Re: What's everybody working on??
I've been working on a Dockside cab forward. I don't have that Kemtron shorty Vanderbilt tender, however. Perhaps I'll use an MDC 0-6-0 tender. Al
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Al Askerberg
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Re: What's everybody working on?? [3 Attachments]
Very nice work Ray. Don't know why you'd want a Penn Line boiler as yours looks very nice indeed. Love that pilot! John Hagen From: yardbirdtrains@...
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John Hagen
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Re: Tyco 2-8-0 repowering?
Some time ago, Mantua offered a consolidation with the same boiler as the Chattanooga Choo-Choo and a die cast frame and the same wheels, motor, etc. as the Mantua Mikado. If you could get a Mikado,
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DONALD HENNEN <don.hennen@...>
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Re: What's everybody working on??
Thanks Karl, that makes perfect sense.Regards, Vic Bitleris Raleigh, NC To: yardbirdtrains@... From: kbkchooch@... Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 19:02:19 +0000 Subject: [yardbirdtrains] Re:
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Victor Bitleris
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Re: Wood Vs Coal
There were many coal burning locomotives built with the firebox between the drivers. There were also many engines built, with essentially the same boiler, which could be ordered with different grates
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DONALD HENNEN <don.hennen@...>
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Re: What's everybody working on??
Vic, the headlight was pretty easy. The headlight and platform are separate castings (Cary or Cal Scale, I can't remember which). The headlight bracket has 2 pins coming off the back. I just located
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kbkchooch <kbkchooch@...>
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Re: What's everybody working on??
I got side tracked from the Mantua Mikado I was working on. ?I have been working on an old scratch built K4 I started about 20 years ago. I had hoped to find a Pennline boiler to fit the Pennline
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Ray Marinaccio
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Back to the Future
Looky, looky. Preproduction samples of BLI's DIE CAST H10. https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.628060917213737.1073741842.149864068366760&type=1&l=3a8fc7f6ea Denis
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Denis Long
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Re: What's everybody working on??
Ohh, I forgot to answer your question; "What's everybody working on??"I have not worked on ANY modeling projects in months. the last modeling project I did was working on a New One, brass 0-6-0. I had
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Victor Bitleris
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Re: What's everybody working on??
Very nice, very nice. I wonder how you mounted the headlight to the smokebox front? I had to solder one onto a brass PRR A5s and it was a bear. I ended up drilling a couple of holes in the top of the
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Victor Bitleris
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Re: What's everybody working on??
That is a very nice looking light Mikado you have there... As for me, I am just about to get a new job, the truck driving got real old real fast and I went home in May. Now I am about to start a new
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What's everybody working on??
Been quiet here, any good projects going on?? I currently have an old (Very old integral gearbox) Mantua Mikado with a Pacific boiler and steamchest (thanks Dan) which is absorbing detail parts about
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kbkchooch <kbkchooch@...>
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Re: A Mantua engine in MR?
Yeh , Those guys will do what they think is best . Who knows ? Lots of things to buy , etc. , etc . ?? It might happen ? Henry H.
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Re: A Mantua engine in MR?
Henry, A ploy to pump up circulation? Kalmbach? Naaaaaaahhhhh!!!! The Youtube video was my idea,,to help sell the article to them! However, if Kalmbach felt enough pressure to ask me,, I could do a
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kbkchooch <kbkchooch@...>
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Re: A Mantua engine in MR?
Always nice to know you guys can cut it up when I'm busy ! Could this article be a ploy of Kalmbach to pump up circulation ? That little 0-4-0 sure ran well on that you tube clip . Henry
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Henry <long95209@...>
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Re: A Mantua engine in MR?
With the cab roof on hinges, a G scale engineer can ride and run it. That same G scale engineer probably has some Z scale in his basement. Chuckles (Just following Denis's lead here)
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Re: A Mantua engine in MR?
Fabulous set up! Doesn't an engine that small require no bigger than O scale hands to do thee work? Denis
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Denis Long
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Re: A Mantua engine in MR?
That is excellent! I'll be looking for it in MR. Jeff jppellas@...
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Jeff Pellas
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Re: A Mantua engine in MR?
Now that sounds like a timely article. If the write up turns out at my expectations, it should breathe new life into MR. I think there are LOTS of articles such as this one waiting to get
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Victor Bitleris
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A Mantua engine in MR?
Yes, its true! The September issue will have an article with a lowly Mantua 0-4-0 sporting a DCC sound decoder, a TCS "keep alive" circuit piggybacked to the decoder, and what little engine would be
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kbkchooch <kbkchooch@...>
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