Day Three of the challenge. Time flies when you're having fun!
Today: Scenic what I can, attach the sky-boards, make up all the "shipping accessories" to protect the modules during transport.
Tomorrow: load the new modules for transport to the Rockford show. load all the rolling stock etc. Finish the "cases" for transporting all the ship models, and get them loaded in..
Friday: Get to Rockford and set up.
Saturday-Sunday Show time!!!!
Monday: Attend meetings
Tuesday: Ditto
Wednesday: Something just might get done.........but don't count on it
Thursday: Milwaukee, to set up the GCLaser booth
Friday: Modules to Milwaukee for Trainfest, and Trainfest first day.
Saturday- Sunday Trainfest!!
Monday, November 15th.....recover from physical and mental exhaustion....pain pills....unload trailer, and set modules up in the basement......kick back, have a scotch, and celebrate that "yesterday" ( 11-14 ) will be my 67th birthday.
Tuesday: I might actually get to thinking about something other than "the above", and....it will be DAY 16 of the Challenge !!!
I guess I'll have to think of something to enter the challenge with!

In the mean time, I have to cut and install the face boards ( covers the front of the module framing ), starting now.

Day Eleven of the challenge. Time flies when you're having fun!
Today: Scenic what I can, attach the sky-boards, make up all the "shipping accessories" to protect the modules during transport.
Tomorrow: load the new modules for transport to the Rockford show. load all the rolling stock etc. Finish the "cases" for transporting all the ship models, and get them loaded in..
Friday: Get to Rockford and set up.
Saturday-Sunday Show time!!!!
Monday: Attend meetings
Tuesday: Ditto
Wednesday: Something just might get done.........but don't count on it
Thursday: Milwaukee, to set up the GCLaser booth
DONE
In the mean time, I have to cut and install the face boards. ( also DONE )


Friday: Modules to Milwaukee for Trainfest, and Trainfest first day. ( Packed and ready for transport in the morning )
Saturday- Sunday Trainfest!!
Monday, November 15th.....recover from physical and mental exhaustion....pain pills....unload trailer, and set modules up in the basement......kick back, have a scotch, and celebrate that "yesterday" ( 11-14 ) will be my 67th birthday.
Tuesday: I might actually get to thinking about something other than "the above", and....it will be DAY 16 of the Challenge !!!
I guess I'll have to think of something to enter the challenge with! ( maybe something at Trainfest will "inspire me "............riiiiiight !! )

Day fifteen of the challenge. Time flies when you're having fun!
Friday: Modules to Milwaukee for Trainfest, and Trainfest first day. ( Packed and ready for transport in the morning )
Saturday- Sunday Trainfest!! Done !!!
Monday, November 15th.....recover from physical and mental exhaustion....pain pills....unload trailer, and set modules up in the basement......kick back, have a scotch, and celebrate that "yesterday" ( 11-14 ) was my 67th birthday. Done !!
.....except for "recovering".
Tuesday: I might actually get to thinking about something other than "the above", and....it will be DAY 16 of the Challenge !!!
I guess I'll have to think of something to enter the challenge with! ( maybe something at Trainfest will "inspire me "............riiiiiight !! )

I actually thought about this at Trainfest, and the following choices are in the running...
1. Finish rebuild/detailing, and painting of, B&O C16a 0-4-0.
2. Finish the HOn3 outside frame 2-6-6-2.
3. Finish the Warrenton 2-4-2.

I'm still recovering, and it isn't Tuesday yet.

I'm sooo confused... :?

Good Lord! Is it day 16 already?!!

I keep forgetting to think about what I should do for the Challenge!

I guess I'll think about it tomorrow.

I'm admiring your progress

nachoman Wrote:I'm admiring your progress

Oh ^$&8+*#%* !!! Now I'm laughing so hard I can't think about a project !
............OK, it is Tuesday so, "Eenie Meenie Chilli Beany, the spirits are about to speak" ......
The "spirits " ( Scotch and Bourbon ) have spoken. It will be the Warrenton 2-4-2.........

but it won't be started until after Thanksgiving Day......this really is not the best time of the year to have to stop procrastinating...... the schedule, really is that full.

OK, the Baldwin 2-4-2, the Warrenton RR's Columbia project was actuall started here:
http://www.the-gauge.net/forum/viewtopic...ton#p28904
This is the project I intend to finish, but there is a bit more required time, than the "contest" allows.
None the less, it is the one project I really would like to see finished.
Since the last post in that thread, I started a new brass frame, and had some problems with the "cutting process". It was that situation that ended the project, and lead me to work on the new modules. The first step in this new start, will be building the new frame, again, in brass, hopefully with greater success.
Where I've already relocated the headlight to the pilot deck, and the bell, to the front of the smoke box, I'll paint and letter this for the Sag Harbor Shipbuilding & Drydock Company. It will be used primarily to pull the work train, but will also switch standard gauge, for transshipment to the narrow gauge line.

