Bear Creek Railroad - News Gazette

[Waldbahner]

Hello!

Well, the Shay is mostly done now, but there are still a lot of open tasks for the indoor live steam event in January.
First I start to rebuild the water car aka driving car for my steam locomotives. While the water tank on the Shay is located higher than on the Forney, I had to rise the tank on the water tank to get the bottom level the same. Now I can use the riding car behind both steam locomotives.

I decided to add some more details during the rebuild and added braces to the wooden water tank. This braces are also used to raise the plastic inside tank by 20mm. I added a 3-point-truck mount to the car to negotiate raw track. Meanwhile, the car is painted and tested in first service. This week I'll add lettering, brake wheel, drain valve and some other details to get the car finished.

Here are some photos of the rebuild. The water tank is now painted in box car brown.





Next I'll reletter a bunch of freight cars before I get started the the next small project - track bumpers.

Bye, Gerd