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"S"tock Pen -- available
JJundt wrote:? Gives me ideas for my upcoming layout.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? I already decided there will be a stock pen. Ed L. writes:? No need to spend hours and hours building a stock pen when there is one available from Mr. "S"miles himself (me).? Make your highest reasonable offer and see if the entire scene ends up in a box headed for you.? Included is everything in the picture:? fence, cows, horses (4 fabulous, 2 average), trucks (one with salt licks) and one cowboy.?? Email preferred.? Phone works.? ? Loizeaux aht? SBC? //? Global? daht? net? ?1-650-962-1577 "S"incerely.........Ed Loizeaux -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA |
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Re: Riverton Stockyard
开云体育The stockyard was indeed built by Ernie Horr. ?I added the cattle pens and ramps for Chuck Porter. ?I also have a coaling tower built by Ernie as well. ?Brought from Chuck Porter for $5. ?My wife laughed, as it was a box of kindling as well. ?The trouble with Ernie’s builds, they were all built out of balsa wood. ?Very fragile and hard to rebuild.Steve Lunde On Dec 13, 2024, at 17:14, Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
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Re: Today’s S Scale project
Today’s progress on the tender includes the drop-down step on the rear of the tender frame on each side. The electrical conduit running down the side of the tender to the rear light. The four brackets were made, and soldered to the tender deck to create a friction fit of the doghouse to the deck. The dog house has remained and will remain removable. The rear light was chosen because of its larger size. I thought about building a bracket and putting the batwing headlight on the bracket, like all, my Mopac locomotives have on the tender. But I also thought, since this is a switcher, and if I was standing on the footboard of the tender, I’d want as much light down by the couplers as I could get. So I chose the larger light, and I set it on the tender deck instead of putting in a higher up over the top box cars on the bracket. I also put the horizontal hand railing along the back of the tender for the brakeman to walk the beam of the frame behind the tender tank. I also fabricated the tender tank to frame brackets on the back and solder those to the tank. They’re just resting on the frame.
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as I moved to the boiler, I realized that the boiler I had was pretty much a straight boiler and I really didn’t care for it. So I went scrounging and found to my happiness, a bronze boiler with the correct shape and size for this model. So I will be using the bronze boiler for this guy and in the upcoming days I’ll start making the rapper for the smoke box. In the meantime, I’m finishing up the front pilot with pictures to follow.
Mike Swederska Meramec Valley Lines Modeling Mopac equipment in 3/16 Don't let perfection get in the way of good enough! Keep model railroading fun! |
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Re: Riverton Stockyard
开云体育Steve,? Is there a possibility that the
original builder might have been Ernie Horr?? A couple of guys
teased him, but at his age he had heard it all.? Dick Karnes would
verify this but I think he lived in Spokane.? I had hoped to visit
with him as he was fading fast, but time wouldn't allow for that.?
If I have the wrong individual, sorry!
However it is an excellent looking
model so several folks need credit for it.? Back in my youth every
little town had a salesbarn, in my home town it was on Thursdays.?
Farmer's cattle trucks were all around and if you were selling and
if prices were up, the beer joints were filled that day.? Then if
you found a good Bull to improve the herd--same thing, good
times!? The next day another neighboring town would hold it's
sale.? On a hot evening you could hear the cattle hollering into
the night.? One by one the yards were shuttered, as the
financially weaker ones closed and that tradition was gone along
with the farmers who raised the cattle in small batches!
The last time I was noodling around in
the old Milw yards in Aberdeen, South Dakota I walked the
area,---now just remaining wreckage of those times.? There were
feed troughs made of cast concrete.?? That area was perhaps a half
mile long.? I don't know if these were gathering points or resting
points or perhaps both at season.? You could only ship livestock
during a span of several hours, then unload, feed and water them.?
A good friend, & semi-neighbor
compiled a fairly elaborate book on the livestock business on the
ATSF.? He goes into great detail on how the ATSF handled that
business including hauling away the manure and old bedding.? I'm
certain that the Santa Fe Technical and Historical society
probably still has them FS.?
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
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Re: Riverton Stockyard
Hi Steve: I believe the builder of the Riverton stockyard (which looks great!) was an S scale modeler named Ernie Horr.?
