The Holiday Season is upon us when we all gather to spend quality time together. When was the last time you and your other half just sat down and worked a puzzle together?
….Well that’s too long.
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We New Englanders are familiar with R Duck as Tripp sells his creations at the Amherst Show in January.
https://www.rducklocomotiveworks.com/
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Nightly, when we solve the time puzzle of figuring out how we are going to earn a living, keep the house from falling down, and get the kids all over the island! 
I do. I have never done any, but my grandson has, he has done a car, jeep and a marble thing where the marble rolls around a maze fairly complicated build. Will have to talk the boss into getting him some train models maybe we can infect him with the RR bug. 
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Mark, you could buy him a Bachman…
From what I’m reading here, it’s a puzzle (that you take apart, buy an extra piece, and put back together)…
and in the end it may run. 
I’ve done a couple of those puzzles and got bored with them but I am kinda jonesing for one lately.
Love it!!!
Is there a prototype for the yellow veranda or is this an original?
Bill;
Back in that time the Cumberland Valley Railroad paid their employees in cash. The car is a model of that railroad’s pay car. Predates Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, so the system probably worked without much risk of train robbery.
Best, David Meashey
Bill…
This site won’t let me share the image. Follow the link
www.northeast.railfan.net/images/cvrrB.jpg
At the RR Museum of PA. I believe Rooster’s model is in a local museum in Mechanicsburg, PA
Here is my latest re-due, an LGB 3082 re-done into a Pullman Car. Complete with eight brass hanging lamps (LED 0402 used in them) and glass dining tables. The upper glass windows were removed and fresh air vents install, plus the wood/coal stoves were taken out as Pullman put in steam heaters in cars in 1929. I still intend to add a seat for the Porter to set and a Bar as one bath was taken out, plus the stoves I have room for this. Fun project, just messing around with toys.
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Indeed. But no scale mentioned.
The length, width and height for each are listed. No specific scale as these are static models. The track is 2" gauge. He also makes “Super scale” versions (4" gauge)
Bill, @PeterT posted on his puzzle-kit of a passenger car, and Linda & I built a different one. We really enjoyed it.
Pete, were you able to finish yours?
Yes, the prototype resides there and yes both of those models are at the local museum that they both used to service. Back in the day in the hood.
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Dave,
I know that is the common theory or thoughts however I have issues with those thoughts which have no proof. The CVRR books clearly state that the Jenny Lind was the pay (locomotive) and clearly designed that way.
Remember during the heyday of the combination car it was basically running from Harrisburg to Chambersburg.
Turns out, he also makes a couple for 45mm track! It seems to be new for the company, but I reached out and he told me both the 2-4-0 Montezuma and the Contractor 0-4-0st are scaled for our gauge. I told the wife I want the Contractor.
It was left in FL in the state you saw in my last post, and I only just got back and settled in. So no progress - I had to fix the Christmas 4-6-0 and (hopefully) sell it, then fix a Bachmann Christmas Gandy Dancer, then a teak coach needs some windows, then I can get back to the LGB2018/Mason Bogie. I’m quite disillusioned with the amount of work the book nook will take.