What's on your workbench, November 2021?

[Keith Hayes]

I actually found myself with a free hour on a Sunday afternoon. I have been trying not to build rolling stock in favor of extending the track one way or the other towards Fremont Pass. But I need a break. With all the talk about the Leadville Designs Co-Op program,  I have a handful of the kits hereabouts waiting some attention. This includes two 27' boxcars that will form the heart of my water service train.

I ordered the proper trucks from San Juan and set to assemble one this afternoon.  This iteration of castings includes dimples in the brake beams to Aide drilling holes for support wires; likewise there are flanges on the bottom of the cross beams with similar dimples. This is a great improvement over the earlier trucks I used on my C&S refer, which lacked both. I anticipate a more sturdy assembly overall that will b easier to assemble.

So what is on your workbench? Everyone has been pretty quiet of late. Get your cell phone out and share!

[Todd A Ferguson]

Started cutting and bending rail for a code 55 Sn3 3 way turnout.

Received my On3 As Built C&S stock car a week or so ago from Leadville Design.  Bill has delivered a beautiful kit.

Tracking says my 1927 and 1930 Conoco tank cars are due for delivery on Monday.  Reserved those about 3 years ago I think.  

All good stuff...

Todd

[South Park]

  I have spent the last 8 weekends trying to organize and clear away
10,000 things that stand between me and even getting at my work
bench !  I see another 2-3 weekends of work before it is done.  But
I had a helluva summer, driving the wheels off my full scale model:

[SteveG]

I've been playing around with a CAD program and a cheap SLA 3D printer to create some models of the early (pre-intermediate) tender bodies, along with a 1902 flat/coal frame. I tried doing a couple of test prints at Shapeways as well, and so far finding I get a better (though not perfect) surface smoothness result with my resin printer than I've gotten from their filament printer:

   

A shout-out to Jim Courtney for helping me find images of details I otherwise would surely have missed!

I'm also getting ready to start construction on the Como roundhouse module on my planned layout:



Getting the track centers just right so I can use an Arduino-driven  stepper motor for the turntable without having to program each track's angular position separately. The Model Masterpieces Como roundhouse kit(s) require 12 degrees between stalls, so it'd be simpler to stick with that all around.

Steve Guty
Lakeway, TX

[Jeff Young]

Beautiful picture SP.  Whereabouts is that?

[South Park]

That location is about 35 miles SW of Spokane, Washington.
Just a few miles further, the rolling hills farmed for wheat give
way to the Channeled Scablands.  This vast swath of eastern
Washington was given the dramatic forms we see when the
prehistoric Missoula Flood washed over the entire region.
Another shot from the Scablands:

[Fred C]

Steve: That tender is great. I do have a question for you. I have 2 On30 moguls that are  in need of tenders eacy like yours except in On30. One has a stock B-word tender. The second has one that I was able to mock up the correct boards and tool boxes. However, after my last move to a different senior care center it wound up missing.

My workbench has a lone mogul taking center stage. I put together a list of parts this little engine need to, order from Keith Wiseman.
This loco will be #10.
I bought a bifold closet door  7'x24"x2. So finally i am going to build two modules.
Your humble servant
Fred C.

[Mike Trent]

No surprise here.....

Next up will be staining the parts. I have finally used up the last of my old, long discontinued "Weather It" and have found a replacement from Hunterline.com. I ordered a bottle of their Driftwood stain. You can order direct or from ebay. Like the old Weather It, it is alcohol based so as not to warp wood parts.

The poles are three different lengths, and a couple of them are slightly bent.

 

[SteveG]

Hi Fred,

Let me see what I can do--the largest prints I've done were in S scale, to get feedback from Jim. It looks like my printer can (just barely) accommodate an On3/30 version in the print area. If it prints okay, I'll let you know, and send you the print.

