Re: C&S Brass, Any Scale, Listed on eBay

Posted by Norm Acker on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/C-S-Brass-Any-Scale-Listed-on-eBay-tp12787p19488.html

Hi Mike,
Thanks for all of the great plow information.

I should have dug a little deeper into photos before I had that wild hair with SketchUp a few days ago! We all joke about the "standards" used on our favorite railroad and that certainly applies to plows and coal gates as well. 20/20 hindsight is my specialty sometimes, ha.

I grabbed my scale ruler and drew that from an Ed Gebhart drawing in a 1996 copy of the "Bear Trap" that Paul Howald gave me a few years ago. Silly me for assuming that they were all alike... Back when I started out in On30 I scratched one out of stripwood for my Bachmann #22 on a whim (I use it for Christmas tree circling duty these days), but I figured that I needed about 8 of them so why not save some time.

I was so excited that Keith helped me out (thanks again, Keith!) by finishing the 3d drawing with the hardware and posting them to Shapeways - I'm using an old free version of SketchUp 8 and I was intimidated at the thought of drawing carriage bolts - that I immediately ordered 12 of them. So I'll have to do some modifications to be loco-specific as I add coal loads and details to some of my fleet.

Thanks again everyone for the great information that you share here, I really appreciate it!
Cheers, Norm