Pieter, That's a superb article that warrants some further reading. I
once tried to obtain something similar using the AM mill gon and the
little wife's oven. I'm certain that I started with a magazine article
to start, but I ended up with what would resemble a very curled potato
chip--this looks like a much better way of doing this. However I dare
any of us to take our brass GS, War Emergency or even Bill Lane's Pennsy
models and do the same kind of hammering!
Once in awhile I get to work on a project involving the real railroads
or industries served by them. One was a local recycle'r; aka
scrap-yard. They positioned gons similar to the one's featured in that
article inside large buildings. Overhead cranes with the magnetic
attachments loaded the cars. I had to ask them to position one of the
cars differently, as a SP MP 1500 had just dropped them off and left to
work another area of the facility. My "go-to guy" said no problem but
just brought in a typical front end loader that less than gently,
positioned the car by shoving on the corner of the car, thus explaining
the dents in the corners also.
Same client on another day, during a heavy downpour outside, needs
brought back a different switcher to again remove loads and position
empties. Every time the engine (a very tired vintage SP SW??) would
leave or enter the building, runoff water would dump on that poor
engine. I've seen less steam arise from a steam engine in cold
weather. The whole gym sized building was filled repeatedly with steam
vapor--sometimes photography is just darn interesting!
Bob Werre
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On 3/15/12 10:03 AM, Pieter wrote:
On to a model building subject:
I noted a reference to an interesting article on another list:
http://www.trainlife.com/articles/132/modeling-a-well-used-gondola
The article starts with an HO P2K gondola model. You could start with
the AM 50ft gondola, or (given how much is replaced in the conversion)
probably just scratch-build the whole car without a lot more work. The
car in the example is modern, but steam era gons were about as beat
up, especially in scrap metal service.
Pieter Roos
