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My BLOG : If you look, the second tab is labeled ‘Blog’. If you register (top right) then you given a default ‘Role’ as ‘Contributor’. That means you can post to the Blog. Once I decide that you’re not a Spammer, Troll or Nut Job (Ian excepted) I will make you an ‘Author’ so your posts don’t have to be approved.
 NWSL & SML Critter Build – Beginning January 1st until March 1st NorthWest Short Line (NWSL) and Shortline Modelers Lounge (SML) are giving you a chance to show off your kitbashing/scratch building skills. The rules are simple: build a small critter, railbus or small industrial locomotive; prototype or freelance; either from scratch or kitbash, the choice is up to you. Your critter must be built around the NWSL Stanton drive. – details -Jump to the -
History of the Lugoff, Camden and Northern Railroad page. This is a work-in-progress but I think I will have the Lugoff, Camden and Northern Railroad come into existence around 1935 with the acquisition of the portions of the North Western Railroad from Camden up through North Carolina with a connection to the On30 Deep River Railroad which is represented by my layout. I was thinking that a short length of standard gauge track with a crossing tower would work for that – but – the question then comes up .. why if you have a standard gauge/narrow gauge intersection would you bother loading the narrow gauge hoppers? More on that in a bit …
The model railroad has little connection with reality (much like myself) other then the names as the terrain I portray is nothing like that which is actually here. I’m actually making progress in figuring out where the line is located! So far, the terrain is mountainous and – for the moment has very little vegetation. It is set in the late 1930′s / early 1940′s time period .. again .. I haven’t focused in on a specific date (yet). As I said, it started as two On30 modules. I decided at an early stage to design the railroad around some coke ovens. Normally a coke oven bank would consist of hundreds of ovens since they were built mostly to support steel mills. My little bank of sixteen ovens (in my imaginary universe) are made to support local commercial use such as foundries. There is one siding for the ovens and a bit of water a bridge crosses (the Caddo Creek). There is currently a pump-house and a small dam. The siding is On30 .. amazingly representing 30″ track .. not 24″ or 36″. My story is that the owners started off as an aggregate company and owned a mine in South America served by a 30″ gauge line. When the mine ran out the company shipped the locos and equipment back to the US for use in moving aggregates – and in the small section I am portraying, coke. I am currently calling this line the Deep River Railroad (DRRR). This is named after the coal area of North Carolina existing along the Deep River. Up above, there is an even smaller gauge track – On18 (HVCC – Hill Valley Coke Company). This is N gauge mechanisms running on HOn30 track. This actually works out to around a 17″ gauge but it is ‘nominal’ to refer to it as 18″. The line runs off the layout to a coal mine and delivers (well .. will deliver) raw coal to a coal bin on the right side of the layout. From there it will pass through a coal breaker then to a washery where the coal and shale will be separate. The washed coke will be moved via a conveyor to a coal tipple located above one end of the coke ovens. On top of the coke ovens a larry track will pass under the coke tipple so that the larry can run to each oven and charge it with a load of coal. |
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Ed, you spent a lot of time doctoring that picture of you. the e-mail address of Gary was incorrect, can you give that to me again.
your workshop will be at 10am sat 12/10. have you decided what you want to do so I can put it on a sign. I know it is late but you are welcome to go to columbia with Earl Loos(vice-president) and me to Bill James(president) house to work on a layout. be gone about 4 hours
0 house Friday. we are leaving my house about 11:30 am, stopping for lunch, office depot/walmart and then to Bill’s to work on a small layout that we will have at the show.
Ed, I’d like to send you a couple pictures of a pair of Plymouth locomotives that belong to my brother to see if you could dimension them in SketchUp. I’m still working on that but haven’t gotten to that part yet and yes, I bought a dummies book but am on vacation so it’s still hard to find time! Let me know how I can do that if you’d be interested or just let me struggle with it and I’ll find the time eventually. Shawn thought you might be willing to do this as we are working on an article about these engines.
Sure. Would love to do that. The only thing I need in addition .. is at least one measurement that we know from the photo. A wheel, a window width .. whatever. Once the thing is in Sketchup I can then scale everything off the known measurement. No biggie .. I can always find something to scale off of .. but thought I would mention that ‘just in case’ you had a ‘known’ dimension.
I think I will create a ‘Sketchup’ page