Re: Seeking info for Mantua General 4-4-0 locomotive drive link/shaft
I think I have a couple of these (Mantua and/or Tyco) in my collection... I have to hit the storage to see, but my inventory program says I have 2 "in the box" so they should have all the parts.? I might be able to take a picture of the piece to help in locating a replacement, if that would help.. or maybe get really lucky and have a IPB in one of the boxes.
Unfortunately, that means a day or two for me to hit the storage and dig them out but..? I'll let you know what I find.
Mike
On Sunday, August 11, 2019, 4:43:08 PM EDT, Phillip Fimiani via Groups.Io <myamiphil@...> wrote:
I found this... Seems Mr Allen was actively making parts for the loco, but passed away in 2018. Maybe someone else has picked up the challenge.
On Saturday, August 10, 2019, 10:10:14 PM EDT, kathy allison <bryce01@...> wrote:
Hello ? My name is Jim Allison.? Initial interest is in resurrecting an old locomotive (Mantua General 4-4-0) and then onto a small layout. ? I now have (4) of these locomotives ? My interest goes back to my childhood (in the 60’s) when I used to watch this locomotive and passenger car set go round and round the Christmas tree simple loop layout my dad made. ? He has passed (2013) and I have the old locomotive and passenger car set and want to get it running.? The locomotive is missing the drive shaft/linkage from the tender motor to the gear drive in the locomotive. ? Does anyone know where I can get a drive shaft?? I believe the correct PN is 18596 (w/o the plastic hex knuckles – just a straight piece of flex rubber??). ? I did see some info on Mr. Alan Mueller (I just purchased his 3 books) and look forward to adapting his work to this unit if I cannot find a simple replacement. ? Any help would be greatly appreciated as well as accepting me to your group. ? Jim Allison ?
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Re: Seeking info for Mantua General 4-4-0 locomotive drive link/shaft
I found this... Seems Mr Allen was actively making parts for the loco, but passed away in 2018. Maybe someone else has picked up the challenge.
On Saturday, August 10, 2019, 10:10:14 PM EDT, kathy allison <bryce01@...> wrote:
Hello ? My name is Jim Allison.? Initial interest is in resurrecting an old locomotive (Mantua General 4-4-0) and then onto a small layout. ? I now have (4) of these locomotives ? My interest goes back to my childhood (in the 60’s) when I used to watch this locomotive and passenger car set go round and round the Christmas tree simple loop layout my dad made. ? He has passed (2013) and I have the old locomotive and passenger car set and want to get it running.? The locomotive is missing the drive shaft/linkage from the tender motor to the gear drive in the locomotive. ? Does anyone know where I can get a drive shaft?? I believe the correct PN is 18596 (w/o the plastic hex knuckles – just a straight piece of flex rubber??). ? I did see some info on Mr. Alan Mueller (I just purchased his 3 books) and look forward to adapting his work to this unit if I cannot find a simple replacement. ? Any help would be greatly appreciated as well as accepting me to your group. ? Jim Allison ?
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Seeking info for Mantua General 4-4-0 locomotive drive link/shaft
Hello ? My name is Jim Allison.? Initial interest is in resurrecting an old locomotive (Mantua General 4-4-0) and then onto a small layout. ? I now have (4) of these locomotives ? My interest goes back to my childhood (in the 60’s) when I used to watch this locomotive and passenger car set go round and round the Christmas tree simple loop layout my dad made. ? He has passed (2013) and I have the old locomotive and passenger car set and want to get it running.? The locomotive is missing the drive shaft/linkage from the tender motor to the gear drive in the locomotive. ? Does anyone know where I can get a drive shaft?? I believe the correct PN is 18596 (w/o the plastic hex knuckles – just a straight piece of flex rubber??). ? I did see some info on Mr. Alan Mueller (I just purchased his 3 books) and look forward to adapting his work to this unit if I cannot find a simple replacement. ? Any help would be greatly appreciated as well as accepting me to your group. ? Jim Allison ?
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Central Coast Railroad Festival (Calif.) - Show Your Railroad
Central Coast Railroad Festival (Calif.) - Show Your Railroad
The Central Coast Railroad Festival returns this year to San Luis Obispo and northern San Barbara Counties on October 4-6, 2019 (Friday-Sunday).
As in past years I will organize a tour of model railroads and garden railroads in the above areas. Last year we had thirty-two railroads on the tour and we already have close to twenty for this year.
