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Just wondering if this is in response to my enquiry regarding the 120 kit?

Yes, now that you listed the subjects I think I have a bunch of postcards by Ted Wickson that I have picked up over the years. Used to keep them with my photos but can't seem to locate them now. Another thing I picked up were the TTC data sheets. I came across those a couple of years ago while going through my stored stuff so they are here with me in Calgary. I will see if my dad will let me post the photos I mentioned above.

Transit subjects? I remember the station like that, now its got the peaked roof on it but its still basically the same. One thing I hate about Kingston station is the sun angle. To get decent shots you needed to be on the platform at track 2, but they often closed it if no train was expected to stop there. Thankfully after getting to know the staff there were no complaints if we hopped the barrier.

37425 was always my favourite. I can remember liking when it was 37292 but these days don't remember what it was about this one that I liked.

Only just noticed that 6123 has bars over the door window. Is there a reason for this? If it is to stop the drivers leaning out it seems silly as the drivers side window isn't barred over!

I was looking at ordering a class 120 kit, but I guess I should hold off for now until things are sorted out. Unless of course that particular item is no longer in stock then I guess I will do without!

Thanks Dagworth, I didn't think that the AL1 would have the same size tanks as shown in the flickr drawing. It just didn't make sense. A lot more pipes on that one that I would need to figure out on the other end of the tanks.

Or you can wait to see if I can get a 3D drawing of the AL3 tanks up and going. Now that I know that I was doing an AL5 I will have to restart but once I get the dimensions from the drawing I should be able to get a drawing done. Hmm, maybe I should buy a 3D printer and start my own company making OO gauge parts for AC electric locomotives!

So looking at the drawings on flickr it looks like there were several different types of tanks, If the drawings are accurate! 81 had all three tanks of the same size. 83 had longer tanks with the centre tank being slightly larger than the outer two. 84 had had tanks between the 81 and 83 in length with the centre tank being substantially larger in diameter than the outer two. As I was basing my work on the 85 tanks they are still ok, but useless for any of the above three classes. I wonder what the tanks on the 82 looked like?

I used thin strips of styrene but it was a real pain. Not only did I glue the strips to the tanks but I also managed to glue the following, the strips to my fingers, the strips to the tweezers, the tweezers to my fingers, one finger to another finger, and the tanks to my fingers. Hence why I have decided to go with 3D printing for it.

They are currently in the design stage as I am still learning the programs, but seem to becoming along quite nicely. I started a thread that discusses my attempts, including some photos of the first tank design, currently on the second as I am reworking the ends. Also included are a basic AL1 bogie frame which was drawn to see if I had the ability to do something like that. http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/92188-sketchup/ I was looking at that drawing a few days ago and it would seem that the tanks for an 83 are longer than the 85, which I based my tanks on.

I believe I got the last etchings from Judith Edge, although it is possible he made more. For the centre tank I used 1/4" tube and 7/32" for the outer two tanks. However I am currently working on a 3D drawing of the air tanks which once done I plan on printing. I got the SE Finecast AL1 glazing for my 83, haven't tried to fit it yet but it seems to fit.

Well after a couple of attempts was finally able to install the STL plugin for Sketchup. In the future I will need to remember that its best to install the plugins from inside the program, because if you don't do it Windows doesn't recognize the file extension and it wants to look for a program that can open it for you. In regards to the measurements. I don't know if this will work but after importing it into Netfabb I resized the drawing so that it was the desired dimensions. I am now wondering if doing this was in error, I don't want to submit an order to Shapeways and get an item back that would need to be delivered by a Chinook helicopter!

I wish I could get things in 5 business days, takes at least 10 business days to Western Canada.

Well there are certain projects for which I would like to get a Bachmann chassis or two, and despite searching I have yet to see any, class 85 for example. If GBL comes out with a particular model I would like to get, nothing on the horizon yet, I wouldn't mind doing what a lot of you guys have done and motorize it, but if it is something that only a Bachmann chassis would be used for it won't be an easy project. Problem is I don't dispose of anything. Learnt some time ago that if I get rid of something I soon need it to finish another project. Also I have a habit of fixing up any s/h or damaged that come my way so buying a loco to break up for parts doesn't appeal to me.

How do you get Bachmann chassis? Never really seem to find them.

Oh 'bleep bleep'! Reshaped the frame so that it fits into the body, great! Take the dummy bogie off my 29 and test fit it, great! Take the motor bogie off and test fit it, doesnt fit, GREAT! Seems that the 83 body from Applegreen is a bit lower so the top of the motor contacts the body. Am going to look at modifying the 29 chassis so that Hornby class 86 bogies can fit into it, then I can remove the bogie sides and fit the class 83 sides.

Well I have a X942 motor I could use and don't really feel like taking it apart and modiflying it for 5mm!

After several months of trying to get my class 29 underframe from storage back in Ontario I finally got it. The length is perfect although it just needs to be profiled to fit into the body. Now I just need to check the class 29 bogie frame against the class 83 bogie frames to see if they will be a good replacement. If so then I will order some and use them for the model.

Yes I was wondering if the pipes would turn out in printing.

Hmm, so when I imported the drawing into netfabb a measurement on the original drawing of 19cm (190 mm) is now 7.48mm. So is it normal for the drawing to be shrunk during the process, I used meshlab in between, or have I got a setting wrong.

Jeff Thanks will give it a try. Did export as a DAE file but netfabb didn't open it when I selected 'all files'. EDIT IT WORKED! If I could hit the thanks button a thousand times I would for that advice. When I got the tanks into Netfabb I had a nice red exclamaition mark so obviously something isnt right. Anyway now that I can get that far I can start to play with the drawing. Thanks again Jeff!