A little update, haven’t had much modeling time lately but got a start on the mechanicals.
The “stove bolt six” out of a Hubley chevy kit paired with a scratch radiator.
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OK, I’m game and impress me…what is the radiator core material as I’m guessing some kind of fabric?
Doesn’t matter though as it’s got the look needed.
Rooster;
NEVER say “I’m game” in the woods during hunting season! Those Pennsyltucky lads are notoriously trigger happy!
Best, David Meashey
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Apologize for the delayed answer, been camping in the High Desert for the past week.
To answer your question, it is made from a piece of plastic place mat. The wife bought some place mats for the breakfast table 3-4 years ago and we used them everyday.
One day a few months ago she bought some new ones and told me to toss these old ones in the trash on my way to the shop. Now I had looked at these mats for years and never made a connection to model building but as I threw them in the dumpster I thought, duh, that would make perfect radiator core material.
This was during this years MIK build so I used it on that Loco and now on this tank car.
Here is a picture of what’s left of the mat i saved you can see the parts used.
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Finally have the tank car and pump finished.
Nothing left but the hand rails on the caboose/crew car and this project will be in the books.
When I get it finished I I’ll post a video of it running but no fire. :smiley
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A couple of short videos of the Fire Train passing through Hyampom on it’s way to a small blaze at the Louse Creek crossing.
Need some figures for this train and because of the special shapes/locations I will probably have to make them.
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Dang Rick, that beautiful. You gonna enter it at Sacramento?
I could loan you some of my guys if you need them.
Thanks Rooster but I have found through the years that “loaned help” never really works well, they always want more money or better conditions. Plus being Railroad i am sure they are Union. 
Thanks Cliff.
No, the entries closed today and we are still at home, leaving in the morning, 6 hour drive.
I only entered one model contest in my life and won best of show so I don’t intend to do anything to screw up a perfect record 
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in that case you might try, what the Central Pacific Railroad did:
bring in cheap chinese workers/figures. 
Rooster and his body guards
An intentional bonfire flat car, wow, that’s new to me. Be an interesting model…
Nice find, Jim, and welcome aboard!
Thank you, glad to be here. What a long way we’ve come from those days. They must have proceeded at dead slow speed with that kind of illumination, not to mention the blow back from the car-level bonfire.
Indeed; and I’ll guess they didn’t use that method through any tunnels!
What is your “local road”? Somewhere in GA, I take it.
Have you investigated whether this “bonfire car” was used anywhere else than this very early railroad?
I live in Aiken, SC, about 15 miles from the GA border. The road is the Hamburg - Charleston line, owned by South Carolina Canal and Rail Road Company. The original way was iron strap capped wooden rails. Some of these still exist in a local forest near my house, I took this picture after a big storm exposed them.20201107_141009|690x335
I haven’t seen the bonfire car mentioned anywhere other than this book and on the SCCaRR Co Wikipedia article, which mentions a sand layer on the flat car. Great history.
Thanks for the input Jim and welcome aboard.
I have seen reference to that type of “headlight” before in different histories. I “think” I remember seeing it used in some movie way back somewhere, sometime.
That’s a fascinating rail cap, I’ve not seen that before. An L-shaped profile, with a groove at the outside permitting space for nail heads. Pretty historic artifact!