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Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

Thought I would share my progress.  I'm building a new engine for the layout.
The wooden, bass wood, deck is 9" long and 4-1/4in wide.
The undercarriage will be hidden with a skirt of wood later.


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

I decided to try using India Ink for the first time to age the wood.  Here are the before and after shots of the deck and a few pieces of wood.


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

Satisfied with the results of the color i found an online picture of a square wood engine to copy.
If I find it again, I'll post a link here.

So, I began by making the side walls (about 7-1/2 inches long)
Gluing them to a 1/4 X 1/4 inked piece of wood.

The left is the inside the right is the outside


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

Then it was a matter of designing the height of the roofline for the upright supports and what the outside of the walls should look like.

Top - the wall from the last post.
Bottom - The wall with the uprights and the outside bracing.  The dots are nails I installed to supplement the white glue.


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

and after building the second wall, I positioned them on the base.
i then cut, glued and nailed strips to the rear to support the walls and act as the rear wall of the engine.


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

Close up of the rear of the engine


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

The most difficult was the arc of the roof top.  Once my friend & I figured it out, I cut the joists out of the sheet of basswood.
i clamped and glued them to cross beams i installed across the tops of the uprights.

i also mounted a cross beam across the brass rods I put in the front of the engine and a support beam on the side of the roof joists.

next step is to install the other side support beam and design the steam boiler.


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

Some close up views of the front and back with a roof beam in place


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-13-2019

More later as I work on it some more.


RE: Building a New Engine - Charlie B - 09-13-2019

I guess this is a little large for your ngauge handle. Icon_e_biggrin  Interesting build. 
Charlie


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-14-2019

(09-13-2019, 08:08 PM)Charlie B Wrote: I guess this is a little large for your ngauge handle. Icon_e_biggrin  Interesting build. 
Charlie

Thanks!!  We thought we needed a different engine to pull some passenger cars around the layout.  
Gotta keep the passengers as happy as the freight.   Icon_lol Icon_lol

I started in HO when I started working full time in 1982.  My friends Fred & Wayne & I decided that we wanted more trains in the same area so in 1986 we sold the HO and bought all N.  I kept some sort of N running through 2 moves until 1992 (after we moved to our present house) when my wife bought an LGB starter set from the place she worked.... Toys R us.  More people knew me online at that time, so I kept Ngauger.

I slowly sold off the "N" skipped right over "O" and went full into Aristo Craft and Bachmann G Scale. We are officially, as of 5 or 6 years ago, in 1:20.3 Narrow Gauge because I bought the first generation Climax, so now I hand build most everything on the layout. (note last line of my signature)


RE: Building a New Engine - Charlie B - 09-14-2019

Well, if you want to see it in "N" you can look at it through binoculars the wrong way.... Icon_e_biggrin
Charlie


RE: Building a New Engine - ngauger - 09-14-2019

(09-14-2019, 06:00 AM)Charlie B Wrote: Well, if you want to see it in "N" you can look at it through binoculars the wrong way.... Icon_e_biggrin
Charlie

LOL too funny!!!


RE: Building a New Engine - Tyson Rayles - 09-14-2019

Are you going to keep the Euro hook and loop or switch it over to American style knuckle couplers?


RE: Building a New Engine - doctorwayne - 09-14-2019

Not only an interesting build, but also interesting how you were able to place two photos side-by-side.

Wayne