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drill bits?
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I was changing a few mis. items in a drawer just a few minutes ago. I once bought a box of carbide drill bits from a train-show exhibitor. I think Micro tool people also sell the same thing--really just a bunch of bits (of random sizes!) in a plastic box, but each bit has a fat collar around it. I had thought that collar mount would save a lot of time just in not having to adjust the collet size for each bit change. I once tried to use them but it quickly broke. I don't think I've tried any since, so to the back of the drawer they went! I'm wondering if you gentlemen have used them successfully and how you deal with carbide bits? Bob Werre
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Gents...... The logging corner is up for sale as a complete intact detailed industry. It is not cheap, but it will save you a TON of time (is time measured by weight?). Well over five years to build all the kits not to mention paying for the kits in the first place. If you want to buy a specific item rather than the entire package, let me know what you want and we can probably come to a mutual agreement. Photos below have short captions, but here are some general comments: Most red structures are built from BTS kits with the name Coon Gap Sawmill (or similar). All buildings are well made with very good craftsmanship -- except for one. The one exception is the main sawmill structure which is truly contest quality with many added details and full interior detailing including lights for the night scene. This is a rare bird indeed. Here are the pix: Exterior view of sawmill building. Looks rather ordinary until you remove the roof and look inside. As you can see from this interior view, the detailing is extensive including all the machinery, logs, planks, boards, workmen, etc. The complete process of converting a tree to sellable boards is conveyed with this model. BTS did a great job. I believe they now have a different sawmill available, but the Coon Gap model is no longer made. Mr. Wade will correct me if I am in error here. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org
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Time to thin the herd: 1) River Raisin E8 non-dynamic brakes. NIB. Comes with both sets of grills, stock and FARR. $400.00 plus shipping. 2) Southwind NYC Swallow Tail Observation. NYC had two. Both later painted into Pullman green after being released from Pacemaker service. NIB. $350.00 plus shipping. 3) Southwind PT-5 Tender. NIB. $300.00 plus shipping. Please contact me off list if interested. More photos available request. Brian Jackson Springfield, IL
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Cryer Grey gondola: Factory painted, includes coupler package, never run. $125 which includes Advantage Mail Shipping
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Drop Step for RS11
Are there any currently available grate style drop steps for RS11s? I have an undecorated AM that I recently bought because K4 came out with some NKP decals. Old habits are hard to break. Tom P Alexandria VA
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R Bruce Tibbetts
Is anyone here in the Northern Virginia S-Gaugers Club? The RS11 I just finished was originally owned by R Bruce Tibbetts. I sort of knew him and did some painting for him 30+ years ago. I just saw his obit he died about a month ago.. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Models.htm Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progress at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
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Logging Corner ; plus this and that!
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As I've been paying attention to much of what Ed has been offering for sale, I can only think and wonder about the mixed feelings he probably has about all this happening!, Then I'm not that far from that happening to my layout too! Not trying to add doom & gloom but it's hard to see such a great place looking like a natural disaster is occurring! Just part of life I guess. Then to continue: I was particularly looking at the lifts and cranes that I really would like, but his are largely built- in and mine are likewise . I have two that with a couple of hours, this afternoon, will exchange places. One is probably a S Scenery dock crane while the other a Leigh Valley pedistal model. They both are in visually attractive places but also reaching across the tracks has or will attract damage. So they will be swapping places. I was also recently talking with Gilbert Freitag the son of Gil as he was talking about the disposal of Gils famous Stony Creek and Western layout. His friends, who could salvage parts, were welcome to arrange for parts of it. A large dispatcher's panel (12-20') was removed through a large window. while several structures are now on layouts in the area. There was also a 1:1 working lower quadrant signal in the back yard, baggage wagon and working crossbucks around the yard. This thought process is coming from my frugal, recycling background, or perhaps another hundred ways to explain this! There is a small town called Ashley N. D. that we frequently visited. It was on the SOO line and a short ways away was a grounded wooden baggage car, that sat their for many years until I wanted to photograph it as a art project--then it was gone! During that same weekend trip, I came across a two story SOO line depot that obviously had been sold or just dumped onto a farmer's pasture. It had been severed to where the baggage area was several feet from the waiting/residence portion. I did take the time for several shots and removed a short chunk of the soffit for a future color match. Both sections were leaning, so they're not long till they're a pile of wood. A bit more interesting was on a commercial oil field project, again in North Dakota, where out in the prairie was a passenger car, again grounded. Luckily I was just a harmless trespasser who again grabbed a few shots. I would guess it was a NP car due to the arched window framing, but this was former GN territory so I really didn't know. It had been turned into a field office at the edge of a sand pit, so again it was beyond its time. I later found a couple of articles featuring it in local newspapers so other people are interested in it. So if there are some words to describe all this mumbo, is that when you have a lot of irons, some are going to be hot, others fairly cold==do something and get back to work...as I'm about to! Bob Werre PhotoTraxx
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the Flasher
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This is not to recall an incident at a past NASG Convention partially because Steve was never formally charged and the Statue of Limitations has expired. I have modeled my Smokey Mountain FM 10-44 into a model 12-44 for the Minnesota Northfield and Southern. The prototype of this engine had a warning beacon on the roof, a feature I wanted to model. To create this, I used a S Scale America Stratolite Strobe Flasher detail (SSA221). I drilled out the bottom .062 and mounted an Aaron Heine RB-1 flasher assembly. While the shape of the lens in more like the tradition flashers and not the earlier rotary beacons it is a great effect. I am sure some smart person with a 3D printer could create the correct shaped part. I am going to document the complete build for the S Resource. The other two detail parts are a BTS Firecracker antenna and a S Scale Americam Hancock Air Whistle detail Ken Zieska
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NWSL STANTON DRIVES.
