I was looking for images of custom builds/modifications to the Walther’s kit “Allied Rail Rebuilders” . I didn’t find much during an image search??
I would have thought I would find more. Anyone have some?
Mine will be a machine repair shop to support the Hulett Ore Unloaders
Hulett_Machineshop by Edmund, on Flickr
Hulett_shop3 by Edmund, on Flickr
The actual Hulett machine shop looked pretty close:
Hulett_Machine by Edmund, on Flickr
I’m not going to chop out the front wall for the crane bridge, though.
Regards, Ed
Great start Ed!. Mine is still in the box, cellophane intact. Kind of like my eyes were bigger than my layout? [swg]
Mike.
I recently picked up this steam hammer and annealing oven to try to squeeze in the shop, too.
https://www.goldenvalleyhobbies.com/80109-auhagen-ho-steam-hammer-and-accessories
Thanks, Mike [:)] Me too on the structures. They ALL look so cool.
Cheers, Ed
WOW, thanks gmpullman. That one video link posted lead me to your video on the Broadway Ltd turbine locomotive. What a great video and great layout you have.
Per my posting over on the ‘steel mill scene’ subject thread,…
B&O fabrication shop
One of those tracks also feeds a ‘fabricator’ of steel parts,…that is represented by the ‘rail rebuilder kit’ from Walthers with the addition of a outdoors overhead crane out front. This structure could alternately be that Vulcan manufacturing kit from Walthers. I just happen to run across this image and thought it added to the ‘industrial image’ I’m trying to establish there.
So I think my ‘fabricator’ could be one that built and repaired steel railroad cars and steam engine parts.
Needs to have a small foundry on one side to account for the mutiple smoke stacks added to that one side of the original kit, and to account for some of those big parts on the steam locos.
And it might be nice to have a damaged (or newly built) B&O wagon-top caboose, or B&O wagon top box car out front, or along the side.
The steel B&O wagontop caboose,…
I have a number of these cabeese,…love the design.
I understand they were special reinforced steel design so pusher engines could be used with them.
Thanks, Brian!
Many railroads had to increase structural integrity of their cabooses for helper use. PRR had substantial vertical crash posts on their cabin cars, too. I recall there were some states that mandated a wood caboose could not be occupied while a helper was pushing. The helper would have to be cut-in ahead of the caboose. Wasting more time and you couldn’t cut the helper off on the fly, either.
A railroad car rebuilding shop would make a good model scene. I have several ads from carbuilders that would sell “kits” to the railroads, side panels, underframes, ends, etc. and the railroad’s own shop crews would build the cars. Also, in the 1950s many railroads were busy stretching forty-foot box cars into fifty and sixty footers.
Bethlehem_car_ad by Edmund, on Flickr
For a while I believe Walthers was marketing the Vulcan or Allied roundhouse machine shop? as a passenger car overhaul shop for tourist railroads. I’ll have to look that up.
Regards, Ed
Ed, your railroad is amazing. Every video I’ve seen contains new details to find. Your layout captures the “feel” of big time railroading like no other. How many years has it taken you to get to this level of completion?
Ray
Ed, did you see this?
WOW, great blog, great projects, great photos
What a great blog you have here Greg. I have learned a lot, and I have to come back and read more as I work on building my new layout in its own dedicated train shed.
What I also find very interesting is the manner in which I discovered your blog. Its a result of my finding a few of your images of overhead cranes during a web search I was conducting using bing. Otherwise I may have never found your wonderful submissions.
Creating a concrete pad for the boiler shops overhead craneTue, 2015-08-18 22:30 — skiwiggy
Before I moved the layout to its new home a year ago, I made sure certain sections including track would be easily removed and re-installed. One of the buildings, the boiler shop with its overhead crane could not be completed because it sat right on one of the bench work separation lines. I have been looking at this unfinished item for a while and decided to finish the concrete pad.
The problem I ran into was that I mounted the modified Walthers overhead crane onto pieces of scrap .30 styrene. Now that I have come back to work on this and wondered, how in the world am I going to get my ruler and hands inside the cranes framework to measure and install styrene representing concrete between the rails.
My Solution was to use a piece of paper a regular pencil and some blue painters tape.
I took some paper cut it to a size that
Thank you, Ray. I’m really hoping to get more recent videos uploaded. I’m way overdue. I began the present layout in 1995 and hardly a day goes by that I’m not doing something to change or improve parts of it.
Brian, thanks also. I will look at that blog. I really enjoy “heavy industry” the likes of Freytag, Mike Rabbit and Selios.
Good Luck, Ed