Well the BearCat is on the radar for some of the bad guys...time to bring in the 'force'. Very rough kitjunkscratchbash... :shade:
Well I have not worked on the layout in four monthes, but the last two weeks I've gotten back into it. I'd like to thank Jon (Central Vermont) Landry for helping build my CMR turntable kit, its almost done!! We mounted it into the layout Saturday and layed the track into it. The roundhouse will be scratch built someday. 3 outside tracks on left. 12 stall roundhouse with 9 tracks and 3 stalls blocked up. deisel tanks and pump house, sand house goes to right of pump house.
Hey Satokuma, I've got a prototype for your caboose. G&W put their 'remote control caboose' - a bay window job outfitted as a remote control receiver for locomotive control, in a remote part of the local yard when it fell out of favor with the crews. It got relocated, mysteriously, to an industrial siding and we all wondered what was going on. A few weeks later there was a fairly large bust of a stolen property ring in the town, right across the street from that siding. Rumor had it that the local police had been using the bay window caboose as a surveillance platform with the cooperation of the railroad. The MU/remote control caboose now belongs to the Finger Lakes Railway, but I can't find a picture of it.
A little late to the show but I finally got back to working on my own projects this weekend. Started on the valve gear on my B&O P7d based on a Model Power Pacific. Various attempts to build the crosshead guide: The final result: Please excuse the temporary pins in the side rod. A video of it in action: [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqjUlFK6Hto"]YouTube - B&O P7d Test 2 Crosshead guides[/ame] I got a little carried away playing with Windows Movie Maker.
Wonderful! I just watched the video, too. Please post more pictures with the detailed boiler. Thanks.
Flash, There are more pictures in my album: http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/1293 I'm working valve gear right now, boiler detail will come after I get the valve gear where I want it.
Tony - being an old B&O fan, I'm just amazed at your P7 project. Any thoughts as to where the cars are going to come from for this to pull?
I have drawings already done for them. Just need the time to make them. I am not going to start on them till the loco is complete but I have done a test car side just to make sure my idea for building them will work. The biggest problem with the car set is how to do the full width diaphrams. I'm thinking of either doing something like the Concor Zephyr set up and just make the train a unit so to say or I was considering using magnets in the diaphrams to couple the cars. I have a bunch of old Lima and RR heavyweights to use as a car blank to build off of.
I did a repair job Sunday morning on this engine. I'd bought this engine damaged. Next job is to add some paint and a sound decoder. verse
FWIW, I had a similar situation. I repainted the damaged area and left it in primer color. It usually generates a few questions when others see it. Nice styrene work there! :thumbs_up:
