

Once cleaned, the surplus tank car is pulled from the wash shed and pushed into the main building. The building is big enough to accommodate two tank cars on the same track. The top of the tank on the tank car is cut from the bottom and lifted by an overhead crane. A second cleaning takes place and the waste is pumped back to the wash shed and then into the trucks for disposal.

The bottom of the tank is removed from the rail trucks and the trucks pushed back outside and loaded onto a flatbed car by crane to take to other locations.

While the tank is separated in two, repairs and modifications are made as needed. The tank is then reassembled, lowered onto a cradle on wheels, then pushed through the door portal to the big people on the O side of the plant.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Monday, March 19, 2018 5:00 AM

Sent my ideas to the old-school plans and drafting department (they don't use CAD programs) and they started working on them starting at 5:00 am. Within an hour, and with a pot of freshly-brewed coffee, the HO side of the plant was flushed out. Here is their preliminary sketch.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Monday, March 19, 2018 4:56 AM

Postwar Paul

That's a great dream ! 

My dream layout has been in the back of my mind for some time now.

It would be a multi scale, multi gauge affair.

Because I like 'me all !

We may be moving this year, I guess we'll see if I have any room to work with. 

Paul

 

I like them all too Paul. Even bought N scale track and trains last week.

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Posted by Postwar Paul on Monday, March 19, 2018 3:45 AM

That's a great dream ! 

My dream layout has been in the back of my mind for some time now.

It would be a multi scale, multi gauge affair.

Because I like 'me all !

We may be moving this year, I guess we'll see if I have any room to work with. 

Paul

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Sunday, March 18, 2018 11:26 PM

Just woke up to let one of the dogs out and restock the woodstove when BAM, it hit me! I know how to merge my love for my HO trains with my new interest in O gauge. This flatcar was the inspiration I needed.

I think I am going to build a factory that converts HO gauge tank cars into O gauge fuel and chemical tanks. One side of the factory will be HO scale and that is where surplus HO tank cars are received. Everything on that side of the factory is HO scale including people, scenery, etc. The other side of the factory is entirely O scale and receives the tank sections of the tank cars through the HO-O portal (mid-scale door in the wall) and converts them to O scale fuel/chemical tanks. Then the completed HO-to-O tanks are loaded on O guage flatbed cars to be used on the O side of the two-scale layout.

When I wake up in 5 hours, I'll revisit this idea for real, because I might just be dreaming right now ...

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Sunday, March 18, 2018 5:40 PM

Birch shipping crate nearing completion. Will develop a quick connect/disconnect system to hold it in place or remove it, respectively.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Saturday, March 17, 2018 3:38 PM

Weighted shipping crate to load industrial tanks onto the flatbed is under development. All birch wood for the crate is from my Victoria Harbour property. Modifications to the tank are also under way. My daughter's border collie is sleeping over with my husky and beagle tonight - going to be a three dog night!

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:20 AM

Tested the flatcar at the hobby shop this morning. Only change required was to put some sticky tack under the black wooden screw hole covers I made to keep them from lifting when the car rounds corners. My scrap metal car is coupled to it.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Saturday, March 17, 2018 4:46 AM

LL675

very nice!

 

Thank you Dave. I sure do like rescuing cars nobody wants.

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Posted by LL675 on Saturday, March 17, 2018 12:15 AM

very nice!

Dave

It's a TOY, A child's PLAYTHING!!! (Woody  from Toy Story)

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Friday, March 16, 2018 4:50 PM

Flat car is complete. Six repurposed HO tank cars were converted by F.E. Orr & Sons scrap metal company into industrial fuel and chemical tanks. Shipping crates will be made next.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:31 PM

The first special load I will make for the flatcar is a fuel tank. I happen to have an HO tank car all ready for primer. HO tank cars should look good as O fuel tanks.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Thursday, March 15, 2018 4:06 PM

And into the heavy duty oven cleaner overnight to remove whatever is removable before priming.

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Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Thursday, March 15, 2018 3:50 PM

Trucks were riveted on so they had to go. The rivets, not the trucks.

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Another Lionel O Gauge Car Needs a New Life
Posted by OldSchoolScratchbuilder on Thursday, March 15, 2018 2:50 PM

A used, neglected and lonely flatcar from the back room of the hobby shop caught my attention Today. CMC needs a special loads car so I'll send it to the workshop for an overhaul.

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