Has anyone ever scratch-built a H.O scale snowplow or a blower on a freight car or old coach. And at that made one that fits over the pilot of a steam loco?
I did have a GN plow and a UP rotary. Now i have none because I becme a protofreak. but there are kits. and all modern diesels have snowplows. as for blowers, I think there might be one.
I ment by scratchbuilding, but thanks for that information
I scratchbuilt this Canadian National double ended plow some time ago in HO scale"
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I’ve kitbashed other plows as well.
That caboose is very neat. I also need ideas for a place to store the equitment. a shed, siding, or perhaps a enclosed barge that is off a pier. any ideas?
It’s a snow plow, not a caboose! Equipment such as this is normally stored outdoors, no real reason to keep in indoors. If it can stand the weather during the winter, it should be able to rest outside the rest of the year.
I have a hunch that all my sidings in my yard are going to fill up. I guess that leave the branchline
It says CN, so it was a caboose designed by bureaucrats. It started out as a caboose, but after several years of marathon meetings held at various locations, this is what was specified in the tender documents DPW issued.
The real question: How many does it sleep?
This has to do with snowplows but its about me
where can i find a walthers jordan spreader in conrail livery? I cant find one but i know they exist.
Tjsingle
Since they are out of production, eBay is probably your best and/or only place to look.
Well any and everyone is welcome to use this forum for snowplow resurch. and have you thought about custom painting?
I saw in an old Walthers referance book that they had a snowplow build on a gondola. any reason for this? additonal weight perhaps?
I built this one out of junk; an old tyco flatcar that I drilled and tapped for body-mounted knuckle couplers, plus a tyco caboose mounted on top, and a styrene plow.
Gondola-mounted snowplows were, and are, quite common. I scratchbuilt a winged snowplow similar to the Russell snowplows during my first stint in O scale, back in the '60s, and Model Railroader bought the article (June, '65). But my first project when I went back into O scale in '93 was an O scale model of the Milwaukee Road’s gondola-mounted snowplow, scaled up from Paul Larson’s excellent article in the January, 1957, MR. The MILW built quite a few of them, probably in their West Milwaukee Shops, back in the '30s. They had a “channel iron” frame and steel Vee/wedge plow, wood body–and three huge concrete blocks carried in the body for weight. I scratchbuilt a winged snowplow in styrene and the only tough part was forming the curved V-blades, although it’s fairly easy, if a bit fussy, to solder the business end of the plow together from K&S, or other, brass sheet.
The only problem with building a plow is cutting the wedge (most railroad snowplows had a wedges to lif the snow above the track before dividing it and thrusting it aside) and blades, but if Model Railroader can make photocopies of the Larson article, you’d have excellent elevation drawings (complete with wood grain!) and templates for cutting the blades. An old “Kink” showed me how to copy templates by tracing over the drawing with carbon paper under it to transfer to cardstock from which to cut the actual templates for laying out the blades on the brass. Cruise this forum for the link to the MR Customer Services to ask about photocopies of articles.
I also recall seeing an article on building a snowplow for a gondola that could be removed in the summer. The article told how to build the gon, as well. Railroads usually
Thanks, I also want to build alot of frieght cars and coaches, If you want, chech out my other fourum
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I want to build a plow on a coach for express service
Thanks for the blueprints. I have a caboose just waiting for materials and to pick out a flat car
Did larger engines have larger plows. Anyone have a rough idiea on the size of the loco and the size of the plow?
Very nice work (as always!), Bob.
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