The Home Machinist!

Hi folks, after finally getting a CAD program I was able to make the J characteristic nose. I did not want to do the work of a sheet metal construction, so I opted for a CNC construction from scratch. To be able to soak the raw material on the mill, I had to prick a groove. Then it went to the proce...

Hi Guys, some more pictures about the new parts on our J. The smokebox and stalk are under construction . The running gear is almost ready, suspension works fine and also the axle compensation from axel 1 to the last one of the trailing truck. IMG-20190607-WA0015.jpg IMG-20190607-WA0017.jpg IMG-2019...

Hi,

sooo sad...i was in Montreal a week ago...never heard of your club....i would like to came by.

Regards from Germany

Hey Harold,

all the hopper cars are from 5 or 6 live steamers from germany and swiss. The biggest part with 25 ore cars are from a swiss guy .

All the best
Chris

Hey Fred,

in the USA everything is bigger i know i know

for german railroad , it was the haviest train with 4000 tons.

All the best
Chris

Hello everyone On the last Weekend we held our meet to the "long Heinrich ." This meeting was a tribute to the most famous ore Train in germany, 50 ore wagons pulled by two locomotives of class 44, an oil fired and a coal-fired three cylinder locomotive. We had a very good time on the track of the S...

Hi Guys,

some footage of our last Trip to the USA 2018.
It was such a special time for us.

Have fun...


https://youtu.be/JALc_tCciwg



All the best

Chris

Hello,

thank you RN.

some pictures of the Axelboxes and equalizer....

All the best

Hi Guys, a small Update on my J trailing truck. The axleboxes are still under construction as you see. Axelboxes made of bronze, also the timken covers they are casted. The axles will be mounted with 2 bearings on each side. IMG-20190312-WA0031.jpg IMG-20190312-WA0032.jpg IMG-20190312-WA0033.jpg The...

Hey Steamers,

yes the exhibition at Dresden was Fun.
We also had the J runing with Air and our Y6b and our narrow gauge Loco on display, on the tracks we moved our freelance 0-4-0. Here a video

https://youtu.be/zD9BXPKsXhs


all the best
Chris

Hey Jack,

no worry about it, every model engineer makes mistakes from time to time...we're no machines. That makes us human beeing. To help and to find out of this situation is the art...and you did it. By the way , like always very beautyful work.

All the best,
Chris

Hey Jack,

thank you for the warm recognition.
Still a lot work to do on the truck, suspension, axle compensation and so on.
We carry on.

All the very best
Chris