But more railroads always are welcome.
If you have an operating railroad 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 and garden railroaders. You’ve probably worked hard on your railroad so you might as well get some recognition from people who will appreciate your efforts.
We are only asking railroad owners to be open for four or more hours on just one day. Additional days and hours are at the owner’s option, including "early bird" showings on Thursday, October 3. And we are asking owners in Santa Maria and areas south of Santa Maria to be open only on Sunday, if convenient for them.
All you need to do is operate your trains. I will do all the planning and publicity, as I have done for fifty-nine previously tours since 2006, including eight previous tours for the Central Coast Railroad Festival.
This tour will be a free, self-guided tour. No buses will be used.
If you have any questions before committing to the tour, please ask. In any event, please contact me OFF LIST 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 later this month to set your days and hours.
Thank you.
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
Moderator - Model Railroads of Southern California
Layout Tour Coordinator - 2019 Central Coast RR Festival
E-Mail: chiefbobbb@... [chiefbobbb AT verizon DOT net]
Festival Website:
Photos From 2018 Tour:
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Just in case there are, like me, members of this list who are not on Facebook, there will be a small layout meet on July 13th, at the Northwest Ohio Railroad Preservation 14 inch gauge railroad site, 12505 C.R. 99, Findlay, Ohio, 45840. Setup is at 9 am. Meet is from 10 am to 4 pm in the NWORRP enginehouse.
Jeff S..
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Central Coast Railroad Festival (Calif.) - Show Your Railroad
The Central Coast Railroad Festival returns this year to San Luis Obispo and northern San Barbara Counties on October 4-6, 2019 (Friday-Sunday).
As in past years I will organize a tour of model railroads and garden railroads in the above areas. Last year we had thirty-two railroads on the tour.
If you have an operating railroad (Even a small one)?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 and garden railroaders. You’ve probably worked hard on your railroad so you might as well get some recognition from people who will appreciate your efforts.
We are only asking railroad owners to be open for four or more hours on just one day. Additional days and hours are at the owner’s option, including "early bird" showings on Thursday, October 3. And we are asking owners in Santa Maria and areas south of Santa Maria to be open only on Sunday, if convenient for them.
All you need to do is operate your trains. I will do all the planning and publicity, as I have done for fifty-nine previously tours since 2006, including eight previous tours for the Central Coast Railroad Festival.
This tour will be a free, self-guided tour. No buses will be used.
If you have any questions before committing to the tour, please ask. In any event, please contact me OFF LIST 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 in August to set your days and hours.
Thank you.
Bob Chaparro
Hemet, CA
Moderator - Model Railroads of Southern California
Layout Tour Coordinator - 2019 Central Coast RR Festival
E-Mail: chiefbobbb@... [chiefbobbb AT verizon DOT net]
Festival Website:
Photos From 2018 Tour:
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I welcome Darryl Huffman and Chris to the Moderating Team. Hopefully you will never hear from them again as this groups is well behaved.
Thanks fro helping out guys.
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Bruce Wilson
Barrie, Ontario
Life Member NMRA Member Gauge 0 Guild
Member Scale 7 Group Member 7mm NGA
Member Bird Studies Canada Member Ontario Bird Banding Association
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Looking for Moderator Help
I am looking for a couple of volunteers to help out with moderating this group.? The duties would consist of approving new members and moderating posts as needed, not an onerous task.? If you are interested contact me at [email protected]Thanks -- Bruce Wilson Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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Re: Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
On 5/21/19 1:29 PM, dandrewscan wrote: Good Day folks and thanks in advance if you can help me on this one.
I am installing a Mil Scale 65 foot turntable on my HO / HOn3 layout.? Can I use a Shinohara HO HOn3 transition track on the turntable to handle both HO and HOn3 locos back onto the layout tracks after I have turned them? The Narrow Gauge Discussion Forum has several past discussions about the "swish" used to connect dual gauge track to a turntable with four rails on it.?? This Dick Bell post from December 14, 2012 shows how you can make a "swish" by cutting a Shinohar transition track in half: ,231469,231488#msg-231488 Hope that helps you! -- Chris Webster
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Re: Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
 I created a sketch of the turntable with crossover idea, attached. You'd need the guardrails, else it won't work. NG would? derail every time. But that would be a simple approach, the more I think about it. Electrically as well as mechanically. Steve
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Re: Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
I found a youtube video of the CSRM turntable
Bruce Wilson
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Life Member NMRA
Member Scale 7 Group Gauge 0 Guild 7mmNGA
Member Bird Studies Canada Ontario Bird Banding Association
Nature Barrie Simcoe County Banding Group
On 5/23/2019 15:12, steve_wintner via
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Seems to me that four tracks, centered, on the turntable would be
best.?
