I have had the flag in some of my photos for about the past year. ? Thank You,
Bill Lane
Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987
See my finished models at:
Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! ? See my layout progress at:
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Re: Frog and Point Castings
Update:? I have just three sets of points and ten No. 7 frogs left.? And a potload of No. 14 frogs.
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On Wednesday, June 12, 2024 at 02:11:47 PM PDT, Richard Karnes <rnk2202@...> wrote:
I suppose I should have posted a photo.? Here it is...
You would need to grind off the casting gate at the heels of the points, and also file the rail ends smooth on the frogs.
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I still have lots of nickel-silver investment-cast frogs and points, all with full nut/bolt detail.? Points require no notching of stock rails.? Points are 16'-6", I have both #7 and #14 (yes, fourteen) frogs that match code 125 rail.
If anyone is interested, $3 will et you a pair of points or a frog.? Orders under $10 will need to add postage.
Let me know off-list:? rnk2202 at yahoo dot com.
-- Dick Karnes, MMR
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Pondering or just talking to myself
Every day when I operate if a car causes problems or locomotive does something stupid the offending unit comes off the layout and gets inspected. All wheels get cleaned and gauged. Graphite to the couplers, coupler drop down pin get painted black and tipped in white. Then the unit goes to the sink for a bath. Since I color my own, I know that the dulling agent is tight and brush and water will not hurt the decals or finish. I don't dunk steamers.?
Since it is a small to medium size layout it has a 112 cars on the layout that work comfortably. My hat is off to all you guys with layouts bigger than mine with more cars and locomotives. The daily maintenance must be a lot keeping the whole thin looking good and running good.?
I will say that my layout fits almost all the criteria that was talked about in the the survey. One that was not mentioned that drives me away from a layout when visiting is dust on rolling stock. It is hard to see on a scenic layout but it looks terrible on locomotives and rolling stock.?
Something else to ponder. Steamers, why do we refer to them a she or her? Its because they have the same personalities as a woman. They operate perfectly for days and days. Then you wake up one morning and the same steamer you had been running starts to throw fits. WHY? No reason just wants to be cantankerous. Just leave it alone and run a different steamer and come back a couple days latter and she runs perfectly. Hmmm. Just crazy. Almost makes you want to go diesel.?
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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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¡°Tru-Color has produced a specialized paint for 3D printed and resin cast models.¡°Sent from my Tardis Begin forwarded message:
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On Thursday, June 13, 2024, 4:56 PM, Gene's P48 Blog <comment-reply@...> wrote:
Printed models are a reality for our scale.? ?We have seen parts and detail item but now printed cars are showing up in significant numbers.
Sarah Griessenb?ck continues to push the envelope of the boundries of 3D modeling.? Her latest project¡
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Printed models are a reality for our scale.? ?We have seen parts and detail item but now printed cars are showing up in significant numbers.
Sarah Griessenb?ck continues to push the envelope of the boundries of 3D modeling.? Her latest project is a UTLX 10,000 gallon tank car.? The protoype was produced in large numbers by Union Tank Car.? ?The cars were in service for many years and easily covered the 1920s through the 1970s.? No one has produced a correct model of this car.? Nearly all plastic and brass models were AC&F or General American designs.? UTLX had a unique side sills and end platforms compared to other tank car builders.
Sarah is working on her design refining features and printing.? I have included a shot of a low resolution test print.? ?As you can see the surface is a bit rough which is an artifact of the low printing resolution.? She has focused on the perfecting the design and printing faster.? High resolution printing of a car like this will take upwards of 20 hours.
The lead photos shows the tank car being printed.? The liquid resin is formed using a laser as the resin tank moves upward.
The level of detail would be hard to create in traditional production methods.? The car will likely be offered by like the 12500 gallon O-50-9 car Sarah did earlier.
By the way, the prototype data package was loaned by to Sarah by Norm Buckhart of Protocraft.? Norm had planned on a brass model of the this car but increased costs in Korea caused the cancelation.
TRU-COLOR SPECIAL 3D PAINT?
Tru-Color has produced a specialized paint for 3D printed and resin cast models.? They added adhesion promoters to the basic paint.? The paint is a single coat product with dense pigment content to cover the model.? They recommend using 28 pounds pressure and a .5mm tip.
Here is my first attempt painting with this paint.? I didn't use the right tip and had some issues with the finish.? ?The paint really covers well and seems to have a strong bond with the 3D printed resin.
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NICE FISH COMPANY
Here is a recent post on FaceBook listing there new models:
Flat cars, eh?
Nice Fish Model Company is pleased to announce the first product- Museum quality, Ready to Run, O gauge and Proto:48 Canadian Pacific, and Canadian National 52'6" flat cars.
The prototypes for this car are 1952, Canadian Car and Foundry for Canadian Pacific, and National Steel Car for Canadian National models.