The new brass frame was drilled, milled, filed, soldered, and is sitting under the loco boiler and cab........and the camera's batteries are of course dead, so I have to recharge them, before I can take pictures.

The frame still needs details, like springs, hangers, levers ( for the suspension ), the pilot and pilot steps, pivot points for the lead and trailing trucks......etc.. And I still have to kluge together a motor/gearbox that will work well.
This project will continue well beyond the end of this challenge, but I'm back to it, at least.

Day 28 of the challenge:
Pictures......It's about !*@^+$! Time! .......OK,
First, all the "parts", so far
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A close up of the frame, lead and trailing trucks. Since the last post I was able to get the pilot, and pilot step made and soldered in place.
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The full width pilot step follows the prototype in this photo.
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In this shot the MDC steam chest is set in place. I have to drill and tap that, and then attach it.
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This is a side shot, showing the frame with drivers,lead, and trailing truck,and the tender frame. The gearbox is set on the rear driver, a small motor on the tender frame. I have to build a shaft and bearing block between the gearbox, and the cab, where a ball and cup universal joint can mate with a short, free hanging shaft that will make the connection with the motor in the tender. Once the drive train is built I can see if this motor will be strong enough to move a train.
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This last shot is a trial assembly of all the parts
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Between these photos and e-paw's camelback, I am feeling a slight twinkling stirring for steam. Oh geez, gotta fight that urge. My layout is firmly set in the diesel era!

Great looking little steamer so far.

You just might be able to get that dinky little motor in the boiler or firebox somehow. Is there a particular reason for putting it in the tender?

Galen

Sumpter250
As Galen wrote before, i too see no need to place the motor in the tender. If the motor is in the tender you need to use a long drive shaft with two universal joints and with a telescoping member in the middle.

On the photo it seems to me there is a brass bushing over the Motor shaft. And it's outside diameter is equal as the diameter of the gearbox input shaft.

One of my sugestion is to open the gearboxand remove the worm.
Then remove the bushing of the motor shaft, replace it with a longer one, long enough to reach into the front bearing of the gearbox if the motor is mounted directly straight on to the gearbox. Then mount the worm to this elongated motor shaft. The original bearings of the gearbox will fix the tiny motor. The only other thing to do, is to mount an torque support to prevent the motor casing to revolve. This torque support should be a little bit flexible as there is shaft with four bearings.
Then the motor will be within the boiler backhead.

Another sugestion is to built an own gearbox. But this is not everybodys case. I have done so on my L1.

Lutz

Very interesting. I have an HOn3 2-4-2 that I need to build a frame for, and your photos are much needed inspiration. I was going to enter my 2-4-2 into the contest, but with all I have going on in my life right now, I thought it best to tackle something more feasible.

Galen wrote:
"You just might be able to get that dinky little motor in the boiler or firebox somehow. Is there a particular reason for putting it in the tender?"
That was tried, and is the reason why this project wasn't done a long time ago. I had intended on using a gear tower, so that the motor could sit on to of the drive gear box......it didn't work.
Leaving the boiler "empty", allows me to get the loco's weight balanced for better tractive effort.

Schraddel wrote:
" On the photo it seems to me there is a brass bushing over the Motor shaft. And it's outside diameter is equal as the diameter of the gearbox input shaft. "
The brass bushing was part of the above mentioned "gear tower modification". I may turn it down just a bit to accept a smaller universal fitting ( cup ).
the drive will be configured: [drive gear box shaft with cup...intermediate (through firebox/cab) shaft with ball, and cup in the cab area...connecting shaft with ball at both ends...and cup on the motor shaft.
The other consideration is that that intended motor, will not be strong enough to move the loco. The boiler area is not big enough to allow a larger motor, without removing all the backhead detail I've already built. There's room in the tender for a slightly larger motor if needed. ( I really didn't want to see "motor" inside the cab ).

Nachoman, I have an HOn3 2-4-2T, that I thought about adding a tender to for better electrical pickup. Thanks for reminding me....another "shelved project" to haul out and finish.

Gary, UP Challenger 3985 has been known to show up on other roads with a string of passenger cars. Perhaps that train could pay a visit to "your area, and time period"......
UP 3985 on the C&NW "New Line", at Illinois route 176, within the last ten years.
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