those are great fun! I always enjoyed the prototype sail powered inspection car on the Ffestiniog in Wales.
Winnegance and Quebec Railway
Eric Schade Gen'l Manager
A on both
Dave
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
Ever thought about building a motor home? This one is on Del Oro, you might need to shorten it up a bit.
Tom Trigg
Have fun with your trains
Until I saw the battery, I was going to ask “Who be doin’ all the huf ‘n puffin?”
Arrgg! Ye Monkey Crew!
New for the pizza, a inspection car that doesn't need coal or gasoline to get around, instead using a sail instead. Its a Stomper drive, on a basswood frame with an HLW gondola body, the rest is basswood dowels and whatever stuff I could find lying around, the nameplate is an old part from a long dismantled AMT General kit, the belaying pins are small pop rivets, the pulley blocks are scratched from basswood and the sails are tissue paper stiffened with white glue. Believe it or not this has been done many times around the world, Examples from the real world: http://www.copsewood.org/ng_rly/sailbogie/sailbogie.htm http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/sail/sail.htm Perhaps the most widely known version was from "Around The World In 80 Days" http://www.widescreenmuseum.com/widescreen/popmech_80days_4.htm Condensed building log to follow:
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Quick building log:
Basic chassis, HLW gondola, bass and some balsa wood, some leftover wood trim, and the stomper drive:
Mast added:
Seats added:
Painted, wood stained, belaying pins and stanchions added, beginning rigging:
The main yard is actually a cheap wooden paint brush handle, I pried off the brush, sanded it clean and stained it, lug sail added, rigging well underway:
The name is a leftover from a model kit of the General, if anyone asks, it called the General because of a disagreement in the Borracho Locomotive Works crews, one faction of Johnny Rebs wanted to call it the General Lee, but the Yankee's in the Works wanted to call it the General Grant, in an attempt to quell the dispute the foreman suggested calling it the General Patton, finally the President tired of the intrigue, declared, "its gonna be called The General, and you can add whatever the hell name you want to afterwords yourself"
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