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Mammoth Locomotive Works in Colorado I believe sells the Winton 15" stuff. http://www.mammothlocomotiveworks.com/

Grand Scale Parts sells raw casting of different 5" scale/ 15" gauge parts. http://www.grandscaleparts.com/

Check out https://woodsvalleyfarm.com/ for more information.

Craig is still selling parts visit his website at http://www.grandscaleparts.com/

Here is a diagram that I have had floating around, don't know where it came from, but I have always kept it around.

I have seen a steam donkey setup with a tangent burner and a firebrick lined lower ash pan that the fire swirled in as it makes itself around the firebox before going up the flues, given a longer combustion path.

I am sure the soda machine is meant to be a revenue generator that is low maintenance.

Thanks for posting the pictures of our little gathering. We are glad you and Ray got a chance to pull throttle on JT&S's shay. Hope to catch up with you and Ray at Hillcrest for Reedley Railfest.

You can try GoEngineer they have an office in Costa Mesa and Torrance
http://www.goengineer.com/Products/3D-P ... e-Bureau_2
they are also a distributor of Solidworks.

What you need to look at are carter bros style trucks. They have the extended bars to the outside where the rigging hung from. Maybe Curtis Ferrington will chime in, he has done a lot of research on carter bros trucks. If you have the West Side Pictoral by Mallory you could see the examples.

-Robert

In doing research on a side dump cars I came upon this thread. Have you made any progress on the side cars? I noticed that the link is no longer working for accessing the PDF of Western Wheeled Scraper Co catalog you created. If you would be willing to share any information you have I would really a...

Rolling Stock shortage is true, as well as track, two problems we will be working on this season. We are looking to build some side dump cars like the ones sold by Seattle Car and Foundry and Western Wheel Scraper Company to help with building ROW. The main focus for the next several years will be R...

The video links should work now.