This model is made in Canada. No offshore design, assembly, or production was utilized, except for purchase of couplers, wheels, and wire. It is primarily plastic, with some metal parts, and it comes fully assembled and painted, save for the addition of the optional air hoses. Some obvious features of a high end model such as this are phosphor bronze wire grab irons and cut levers, etched nickel silver metal stirrup steps, Kadee couplers in scale draft gear, Grabowski steel wheels on Proto:48 models, and Intermountain metal wheels on O gauge models. There is a cold rolled steel backbone in the model, and will support 1lb indefinitely, so feel free to put your die cast bulldozer on it. The paint and lettering are matched to railroad paint chips, and the lettering is generated from official railroad lettering diagrams or directly from photos.
This model sells for $300 Canadian, and is not available in stores. The initial offering is available now, and as small batches are available, they will be listed on the shopify website for sale. A 2.5% discount is offered for Canadian etransfer sales, to offset oline fees. Shipping is flat rate $25 worldwide. These are very limited run, with a total of 50 units produced, 25 CN and 25 CP. Once sold out, they will most likely not be available again for several years.
Thank you, and I look forward to continue serving you in the model railroad industry.
nicefishsales@...
Jeff Briggs, Owner
Nice Fish Model Company
Jeff Briggs produced a very nice Canadian Pacific minibox kit recently.? It was 3D printed.
That's all for now,
Gene Deimling
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Re: Frog and Point Castings
Mr T. C. talks about rail sizes,?
However if one were to buy a few of those frogs, get them a bit
rusty and lay off to the side, It's probably a good cosmetic
detail ignoring of a few thousands in size.? If you've every
gathered a handful of those lead castings you'll be adding up some
serious coin.
So when you buy a dozen of those, I'm
Dick will send me a commission check to make my old memory still
seem worthwhile!
Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx
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I still have lots of nickel-silver investment-cast frogs
and points, all with full nut/bolt detail.? Points require no
notching of stock rails.? Points are 16'-6", I have both #7
and #14 (yes, fourteen) frogs that match code 125 rail.
If anyone is interested, $3 will et you a pair of
points or a frog.? Orders under $10 will need to add postage.
Let me know off-list:? rnk2202 at yahoo dot com.
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Ted: Thanks foir posting this what a great reference resource for many facets of our modeling.
BeSt RegardS
Bill Morris
NEPrototypes
PO Box 4-4-2
Rutland, MA 091543-0442 USA
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Re: Frog and Point Castings
Nice castings. I don't do code 125 but nice to know.
Talmadge C 'TC' Carr
Sn42 and Mn42 in 1923
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PS: If one is looking for smaller stuff there is <>
Before that I used H0 components. So go build turnouts.
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On 12June2024, at 14:11, Dick Karnes, MMR via groups.io <rnk2202@...> wrote:
I suppose I should have posted a photo. Here it is...
You would need to grind off the casting gate at the heels of the points, and also file the rail ends smooth on the frogs........
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Re: Groups.IO messages not coming thru
There is also our friends across the pond in that lovely isle. /g/sscalelist/topicsTalmadge C 'TC' Carr Sn42 and Mn42 in 1923 group_list@...
On 12June2024, at 03:52, Gaylord Gill <gcgill@...> wrote:
Rance, I misunderstood your original question. The "other" . io group, with the label S-Trains, caters more to hi-rail and AF enthusiasts. They used to have many more members than our S-Scale list, but are now down to 228 members versus ours of over 800. I don't follow the S-Trains posts, but it's my guess that that group tends to have fewer people actually building models. In my opinion, modeling questions, responses, and comments account for most of our S-Scale messages.
Gaylord
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Re: Frog and Point Castings
I suppose I should have posted a photo.? Here it is...
You would need to grind off the casting gate at the heels of the points, and also file the rail ends smooth on the frogs.
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I still have lots of nickel-silver investment-cast frogs and points, all with full nut/bolt detail.? Points require no notching of stock rails.? Points are 16'-6", I have both #7 and #14 (yes, fourteen) frogs that match code 125 rail.
If anyone is interested, $3 will et you a pair of points or a frog.? Orders under $10 will need to add postage.
Let me know off-list:? rnk2202 at yahoo dot com.
-- Dick Karnes, MMR
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Hi Rance,
I subscribe to all of the S-related Groups.io mailing list, and it
is very rare to see anything on the "S-Trains" group. It has always
been that way since Yahoo Groups went away and Groups.io started up.
This "S-Scale" group is the most active out of all. The Sn3 group
gets some activity, and occassionally there is little bit of
activity in the Sn2 group. Most of the others are pretty much
dormant.
- Peter.
On 06/12/2024 03:10 AM, Rance Velapoldi
wrote:
Hi John:
Guess the
question is how much activity does the S-gauge.io group have??
