I'll admit, I have given serious consideration to modelling the London and Port Stanley railway in the final years of electric operations if enough equipment were made available in N scale.
Not really at this point. My musing is for my next, next layout where the focus would be on modelling a specific prototype with my next layout being more a technology testbed.
Ah, but they were into selling people cars. the reverse of the NY scenario, in New York people don't buy cars because tey have decent intermodal. No commuters, people need a bus, or a car. And at the time, the marketing was that people with cars were someone. This is the Terre Haute, Indianapolis, and Eastern (?) they hauled this out from under State Road 39 two blocks from my house last year. easily 80 years old, some of them. And still had the tieplates on 'em... and no, Mom sid I wasn't allowed to take a railroad tie home with me...
By chance did you check for any date nails? If there were some still in those old ties, you'd have found some real neat collectibles!
the thought crossed my mind, but I didn't see any and we din't look very hard. Probably shoulda spent a few hours trying though... stupid time machines... although some of those spikes were in the wood pretty good, might not have been able to retrieve a nail if we found one.
Just bumping the thread. Lots of exciting 3d printed stuff out and about lately. I am trying to keep up with all of it !! Anyone got a clue how to power one of these ??? Just now taking a good look at the pics.. my painting sucks. Randy
Randy, I remember seeing photos of steeple cabs powered mostly by trolley pole, though some had pantographs. I assume that decision was based on the railroad's normal traffic. For instance, Pacific Electric and Chicago North Shore used trolley poles. But Chicago South Shore used pantographs. So I guess the choice is up to you, and your line's back story.
Eventually the battery motors pictured will have trolley poles, I just haven't found any that I like yet. I'd like to actually make em run somehow. I'm tempted to give one of the motors away (I'll finish the paint job and detailing) to a person that can show me how to fit a mechanism. Lots of clever folks on this board. I remember following the build thread on the "build boxcab challenge" for this reason, I was impressed with the clever designs for sure.
Any exiting chassis would need major surgery. I'm not certain how much space is available, but it looks pretty minimal.
There are a lot of cool power chassis available for Japanese traction at a Japanese web site that I frequent. If you are interested in a link, drop me a private message. Sent from my DROID4 using Tapatalk 2
Well, there's this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/B-Train-Pow...915638?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item5403421676 and this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Powered-Mot...611962?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c38e4efba or this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mini-...415445?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item2ecd8314d5 or you could disassemble this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Super-Mini-Size-Locomotive-Type-DEKI-3-Red-N-scale-/121227528542?pt=Model_RR_Trains&hash=item1c39b9495e
I don't have one, but I think that a GE 44 tonner could be a starting point for a Baldwin Westinghouse Freight motor, like the PE units... http://www.pacificelectric.org/pacific-electric/western-district/1613-freight/
There is a possibility that a Baldwin Westinghouse locomotive is on the way and this one doesn't need a hybrid drive. https://www.shapeways.com/model/156...class-b-work-in-progress.html?li=productGroup
