and he notes - Thornburgh's locomotives were built to 17/64th scale to run on 0 Gauge track, which was based on 5' gauge instead of 4' 8 1/2". If you're gonna convert the dimensions to 'S', bear in mind that the MR drawings in Mel's articles are 17/64" = 1 ft., not 1/4".
Raleigh in muggy Maine At 02:16 PM 7/22/2008, Pieter Roos wrote: >Just to be clear, Mel Thornburgh's articles were on building an O >scale locomotive, but there really isn't any difference except the >specific dimensions between the construction of a model in O or S scale. > >There have been a couple of later series in MR and other >publications, Thornbrugh's articles date to the 1930's. > >I do not recall any series in similar depth in S. > >Pieter Roos > >raisinone <<mailto:raisinone%40wi.rr.com>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Try the model railroad index, link attached, for specfic issues. A >company called "Railpub" advertises on this index web site and >supplies older, out-of-print magazines. I have always had very good >luck with them. > >Jim K. > ><http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?tmpl=tm_ksrch>http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?tmpl=tm_ksrch > >--- In <mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected], >"Trains" wrote: > > > > Hi Darrell, There was a whole series of articles on just such an >engine, in MR in the fifties and early sixties...They were called >something like "...Build a Kitchen table top engine..." there were 4- >4-0's, and other steam engine skratch building articles, including >everything necessary to build frames, cylinders, running gear etc.. >The basic idea was a low tech (no lathes or machine shop stuff) home >hand tools, the hand drill was very necessary in a lot of the >techiniques, and of course a lot of hand work cutting brass stock >with a jewlers saw, good set of a variety of files....etc. The author >was, I believe, Mel Thornburo (sp?). I learned a lot from these type >of articles and still utilize many of the techniques etc. Most of >these articles were written for O or HO but are easily transposed to >S. > > > > I wish I could be of more specific help, my RR modeling mags are >all packed up...pending my move... or I would have been able to give >you specific issues to look for. > > > > S gaugingly yours, > > > > Peter Loeb > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > >------------------------------------ > >Yahoo! Groups Links > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [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/
