Re: More C&S caboose under frame stuff--other narrow gauge bobbers.
Posted by Geoff Hamway on
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/the-caboose-that-never-was-tp8369p9489.html
In the midst of this very interesting and fast-moving thread, I badly missed Jim's cue about the D&RG 4-wheelers -- sorry, Jim!
And I don't know how much there is to learn from my Sn3 conversion of an OMI C&S model into its very distant D&RG cousin, especially since mine was distinctly in the "good enough" rather than contest quality category. The two cars shared wheelbase (and of course gauge), but no other dimensions as far as I could tell. However, the OMI frame provided a nice-running chassis with good low center of gravity. I stripped the C&S model down to its bare frame and running gear, stuck on a few pieces of brass and styrene as a facsimile of the center pivot, buggy-type suspension system, and built a new body with frame extensions to sit on top of it. I ended up with this:
When built, the D&RG 4-wheel cabooses had hand brakes only. They were mostly converted to 8-wheel (type 4) cabooses or scrapped by 1903 (and all were apparently gone by 1914), which leads me to believe that their frame and suspension system were too hard to adapt to automatic air -- similar to what's been postulated here for the C&S "intermediate" style.
URL: http://c-sng-discussion-forum.254.s1.nabble.com/the-caboose-that-never-was-tp8369p9489.html
In the midst of this very interesting and fast-moving thread, I badly missed Jim's cue about the D&RG 4-wheelers -- sorry, Jim!
And I don't know how much there is to learn from my Sn3 conversion of an OMI C&S model into its very distant D&RG cousin, especially since mine was distinctly in the "good enough" rather than contest quality category. The two cars shared wheelbase (and of course gauge), but no other dimensions as far as I could tell. However, the OMI frame provided a nice-running chassis with good low center of gravity. I stripped the C&S model down to its bare frame and running gear, stuck on a few pieces of brass and styrene as a facsimile of the center pivot, buggy-type suspension system, and built a new body with frame extensions to sit on top of it. I ended up with this:
When built, the D&RG 4-wheel cabooses had hand brakes only. They were mostly converted to 8-wheel (type 4) cabooses or scrapped by 1903 (and all were apparently gone by 1914), which leads me to believe that their frame and suspension system were too hard to adapt to automatic air -- similar to what's been postulated here for the C&S "intermediate" style.
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