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Originally posted by bfishma:


locoike: layout looks great ... as usual. that engine sure is a looker too. is that a lionel starter set repaint?
HALLELUJAH!

Thank, fish.

Originally GP-38 from the NARCAR starter set my wife bought me for Christmas last year (starting me down the model railroading path). When I get the guts I am going to paint the MTH RS-1 I just bought with army colors. While none of the Alaska railroad locos ended up in Army service-- as far as I can tell-- it is still more appropriate for a World War II era scene.

Looks like Edouard didn't amount to much. That is good as I am vacationing in Galveston this weekend, and almost in your neck pf the woods in Luling later in the week.

Good advice, Gizzi. And what I am looking at doing. Also, I don't think the planer will work.

1. In real life it is over 15 scale feet tall. It's huge. My favorite piece in the collection and the most highly detailed (doesn't show that well in the photo) but I don't think I can justify it being 1/2 sized, or tabletop. I'll save it for posterity or find an HO guy who wants a good rendition of a planer.

2. I don't have a clue of what it "planes".

The wheel lathe, I may be able to adjust, I don't know.

Page 2 definitely needs an image:

great shots rand! love the 'heat' that pic generates ... feels like the desert sun pounding down. i agree with vulk though: that first one is a treat ... kind of haunting.

great to see this part of your layout again!

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.......This just keeps gettin beta unt beta!!

.......Hey Rand, maybe your last shot is where this UPS boxcar went through?

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Originally posted by Vulcan:
Good advice, Gizzi. And what I am looking at doing. Also, I don't think the planer will work.

1. In real life it is over 15 scale feet tall. It's huge. My favorite piece in the collection and the most highly detailed (doesn't show that well in the photo) but I don't think I can justify it being 1/2 sized, or tabletop. I'll save it for posterity or find an HO guy who wants a good rendition of a planer.

2. I don't have a clue of what it "planes".

The wheel lathe, I may be able to adjust, I don't know.

A planer is used to shape wood that has been joined together to create a flat surface. Planks glued side by side to form a tabletop for example. I'm sure there are different sizes.

Vulcan, you should consider making a narrow gauge railroad, then you would have a use for the wheel lathe.

Rand

Rand, it is On30, that's why I haven't ruled out the wheel lathe. But I have no narrow gauge equipment to judge by.

Also, I figured the planer was for wood, but I'm not sure why it's in a railroad shop. Wood car bodies? It's patterned after one at the East Broad Top shops.

Front side.



That is a HOT shot, btw.

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Originally posted by Vulcan:
Planer.

Not to argue but;
This is a machinist planer and though they can be very large it is very common to have various sized versions of any given machine in a metal working shop. The material to be planed is mounted to the table and then forced under a single point cutter that take small shavings off. the cutter progresses from one edge to the other untill the entire pc is planed. It is also refered to as a shapper due to its ability to cut a profile into the work. This is the tool most commonly used to make other tools, such as the bead and ways of a lathe. It it absolutly acceptable and expected to find multiple sizes of these machines in a well equiped shop.

Gizzmo

I like your argument, Gizzmo! I'm convinced. I just need to raise it to get the bed at a comfortable height.

Thanks!

And, to think, all this time I've been working on my O scale lathe, I could've been using my planer.

I just had to add something to page 2 of scenic showcase. Hope we can make this a regular habit around here.

By the way, I call this photo,"Yes, I should have gone through the trouble of painting the underside of the bridge and adding window glass to the RS-3!" I won't even mention the crooked railings and grab irons on the diesel.

Nothing like the camera to make you a better modeler, or at least to show you shortcuts that you shouldn't have taken!




Jim

For sure, they don't make cameras like they used to.

I probably wouldn't have noticed most of your "shortcuts" if you hadn't mentioned them. Nice shot, Jim.

Dare we hope for page 3 someday?