The Home Machinist!

Of course Dave Sclavi sells some very nice lights.....

One more. Here is a photo of ex-D&RG RPO car being restored by the Friends of the Cumbres and Toltec Railroad. Note the vertical pieces with notches for the horizontal braces. There are literally hundreds of photos like these on their website, showing the remarkable work this group has done to keep ...

Hello Glenn, I don't have any specifications for you. I will say that those wood cars (and later steel cars) frames were essentially truss bridges and the members were kept in tension and compression by their construction as well as steel rods which ran vertically and diagonally down the sides of th...

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(Spills beer....)

Hello Jack,
Did you steam the 1/8 plywood? How did you get it to follow the curves and stay?

Tks,
Brian

Here’s a cropped photo of Marty’s of the 3420 in Marty’s shop. The seat is folded down forward.

Hope it was ok to steal your pic Marty!!

Machined per print the Allen coupler pocket will accept a Tom Bee solid shank coupler. No side play, but there is room on the shank and pocket to take some material to give you some play.

Brian

Howard’s brake castings are beautiful. I wish he had everything he sells displayed on his website.

Railroad Supply also sells freight car brake parts or did. Need to check their current catalog.

Jack you are a rare craftsman in a hobby of craftsmen.

Most of us wouldn’t even look at that detail,but do because of you. It makes us all better.

Spelling Russ?

I hate the auto correct feature on my phone.

Brian

That is an amazing amount of work.

Beautiful job!

Railroad Supply does sell the leaf spring end retainers if you don’t want to make them.