Will some here were grinding on yesterday about various shades of non- S SCALE American Flyer voodoo topics, I did something rather novel. I MODELED. You should try it some time. I say it is fun. I worked on a scratchbuilt Erie mill gondola built by Stan Furmanak I bought at the Get Together. http://www.lanestrains.com/Erie_Gondola.jpg It is stunning as you would expect from Stan complete with brake rigging and piping. For the record I am not copying this car but could easily have a few more of them even if it is an Erie only car. It is just flipping gorgeous.
I would say it was intended to be a display model for Stan, or at the very least not to be used in a 100 car train. It had Sergent Couplers. If you coupled them to a train you would have pulled the not yet glued end sills out and the car would have remained stationary. I shoehorned in SHS couplers and tied them to the rest of the car with brass strip. Otherwise the couplers would have likely ripped out in the first good pull of a train. It is not as pretty as Stan's original job but is much more functional for my use. The car was rather light as well. Since the wood bracing for the bridge girder load was already bruised I reworked it. The load now weighs a good bit more due to it being fully lined with lead car tire weights. I was surprised at the sparse wood bracing when I got it for such a load. But a friend sent a photo of a PRR G26c with a very similar girder load and LESS bracing than I have now. In other gondola news, here is my old school G22b filled with **production** Lanes Trains LCL containers just as the PRR (and some others) had.. http://www.lanestrains.com/G22b_W_Containers.jpg I started shipping some orders yesterday. I am not shipped complete to me or to all customers yet, but I am in the home stretch. It was 5 months from project inception to the start of orders shipping. Not too shabby. You won't get stung with one of my projects. I deliver... 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/> http://www.lanestrains.com Look at what has been made in PRR in S Scale! Custom Train Parts Design <http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm> http://www.lanestrains.com/SolidWorks_Modeling.htm PRR Builders Photos Bought, Sold & Traded (Trading is MUCH preferred) <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRphotos.xls> 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.prrths.com <http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf> http://www.lanestrains.com/PRRTHS_Application.pdf Join the Pennsylvania Reading Seashore Lines Historical Society It's FREE to join! <http://www.prslhs.com/> http://www.prslhs.com Preserving The Memory Of The PRSL [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: [email protected] [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/
