Gary,Food for thought.
That would not be the ideal place to put supplies or anything else..
Why?
That's a low laying area -any guesses where the rain water will drain and stand?
I would fill that area in with homasote/foam or place weeds and cattails in a stagnated pool of water.
Larry makes a good point, although a large and well-developed yard and loco servicing area could also be underdrained. Either way, an opportunity to add some detail with a swampy area or some drainage ditches and/or some catch basin grates.
Wayne
An excellent obsevation Brakie. The area is indeed lower than the tracks which surround it, but they are on embankments to ease the grade which they encounter further down the line. The area on either side of those tracks are lower yet. Here are a couple pics of the surrounding area:
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The area shown will be an industrial area patterned after the ones in the New Jersey meadowlands.
I hadn't considered the need for drainage however and will have to do so. Either a good sized storm drain at the narrow end, and the ground sloped gently towrds it, or some appropriately sized pipe sticking out of the embankment to simulate culverts.
I do have another area of the layout which will be a marshy area with cattails, etc.
Thanks for the thought!
I'm not trying to hi jack anyone's thread, but does any one know how to string one of these "gems?" I have two of them!!
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jglfan,More food for thought..
Why not cut in a drainage ditch on both sides along the embankments?? That should keep that area dry.
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sgtcarl1,I use to use .0020th(twenty thousandth) wire for cable..I would bend it around the end pulley(end of the boom) and Goo it to the pulleys by the cab.A signal.0015th(fifth teen thousandth) wire would be "cable" for the hook.I would paint these wires Oily Black.
Ah, so!! Thanks for the post! I really was wondering what cable goes where to what?
Carl, here's a
LINK to some kit literature from various manufacturers. Click on "Athearn", then on "Freight car instructions 1960s". The one labelled "Crane 1966" will have a diagram (the "Crane" link at the bottom of the list doesn't work). If your crane is the older version, with the additional sheaves, use the "Freight cars 1950s" option.
Wayne
Carl,
I just checked those Athearn Parts list on that website. None of them have a "cable diagram". They look like parts list.
So I dug out the instructions from a newer Athearn 200tn crane I bought two years ago. The instructions look like teh same ones from 1966.
Anyway, I was hoping to take it apart, and see if I could get a picture for you...No dice...
So, here's a picture of an IHC crane I took. Hopefully it helps.
Dr. Wayne and 88:
Thanks for the links and info, guys!! I really appreciate your willingness to help! Wow! I went to the website and was amazed at all the cool stuff! Especially the catalog that was published the year I was born!! All the infromation I got from you all will be very heplful, indeed! Thanks again, guys!!
Brakie Wrote:Gary,Food for thought.
That would not be the ideal place to put supplies or anything else..
Why?
That's a low laying area -any guesses where the rain water will drain and stand?
I would fill that area in with homasote/foam or place weeds and cattails in a stagnated pool of water.
Or just add a culvert to drain it.