Anyone know the colour code or equivalent colour to the accucraft rio grande southern coach colour ? 

Read this on the copyright...

basically, the forum owner can no longer be sued for a member posting copyrighted information

IF!!

the forum owner takes certain precautions: (and in my opinion, Bob has NOT done these)

here are SOME of the things that must be done:

• Select and register a DMCA agent with the United States Copyright Office,
• Publish a DMCA policy on the forum detailing how copyright owners can file complaints with you,
• Follow the compliance steps for handling a complaint as detailed in the DMCA, and
• Create and enforce a repeat infringer policy.

https://www.socalinternetlawyer.com/guide-to-legal-issues-when-running-a-forum/

So, it would be best if we did not post copyrighted material, for Bob's sake, but definitely for the poster!!!

Greg

Bob, I don't do MLS. I have no idea what you are talking about.

And I completely disagree with you and lets leave it at that and move on.

Lain and anyone else building a flanger.

Here are some reference pictures I took two years ago. No measurements but I hope it will help you with certain details.

These are my pictures and I have declared them public domain. You may use and circulate them freely. Hope they help you out.

Flanger OL at Chama, New Mexico 2017.

Flanger OK at Chama, New Mexico 2017

...and that is all I am going to say about that.

No John, I don't think so. The subject has come up before and Bob asked folks to please not post copyrighted material on the forum. And yes, Bob is responsible as it is his forum and he controls it, therefore he is responsible for the content. He prefers us to self police, I am exercising my responsibility to self police. As I stated above, what folks do back channel or off the forum is none of my business.

It is so easy to contact folks through the message system and swap information via email, there is no reason to jeopardize the forum. As for your comment on MLS, that is their business. Since Shad sold it I find there is little content there that I am interested in as most of the content is for the burnt finger crowd.

Bob,

A little over the top, isn't it?

LSC won't and isn't responsible for members pics.

Gentlemen,

PLEASE STOP POSTING COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL ON LSC!!!

YOU ARE JEOPARDIZING THE FORUM.

What you folks do back channel or off the forum is none of my business, but I enjoy this forum too much to see folks do what they know is ILLEGAL.

This is it

Found it, just need to work out the scaling

Iain Collingwood said:

Any one have scale plans for a flange

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I believe

NGSL Gazertte did an article with plan check their index.

Any one have scale plans for a flanger?

You nailed it Cliff. After reading the patent description. You are correct in that ballast is dumped with side dumps on the shoulders and then the spreader pulls it into the center and then spreads it between the rails with excess being pushed to.the shoulders again. 

Very cool and economical design and I think with the drawings and the patent description it can be modeled. May give it a go after the challenge. 

Very cool MOW car Devon. Had to check out the plan view from your link,

From the bracing and the shape / orientation of the blades, I'd say the car's operational direction was toward the left. The big blades scooped the loosely-dumped gravel toward the center, and the little vee-blade toward the right spread the ballast evenly over the ties, inboard and outboard of the rails.

If so, maybe that's the opposite of how Jordan spreaders work, with their blades acting like a plow (vs a scoop). 

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After some poking around, I found the additional patent figures; lot of detail! Would be a great model, Devon.

The last figure shows how the gravel is scooped from outboard piles and distributed; figure 7 shows how the derrick is used to lift and stow the blades.

Ballast-spreading car

David Maynard said:

John Caughey said:

OMG! A naked jordan spreader!

Don't look Ethel!

LMAO

Thanks for that chuckle David.

John Caughey said:

OMG! A naked jordan spreader!

Don't look Ethel!

Devon Sinsley said:

So came across this track ballasting car while looking for work train stuff. Pretty cool and a fun project to add to the work train. Patent Track Construction book

Yeah that sums it up

OMG! A naked jordan spreader!

So came across this track ballasting car while looking for work train stuff. Pretty cool and a fun project to add to the work train. Patent Track Construction book

* if you can't tell there are two links. The one that says Patent has the description and all the drawings of the spreader. The language of the patent does a good job of describing what it does and how the part work together. I think with some creativity a person could make this from the patent information. 

Well, this would be a cool little project, especially if you're looking for something for the "Challenge".