Is it more than 1 message a week or two?? The problem is that I
only get one or two over 2-3 weeks for S-gauge.io.? If that is
the activity rate, then that is ok.? I am not a member of other
.io groups.? However, it seems as though there must be more
activity for the S-gauge.io group than only one message every
one or two weeks.? The S-scale group is quite active (although I
am not sure whether it is an io group or not.? Just that there
was some discussion about switching to .io a few years ago.
regards,
Rance Velapoldi
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owner, Fourth Ray Software
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Re: Groups.IO messages not coming thru
No reply from the Groups.IO "support" person/persons.? Nothing in my Spectrum spam folders (I have one connected to email inbox and one with the folders group.? I did check my profile with the Groups.IO site and nothing has been bouncing.? I just now changed digest mode to simple text ... maybe photos and additional info included with emails is causing an issue.? My next attempt will be to add a group and see if that comes thru.
JK
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Re: For Sale: Overland ALCO S-1
I don't know whether you got it, but since I didn't hear back from Rustermeir, if you didn't get it, neither of us did.??
Generally speaking, any Overland Alco in good shape for less than $400 is a fair price.
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I have an original OMI ALCO S-1. Never had couplers installed, apparently not run much. It has all the detail parts in the bags and the original paperwork from Overland?
dated 1986. There is a crinkle dink to one corner of the box. The box also had what I think was a price tag that has been removed.
I bought the model from a hobby shop in
Westminster CA. when not thinking. I was looking for the S-2, oh well.?
$380 including Priority ?Mail shipping
Rusty
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Re: Groups.IO messages not coming thru
I set up a special gmail account just to receive group.io
messages. No problems what so ever. Hopefully I'm not speaking too
soon.
Rich D in Maine
On 6/11/2024 5:22 PM, Rance Velapoldi
via groups.io wrote:
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Hi all:
I don't know
how many
messages are going out.? I get one or two every once in a
while.? Is there a lot of activity, or is this the activity
(maybe one message per week)?? Are we missing out on messaging
each other?? I am curious as to the actual activity of this
group!
regards from
Norway,
Rance
Velapoldi? (Tranby, Norway)
All of my Groups.IO digest mode emails stopped coming
thru overnight.? I checked my .IO settings and just verified
with Spectrum that nothing has changed there.? Since I would
normally get a response to this post via .IO, please contact
me off list if you're experiencing similar issues, know if
there's a problem on Groups' end, etc.? I did send an email
to "support" at Groups and got a rubber-stamp reply so that
is working, just not any of the chat groups.
Jim King
(828) 777-5619
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Re: For Sale: Overland ALCO S-1
I would like to buy your S-1.? Shipping to 07059, NJ.? Maybe PirateShip if you don't mind.
Jace said that he would defer so that I would buy.? Please advise.
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Re: Groups.IO messages not coming thru
Rance, I misunderstood your original question.? The "other" . io group, with the label S-Trains, caters more to hi-rail and AF enthusiasts.? They used to have many more members than our S-Scale list, but are now down to 228 members versus ours of over 800.? I don't follow the S-Trains posts, but it's my guess that that group tends to have fewer people actually building models.? ?In my opinion, modeling questions, responses, and comments account for most of our S-Scale messages.
Gaylord
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Hi Gaylord: Do you get that many for the S-gauge.io group or is this the number for the S-scale.io group?? I do get many S-scale.io messages; So possibly the S-gauge.io group is quite quiet! regards, Rance Velapoldi
Rance, as of the time your message arrived today (Tuesday June 11th), I counted 13 messages posted since midnight.? For June 10th I see there were 12 messages and for June 9th I see 14 messages.? Is this different than what you see?
I receive my messages via the Full Digest mode, which sends a single email with the day's postings.? Due to the volume, there are often two or even three such emails.??
? ? ? Gaylord Gill
? ? ? Highland, Michigan
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Hi John: Guess the question is how much activity does the S-gauge.io group have?? Is it more than 1 message a week or two?? The problem is that I only get one or two over 2-3 weeks for S-gauge.io.? If that is the activity rate, then that is ok.? I am not a member of other .io groups.? However, it seems as though there must be more activity for the S-gauge.io group than only one message every one or two weeks.? The S-scale group is quite active (although I am not sure whether it is an io group or not.? Just that there was some discussion about switching to .io a few years ago. regards, Rance Velapoldi
No apparent issues on my end... got my TEST posting and 2 replies.
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Re: Groups.IO messages not coming thru
Rance, as of the time your message arrived today (Tuesday June 11th), I counted 13 messages posted since midnight.? For June 10th I see there were 12 messages and for June 9th I see 14 messages.? Is this different than what you see?
I receive my messages via the Full Digest mode, which sends a single email with the day's postings.? Due to the volume, there are often two or even three such emails.??
? ? ? Gaylord Gill
? ? ? Highland, Michigan
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Dick Karnes, MMR
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Bob Werre
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