{S-Scale List} Re: This n' That!
Further to Frank Titman's experience on Iwo Jima, I recall from a video interview Ken Zieska and I did with Frank a few years ago that he was also a the battalion's newspaper illustrator - using humor to bring a comical eye to every day drudgery on Sulphur Island. It was a skill he later brought to early S Scale magazines and even in helping design the NASG "couplers" logo. Steve Doyle Twin Cities
{S-Scale List} Weekend Fun
This past weekend, the Thousand Lakes region (TLR) of the NMRA held its annual convention in Bloomington, Minnesota and attracted folks from all over the upper Midwest and Canada for some many interesting clinics and more than two dozen layout open houses. Brothers Ken Zieska and Dave Hamilton made sure S-Scale was well-represented in the planning. Ken helped organize the clinics which included Monster Model Works, Clever Brothers and several excellent sessions on realistic scenery, weathering, vital tools for the modeler and others. Dave hosted an operating session on his huge CB&Q HO layout, but his visitors also could see his really cool S-Scale switching layout. The Mighty Q was also on display as I hosted nearly 60 visitors to my Chicago and Illinois-region CB&Q layout. For those of you who attended the picnic and layout tour before the start of the Duluth National Convention in 2010, there have been lots of additions in scenery and trackage. The transfer yard below the Chicago skyline now is full functional with freight house, Bordens creamery, Marigold Foods Cold Storage, freighthouse, scale house, TOFC ramp and two team tracks. The 3-set Burlington bi-level commuter cars behind an E-8 roll out from under the massive Old Federal Post Office for suburban stops west to Aurora, with the inbound and outbound California Zephyrs rolling past the transfer yard which represents one of 500 (!) such yards in Chicago in the '40s-'50s. The farmland scene on the banks of the Spoon River spanned by the Pratt truss, covered bridge and 2-arch concrete bridge is all finished. And the village of Wataga on the reverse side of the viewblock is now virtually complete, just awaiting Rt 66 weathering and telephone wires. The comments overheard from the largely HO visitors was that they couldn't believe so much was available in S in buildings, rolling stock and motive power. While the skyline is pretty unique in this area, they were asking questions about several of our better known building manufacturers which comprise many of my structures, such as Pine Canyon, Monster Model Works, Bar Mills, Imagine That Laser Art, Downtown Deco and DSL. They also enjoyed the custom-made structures including the Old Federal Post Office and Lift Bridge from Custom Model Railroad, historic Stone Avenue station by Gerry Evans and LaGrange Post Office by Monroe Models. River Raisin's many locomotives such as the Pioneer Zephyr and 0-6-0 worked flawlessly and drew accolades. We also had some families with their kids who were tugging at the sleeves to get their parents to buy some S Scale for them! All in all, it's been a great month here for visitors with another 50+ guys who were in town for the Sn3 Symposium in late-April. I know it's been mentioned before, but there's nothing like layout tours to focus one's attention, build structures and scenery like crazy and probably most important - get the layout cleaned off and running trains! I hadn't turned track power on since early November and I held my breath when I powered up with a week to go before the Sn3-ers arrived, but everything went well and the winter climate hadn't magically closed or opened any gaps or kinks. Was a hectic month and am gratified it's over but now have to fight the letdown and keep on an easier schedule to complete areas or projects. Now that his heavy workload getting ready for the TLR is over, Brother Zieska swears that all the bickering and tail-chasing on this list has caused him to go over to the Dark Side of lobster-claw couplers and cookie-cutter wheelsets. We hope to do a laying-on of hands or at least a séance to rid him of the Aliens, so there's at least some hope you'll hear wry and cynical observations from him again in the not-too-distant future. That's all from the Northland where the layouts are all above average and the ice was off Crystal Bay just two weeks ago! Our first chance of snow begins again in three weeks, so we're all trying to enjoy summer while it lasts. Steve (Doyle) Twin Cities
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{S-Scale List} Turntables
I just installed a Bowser turntable which I'd purchased back in '03, along with the motor unit. I painted the wood and brass interior pit with Floquil Concrete and will handpaint the ties, and installed the bridge which is long enough to accomodate a RR 2-10-4. I haven't built up the bridge kit yet, but it seems like it won't be too difficult. I did have to replace some gears in the motor which had disintegrated over the years but Bowser sent replacements. I'll probably use the five finger method or pulse the motor to make sure the tracks are absolutely aligned. Everything works well so far, no complaints. The only problem may be that, I think, Bowser has closed out its line of turntables. Would imagine some can be found online. Steve Doyle PPSSW Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: s-scale-dig...@yahoogroups.com s-scale-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: s-scale-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} To the Traveling Man