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I would like to thank Jim King for the time and input he gave me by phone the other day Re: my 44 Tonner Stanton drives. The drives kept freezing up and the Tsunami 2200 decoder would flash an overload error code. This kept happening even though I cleaned the gears and lubricated them. I sent both drives out to NWSL this past Thursday so I¡¯ll keep the group updated. Thanks again Jim for your help. Tony Salvate Greenwich, CT
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Conrail RS11
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My Conrail RS11 is completed. Please give it a look. It will probably be in a new YouTube in the next week or so. https://www.youtube.com/user/crazyman762 http://www.lanestrains.com/S_Scale_Conrail_RS11_7651.htm Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy, PRSL & Reading in 1957 in S Scale since 1987 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Models.htm Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! See my layout progress at: http://www.lanestrains.com/My_Layout.htm Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL
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Be sure to read the sales pitch below the photo. Hope you enjoyed the logging show. Time to check the balance in your train fund account. Cheers.........Ed L. Here is the last of the photos for now. Shown here is a single stall engine house, a machine or blacksmith shop, a small office building, assorted vehicles, horses, etc. Smaller stuff just to complete the scene and make it more believable. The round horizontal gray tank is an HO model by Campbell Scale Models. Looks right at home -- at least to me. How big is a tank anyway? Here is the sales pitch: The entire logging corner is for sale. Everything in the photos is included in a package deal except trees which are not included. Trees are available at extra cost. I'd prefer one person to purchase the entire corner if possible. Otherwise, individual pieces are available if that is what you want. As usual, please provide me with your best reasonable price for what you want. I'd suggest you check on the prices of individual unbuilt kits and use that as a guideline to your starting offer price. How much does a BTS sawmill kit cost? Go check it out. Contest quality stuff does not come at a discount. You won't find better anywhere else. If I like your offer, I will smile and a box will head your way. If not, the model remains here in California in my home. The tradeoff for something like this is a humongous number of manhours spent building kits (when you'd rather run trains) versus having everything you need in a matter of a week or two. Trust me, you will not miss the money one year from now, but you will enjoy the sawmill and logging operation on your layout for the rest of your life. I hope Bill Lane feels we are back on track now. Not one word about my retirement plans since I have already been retired for over 25+ years. Living in the heart of Silicon Valley, the high-tech capital of the world, is an experience that is almost unbelievable. I wouldn't consider moving, but then again, my house is all paid for and that makes a HUGE difference. Hope you are all doing well and enjoying life. Make me some offers and let's see where this leads. Email preferred, but phone works. Loizeaux aht SBC // Global daht net 1-650-962-1577 Make me smile and I will make you smile....................Smiling Ed L. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org
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Here is a wagon taking finished boards off to a local customer. No need for a train for this order. The horses are up to the task. Every steamer needs water sooner or later. Even ducks (baby swans?) appreciate a drink once in a while. Pardon the dust, but it can be blown off easily. A backup BIG WHEELS just waiting to be called into action. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org
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Sawmill employees (on my layout) need to take the train to work each day. Thus, a need for a small RR station shown here. Don't ask me why it is made from stone (ground floor) -- I have not a clue. Note the milk cans on the baggage wagon. Yep, the milk train just delivered them. But it is cute as a button. (opinion, questionable fact.) Here is the finished goods loading dock where cut lumber is loaded onto standard gauge flat cars for delivery to customers in the far away city. As business increased over time, the more modern gray dock was built to handle the additional volume. The brown dock was board-by-board constructed by Don Leger of Arizona fame. Each board has fantastic wood grain and nail heads. Don't ask about the frog number of the turnouts -- they are sharp, but the small crane handles them very well. Here is a close-up showing the wood grain, nails, turnout frogs, small crane (yes, it rotates), etc. A true work of art. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org