Ernie was from the Pacific northwest, an early editor of the NASG Dispatch .? He was a good friend and contemporary of Chuck Porter's.? Ernie always loved a good time and is remembered (by a few of us who are left)
as showing up at an NASG Convention in the early 1980's with a couple
of coffee cans of Mount St. Helens ash for anyone interested to use as
scenery material!? I'm not sure when Ernie passed away.... Take care... Jim Kindraka
On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 3:42?PM Steve Lunde via <ace5348=[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Layout Progress
开云体育Great idea using helix for staging!!That idea never crossed my mind!
Your helix had so many tracks!!!
I only have two
Up and down
My helix is 72” diameter
Roger On Dec 13, 2024, at 2:25?PM, Ben via groups.io <pickycat95@...> wrote:
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Re: Riverton Stockyard
开云体育The photos?On Dec 13, 2024, at 14:39, Steve Lunde <ace5348@...> wrote:
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Be Part Of The Next Layout Tour (So. Calif.)
Be Part Of The Next Layout Tour (So. Calif.) [Please do not hit “Reply”. Contact me directly.] Model Railroads of Southern California’s next layout tour will be Saturday, February 15. The tour area will be Burbank and the surround cities. Railroads in any scale plus garden railroads are welcome to participate. I would like you to consider participating in the tour. Participating in a layout tour is a great way to share your work and meet your fellow model railroaders. You’ve probably worked hard on your railroad so you might as well get some recognition from people who will appreciate your efforts. All you need to do is operate your trains. I will do all the planning and publicity, as I have done for sixty-four previously tours since 2006, including tours for the NMRA national convention (Anaheim), the National Narrow Gauge Convention (Pasadena), the Southern Pacific Historical & Technical Society, the Santa Fe Historical & Modeling Society and several PCR and PSR regional conventions. The tour is self-guided (No busses) and free. If you have any questions before committing to the tour, please ask. In any event, please contact me directly in the next several weeks if you are interested so we can add your railroad to the tour. Once you have been added to the tour, I will contact you to establish the hours that work best for you. Thank you. Bob Chaparro Moderator Model Railroads of Southern California
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Re: Layout Progress
When I was responding to Brooks I realized, because the staging level is essentially a monster, multi-track siding to the mainline, the helix and the grade climb out of the other staging yard are great places to park a train after leaving staging and before entering the layout. ?And vice-versa after exiting the layout and proceeding into staging. ?It solves some operational problems going in and out of the staging yards.
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Re: Dabbling in O scale (was Re: [S-Scale]
开云体育
The CMP cars in both O and S scales (the S scale was really just the O scale version resized) were in the adequately-detailed category—just good enough to operate with better-detailed locomotives and rolling stock without looking like tinplate.? Rather like
the later AM cars, such as their gondola or bay-window caboose.? Underside was especially rudimentary from the O scale needing to accommodate hideous deep flanges.
I now own four of them: the MILW/URTX (which I suspect was a convention car), a PFE I found on the white-elephant table at the local train show, an NKP (also a convention car) bought at last year's NASG convention, and the Swift project by way of Tom Lennon.
Jace Kahn
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Werre <bob@...>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2024 11:01 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Dabbling in O scale (was Re: [S-Scale] ?
.Thanks Jace for recalling the Crown reefer.? I thought it a reasonable choice for those on the scale side of the tracks and the hi-side too!? Crown did offer a MILW version of the car that I would like to obtain--but until that time? Our dinner table won a car for each of us at one of the Bristol sponsored NASG conventions, it was a contest of sorts so my fellow diners excelled with knowledge as we consumed a good meal.? I ran mine for a couple of years till my PRS reefer fleet pushed them out.? IMHO the detail was 'just good enough' for most layouts!? So thanks Doug. Bob Werre PhotoTraxx
? CMP also produced 6-8 road names for the wood side refrigerator in S scale (with AM trucks).? Mike MacCormick operated out of several locations in the western suburbs of Boston.
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BRASS ALCO S-2 from Overland (Ajin)
Gents..... Here is a never-run switcher available for your busy yard.? Probably has a DCC decoder, but I honestly do not remember for sure.? Let me know if that is important and I will take it apart and look.? My silent decoders work on DCC and DC and so you are covered either way.?? The pictures tell the story.? ?Make me smile with your best reasonable offer and you can have a new yard switcher in time for Christmas.? Time is running out for Christmas delivery -- at least to the east coast from California. Email preferred.? Phone works.? ? Loizeaux aht? SBC //? Global daht? net? ? ? 1-650-962-1577?? "S"incerely.........Ed Loizeaux -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA |
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