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    Beyer-Garratt

    Hi all, Paul Templar (Shamus) built a garrett type of thing using the running gear of two MDC shays. very neat concept! :thumb:
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    JV models sawmill construction

    stupid question. how do you glue together stained wood? does whit glue hold? ACC? what do you use?
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    Mantua Pacific is ill.

    reminds me, are any of those old mellor products for mantua available? also, what do you think of the mantua cabs? arent they too small? always looked small to me. i used the cab off a mdc SP engine (harriman boiler) and it looks pretty good. nice machine, real nice ray. im saving these pics for...
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    Mantua Pacific is ill.

    way cool ray (is that term still used? ive been in europe for 9 years, so i dont know). i thot about this last nite before nodding off. i could use the old motor shaft and bearings, just need to fabricate those pillow blocks. ingenious on your part. many thanks!!!
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    Mantua Pacific is ill.

    wasnt tne CN pacific of the closed cab type? i know that precision used to make both plastic and brass closed cabs for this model, and they were (i think, or maybe Burlington) a CN prototype. in any case, thanks for all the info. the second shot or rays mantua has inspired me to make a similar...
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    Mantua Pacific is ill.

    also glenn, i would like to see the finished CN pacific as i am a DC - displaced canadian.
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    Mantua Pacific is ill.

    Hey ray, thats sweet and exactly what i was looking for. as mentioned i put one HH in a 2-8-4 and i cant say that its that great. tops speed is only about 35-40mph at 12 v, which is fine for freight, but i fear that this is much too slow for a passenger hotshot like the pacific. that and it bwas...
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    Mantua Pacific is ill.

    thanks, looks as though the helix humper is the easiest and best bet. I can say that the one i installed previously is not all that exceptional (rather slow, but for freight just fine) and i had to fiddle with it to get the gear mesh right. I just hope that the speed will be acceptable, as...
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    Mantua Pacific is ill.

    Hello one and all, I would like to ask if anyone has any experience in remotoring an old Mantua Pacific. I have remotored an old 2-8-4 from mantua with a helix humper motor many moons ago. its OK but i think there may be better methods (and cheaper, the danged thing cost me over 40 bucks 15...
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    HOn3 tie spacing on shinahara track

    pre WWI makes sense. post WWI? what narrow guage was built so late? Id have thot that after the great war, most roads would concentrate on std. or converting to std. in the near future. if this was true, most replaced ties would be the width and length of std gauge. the old shinohara track...
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    HOn3 tie spacing on shinahara track

    howdy, the track looks good, just that the ties are to close together. ive seen something like this on docks, but not through rolling hills in say, Colorado. i thought that shinohara based thier track on some sort of prototype.
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    HOn3 tie spacing on shinahara track

    Finally found the right forum.... I'd like to ask why is the old shinohara Hon3 track has ties so close together and so wide. Also there are so many of them. What railroad had track like this? Ive got a bunch of the stuff and I'd like to ask: do i get rid of everyother tie to make it look...
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    Shinohara Hon3 tie spacing

    Hi, Im new here, I'd like to ask why is the old shinohara Hon3 track has ties so close together and so wide. Also there are so many of them. What railroad had track like this? Ive got a bunch of the stuff and I'd like to ask: do i get rid of everyother tie to make it look prototypical or is...
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