Good catch. The tubes coming out beside and below the furnace are also suspect. Then there's the length - Scotch boilers don't seem to be that long compared to their diameter. I recommend a web search

or what my high school mechanical drawing teacher called "the Pitha Gorian theorem"[0], ... He was of Veneto extraction, though, ergo forgivable. [0] sqrt(x^2 + y^2)

and I didn't need to cheat

On Oct 11, 2020, at 22:09, Kenneth Montero <va661midlo@...> wrote: > From Piedmont & Western Railroad Club website - Railroad reporting marks: First class source, that. > CGW = Chicago Great W

Dave "Silver Streak" Bayless worked the GEMCO job in Lozangelez for a long time; he's a perennial Bay Area modeler.

In almost all of these very busy vintage photos there's some eminently modelable detail that has very little to do with the obvious subject. In this case it's the air compressor on the street to the r

I've read the MSDS docs for toluene and xylene so many times that I'm glad I don't play with Diosol any more. Nitrile gloves and an extremely well-ventilated workspace are necessities for me...

Sure. Why not?

Balclutha's last commercial voyage was in 1941, with the usual anchors, as the naval style still wouldn't cat up correctly. [prototype for everything, yaddida yaddida ...]

On Aug 21, 2020, at 08:16, Edward <edb8381@...> wrote: [...] > Anchors for a flatcar load would be more like those used on large naval vessels and ocean going ships since the late 19th century,

In the foreground is what looks like a Dodge/Plymouth/De Soto.. That arrangement is called a hip tow - the tug has almost perfect control of the barge.

Ah, yes - those are the ones chuckable in something larger, like a sensitive press... I had one in my hands once, in a friend's shop[0], while I was working on the chassis of a 3.5" gauge TICH. [0] we

[has no problems with it] I can't be bothered; on the other hand, I'd buy a boxed set of discs of the first 40 or 50 years of high-quality reproductions without batting the proverbial eye. I, too, hav

On both first and second viewing I've thought again that some photos would be best with a link to an accompanying plat, and in this case, one with five foot contours. That is an eminently-modelable sc

I wonder if the cars on the lower elevation track(s) are loading pulp... and if so whither it might be bound.

That plume coming out of the goat's safety looks just like a wisp of cotton! (On the other hand the fireman seems to need some unpaid time off for overfiring.)

I got my start in HO before Kadee™ magnetics and Lindberg™ Delrin™ trucks arrived on the scene, and when I first experienced both of them on the same car I entered the land of Utter Frustration™. I qu

Hark hark, a car load of Larks, in particular. That wasn't so very long after steam disappeared from the SP...

On Jun 2, 2020, at 16:32, Bill Decker <sp.billd@...> wrote: [...] > At this point, the Toledo mill, a former US Army Spruce Division mill ... as in Goose? I've been wondering (idly) where the wood

My muse whispers "wood chips" in my ear.