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Here are some pix from the other side of the logging corner. Cannot show both sides in one image unless I stand so far away that nothing can be seen close-up. Shown here is a freight station for receiving supplies used by the sawmill complex. In the background is a steam donkey used for dragging logs up hills and over the ground to move them closer to the RR tracks for transportation to the sawmill. Steam donkey close-up. This is a really cool hunk of machinery. (opinion, not scientific fact) Shown here is a spar pole used to lift logs onto skels or flat cars after they have been dragged close to the RR tracks. The spar pole on the left is painted onto the wall and I cannot sell it -- but I could include a photo of it enlarged. You could glue the photo onto your wall. How's that for some creativity? The spar pole in the foreground is made from two HO spar poles mounted one on top of another. Works great for S scale like a lot of HO stuff which is commonly oversized for the scale size printed on the box. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org
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Here are some more pictures: Shown here is a sort-of crane-like device which lifts logs off skels and rolls them over onto the ramp where they splash down into the water. The cable is fitted beneath the logs and the crane pulls up on the cable and the logs roll right off the skel and gravity does the rest. It does one car at a time which makes for lots of switching moves to unload an entire train. Sure beats watching Bachelor on TV. Right? Here is the sawdust building which holds all the sawdust for future sale to animal feed manufacturers. Maybe sold to other folks as well -- I really do not know. Also shown in the foreground is BIG WHEELS which is used to drag logs through the forest when there is no road, river or RR tracks available for transportation. -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org
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Gents.......... Here are two images reflecting wise decisions by two or three people who figured that building kits for the next five or six years was not worth the time and effort when the structures they wanted were already built and readily available from Smiling Ed L. It is only money and one year from now it will not be missed. First up is the former Coal Mine corner. Following that is the former City corner. Both corners were purchased more-or-less intact by single individuals. The layout is starting to look a bit bare as you can see from the photos below. Next up is the Logging Corner which should appeal to all those folks who bought my Shays, Heisler, Samson and skels quite some time ago. Even standard gauge folks can have a vibrant logging industry without much trouble. Shays are not required. Photos of the Logging Corner are shown in the following email coming in just a few minutes. Get ready to spend some money.....................Cheers.....Smiling Ed L. IMG_2514.jpg 1009.2kB IMG_2515.jpg 883.1kB -- Ed Loizeaux Los Altos, CA www.nycvd.org
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Many thanks for your input...
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I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my "where should a train person retire" question. I have been gone all week without computer access and am still catching up on messages. I have gained valuable insights from everyone. Perhaps the most important is, "Things change." Reasons that folks moved here or there may no longer be in play. And while my question was not "S"pecific, it was model and prototype railroading focused. Many of you included that information in your responses, and again I thank you. Phil Scandura Flagstaff AZ
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Whatever the three axle truck is it has sprung journals. $25.00 includes USPS Advantage Mail shipping Rusty
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dust bunny's a plenty!
It's been great weather the last few days, but rather than becoming a urban sharecropper I decided to tackle a really old issue. I think most of us have owned a series of VHS, Beta-Max, or the more modern devices to play back old Pentrax/Green Frog or other video's plus what we shot on our own. Any train-show usually had a group of guys selling video products. I've only bought a few, but was given some, but they've gathered under the layout or in closets for some years only to be brought back out then finding the player is not working or the connecting cords no longer work. I started culling some of my VHS and DVD's last night as my grand daughter was trying to find the film of her youth so we piggybacked our efforts! With updating the connecting cords we finally got one to come back on line! I had to just toss a bunch of them as the playback wasn't at all good! I unearthed one cassette that was shot by Paul Riley from the Bristol bunch--he and his wife always attended each convention. I don't know if he's still active, but he reminded me of some of the 'greats' in our scale from both the Eastern states combined with the era of the 70's and 80's. This seems to still be able for a decent playback. I've also got some footage that was presented at the First Sacramento convention with some other vintage things including some Canadian scenes, but I sort of doubt it surviving. I also shot some stuff on my layout that I'll cross my fingers for! Later I hope! Bob Werre
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