Mel used a lot of 1/4 scale parts on his locos The overall dimensions were 17/64 Spent a lot of time with him. He really did turn most of his domes and parts using his drill press chuck. He had new items almost every week. I wonder if he actually got anything done for the B & O.
I joined the Columbus Model Railroad Club in Jan. 1937. It was in a High St room (2 floor) in the Columbus Union Depot. The 2 rail O gauge layout was on the first floor.l Regular O gauge Members included Mel Thornburg, Ben Cutler, Nick Underwood (an NMRA founder) A member who I just cannot rember his name but who was one of the TOP 4 custom O gauge buliders in the country. and some other real top notch O gaugers. The HO outside 3rd rail layout was on the 2nd floor . Vic Ketchum (later a president of the NMRA) and Bob Lindsay. (who introduced lost wax casting to model railroading) This was a real hotbed of scale model railroading. Long before S gauge. We had the run of the Union Station using the employees back entrance, Riding switchers, etc B&O, NYC, N&W and Pennsy (Bill Lane please note) The first T-1s, Aerotrains I was one of the first HO trolley modelers in Ohio. Taught Herald Durflinger how to build his first interurban. Out of this whole group including railfans (Bob Richardson and others) we created the Central Ohio Railfans who ran dozens of special raifan trips all over Ohio and beyond. (We painted the locos) This led to creating the Ohio Railroad Museum. Any of you ever spike curved rail into straight track on a 90 degree day? You havent lived. Learned a lot from Mel and those other modelers. One day I wandered into the Halls Hardware hobby section and found CD kits In S Gauge. My life changed forever. My so called friends "borrowed all these CD items while I was out in the Pacific with all those unmentionable guys (on this list) From what I learned about modeling after wondering into S gauge that day led to some 200 architectural and industrial models (not from kits and where I made all the parts) and no long list of awards (just satisfaction and living money). John Armstrong Any of those CD kits ever show up? Maybe we could come up with ribbons or hat pins to hoist some egos a little further. I love good models, especially when you go to the narrow gauge meets Buy a BTS loco kit for practice On Jul 22, 2008, at 1:39 PM, raleigh wrote: > 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] > > > > [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/
