The Home Machinist!

If you are running a lye solution in your boiler should you be concerned about sitting behind the Loco when it pops off?

Lye in the eyes seems problematic.

If it’s a C&S or RGS car the door latches are nothing like the D&RG jobbies. Again, pretty rudimentary. Would be an interesting detail that would grab people’s attention.

Looks like angle iron. The tops had the side angle cut off and the flat bar bolted to the top side boards. The bottom looks like another piece of angle bolted to the angle and the car side.
If you can mass produce the grabirons this should be pretty easy to make.

Any construction pics???

Brian

Hi John,
Apologies. Yes, the RGS reefers (ex C&S) used ladders.

And steel frames and Bettendorf trucks!

Here’s a Dave Dye photo of C&S 1113 at CRRM:

http://davesriogrande.net/Rosters/CS/CS_1113.htm

Take care,
Brian

Course D&RG and RGS (and C&S) used grabirons, not ladders, John.

Branchline?

Emfinger, Dave is the guy to ask. Nelson Reidel, Nelson’s Locomotive Works, http://nelsonslocomotive.com/Shay/Fire/BuringOil/BuringOil.htm References talking to Dave and Bruce Saylor about oil firing. Yes a Clippard regulator is used on the atomizer line. Nelson/Dave mention 8 psi for the atomizer. ...

Nelson Reidel put a pressure regulator on his atomizer that eliminated a great deal of fiddling with that part of firing his oil burner.

Get everything done you can before you pull the pin in December Charlie.

I can’t seem to find time to get anything finished now that I’ve retired. I’m busy all the time but nothing ever seems to get completed.

I have no idea how I accomplished all I did working full time.

Brian

I believe the color you are looking for is Tuscan Red in Floquil. With a topcoat of semi gloss or gloss it should give you an early passenger red. There are paint schedules around for the early wood cars. They usually started with several coats of boiled linseed oil, then the color, then varnish as ...

I use polyurethane spar varnish in rattle can for top coat. Gloss is too much. I use satin.

Freight car Brown, box car red, Mineral Red, Mineral brown, oxide red, Tuscan Red, etc. All variations of the early attempt to put color on equipment once they figured out how to use something besides black. Every railroad spec’their own version, or used one offered by the equipment builders. And ov...