also getting a red roof was #4, a Westside models horizontal boiler Class A Climax. #4 has had a hard life.
#4 looks happier with its new red roof. Pretty good therapy for the old gal.
Doc Tom:thumb:
also getting a red roof was #4, a Westside models horizontal boiler Class A Climax. #4 has had a hard life.
#4 looks happier with its new red roof. Pretty good therapy for the old gal.
Doc Tom:thumb:
Doctor G #4 looks happier with its new red roof. Pretty good therapy for the old gal. Doc Tom:thumb:[/quote said:What will make her happier is all wheel pick up. that won't be easy but I'm thinking hard on it. the trucks are set up very similar to the Riverossi Heisler so the same technique may work on both.
Bill
My 2-4-4-2s stood out on my RR as they were almost the only locomotives on my railroad without a red roof (excepting a Southern Railway 0-8-0 that really doesn't count.
This morning they made their way down to the paint shops, along with other locomotives ( a horizontal boiler class A Climax and an HOn3 0-4-4 Forney. they have red roofs now.
Also when I was up in the frozen tundra I snapped a few pics of my beloved Hiawatha on my home club's layout. It was the first time they'd been out of the box and on rails ever and I bought them about two years ago, but it would have been pointless to have them shipped to Korea and especially since I'd have to move and the fact that shipping would have cost a lot more.
Tyler
It has been a busy week, On Monday morning I had to drive down to Nashville for an echocardiagram. Yesterday (Tuesday) , I went back for a visit with my cardiologist.. Good news there, my aorta didn't enlarge any last year. . I was also lucky, in that my wife drove me down, which was a good thing, as I had been up all night at work, and we did not get back home until three in the afternoon.
Today, finally, I didn't have bunches of stuff to do, and I went back to the engine shops and did a little bit more work toward getting a new motor in my ancient an honorable AHM 2-4-0 ( J. W. Bowker). These, before I had any geared power , were the backbone of my locomotive fleet, and so returning one to service is important for historical purposes. Even though many are gone forever I saved the stacks and the headlights, which now grace two MDC shays and two Riverossi Heislers, and contribute emensely to the family look of my locomotive fleet. Back in the 1960's I could regularly get a J W Bowker for $12.00 on sale. any part for that locomotive would cost more, so when I needed a part, I'd buy a locomotive, and part out the new or the old one, depending on what was easiest to do.
The motor ( robbed from a Government Motors vehicle durring my previous life as a GM Technician) is exactly like the one I put in the AHM 4-4-0. I think they share wheels and gears, so hopefully they will double head together well. the work I have done on these older rod locomotives may send me back to work on the engine facilities in Harlow ( Southside). as most of these locomotives will live there. have vacuumed out the inside of the two stall engine house, and treated it with spider poison. the single stall engine house (long enough for one of my 2-4-4-2's need a new roof.
one thing leads to another. The cooler weather that has rolled in makes work in the attic RR room much more comfortable, so hopefully I can get to it.
Bill Nelson
Bill,
I knew you worked at a dealership but I had no idea you were a GM mechanic. How much experience do you have on S-10's?
Tyler
entirely too much, but I was the trim guy, so I have had the interior of them completely gutted to trace down water leaks, and having the dash out running down rattles. Not the kind of thing anyone wants to do. as for actual mechanical stuff, I haven't done much work on them.
Bill
Next on the locomotive front will probably be two brass consolidations, which will be the medium size valley division power.
Bill Nelson