But 3 tracks on the turntable could also work.
If the turntable had 3 straight rails, you would need 4 tracks on
the approach, and some sort of crossover to get back down to 3, or
2. It'd be simplest to have a dedicated narrow gauge approach
track, then you merge 4 into 2 using essentially a turnout,? but
which only partially diverges. I suppose you could have a pair of
approach and departure tracks with a regular turnout too, and
simply turn by 170 degrees rather than 180.
Alternately, the turntable could have a sort of crossover built
into it, using 2 frogs and no moving parts. Then approach tracks
are simple, 2 or 3 rails, and everything is straight at the edge
of the turntable.
Steve
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Re: Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
California State Railroad Museum dual gauge turntable
It is the only link I have so unfortunately if you are not on FB you won't see it.? Googling might help
Bruce Wilson
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Life Member NMRA
Member Scale 7 Group Gauge 0 Guild 7mmNGA
Member Bird Studies Canada Ontario Bird Banding Association
Nature Barrie Simcoe County Banding Group
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On 5/23/2019 15:12, steve_wintner via Groups.Io wrote: Seems to me that four tracks, centered, on the turntable would be best.
But 3 tracks on the turntable could also work.
If the turntable had 3 straight rails, you would need 4 tracks on the approach, and some sort of crossover to get back down to 3, or 2. It'd be simplest to have a dedicated narrow gauge approach track, then you merge 4 into 2 using essentially a turnout,? but which only partially diverges. I suppose you could have a pair of approach and departure tracks with a regular turnout too, and simply turn by 170 degrees rather than 180.
Alternately, the turntable could have a sort of crossover built into it, using 2 frogs and no moving parts. Then approach tracks are simple, 2 or 3 rails, and everything is straight at the edge of the turntable.
Steve
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Re: Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
Seems to me that four tracks, centered, on the turntable would be best.?
But 3 tracks on the turntable could also work.
If the turntable had 3 straight rails, you would need 4 tracks on the approach, and some sort of crossover to get back down to 3, or 2. It'd be simplest to have a dedicated narrow gauge approach track, then you merge 4 into 2 using essentially a turnout,? but which only partially diverges. I suppose you could have a pair of approach and departure tracks with a regular turnout too, and simply turn by 170 degrees rather than 180.
Alternately, the turntable could have a sort of crossover built into it, using 2 frogs and no moving parts. Then approach tracks are simple, 2 or 3 rails, and everything is straight at the edge of the turntable.
Steve
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Re: Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
You can have four tracks on a turntable with all bridge tracks accessible to all layout tracks provided that all tracks are radial at the boundary.? This requires some distortion.??As the tracks on the bridge need to far enough apart the spacing at the boundary
will need to be wider than normal and similarly the layout tracks will also need to be radial which is bad news if you want?parallel tracks but?not so bad otherwise.
Archie
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You will want the HOn3 rails to be centered on the HO rails so that they will align with the 4 rails on your turntable. If you do not have a 4 rail bridge and approach the rails will not align when you turn an HOn3 loco 180* You could have an HOn3 only
approach track that will align with the 4 track bridge as another option.
Bill Uffelman
On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 11:57:20 AM PDT, dandrewscan <dandrews1@...> wrote:
Good Day folks and thanks in advance if you can help me on this one.
I am installing a Mil Scale 65 foot turntable on my HO / HOn3 layout.? Can I use a Shinohara HO HOn3 transition track on the turntable to handle both HO and HOn3 locos back onto the layout tracks after I have turned them?
HO should be no problem -- it is the HOn3 that I am not sure about.? I am using good old fashioned DC to power all the track on this "Old School" layout.? I already looked on Google and most of the previous discussion on dual gauge turntables was set on using
4 rails.
Again -- thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
Please email back to the group or to me directly at
dandrews1@....
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Re: Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
You will want the HOn3 rails to be centered on the HO rails so that they will align with the 4 rails on your turntable. If you do not have a 4 rail bridge and approach the rails will not align when you turn an HOn3 loco 180* You could have an HOn3 only approach track that will align with the 4 track bridge as another option.