Re: To the traveling man Posted by: "Thomas Baker" bak...@andrews.edu millcitieslimited Fri Feb 10, 2012 8:31 am (PST) Ken, Your commentary brings back memories. I recall seeing the Minneapolis- Hutchinson mixed train switching cars on the yard tracks that we under Lyndale Avenue. The mixed always had one of those rare GN NW-5 units equipped with a boiler but still carried an ancient combine painted in Pullman green. Although I lived two years in Hutchinson, I regret not riding the mixed on Friday afternoon back to Minneapolis. Wending its way around and over the Minnetonka lakes and bays, the train would have offered some scenic vistas one never sees from Highway #7. I had plenty of opportunities to take that ride but never did Tom Hey, Tom, what years were those memories of yours regarding the GN line that crossed our driveway? I've seen photos of the passenger cars that was part of one of those short consists. It's private varnish somewhere, I read. If I had the room for a second layout (heck, I barely have room for the first), modeling that short line from Wayzata out to Hutch would have provided some great scenes as it wound its way around the bays, sloughs and eventually farmland. I paralleled this line while it was still operating and it was dotted with grain elevators and rural small sidings. The trackage looked like bacon! I'm sorry it's gone and hope that someday the State or Feds will deem it worth it to put in a light rail line into downtown Minneapolis. Anyway, back to S! Ken stopped over last night to continue work on a curved turnout at the Chicago yard lead. It's a tight fit and will probably call for one more curved turnout before he's finished, but we're halfway there. While he worked on that, I was back in the coachyard installing new plastic gears in an old Bowser motorkit, installing it on the bottom of the turntable and screwing it down in the benchwork. Applied the power and the darn thing works! The turntable bridge slowly moves in the arc, giving me the ability to turn incoming steam from either the Chicago Yard or hidden storage from the boiler room. When I get into operating sessions, the value of the turntable and the efforts of Ken and Ron Kemp with the sledgehammers will become more evident. Right now it's just fun to turn 'em and send them out. Steve Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: s-scale-dig...@yahoogroups.com s-scale-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: s-scale-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Re: S Scale topic
Perhaps the gentleman who posted the email besmirching the 2010 NASG Convention Committee by equating it with the Cryer Gray fiasco might have gone to the source first instead of venting on the List. Ken Zieska, the car committee chair, has been very forthcoming about the circumstances of its delay several times since last year, an explanation offered again, kindly, by Ron Sebastian. Ken has further stated that the monies for the car have been escrowed and anyone who'd like their money back is more than welcome to it. But apparently flaming on the List is easier than doing a little background checking first. Steve Doyle 2010 NASG Convention PR Hack Sent from my iPad Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: s-scale-dig...@yahoogroups.com s-scale-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: s-scale-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Let Us Remember
On May 30, 2011, at 8:13 PM, Rollain Mercier wrote: > and he notes - > > Let's also remember World War II S Gaugers since passed on: > > Dick Arthur, RCAF Pilot > Jim Bassett a decorated RAF Bomber Pilot > Win Blake, U. S. Army Captain wounded in Europe > Since I started this...and this is always the problem when you starting naming names - how could I have forgotten Frank Titman, a Navy Seabee who served on Iwo Jima building runways, roads and housing? When Ken Zieska and I visited him a few years ago, we shared stories with Frank about Iwo since Ken and I had just returned from a tour of the Sulpher Island. Frank showed us an album with some of the artwork and cartoons he had created for the newspaper distributed to the troops billeted on Iwo after the war had moved on to Okinawa. As everyone knows, Frank went on to submit the winning design for the NASG logo - the clasping couplers. Steve Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: s-scale-dig...@yahoogroups.com s-scale-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: s-scale-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Re:From the frigid north country
For years I have suffered in silence as I've been pilloried by Brother Zieska
for having too much stuff in too little a space, too much motive power, too
many passenger cars, too many freight cars, etc, etc, etc.
Not all of us have had the luxury of a purpose-built basement and a wife who
has given him carte blanche to do what he wants downstairs. I've had 7 years
to turn a mouse-ridden, dank and dark former garage of a 110-year old cottage
into a showpiece for the Extreme Excesses of this Scale, much of it
surreptitiously while my wife is either upstairs, out of the house or out of
town - with the full urging and total support by said Brother Zieska, with
encouragement and heavy lifting by his partner-in-crime, Brother Lennon.
Always ready to break through into another room, this former Artillery Colonel
("blowing through things is what we do!") plans his devilry and then ducks and
covers and lets me take the blame - and then scourges me on the list about
tearing out more of my layout! I'm just trying to compress 25-30 years that
they've had to tweak and tear out their layouts into a relatively short period.
Seriously, Ken and Ron Kemp have helped blow through a cinder block wall into
the so-called Wine Room (because the winos in the group congregate in there) to
add a coach storage yard as well as a new steam facility with turntable and
roundhouse. I told my wife that a hole was needed in order to find the source
of the rodent infestation. Not having found it, the best way I knew to plug the
hole was with plywood and homasote - a practical solution to a bad problem. She
also gained lots of new storage above all those shelves of green, yellow and
orange boxes!
