Gondolas of Lake Terminal RR.

[modelsof1900]

Hello to all,

I have hoped for a few more estimates for parts number?
Gary, Gus, a good start for number of NBWs however you both are a little bit too low under the correct number.
However I must say that also I do not know the number of used NBWs at end of this project but the end is near.

How I said the end is near and so the newest pictures.





All 12 truss rods are installed under the car, 16 all together. I hope that you can find a bit of conformity with original car - here a link again.

Yet two pictures that I have given ordinary inactive NBWs a better and more qualified job by changing to real working nuts and washers. In the second picture I unstrung two of the truss rods and the solved nuts are well visible at the end sill I think.





Now the finish is opened – for the first model!
I must add yet coupler levers, stirrups, a few grab irons, handbrake shafts and wheels including pawl, connecting the chains of handbrake rods to the brake shafts, mounting two coupler bearing bars and ??? Not many more!
Thank God! The end is near, really!

When I see what I have built I must say that not all have got that what I have hoped to get. If you would make a short view to the first picture showing the twelve truss rods you will see that I have chosen a too thick wire for the truss rods. I used wire with 0.5 mm dia (0.020”) and I should use of 0.4 mm (0.016”) – this would give a more correct view to the model. However than I must make a smaller tapper and this would be a very, very small dimension for my hand made models. However some things will be visible not before end of such a job and now most of such early errors are no more repairable. Ok, the next models must better planed and a few small changes will be realized already with the following four models – however the 0.5 dia for truss rods will not be changed.