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Transfer car kit build

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#41

Wow Cliff!

Congratulations on unearthing the HSLC plans and bringing the transfer car to life. That’s quite an effort to integrate your revell model into your garden railway.

Legend had it that the original transfer car was designed by the High Sierra Naval Logistics Corps to move seagoing vessels across mountain passes after the Great Inland Sea evaporated.

Rather than debating the plausibility of HMS Victory’s alleged role in the Battle of the High Sierras, you chose to put theory into practice.

While the naysayers will still dismiss it as rural legend — noting that no physical traces of HMS Victory have yet been found — your transfer car hypothesis is rapidly gaining credibility. From an engineering standpoint, it is, frankly, terrifyingly plausible… provided we politely ignore the small matter of scale.

The supposed backstory almost writes itself. I suspect this build will inspire other schnablers to start asking not whether something can be carried, but what they might try to carry. @capecodtodd

And now, at last, we know the rest of the story.

#42

I heard that during a refitting stop at Lake Tahoe, she got hit by a rogue log that escaped from a timber raft. At 1,655 feet in depth though, she’ll likely never emerge from the lake’s cold embrace.

Even so, we could probably make a bunch with a Go Fund Me to “Raise the Victory”.

#43

I agree WOW Cliff that is a beautiful model you built.

Since my name was invoked by Bill I’d like to share a photo of my RR’s heavy duty flat that was used to transport a loco to the shops for repair. My car is rough, really rough compared to yours Cliff but it is what it is and Pre Schnabel circa 2018.

The video from that day.

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#44

Thanks Todd, and thanks for posting your video, I don’t think I’d seen that. Very authentic-looking!

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#45

Mine is crap compared to yours but it looks okay from a distance and if you squint. :laughing:

#46

Well, I was just following instructions and working with provided parts, while you were following your instincts and making your own. I’m glad you like how I built the kit, and I like your very creative and good-looking bash.

#47

Cliff,

I think that’s all the information you need to justify build a port in Carson City, and start marking out a trade route to the Bellagio in Las Vegas.

Todd,

I should have known you’d have something prepared earlier to show. Bravo!

#48

Cliff,

Thanks for another wonderful combination of builders class and history lesson!

Eric

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#49

Cliff
The car is coming along nicely

#50

Eric, it’s very kind of you to put it that way. It was a serious (but good) spank of a building and history lesson for me, so I’m happy to think I passed along some of what I learned.

#51

Cliff,
You passed A LOT along with what you have learned over the years. The problem with me is even though I thinks it’s very cool I honestly don’t care. Well it’s not that I don’t care, actually it is and that was a lie. I at least told the truth but I got enough of my own rabbit holes.

Excellent work as always but for the next build I challenge you to measure and cut by hand because we need to put some calluses on those hands!

#52

Cliff, are you going to add the rear pilot and recolor the front one?

#53

Jim,
I think he was talking about it after he adds the HEP cabling with ditch lites for push pull service.

#54

Jim, yep, I intend to make the rear pilot. I’ll paint it red though, and write to NSRM that they need to do the same. :grin:

#55

Attaa boy Cliff!
You tell’em ( let us know how ya’ make out!)