Regards,
Steve Guty

[Fred C]

Steve, Thanks. I really appreciate it. I hope it will fit your printer. I am thinking that next month I just might invest in a printer.
Today, I had a disaster strike. I came back from lunch and somehow I knocked over #21 one of the first C&S Locos I ever bought. And It was my late wife's favorites. The loco itself was undamaged, as it came to rest on the sleve of my hoodie. The tender was, not as lucky. It hit the tile and came apart and broke the pin off to have it hook up to the engine.
Fred cm

[Fred C]

Hi everyone. Since this is a discussion about what's on our workbenches. I need to know something as I reassemble the tender for my Mogul #21. I have the toolbox off the back of my tender. Two questions arise for me. #1. Did #21 have a toolbox on the rear deck of the tender or can I just leave it off? #2. Is there supposed to be an air tank on the rear of the tender? Thanks
Fred C.
Somewhere up Ohio creek.

[skip]

Fred C wrote

Hi everyone. Since this is a discussion about what's on our workbenches. I need to know something as I reassemble the tender for my Mogul #21. I have the toolbox off the back of my tender. Two questions arise for me. #1. Did #21 have a toolbox on the rear deck of the tender or can I just leave it off? #2. Is there supposed to be an air tank on the rear of the tender? Thanks
Fred C.
Somewhere up Ohio creek.

Everything I have seen makes me believe that all the air-brake C&S engines used the tender air tank and the Moguls certainly did. Some time ago I posted a 1909 Westinghouse diagram of the air brake setup that shows proper piping of the tank.
http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/a-new-old-59-td8562i100.html#a13104

For some reason, several of the HOn3 imports omit the tender tank including Westside B4Fs and the PFM and Key B3Bs. Precision has a casting for the tank.
Good luck on your re-build and post some pictures when you get it back together!
Skip Egdorf
Los Alamos, NM

[Jeff Young]

My track crew foreman is a bit of a numpty and appears to have forgotten Como, Breck, Dickey and Frisco on the way out of Jefferson, but never mind that.  Heading into 10-mile canyon:

[Pat Student]

Parts for some D&RGW 9200 gondolas before the 1920's rebuilding.  9355 is an example of the third sub series (9351 - 9574). Beginning side assemblies for two more third series cars are on the 1-2-3 blocks.  The two bodies below are are going to firdt sub series (9200 - 9299).

Cars of these sub series are documented having offline destinations Alma, Breckenridge and Fairplay in 1923 and 1924. So, Jim a couple of each of these sub series have a place in each of your freight car rosters which I recall as 1901, 1909 and 1924.

 

[Dustburm]

Pat, I failed miserably trying to ask this question back channel. Here goes! What size are the magnets you use with the 1-2-3 Blocks. Looks like there are several 25mm diameter thicknesses availiable. Most of my materials are .040. Any advice is appreciated!

Dusty Burman

623 261-8707

[SteveG]

Hi Fred,

Sent you a PM (private message) re the tender print; let me know if you didn't get it.

Regards,
Steve

[Pat Student]

3/4" x 1/8", Rockler #37564

[Dustburm]

Thanks Pat! The Rockler number is 37554.

Dusty Burman

[Fred C]

STEVE  
I'll check my messages.
 Fred C.

[Jim Courtney]

Cars of these sub series are documented having offline destinations Alma, Breckenridge and Fairplay in 1923 and 1924. So, Jim a couple of each of these sub series have a place in each of your freight car rosters which I recall as 1901, 1909 and 1924.


Hey Pat,

I'm good for the year 1924. After some swapping with my friend Dale Kreutzer, I have these guys, laden with Baldwin coal, consigned to the commercial coal dealers in Breckenridge:




And Jeff should note that car number 1790 indeed had a "break" wheel, which I have removed, but not yet replaced.

Pat, I have some D&RG cars planned for the 1901 and 1909 rosters. But before Alpine Tunnel closed, I'm not sure much coal was moved about the C&S in D&RG gons. We're discussing this in the "Cimarron Coal Gons Update" thread now. Why don't you come on over and add your 2 cents. Educated opinion is always valued over my ignorant speculation . . .