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The south side of Columbus is still fun to kick around in - some industry is still there and "shells" of many more lay undeveloped. All in all it has lots of "character". Let me know if I can help with photos. Matt

Off topic warning: Acsoosub: why "absolutely no homasote" and what are your club's yard or other flat areas built on? Handlaid straight on plywood? Matt

In order to make sure this horse is good and beaten, the 12 tender wheels were a "steam turbine powered 6 axle trailing truck booster" according to the fanciful description on the site that Brutus linked. My opinion is that tender boosters don't count! :p:mrgreen: Matt

Thanks for the photo Mountain. This reminds me of a huge-boilered 5 or 6 cylinder shay that I drew once - if I'd only have had photoshop back in the day... Nah, the donor is an N&W Y of some subclass.

I've given some thought to this (popularity of particular eras / models and why) but haven't analyzed it to the same granularity that you have voiced well here. What seems most obvious to me is era, in two flavors: Modern for the reasons nkp stated - it's here now. Equal or outpacing that...

sign1 Get off my lawn! :p (I actually agree with you, but the soapbox gave me a good chuckle! No offense intended!) <chuckle>

Cork - I buy 1/8" thick sheets from Hobby lobby and cut ~1" wide strips for the road bed. This is strictly for visual appeal - it gives enough rise to easily differentiate it from surrounding track laid straight on the sub-roadbed. Noise-wise, it doesn't appear to be much, if any, quieter than...

Excellent idea - I admit that I've been making some assumptions here. The minimum reliable coupling radius may be smaller than expected. Well first of all, I forgot to consider that once you start building the ladder with #6 turnouts, that 10' shrinks quickly! :oops: Here's what I found...

I learned just the other day that my favorite on-line shopping site - Craftsman's Model Railroad Supply (http://www.cmrrs.com/index.html) - is closing up shop due to the owner's health and "current economic conditions". :cry: I discovered this place about a year ago and had intended - several...

I had an itchy trigger finger and voted prior to actually *reading* nkp's first post. My vote was more for what I'm interested in modeling - 1930's: because it was the last decade that steam was more or less unmolested by the diesel menace :D Cars have that interesting wood - steel...

Rob, do you know what kind of glue was used? Is the flex track fiber ties or plastic? What kind of material is it glued to? Matt

I don't know a lot about the S1, but I suspect that it may have been too long for that curve! On a related note, I don't follow the Pennsy real closely, so was surprised to recently learn that the T's *were* used in Western PA (and maybe further east?). Surprised because that area just doesn't...

There was an interesting article in the Pennsylvania Railroad Historical Society Magazine about Crestline, Ohio a few months back. The S1 was based there and had to have it's own stall added to the roundhouse to accomodate it's length. It entered from the rear as it was too long for the...

Pennsy did share a lot of parts (including boilers) between locomotives, but the Q2 and J1 boilers weren't an example of that. The J1 used a Lima designed boiler with a "conventional" radially-stayed firebox crown, whereas the Q2 (as was the case with almost all Pennsy steam) was a Belpaire...

Thanks Loren - I'm excited about it as well. At this phase, it appears I've mitigated some of my concerns and also have a good idea what the railroad will "do". The Routing and Engineering committee (me) has continued putzing around with it and I have decided that the yard as located (see...

Geez, I hate to admit this Dave, but this thread reminded me that I once converted what I believe was an A5 to narrow gauge during my teenage years. If I recall, I simply thinned the frame, regauged the drivers then fastened homemade brass sheet "counterweights" to the potruding drive axles...

First order of bidness: The movement to create a B&P committee has been heard. Popular vote determines if this committee should be created. All in favor? sign1 First Draft of the lower ("branch" line) level can be found below: (larger image - can be found here...

Lighting is a fascinating topic. I was one who saw two types of flourescents - warm and cool - until I had a discussion with a co-worker who is a huge lighting nut (he's an aquarium guy). I now have a mix of daylight (6500 Kelvin), sunlight (5K Kelvin) and normal cool white. Theoretically...

First, I agree with Jesso - anyone who has the stones to take on a turnout as their first attempt at handlaying is doing right just on that fact alone! :cool: Until I actually try it and find out it's easy (or not), I'll always be impressed with you people who build them yourselves...

This looks really good Bernard. The coloring especially seems to be right on the money. Matt