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- Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:57 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Passenger Car Maroon
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8026
Re: Passenger Car Maroon
Another thing to keep in mind is that when the paint is wet it is different than when it is dry. My late uncle was a master painter-decorator. He tried to get me to learn some of his knowledge but I wasn't interested at the time. He was painting RR cars and structures with his dad in the pre WWI era...
- Wed Sep 11, 2019 6:40 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Passenger Car Maroon
- Replies: 11
- Views: 8026
Re: Passenger Car Maroon
Consider Pantone colors as a base. The folks that do restorations on the Virginia & Truckee rolling stock have matched the industrial archyology (spelling?) and come up with what are very close matches to the original paints. The last remaining car to have been at Promontory had at one time a ve...
- Sat Aug 31, 2019 6:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Re heat treating mild steel
- Replies: 18
- Views: 10219
Re: Re heat treating mild steel
Was this car a victim of one of the big California fires last year?
Cary
Cary
- Sat Aug 31, 2019 6:14 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Restored 2-4-4-2
- Replies: 20
- Views: 16793
Re: Restored 2-4-4-2
I know of at least two 2-4-4-2s in 1.5" scale were built. Also there was a lady engineer in So. Cal. that started one using a pair of RRSC 0-4-0 chassis as a base. I don't know what happened to any of these engines.
Cary
Cary
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:25 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Drawings for 3' Narrow Gauge Bettendorf & Andrews trucks
- Replies: 15
- Views: 16405
Re: Drawings for 3' Narrow Gauge Bettendorf & Andrews trucks
Another RR that used these was the Unitah. You might look for the book about the Uintah RR. It did have a lot of drawings.
Cary
Cary
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:21 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: cylinder block.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15295
Re: cylinder block.
Oh ya. Bruce used silver solder. It all came out fine. He had tested both engines on steam using the LALS steam plant boiler output.
Cary
Cary
- Thu Aug 01, 2019 5:20 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: cylinder block.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 15295
Re: cylinder block.
The late Bruce Ward fabricated his cylinder blocks and saddles(?) from brass with bearing bronze bore liners. They were piston valves with Walsherts (spelling) motion. One of the problems that he was working on was the linkages to make one set go forward while the other went backwards. His loco was ...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 5:17 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: LALS Web-Site
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5546
Re: LALS Web-Site
We have had some trouble with our WEB site. We have a new WEB Master so I would expect the LALS WEB site back up soon. How soon? I dunknow.
CAry
CAry
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:47 pm
- Forum: Lathes
- Topic: Spindle bearing replacement
- Replies: 31
- Views: 25274
Re: Spindle bearing replacement
As for those Vermont X class pin gages you must read what the TIR, diameter tolerance and roundness tolerance are. There are very few home shop machinists that have the equipment and facility to verify that those pins are truly class X either + or - tolerance. I have a set of about 8 of those in var...
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 100+ Years ago
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15510
Re: 100+ Years ago
After the WWII tons of material was left in place as they didn't think they would ever need it again. A friend that made a trip with his wife to the So. Pacific islands was shown a huge area where stacks of crates containing Jeeps were left standing to rot and rust in the jungle on one of the island...
- Thu Jun 06, 2019 6:59 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Steam in London: help me prioritize
- Replies: 23
- Views: 16471
Re: Steam in London: help me prioritize
I think you are already gone but for the record, if you are interested in general British then Stone Hinge, Canary Warf area, just about anything in London or any where else. Steam! Romney, Heith & Dimchurch RR and Blue Bell RR in the sough. Kew Bridge Pumping Station museum and the garden acros...
- Mon May 20, 2019 7:09 pm
- Forum: Live Steam
- Topic: Alcalde & Coalfield High Line
- Replies: 342
- Views: 848316
Re: Alcalde & Coalfield High Line
Hi All, I just got around to viewing all these photos of the get-together and later. Harlock commented on the brass 0-4-0T that he couldn't ID. It the Juliet that Bruce Ward built using components from LBSCs Virginia (late version) to Americanize the loco. Bruce never painted much of anything except...