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Plastic freight cars for sale
Clark Propst
Last year I sold some surplus plastic models to attendees of the Chicago Land meet. I'd like to offer a few more this year. If you're going to attend and are interested in want I have please send me an email at:
cepropst@q.com and I'll send you photos and prices. Thanks!! Clark Propst
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RPM Chicagoland mini-kit
Eric Hansmann
Frank Hodina has completed FGEX reefer that can be built using mini-kit parts that will be given to attendees of RPM Chicagoland in a couple of weeks. It's the latest Resin Car Works blog post. http://blog.resincarworks.com/rpm-chicagoland-mini-kit/ Eric Hansmann RCW web guy
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Re: A tantalizer for Chicagoland RPM
Bill Welch
Pretty hard to miss. . .
Bill Welch
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Re: A tantalizer for Chicagoland RPM
rwitt_2000
Yes I did.
Bob Witt
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Almost ready for Chicagoland!
Pierre Oliver
http://elgincarshops.blogspot.com/2018/10/well-thats-3.html
-- Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
Tony Thompson
Trainworx made the outside stake version 70-ton 46' GS in N scale. I am surprised that no one has done it in HO. Didn't they just letter their 40-ft. car as though it was the 46-ft. car? Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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Re: MKT cars
Ken Roth
Lester and All,
As to more details on construction of the sides, I began with .030" plain styrene sheet, scribed with a regular x-acto blade. Parallel lines were achieved using a vernier caliber measuring each line from the bottom of the car side. Once the lines were scribed, I drug the x-acto blade "upside down" to remove a bit more material. The sides were then scraped with a razor blade to remove raised burrs (I didn't do this enough!). Next I drug sandpaper over all the boards to create some grain, leaving the top metal section and sill glossy smooth. I also did a little random scraping of individual boards to get a little more definition, but I was really going for the look of a fairly recently-built car, which does not show a lot of gaps and irregularities between boards. Locations for the truss members were "milled out" just a bit using a scraper made from an old x-acto blade, ground to the width of the Z-brace. I used hand-made .005" styrene strips 3" wide for the the thin edges of the braces (bolt heads were embossed prior to cutting the strips). The milling allowed me to bury approximately half of the thickness of the .005 styrene. On top of the .005" styrene strip, I glued a 2x3, and then another piece of 3" wide .005" styrene for the outside of the Z-brace. I built a jig to ensure a bit of overlap to depict the Z shape. I'm indebted to Jim Hays for the Z-brace construction method. Other bolt detail was made by embossing rivets on a scrap sheet of .005" styrene, which were harvested and applied to the sides where needed. All of my rivet work is done with a Micro-mark drill press with x/y table and Northwest Shortline rivet dies. The female dies were ground down a bit to allow closer rivet spacing for some applications, like my tank cars which I described on the PlasticFreightCarBuilders group last spring. I only made one side and used it as a pattern to make resin copies for both sides and a pair of sides for my friend. The mold was usable, but I don't have fancy casting tools for pressure casting, so casting was a bit problematic. Producing more that a couple of sets would have required a more sophisticated casting setup. Anyway, one needs just one of these cars since there were only about 150 in existence! Ken Roth
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
Hmm... (compare model to attached prototype photo) http://www.train-worx.com/assets/images/image004-701x160.jpg Tim O'
Garth, --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: MKT cars
Scott
Fantastic write up and model Ken! Enjoyed reading that.
Scott McDonald
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
rwitt_2000
Garth,
Trainworx made the outside stake version 70-ton 46' GS in N scale. I am surprised that no one has done it in HO. http://www.train-worx.com/page225.html#buttons1-1mx Bob Witt
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
Andy Laurent
They do build up nicely. Here was mine (molded detail version - since sold).
Andy Iowa
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Re: SI flat car (was Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola)
One of the poles has slipped out of place! Tim O'
Your work on SI 5018 flatcar is very nice. The poles are trated at only one end, something I've never seen as a load on in use. Is there an on-line photo of this? --
Tim O'Connor Sterling, Massachusetts
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
David Soderblom
To Steve Solombrino:
Your work on SI 5018 flatcar is very nice. The poles are trated at only one end, something I've never seen as a load on in use. Is there an on-line photo of this? David Soderblom Baltimore MD USA drs@stsci.edu
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Re: MKT cars
Bill Welch
Steve, I have posted several photos here and on the RCW Workbench Wednesday and will be posting more as I proceed.
Bill Welch
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Re: MKT cars
Lester Breuer
Fine build. Scratchbuilt sides very Impressive. Can you provided additional information on how you built the sides.
Lester Breuer
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Re: MKT cars
steve_wintner
Looks great Ken. I'd love to hear more about your build (and yours Bill!). I may well try one myself. Stephan
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
Tony Thompson
\Bob Witt wrote: GN 75500-75999Yes, there is a roster on the Steam Era site with dimensions of 9'5" to top of sides and 10'5" to the extreme height. There's a photo in the GN freight equipment chapter in the 2nd edition of _Great Northern Lines East_ (Signature Press), a chapter by Richard Hendrickson and Staffan Ehnbom. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; e-mail, tony@... Publishers of books on railroad history
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
rwitt_2000
On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 05:43 PM, Tony Thompson wrote:
GN 75500-75999Yes, there is a roster on the Steam Era site with dimensions of 9'5" to top of sides and 10'5" to the extreme height. http://www.steamerafreightcars.com/prototype/GN/GN%20Roster%20Oct%202011%20Version%201.pdf Does anyone have a photo? Bob Witt
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
Richard Townsend
They're on eBay. Search for HO scale 3D print D&RGW gondola. He has several variations for sale.
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Richard Townsend
Lincoln City, OR
-----Original Message-----
From: Garth Groff <sarahsan@...> To: main <main@RealSTMFC.groups.io> Sent: Sat, Oct 6, 2018 2:21 am Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
Uh, Tim,
Do you have a link to the 3-D printed model? Yours Aye, Garth On 10/5/18 8:14 PM, Tim O'Connor wrote:
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Re: Old Ulrich / Walthers GS Gondola
up4479
This is the link to the cars Tim was thinking of.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/bonsallscalecarshops/m.html?item=232699410290&hash=item362df73772%3Ag%3AOQUAAOSwwB1aqyuM&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2562 Tim saw my models. I built one of each. Here's a link to those photos. Scroll down the page. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNRtz2LzuoEYHKHIcSTwNJZFMQNq7mlmR7m_jOLjriMPXNWS4m9PQn5TFvjn9hIrA?key=Uy1OVTNHWHlib2M4WjVkMXRKdVZPcHpnWnl3ckp3 -- Steve Solombrino
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