Hi All, Through a very unexpected set of circumstances, I am very happy and honored to announce that I bought Howie Waelder's West Side Lumber Co Shay #12. It was of great sentimental value to Howie. It was his first S Scale purchase that eventually lead him into S Scale and into our lives as well.
Howie's story was that as he was in the hospital recovering from his heart attack, he mentioned that he wanted to buy this Shay. Howie's wife told him to buy it as soon as he recovered. Howie bought it, and tested it when he got it home. Howie said it ran for 3 feet then it cracked a gear in the drivetrain that PBL did not have. So it sat new but unusable for many years. When the late Bill Daiker retired, he took the Shay, fixed the drivetrain and painted it for Howie. I saw Howie run it for a total of about 5 minutes on a Sunday morning as a CJSS Get Together when Bill delivered it to Howie. I doubt that it has been run since that morning. I have made a few minor repairs and touch up, and added DCC. This was by for the most difficult DCC only installation I have ever done. There is NO room! I used an N Scale decoder. I installed my custom Kadee 802 couplers in place of the HO couplers that were on it. The tender is now semi-permanently attached to the locomotive. I made a new box foam insert to use the original box. Putting this little beast on the track is more difficult them putting an Erie Triplex on the track while hanging upside down and blindfolded! I now have a video clip of Howie's Shay running on my Howie page. I am sure that I have already run it more then Howie ever did. Thank You, Bill Lane Modeling the Mighty Pennsy & PRSL in 1957 in S Scale since 1988 See my finished models at: http://www.lanestrains.com Winner of the 2007 Josh Seltzer NASG Website Award Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Importing a Brass S Scale PRR X29 & G26 http://www.pennsysmodels.com PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls ***Join the PRR T&HS*** The other members are not ALL like me! http://www.prrths.com http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE (for now) http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL See my Altoona train videos here http://www.myspace.com/billlane No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.17/1178 - Release Date: 12/8/2007 11:59 AM 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/
