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  1. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    # 1 son bought this for my birthday. Am using it to replace my old # 2 an AHM model of an identical locomotive. This fancy paint job has taken me more than a month so far, but it is going together, I just need to wire the tender, build a wood rack, fill it with wood to hide the big...
  2. Bill Nelson

    On3 locomotive engine shops

    Got the air compressor on, and added some piping to it, then built and installed the deck stays Not a lot left to do for the locomotive superstructure, although I want to get a number plate with a raised 1 on it.
  3. Bill Nelson

    On3 locomotive engine shops

    I remotored the Max Gray unit with a can motor salvaged from a GM HVAC door control module, and have begun soldering on detail parts to back date it. here are the Stack, headlight and bracket, the latter two are pre drilled for a bulb. Below I got the ornate bell and bracket soldered...
  4. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    I have a big fleet of MDC shorty flats for log cars, a slew of them I have acquired over the years, a bunch from Dr. Tom’s C&S, via the abandoned logging operations at the club, and a number I inherited from John Patterson, also via the folded club operations. I’ve always loved the size of...
  5. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    With an extra day between hockey playoff games, I had time to whip out some more hinge parts. I’ll try to edit some commentary in later.
  6. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Tom, when the school year is over , you should come over to the farm, and I can give you a tutorial on hinge building. Funny I thought I’d have more time to play when the kids grew up.
  7. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Still need to do six more pairs of those hinges for the northern end of the Crooked Creek shops, and four pairs to repair the doors on the fine scale miniatures backwoods engine house in. I think I used this style hinge first on my Big Steam Donky’s roof wings.
  8. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Besides working on the engine house , I did some work on my ore transfer area. Above, the ore house is removed to install the treastle bents behind it. The clearance behind the ore house is stubidly tight.
  9. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    I had some thin strap brass, that I had used to make the hinges for the Crooked Creek engine Shops. I know where they were before I cleaned up my workbench before the grandchildren visited for the eclipse, but could not find them. Eventually gave up looking, and filed the sides down on some...
  10. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Many long years ago, when I added the Bumpass module to my layout. The Bumpass module had a two stall engine house, but only required a songle stall emgine house. The two stall engine house was removed to Harlow, and I started to svratchbuild this engine house, although I only had a...
  11. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    The Cave Cove Bridge, on my old central peninsula, was probably the most impressive of the scenic highlights, on my old mountain. This bridge is a mechanical engineering hodge podge. The arched span is inspired by the prefabbed arched trusses the USMRR used in the American Civil War, or...
  12. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Fixing this pier has been easier than I thought so far. that could change if I can't find the rest of the pieces, or some of the original material, and have to try to match it. the subroadbed makes it all the way to the Eastern side of this...
  13. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    The cave Cove Bridge, near Terrapin was one of the most distinctive scenes on my old central peninsula. I had packed it up carefully, as I “intend to use it on the lowest level of my new Central peninsula. Getting the box out of storage, it was obvious that the box had had a corner crushed...
  14. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    I got the wires hooked up to the lowest level on the east wall, which was going to be Sander's switch, but I'm thinking about calling the new mine area on the narrow gauge Sander's ridge, so I may need to come up with a new name for this long...
  15. Bill Nelson

    The "Original" Kittom Lumber Company. Part #2

    Got the crew from grizzly mountain engineering. Going to do a tar paper roof with coffee filter paper. A 18 inch radius is too tight for this locomotive if the line shaft is on the inside I have some 0n3 flex track , the best flex track I have ever seen, made by San Juan Car Company. If I...
  16. Bill Nelson

    The "Original" Kittom Lumber Company. Part #2

    The factory paint on a Class A Climax wouldn’t last long. I chose my freight colors for the body of my HO Class A Climax. On my On3 CN #60 Shay, a similarly constructed locomotive, which was factory painted black , I painted the upper body like weatherd wood, as the black hid too much detail
  17. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    There was some room at the stub end of the Harlow yard. With this extension, the rear track will be six feet long, and the front track will be just shy of five feet long; with the middle track somewhere in between. This yard is all that would fit. I resisted the temptation to extend it to...
  18. Bill Nelson

    The "Original" Kittom Lumber Company. Part #2

    To establish which motor pole is the positive one, figure out which end of this is the front. With locomotives like this that can be almost arbitrary. I have not yet decided on my CN 60 Shay, but decide, and then hook up a 9v battery to get it to go the direction you want to be forward when it...
  19. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    When Tom closed the old C&S, his stock of log cars went to the Club. When the club moved, and stopped doing logging, steam, narrow gauge, passenger trains, and anything else of any real interest, 12 MDC shorty flats came into the DG, CC, & W RR’s fleet. Most of these were from Dr. Tom’s C &...