Do you mean that is what is under Bob's LWS SW-1 or that you have reason to
believe the ones I have are NY?
Working with a set of Railmaster (presumably the same as North Yard?) Blunt
sideframes, I discovered that the ones
that came with my "Beveridge" drive, as with the G&W(?) sprung brass ones on my
earlier Miller are about two scale
inches longer than the Railmaster ones. Since the RM ones have the same
wheelbase as an SHS AAR truck, I suspect
the sideframes produced for the Beveridge drive are slightly oversize.
Happily, the Beveridge drive permits a slight
adjustment in dimension without losing its function.
And since I am working in something of a fog here, perhaps the more
knowledgeable list members can give me a definitive
answer about the history here: I keep referring to a "Beveridge" drive,
usually with a question mark to indicate my uncertainty
about terminology; from what others have informed me, Jon Beveridge developed
this drive using Lindsay gearboxes on machined
brass tube with a Sagami motor and a fabricated sheet brass tower with delrin
gears and chain. Independently, I gather G&W
(primarily a dealer?) had lost-wax AAR sideframes created, originally as
replacements for the incorrect ones on the AF Baldwin
switcher; apparently yet a third party--Cascade (also a dealer?) mated the two
and sold them as a complete drive. What I currently
have seems to be a Beveridge drive but with yet another set of sideframes.
Who can sort this out for me?
Jace Kahn
General Manager
Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co.
> North Yard
>
> Rusty
> > Very nice work, Bob, hard to tell from one of Don's splendid imports--and
> > LWS "kits" are not for beginners.
> > I don't QUITE think the white-metal sideframes I have match yours, so
> > perhaps they aren't LWS. But, if not, from where?
> > Jace Kahn
> > > I have a Locomotive Workshop SW-1 with a Cascade drive and G&W sprung
> > > brass AAR Switcher side frames. There's a photo of it in the Files
> > > section under Bob Nicholson
> > > Bob Nicholson _______________________________________
> > > > I'd appreciate that. This is more curiosity than otherwise, a way of
> > > > gaining more perspective on what was available in S scale
> > > > before I got involved with it. I would assume the SW-1 was a LWS,
> > > > since that was the only previous one before the SHS, except
> > > > for brass imports?
> > > > Jace Kahn
> >
> > > > > I have a Cascade drive for an SW 1 at home which came with white
> > > > > metal trucks. I'll see if I can locate them and if they have those
> > > > > numbers.
> > > > > Pieter
> >
> > > > > Someone else agreed with my conjecture that they may have been from
> > > > > Jan Lorenzen's EMD kits, but so far no one has said
> > > > > for sure.
> > > > > Jace Kahn
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