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Help with Side Mounted Brake Wheels on logging flats

General Discussion
#1

Hello,

I am wondering if any of you all have had experience with side mounted brake wheels on flat cars. I am modeling the Little River Rail Road in 1:20.3. This is a logging line that used side mounted brake wheels to avoid fouling the Barnhart loader that moved from car to car across the decks. I have Bachmann’s 1;20.3 flats with the brake wheel upright on the deck and am wondering how to convert them.

I have looked at the after market detail parts sites and so far I have not seen anything I could use. All ideas welcome.

Thanks in advance for your help.
Doc Tom

#2

Tom,

A good example would be the Accucraft logging disconnects that have a brake wheel mounted horizontally. I did mount one flat car brake wheel horizontally. Not a beautiful modeling success, but I just turned the chain drum horizontally from vertical. Welcome aboard.

#3
Ric Golding said:
Tom,

A good example would be the Accucraft logging disconnects that have a brake wheel mounted horizontally. I did mount one flat car brake wheel horizontally. Not a beautiful modeling success, but I just turned the chain drum horizontally from vertical. Welcome aboard.


Hi Ric,

Thanks for the followup note. I did look at the “exploded” parts diagram on the Bachmann 1:20.3 flat car. It does look like the chain drum can be turned to the horizontal and this may be the way to go.

Thanks for the welcome aboard also. this looks like a very good group. If I can figure how to post pictures to forum posts Iwill throw up a few pics of the Little River RR taking shape in my backyard.
Doc Tom

#4

Welcome Tom.
If you’re using Windows, this article by Bruce Chandler should help with the picture posting.
http://www.largescalecentral.com/articles/view.php?id=96

If you’re using a Mac, there are a couple members here who can chime in and help you out.
Ralph

#5

Tom,

Very familiar with the Little River Lumber Company and always one of my favorite treks. Usually go to the Smokies about this time of year. Daughter decided it was better for me to help her move this year, so that caused the annual trek to be put off. Great museum in Townsend and good eastern lumber history, whether you model it directly or not. Where is your part of the World?

#6
Ralph Berg said:
Welcome Tom. If you're using Windows, this article by Bruce Chandler should help with the picture posting. http://www.largescalecentral.com/articles/view.php?id=96

If you’re using a Mac, there are a couple members here who can chime in and help you out.
Ralph


Hi Ralph,

Thank you so much for your help. I am a devoted Mac user, aren’t we all? I do have the picture I wanted to post in “photo bucket.” So how do I get it here???

Thanks Tom

#7
Ric Golding said:
Tom,

Very familiar with the Little River Lumber Company and always one of my favorite treks. Usually go to the Smokies about this time of year. Daughter decided it was better for me to help her move this year, so that caused the annual trek to be put off. Great museum in Townsend and good eastern lumber history, whether you model it directly or not. Where is your part of the World?


Hi Ric,

Thanks for the nice note. I grew up in East Tennessee but now live in Middle Tennessee in Clarksville (near Fort Campbell, 101st Airborne Division) Tennessee. I have hiked the trails that used to be LRRR road bed in the Smokies and even found some old track down in the Little River itself.

I have been modeling logging railroads in HO for for 23 years. Now I have moved to Large Scale 1:20.3 primarily to get a reliable Shay that runs well and have taken on a protoype road for the first time …the Little River RR. The Museum in Townsend is great and I have made many a pilgrimage to it. I have gotten every book, and photo I can find on the rail road. Bachmann’s three truck Shay is pretty close to the #2147 of the LRRR. Although it really is a narrow guage 3’ model it really looks like the locomotive sitting on standard gauge tracks there in Townsend. Also, Bachmann’s 1:20.3 flat cars look like the LRRR shop built units and even have the 4 stake pockets per side like the LRRR. I have two of these flats and it is to these that I am trying to get the side mounted brake wheels on.

This is a really nice site and as I learn more about Large Scale I hope to post a few notes and pictures.
Doc Tom

#8

Tom,

Size them to the 640 size then select the imgcode option to copy then paste here you can delete the at both ends as it isn’t needed here

Dave

And welcome aboard

#9

Tom, If you copy and paste the url from the Photobucket page you should be good to go. I don’t have Photobucket, but Ken Brunt does and here’s his new station under construction, compliments of Photobucket, and Ken, of course. Ralph

(http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh58/rgseng/delores/del006.jpg)

#10
Dave Marconi said:
Tom,

Size them to the 640 size then select the imgcode option to copy then paste here you can delete the [url]at both ends as it isn’t needed here

Dave

And welcome aboard


Here is the img code from photo bucket. Let’s see if it works??? Doc Tom

http://s542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/?action=view&current=sidemountbrakewheel.jpg&newest=1

Well the link above takes you to photo bucket but no picture here??? Any ideas???
Doc Tom

#11

Tom Grabenstein said:

Ralph Berg said:
Welcome Tom. If you’re using Windows, this article by Bruce Chandler should help with the picture posting. http://www.largescalecentral.com/articles/view.php?id=96 If you’re using a Mac, there are a couple members here who can chime in and help you out. Ralph

Hi Ralph, Thank you so much for your help. I am a devoted Mac user, aren’t we all? I do have the picture I wanted to post in “photo bucket.” So how do I get it here??? Thanks Tom

If you move your cursor over the picture a window will appear with “Share/Copy”, under that will be a link for Email & IM and another for “Direct Link”. Place your cursor over the direct link url and it will say “copy” , then just paste it where you want it.

(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/sidemountbrakewheel.jpg)

#12

(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/sidemountbrakewheel.jpg)

Tom, Hit “quote” on this post and you can see what I had to cut from your image code to get it to work. Ralph

#13

Never mind…do what Ken says!
Ralph

#14

Ken Brunt said:

Tom Grabenstein said:

Ralph Berg said:
Welcome Tom. If you’re using Windows, this article by Bruce Chandler should help with the picture posting. http://www.largescalecentral.com/articles/view.php?id=96 If you’re using a Mac, there are a couple members here who can chime in and help you out. Ralph

Hi Ralph, Thank you so much for your help. I am a devoted Mac user, aren’t we all? I do have the picture I wanted to post in “photo bucket.” So how do I get it here??? Thanks Tom

If you move your cursor over the picture a window will appear with “Share/Copy”, under that will be a link for Email & IM and another for “Direct Link”. Place your cursor over the direct link url and it will say “copy” , then just paste it where you want it.

(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/sidemountbrakewheel.jpg)

(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/sidemountbrakewheel.jpg)

#15

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#16

I think I am getting it.

(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/sidemountbrakewheel.jpg)

Here is the picture of the side mounted brake wheel I have been trying to get here. Doc Tom

#17

3rd times the charm…:wink:

#18

Ken Brunt said:
3rd times the charm…:wink:

Thanks Ken for all the help!!! I have been jumping all over the Internet learning the new skills needed to post here. I took one of my shots from my modeled Liver River RR and put it in photo bucket and here it is now. This is a picture of Boss Crumb and the boys taking a break and giving #2147 a break too high in the Smoky Mountains. Doc Tom

(http://i542.photobucket.com/albums/gg412/DrGrab/LRRRShay.jpg)

#19

Need any help on here with anything, just ask…boatlaods of people with boatloads of smarts to do just about anything…:wink:

#20

Looks like Boss Crumb and the boys are right proud of their equipment, keeping it in pristine condition