Sunday photo fun 9-5-04

[AggroJones]

Its that time again, gang. Let's see those pictures. All scales are welcome to post.

Here's a cab shot of the young Y3.


An EJ&E quad sitting on one of the railroad's 30" radius curves.






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[Anonymous]

http://www.railimages.com/gallery/Bryant-Mansfield

[egmurphy]

I’ve got kind of a double purpose in posting this one.

Obviously I’m happy to show off my little attempt at customizing a loco. My first attempt, by the way. I’ve always been reluctant to take a saw to something that I bought r-t-r. But while I didn’t have the layout to work on, and being intoxicated by some of the superb work I’ve seen on the forum, I thought “What the heck, why not try something?”

But now that all the birthing pains are over, I’m asking myself “Why did you put yourself through all that pain?” Was it really worth it? (I am really proud to report that I didn’t once throw anything during this conversion. Now that’s something!)

Here’s a couple of shots of the little jewel. Let’s remember that this guy is all of 2”long. Okay, so it’s 2-1/4” with the new headlight hanging out in front. It’s black, all black (well, I suppose it could be Brunswick Green, but it sure looks black to me). I could barely see the details when I was trying to install them, and I had my optivisor on! I can’t wait to see it on the layout, it’ll look like a little black blob.

Hope these come out the way I want them. I’ve tried to size them so that they show at close to actual size. It would be too easy to show them at 2 or 3 times actual size, but that would make it seem like you could actually see the detail.




Can you see all the new detail??? You can’t? You know what, I can’t either. It all blends in together! But just so you’ll know, the project entailed:

1. Mounted new MT couplers front and back.
2. Cut off the old style headlights in front and back.
3. Installed newer style headlights in front and back. Mounted the front one on the smokebox door (family trait on my roster)
4. Cut off old black plastic bell
5. Mounted new cast metal bell on top on smokebox in front of stack (also a roster trait and the reason the headlight had to mount on smokebox center)
6. Installed new stand-off handrails on water tank section of boiler. (no, I didn’t cut off the old cast on handrails. I can barely see the new ones. I figure the old ones will get lost in the shadows.)
7. The new headlights then created the need for a generator (not included on the original model). I carved one from an old sprue and installed in on top of the water jacket.
8. Removed old ATSF lettering from cab and added engine number in its place.
9. Added grabirons at cab doors, and also on top of the oil bunker.
10. Speaking of oil bunker, I also added a small oil fill hatch (also carved from an old sprue).
11. Engine number added on back of engine.
12. Added small section of ladder on back of oil bunker to provide access to fill hatch.

Do you know how tiny those grabirons are? That’s .008” diameter brass wire. I could barely see them when I was painting them. They could fall off for all I know and I’ll never notice.

It was a bit of fun to try something new. And I’m sure I picked up some useful knowledge while doing this. I think I’ve learned how much detail is too much (for an old guy with less than 20-20 vision, anyway). And on top of it all, the loco isn’t a real good runner! So it’ll probably spend more time as a prop than it will actually switching.

Let’s see, I suppose I could get me one of those Sagami can motors and………….

Regards

Ed

[AggroJones]

Thats it? Nobody else with photos? I guess they're all outside BBQing. [:)]

[dharmon]

Okay..more pics of the rotary. I finished up my rotary & F7AB consist and weathered them...

Dan

[dave9999]

Hey Ed,
Better not drop that loco, it might get lost in the carpet[:D].Dave

[Noah Hofrichter]

Dan,

Nice set there, I don't think I've seen something like that before. I know there's been roatary plows but I haven't seen anything with a matching loco. Good Job!

Noah

[Anonymous]

Nice pics, everyone !

[Anonymous]

nice pictures all

[dharmon]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Noah Hofrichter

Dan,

Nice set there, I don't think I've seen something like that before. I know there's been roatary plows but I haven't seen anything with a matching loco. Good Job!

Noah

Thanks Noah. Many of the plows that were modernized, had the old steam plant removed and used traction motors from scrapped locomotives to power the plow. I used some old Athearn dummy trucks to replace the originals, with the idea that that's where the traction motors orignated from. An old B unit or geep would be assigned to the plow that had it's prime mover disconnected from the traction motors and power cables would be run to the plow to provide power to the blade. So that's the story with the plow and B unit. Then I had an A unit lying around, and decided to go MW orange also and put a big plow and icicle bar on it to be be used to pu***he rotary and B unit or run foward as a plow when conditions didn't warrant breaking out the "Beast". I'll probably use it as MW train power off season. Right now, it's drive train is detached, effectively a dummy until I decide whether it's worth putting a new motor and decoder in. Each of the units is well over twenty years old.

[der5997]

QUOTE: Originally posted by egmurphy

I’ve got kind of a double purpose in posting this one.

“What the heck, why not try something?”

” Was it really worth it?




Do you know how tiny those grabirons are? That’s .008” diameter brass wire. I could barely see them when I was painting them. They could fall off for all I know and I’ll never notice.

It was a bit of fun to try something new. And I’m sure I picked up some useful knowledge while doing this. I think I’ve learned how much detail is too much (for an old guy with less than 20-20 vision, anyway). And on top of it all, the loco isn’t a real good runner! So it’ll probably spend more time as a prop than it will actually switching.
Let’s see, I suppose I could get me one of those Sagami can motors and………….
Regards
Ed

Hey Ed, thought you would like to see the pics again [(-D]
Very nice, especially the ladder on the back. (Must confess to have missed the generator [:D]
Reminds me of a Docksider I detailed in my HO days. Didn't run worth a darn but I had it as a "Fan Special" to justify all the pristine paint and polish! the only photos I have of it are out of focus, so I can't put them up.

See you in the Coffee Shop,
Regards,

[Anonymous]

Ed

Nice Job.

Keep up the good work.

[dharmon]

Ed,

You need me to send you some HO scale people to ride in the gondolas while your little steamer pulls them through the park? [;)]

Nice work Ed ..and everyone else.