Isn’t that the coolest feeling? Finding something right before your eyes that will work.
It really does look slick.
Congrats Dave on getting second with the diesel and am very happy that I was able to offer a little inspiration, though take no credit for the original.
Glad to see that someone actually finished theirs too. My diesel’s still waiting on some steps and other little details, but I keep running it so often it doesn’t get much time on the workbench.
Congrats to all the other LSC’ers, great to see such talent and serves as inspiration to the rest of us mere mortals!
Cheers
Tony
Hi all, Thanks for the interest. I really don’t have much more in the way of pictures, but will post what I have. Maybe a little background on how the project came about. Several years ago I was doing some ventilation work for a mining company at the Old Reid Mine in Shasta, County Northern california. The Superintendent was telling/showing me how they loaded the ore concentrates on a flat bed semi truck trailer with a 2X12 side board. The ore was transported to Nevada as an open load for smelting, If I remember correctly he said each truck load was roughly $20K in gold-silver content. He gave me a large chunk of ore as a souvenier and I brought it home and threw it at the wifes rock garden. It lay in the garden until this last Fall when I noticed it was starting to crumble away and thought I better try to save it. The unused Bachmann flat was on the shelf waiting some idea for a load. Hmmmmm, if they moved ore now days on an open truck bed why wouldn’t some one have moved it in the old days on an open low gondola car. The crumbling ore in the garden
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The ore was crunched up and glued into the new low side gon. The whole project was pretty quick and dirty only taking 3-4 hours. The only down side is that the car weighs in at about 7 pounds, don’t think I will be developing a string of these.
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As was said: a change of couplers, some wooden gon sides, lettering, some chinks and dinks, and weathering was about all.
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Thanks for your time. Rick Marty
Rick -
Your car looks great, and it’s a really nice idea. I hope my comment earlier in this thread wasn’t taken as negative.
Jon Radder said:
Rick -Your car looks great, and it’s a really nice idea. I hope my comment earlier in this thread wasn’t taken as negative.
John,
Nawwww, I don’t care. Just glad you weren’t one of the judges though (grin)
Later
Rick Marty
Rick,
I really kind of like your gon … and seeing it with your Davenport, which is very similar to mine, I’d thought I might make one of my own. Really, all the winning photos are some great ideas; I want to build a diesel very similar to Dave’s, and I’ve thought for some time about making a restaurant out of my New England Narrow Gauge coach … maybe along the lines of the lobster shack they offer.
And … everyone has critics. I’ve already heard that all I did was add an exhaust pipe, headlight, and bell to mine. The point is, regardless, I’m happy with how it came out, I learned a lot about how to do this kind of thing, and my next project will build on what I picked up on. The award just makes it that much nicer. And it provides another chance to share ideas with folks here, which always makes the hobby a lot more fun. I can’t have dozens of people in to see the layout, but I can collaborate with people literally from all over the world anyway… so here’s a raised glass to Bob, and Durango Dan, and all the other guys who make that possible.
Matthew (OV)
And tell us about this building…
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That looks fantastic !!!
Thank you all for the great comments an my diesel. Durango Dan will post a few more pics this week. I am very inept at manipulating electronic data,I have a buddy helping me learn this crazy process of posting pics.I took some pics as I built loco and will gladly share them as soon as I learn how…I will try to get something done this weekend.
Tony,sorry I got your 1st name wrong. Why is it I can remember all the road numbers and loco.classes of D&RGW narrow guage locos and forget peoples names!!!
Matt and Rick,I like the modifications you did on your models.Great weathering on the flat.Neat smokestack…i’ll keep my eyes open for one of those pens!!!
Isn’t that the building that started out like this:
http://www.mylargescale.com/Community/ForumArchives/tabid/100/Default.aspx
http://archive.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=42197&whichpage=1
http://archive.mylargescale.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40892&whichpage=1
The engine and flat car look fantastic… Along with the Building in the pictures…
Congrats on the awards…
Very cool and another congrat’s!
You know, I’ve never really understood how prospectors and miners can tell what to look for and where to dig. That ore just looks like pretty much any other cruddy old rock. It’s almost never the high grade stuff with visible veins of gold running through it.
Rick, that is one cool car!
FYI, “they” still move ore in ways that hurt people, as we’ve seen recently in the Western Australian town of Esperance. A Canadian lead miner has managed to poison the place with lead concentrate that wasn’t shipped safely (e.g., the concentrate was open to the air). It’s bad when birds by the hundreds just start dropping out of the sky.
And now our state government looks like allowing these same jokers to ship lead through the Perth metro area. Of course, they claim the methods used will be safer.
Right.