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#49

Yup,
20fters Mike.

Nick

#50
Nicholas Savatgy said:
I wonder, can someone just write out the before and after code of a video so I can see how to do it?

Nick


Nick,
Just hit “Quote” on the post I embedded the video.
It will show you what I did. You have to leave off the =youtu.be from the URL.
Ralph

#51

Original URL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeibPUQ5jM&feature=youtu.be

Fixed & Embedded URL

 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCeibPUQ5jM&feature[/youtube]

BTW, The above was done using the Code tag

#52

Thanks Ralph, Jon.
I will give it another shot.
I wonder how hard it would be for Bob
to add a Youtube button for us Computer dummy’s …:)…

Nick

#53

Nick, I still like the 89’ pig flats you make. I hope I still have the emails you sent on the subject. I want to try building both styles of flats; from the 70’s and your more modern style. As I get more confident in scratchbuilding freight cars, the more I enjoy the challenge.
Ron

#54

I asked Marty Cozad about his piggyback trailers and he uses Aristo-Craft Roadrailer trailers. He kitbashes some for shorter trailers.
Ron

#55
Ron Hill said:
I asked Marty Cozad about his piggyback trailers and he uses Aristo-Craft Roadrailer trailers. He kitbashes some for shorter trailers. Ron
Ron, I made most of the trailers for the cars from the new 45ft and 48ft USATs containers and fitted trailer wheels on them. I do have a couple of roadrailer trailers but not many. Cars were built for me from a guy I use to know, He did a great job but they did cost me a Arm and a Leg to have them built. But Hay, you only live once. Marty was one of my Super G hero's but now he's playin with that weird size stuff and is very board with G I do believe.............. :)

Could be the last year for the Electric powered non battery Steam up…:frowning:

Nick

#56

Nick, where did you get the trailer wheel underframe? Larry’s G Scale Storefront? That is not a bad idea. Had not thought about that. USA containers are less than half what a Aristo Craft roadrailer would cost.
Ron

#57

I used a 1/32nd trailer chassis, I lengthened it about 7 inches, to get a 53 ft trailer, then built a new box for it that fit along the outside of the chassi, instead of on top of it…

#58

Ron, At the time I made them I needed about 42 trailers so USATs just releases there new longer trailers 45 and 48 fters so I bought some Wheels from them And screwed them to the trailers and wa la… I dont know if USATs still sells them or not, but its a simple quick project that looks great when done. I also run a few in my stack cars as well.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/nicholas_savatgy/_forumfiles/wheels.JPG)

USATs trailers are very well detailed and for under 20.00 at the time you can have a great trailer for your cars with wheels.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/nicholas_savatgy/_forumfiles/USAT.jpg)

Nick

#59

Nicholas do you have a photo of the underside of those pigs? They look amazing

#60
Mark Dash said:
Nicholas do you have a photo of the underside of those pigs? They look amazing
Mark, No I don't, But the next time I pull them out I will take some for you.

Nick

#61

Nick, I will have to give Mike a call at USA to see if they still carry trailer boggies.
Ron

#62

Nick, did the guy who built the cars for you use Aristo Craft roller bearing trucks?
Ron

#63
Steve Weidner said:
take small tin can - small enough to fit inside a boxcar. Drill holes in the bottom close to the perimeter. use thread to hang some 10p nails inside the can. On the open end of the can, epoxy or solder a small piece of copper wire (about 12 or 14ga) across the bottom so the can rocks back and forth. Do two cans for each car to make noise. when place the can inside the car, one can should have the wire running perpendicular to the center line of the car, the other on 90 degree to center line so each rocks differently. Be sure cans are open side down so that they can rock back and forth.
I like it Steve, much simpler! I'm already thinking this contraption would sound like a herd of cowbells!!! But there'd be plenty of time to experiment, hanging all kinds of junk in there to get a variety of noise happening....

If I follow you correctly, your idea is that one can will swing laterally, the other transversely. That’s so simple! BUt what I don’t get is wouldn’t the can find a place to rest at an angle against the car wall, or just flop into a stable position? How wold you cause it to remain in a rocking/unstable position? I would have thought suspending the can from a string in there and it’d be free to just swing anywhichaways. Or maybe have the tincans stable, and a bunch of junk on strings hanging from the inside of the roof…

This business reminds me of those boxcars of John Allen’s that had a ball-bearing in them. The ball bearing was free to roll from end to end on a track. If you switched your cars too hard or accellerated or decellerated too fast the thing would reach the end of the car, causing a short, thus obliging you to handle your train more gently.

Then of course there are those LGB stockcars cars that emanated cattle sounds. Just let’s not go to cabooses with Christmas Carols…:stuck_out_tongue:

#64

How about a small pulley to a cam which would move whatever noise contraption you come up with? I would be looking for a rotational thumping sound . Or maybe it could be powered by a small battery operated motor but then the problem would be it would be “thumping” when the car was standing still. I would think one could sinc it to a small switch kinda like the setup you would have for chuffing sounds of a steam locomotive. Maybe someone who is not “electronically challenged” as I could build one.

#65

Yeah, Mike. … Or how about a couple of tincans and other junk in there suspended from rubberbands… I like the idea of a cam on one of the truck axles, that O-ring idea sounds interesting as well. Or a cylindrical cam running eccentric from wheel to wheel could activate a plunger running up into the car. The plunger could mess with the junk inside somehow… still thinking… along with your rotational thumping, there ought to be noise that is sort of irregular and random-ish as well; we can’t have too regular a rhythm to all the other clatter and jangle and rattle and clunk…

#66

John;

This is TOTALLY impractical, but it would work for short runs. Put some Mexican jumping beans in an empty can (a short one such as for tuna or pet food) and shine a 9v lamp into the can (the heat from the lamp makes the critters inside the beans twist & wriggle, hence the random “jumping”).

Yeah it’s crazy, but it might also be fun.

Best,
David Meashey

#67

… Now we’re getting somewhere, Dave. Maybe a hamster on a treadmill could set the whole kit’n’kaboodle rotating…

#68

I’m on my way to the pet store!