As far as tearing out a good part of the layout, it's a bit of an exaggeration,
but we've had such huge problems - given temperature and humidity variations
from the adjoining garage - with kinking and gauge problems with the first and
second phases of Custom Trax, that we're finally ripping out much of it and
re-laying Shinohara flextrack, White Oak and hand-laid turnouts. In the
meantime, I gain a double-slip switch and a another 20' passing siding. This
was, mind you, at Brothers Zieska and Lennon's prompting. I've fallen into bad
company, and
things are only getting worse. Who knows what anyone will see here during the
Convention stopover in 2010, but it ought to be interesting!
Back to the dungeon to see if I can move that 20-ton elephant off the Wataga
sub-district and start the negative progress.
Steve
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{S-Scale List} Re: Was: Allen Keller; now: NASG GMR dvds
Ed, Brian, et al: If folks would like to discuss how to move this into as more serious stage regarding logistics, costs, replication, etc., please contact me. Yes, I own a corporate video production company based in the Twin Cities with some worldwide clients. Two years ago, Ken Zieska of the Pines and Prairies Workshop and I began work on a "History of S/50 Years of NASG" DVD which will premier at the NASG Convention in Duluth in 2010. As part of that videotaping, we have visited layouts of Frank Titman, Ed Loizeax, Bill Fraley, Dave Jasper and others, as well as conducted interviews with all living NASG presidents save one. I have also provided some production consultation on the Buffalo Creek and Gauley DVD of Brooks Stover. After 35 years in the business, I pretty well understand what it takes to make interesting programs and the costs involved - and they are not inexpensive. Alan Keller, I suspect, has pretty well streamlined his field production and editing into a formulaic process, but depends on large sales volumes to offset costs. I also suspect he's not getting rich on the efforts either. Not sure we could sustain that in just the "S" world unless we charged a fair amount of money per disc ($100+???), and to appeal to the larger modeling world we might need other scales represented on the DVD. The question is - and I don't want to necessarily start a poll here - is there sufficient interest in our world to have 3 or 4 of our most famous layouts on each DVD in Scale, Flyer and Hi-Rail to sustain the effort in a profitable manner? We'd all be interested in knowing. I'm off on a 10-day video shoot in China tomorrow because Baby needs another new brass engine and I've got to chase the buck wherever it leads me. Ken Zieska can field all the emails in my absence. As a former Army Artillery officer, he's really good at firing pinpoint rounds, then ducking and covering! Steve www.stevedoyleproductions.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Searching for product
I'm probably whistlin' in the wind, but does anyone have an old Sunshine Models' 3-level auto rack kit from the 1970s that's been collecting dust on your shelf? Please contact me off-list if available for purchase. Many thanks, Steve Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} B&O Covered Hopper Decals
Wondered if anyone on the List has an extra set of decals for the brass B&O N34 "round roof" covered hopper built by River Raisin several years ago? RR is out of them. Many thanks, Steve Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Hoquat Hobbies"El" Kit
I recently acquired a Hoquat Hobbies resin and wood kit for a Chicago 6000 Series "EL" CTA car, and woukd like to know if anyone has experience with or sources on super-detailing one of these, including a motor, trucks and wheels? The inside of the resin shell has the name "Jim Wolf, Chicago 1985" engraved inside, and wondered if he was the designer or an S-Scaler. Also wondered if anyone has another of these kits for sale, as the CTA always ran these in a lash-up? Any information is appreciated; you can reply off-list. Many thanks, Steve [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Request
Bill Fraley, would you please contact me off-list? Many thanks, Steve Doyle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Frank Titman Operations Group
Wondered if anyone who's involved in Frank's Monday night operations sessions could contact me off-list? Many thanks, Steve Doyle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Looking for Bob Young
If Bob Young is on this list, could he please contact me off-list? Thanks, Steve Doyle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} AM ATSF Budd Cars
Just wondering if anyone out there has an extra set of AM ATSF Budd Cars in scale they'd like to part with? Please contact me off-line. Steve Doyle PPSSW Twin Cities [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} X-29 Boxcar
I haven't seen much chat about the Pennsy X-29 boxcar that Pennsy S Models recently released. Mine arrived shortly before the convention and I mentioned to Bill Lane on the trading floor that I was very pleased with my REA version of the model. The detail on it is incredible, especially the tiny trust plate, and knowing "Mr. Pennsy," I'm sure every rivet is in its proper place. While I'm not a Pennsy modeler, it did run to Chicago so I can use it on my Windy City/Illinois pike. To me, it's a great addition to S-Scale. It may have been a long slog getting it produced but it's been well worth the wait. By the way, kudos to the host club for a great Convention! Steve Doyle Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
{S-Scale List} Tsunami Installation
Hi, Wondered if anyone has installed one of the new Soundtraxx Tsunami decoders in AM's new Northern steamer, DC version with chug and smoke, and had any particular comments or problems about the installation or amps drawn, etc., or performance afterwards? I'd rather draw upon someone else's experience before opening mine up. Thanks, Steve Doyle Twin Cities [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
