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few other pictures of "Da Beast"

Could not leave well enough alone. Had to decrease the height of the unit somehow. I was able to accomplish it by dropping the 9V battery down into the frame. So I made another complete unit, one this time with a tender. Still a little "Moosey" for "N" scale but it'll do.

YES, definitely.

I too am waiting for my undecorated Shay. Robin have you any idea how much of a grade your Shay will climb, say with three cars? Have a crazy idea for a switch back NTrak module and was wondering how much of a grade I can design into it.

something else is new and unwanted. Half my screen is used up with advertising and menu items. Realy disliking the whole thing.

Love to run my little Goose on the club layout during our train shows. Have to run it fairly fast because it stalls easily. Don't know if it needs more weight or the little Kato mechanism just does not have enough elect. pickup. The kids all chase it asking "what's that".

Every work crew has to have its comedians.

The proportions of the roatary are very exaggerated but it's size was dictated by the components of the camera.

VNT - Valley NTrak, club started 1976. Had all I could do to use some old press on lettering I found in my scratch box.

"SMILE YOU ARE ON CANDID CAMERA" Just about finished with my "N" scale scratch build mini camera roatary snow plow. Will wait a day or so for the paint to completly dry and then give it a shot of dull coat. Might try the alcohol spray to further weather it. Then lastly, add the window glass.

Mark, when forming the curved roofs, heat the styrene in the sectioned PVC. When it starts to sag slightly press it down to form the curve with the smaller piece of PVC. Took a little practice to evenly heat the styrene, it seems to reach the softening state slowly and if you go too far with...

Tyson the last thing I will do is bend the antenna back about 45 degrees. It will still hit tunnel portals but should bend or flex to clear. The one I saw being demonstrated at a show was going through tunnels and under an overhead signal the antenna was just pushed down further. In either...

Ruined a number of styrene pieces trying to get a curved roof. Found an easy solution by sectioning a piece of 1 1/2 inch PCV pipe. I heated the .04" styrene with the wife's embossing heat gun. (shhhh, not suppose to touch her stamping stuff) When the plastic softened I then formed the curve...

The car is jointed or articulated so that I can swivel the camera. Not prototypical but it works great.

Managed to squeeze everything into my version of an "N" scale rotary snow plow.

Still working on it, but here it so far. Still have to make a roof for the plow crew.

About a week ago I responded to a post about making a car to hold a mini camera. When scratch building, I like most of us, could not leave well enough alone. This front end, to house the camera, looked too much like a rotary snow plow.

That last picture almost looks like the start of a rotary snow plow, hmmmmmmm

Don't know what to do with the battery yet, lay it flat or stand it on edge. Laying flat it overhangs the car on both sides. The camera housing can swivel slightly to either side.

Will use six wheel passenger trucks on the car. (For the picture they are just being used as props and are not mounted)