11-24-2010, 06:13 AM
Greg, Herc, this engine is a fun project, though it is taking a lot of time. It is really amazing how many hours you can spend doing just a few little details.
Koos, I get my buildings through Google street view and Bing. Both are very helpful in their own way. When I transfer them to scale models, I look for things in the pics that I know the approximate size of, like doors, people, cars etc. If you have a good pic of a redbrick building you can count the rows of bricks to determine the height of the stucture. The satellite view of Google Maps helps to determine the footprint of a building. Just measure the building on your screen and compare it with the scale down in the left corner.
See, that happens when I concentrate on doing something else and don’t work on the layout for a few days. Can¹t leave it unattended ....
I made a few important steps to make my engine look like the prototype. The step wells and the handrails at the front are quite unique on this engine (as I learned from a very friendly and helpful guy who is engineer on the LIRR and worked with these engines before they got leased to the NY&A). Modifying the step wells was easy, but the handrails gave me the creeps. Defintely not the thing I will remember as the most enjoyable when I will think of this project.
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Koos, I get my buildings through Google street view and Bing. Both are very helpful in their own way. When I transfer them to scale models, I look for things in the pics that I know the approximate size of, like doors, people, cars etc. If you have a good pic of a redbrick building you can count the rows of bricks to determine the height of the stucture. The satellite view of Google Maps helps to determine the footprint of a building. Just measure the building on your screen and compare it with the scale down in the left corner.
Steamtrains Wrote:Almost forgot...Some punks went and drove a mega-screw right into your track....
See, that happens when I concentrate on doing something else and don’t work on the layout for a few days. Can¹t leave it unattended ....
I made a few important steps to make my engine look like the prototype. The step wells and the handrails at the front are quite unique on this engine (as I learned from a very friendly and helpful guy who is engineer on the LIRR and worked with these engines before they got leased to the NY&A). Modifying the step wells was easy, but the handrails gave me the creeps. Defintely not the thing I will remember as the most enjoyable when I will think of this project.
Kurt