Spitfire2865

I was unaware of the company up until yesterday. A great loss indeed. My surprise when I saw they have some unique 1/2" scale items. Put in an order via email, hoping to hear a response soon.

I thought the American broad gauge was used in the South, not North. Hell, the American Civil War was as much about ripping up and relaying railroads as it was about the fighting.

Do you know if there are plans for this loco anywhere? Fits perfectly in my G3 scope and Ive been wanting to build an American loco to G3.

I miss being in the Utica area.

Wow, been quite a while. After a detour to aircraft modelling, Im back to trains. So far in 2018 I planned Gauge 3 builds for an L&Y D1 and D21. 3 months of issues for getting the wood has finally paid off. Starting with the D21 tintab. It will have a full detailed interior and working brakes. Got a lot of parts sitting around for that. But in those 3 months, I planned, designed, and built a G3 Neilson 12" mineral engine. Still have to sort out the RC gear but in time. Havent really been active around here much, though I do still read daily.

https://m.ebay.com/itm/Western-The-General-Train-Set-HO-Nomura-Japan-Vintage-1960s-4-Pieces-w-Track-/352231507021?_mwBanner=1 This looks like the ticket. Thats all I could find honestly. Photos in the description.

Of what I know of UK practice, and a bit of US practice, its exactly that. Some sidings are only operable from a certain direction. If you want something interesting to do on google maps, search the Matt Brewing Company in Utica, NY, USA. Theyre still railserved and Ive had quite a bit of fun trying to figure out how to actually get from there to any mainline as the area is peppered with defunct sidings, old rail served industries, and different arrangements of sidings and access.

Books are resource materials and therefore educational. Thats my justification on spending close to $50 US on some of them. Compared to what I paid for some of my textbooks at college, practically a bargain!

That attitude is the reason modelling the UK in the US is so difficult.Especially in this hobby where many products are only sold by a single entity or rarely come up on online auction sites.

Well W&ARR stands for Western and Atlantic, a US railroad made famous by the locomotive "General" along with its historical significance. Im assuming this was a General trainset. I havent a clue what manufacturer it could be though. And from the date, it probably wasnt a particularly good model. The coach is a nasty bastardization of what is called an Overland coach in the US. Wooden construction, open air ends, made for ground level platforming, etc. In modelling circles, the term Overton refers to a shorter version of an overland coach, even though I believe they never actually existed.

Just had a look. Very strange indeed. Just the first 3 pages alone, looks more like Linked in users than Shapeways! Not to mention almost all the suspicious ones have nothing but suspicious links in their bio. Inspecting them shows its all linking to different websites. Looks like you got targeted as a potential customer by some bot.

Ive seen before someone who gave the stock chassis compensation by elongating the forward axle holes and melting a bent rod into the chassis to act as a pivot. No help on the nut size, but for small (and I mean small, 14ba type small) nuts I use a set of reverse tweezers which can grip the nut faces evenly. Might be worth a shot.

For brass, Shapeways actually uses lost wax casting where they print the master in wax. Decent results too. I got some crossheads in brass for a G3 loco.

Hello all, I was wondering if anyone knows of anywhere I could find some GA drawings of this class? Im interested in as built condition so any drawings of the A type boiler would be useful too. Ive already asked the Midland Study Center who dont believe to have anything themselves, and HMRS has something that might be of use. However I was hoping there might be a good drawing of it somewhere I havent thought to check. Certainly there is something out there as several kits have been made of it, plus Bachmanns recent-ish offering. Thanks!

Public acceptance?

How does eBays system handle clicking the "buy it now" button? Ive certainly clicked it on one or two occasions by mistake on touch screens. Though Ive never then gotten a message from a seller regarding it.

Do you by any chance have a higher resolution copy of that first one? Looks just like the Midlands design.

Ive never seen a photo of a railway flat dray with a seat, however the Midland had some road drays with an elevated seat and sliding canvas top.

Well for my 2 cents. Recently designing a Gauge 3 loco to have the entire superstructure 3D printed, I came to the saddletank. A large object mostly hollow with chunky but reserved wall thickness. Printed in WSF btw. So I thought I could sprue the chimney into the tank hollow to save on some cost. Turned out the combination piece was a good chunk more expensive than the tank and chimney separately! Not truly understanding the logic there, I decided to forgo that idea and print all the components separately. So Im not sure if your idea really works after a certain scale factor. The saddle tank, btw, measures less than 8cm x 5cm x 12cm. Pretty close to an O scale item in terms of relative size and volume.

Its quite amazing how much a wagon is held together by the end posts and knees. Its a tub bolted to a frame and both would be strong structures in themselves apart.

American wooden boxcars were built similar to a wooden house frame, making the preceding term HouseCar quite accurate actually. The Sheathing was simply the part of the wall that kept the outside out and attributed little to the strength. Single Sheathed cars were common around the turn of the century but Double Sheathed looked a lot nicer and was probably a lot easier to letter and keep clean(ish). From what Ive gathered from UK practices, the only thing that was similar was some pregrouping vans with prominent framework such as Midland practice. Even then the similarities end there. The engineering behind it was vastly different. Not to mention many UK vans did have planks in two directions. L&Y vans for example. But those were for weatherproofing, not structure. But the American practice was necessary for 40' car lengths. It was effectively a truss bridge on wheels. For an entire vehicle, 45 degree planking would probably weaken the integrity of the structure.

I think a big problem is the lack of rail lines. Especially with Amtrak having only running rights for the Class 1s routes, youre bound to have Amtrak running on lines bordering industries, with those unprotected hand thrown points. Unless the Class 1s want to put the money in to revamp their entire network and bring it up to modern specs, Amtrak is SOL. The entire situation is an awful mistake on the part of a handful of people working with an outdated and error prone system. Its just a shame so many got caught up in that mistake.

no experience with boat kits, but a lot with their materials. Wood is relatively forgiving to work in, and it appears to be built like a balsa plane going by the instructions which should make it pretty simple. If youre relatively competent with kitbuilding, Id say you should have no issue. Unless the kit is unbuildable of course.

I can say the London Road casting is excellent, so if he does supply them, you wont be disappointed.