Bill Uffelman
On Tuesday, May 21, 2019, 11:57:20 AM PDT, dandrewscan <dandrews1@...> wrote:
Good Day folks and thanks in advance if you can help me on this one. I am installing a Mil Scale 65 foot turntable on my HO / HOn3 layout.? Can I use a Shinohara HO HOn3 transition track on the turntable to handle both HO and HOn3 locos back onto the layout tracks after I have turned them? HO should be no problem -- it is the HOn3 that I am not sure about.? I am using good old fashioned DC to power all the track on this "Old School" layout.? I already looked on Google and most of the previous discussion on dual gauge turntables was set on using 4 rails. Again -- thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Please email back to the group or to me directly at dandrews1@....
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Help Needed -- Can I use an HO/HOn3 transition track on a turntable
Good Day folks and thanks in advance if you can help me on this one. I am installing a Mil Scale 65 foot turntable on my HO / HOn3 layout.? Can I use a Shinohara HO HOn3 transition track on the turntable to handle both HO and HOn3 locos back onto the layout tracks after I have turned them? HO should be no problem -- it is the HOn3 that I am not sure about.? I am using good old fashioned DC to power all the track on this "Old School" layout.? I already looked on Google and most of the previous discussion on dual gauge turntables was set on using 4 rails. Again -- thanks in advance for any help you can offer. Please email back to the group or to me directly at dandrews1@....
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Very Sad news indeed!
He was such a fine gentleman, never met him in person but we e-mailed from time to time.
RIP Jack
Diego De Bunder
El 26/04/2019 a las 09:51 a. m., Bruce Wilson escribi??:
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This was posted by Chris Gilbert on the Micro/Small Model RR Layouts page
Dear all
I???m afraid I have some very sad news.
I???be just received a phone call from Lou Trollope the better half of Jack Shortliner <>
Jack passed away in his bed on Wednesday morning.
According to Lou, he had a massive heart attack and it was all over within a couple minutes. She said he went the way he wanted to go. In his bed and quickly.
There will be no funeral, he will be cremated and his ashes returned to Lou.
He will leave a massive hole in my life, and will be sorely missed.
I???m not sure what else to say
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Jack, as many know, was a very creative individual when it came to micro/small layouts and many examples of that creativity can be found in the various files of this groups and the affiliated groups.?? His Box Street Yard is perhaps one of the most popular micros.?? Jack was also a driving force behind the creation of the original Small Layout Design Group on yahoo.?? He always had interesting comments to make and he will be missed.?? Our condolences go out to Lou and his family.
So Shortliner, from way up in the Highlands, RIP my friend.
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Bruce Wilson
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Life Member NMRA
Member Scale 7 Group Gauge 0 Guild 7mmNGA
Member Bird Studies Canada Ontario Bird Banding Association
Nature Barrie Simcoe County Banding Group
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This was posted by Chris Gilbert on the Micro/Small Model RR
Layouts page
Dear all
I’m afraid I have some very sad news.
I’be just received a phone call from Lou Trollope the better half
of
Jack passed away in his bed on Wednesday morning.
According to Lou, he had a massive heart attack and it was all
over within a couple minutes. She said he went the way he wanted
to go. In his bed and quickly.
There will be no funeral, he will be cremated and his ashes
returned to Lou.
He will leave a massive hole in my life, and will be sorely
missed.
I’m not sure what else to say
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Jack, as many know, was a very creative individual when it came to
micro/small layouts and many examples of that creativity can be
found in the various files of this groups and the affiliated
groups.? His Box Street Yard is perhaps one of the most popular
micros.? Jack was also a driving force behind the creation of the
original Small Layout Design Group on yahoo.? He always had
interesting comments to make and he will be missed.? Our condolences
go out to Lou and his family.
So Shortliner, from way up in the Highlands, RIP my friend.
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Bruce Wilson
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Life Member NMRA
Member Scale 7 Group Gauge 0 Guild 7mmNGA
Member Bird Studies Canada Ontario Bird Banding Association
Nature Barrie Simcoe County Banding Group
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Re: The Gumstump and Snowshoe
Hi Frank, what a small world, I am w-a-y down south in Tasmania as well. In Hobart, where are you ?..Steve?
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Bob Chaparro
Jeff Schumaker