Here is a video of my dreyfuss
Nice Hudson. I like the cars too.
A recent project of mine was to build an F7B slug with a chopped roof. I used parts from an Athearn F7B and a Proto 1000 F3A. It’s HO but could be applied to larger scales.
First, the parts from the P1K F3A:
Motor, truck halves, side frames, wheels, flywheels, shafts, worms.
Now the parts from the Athearn F7B:
Body shell, worm housing clips, truck bottom clips, gears, frame.
The trucks were assembled and placed in the frame, the shafts with worms were put in and the the worm housing clips snapped in place. A small piece of rubber was placed in the motor well to support the motor at the height needed for the shafts to be level between the flywheels and trucks. The motor was laid on it’s side so it would stick up as little as possible. The shafts were inserted into the flywheels and the motors position adjusted so the shaft runs were equal then the motor was secured in place with hot glue. That’s the mechanical part done. Two jumper wires were run between the trucks and a Digitrax DH123 decoder hardwired in for motor control. Making the body was a simple matter of cutting away a strip between the portholes and the roof line of an old Athearn Hi-F F7B shell then joining the cut down body and roof together. The portholes and most of the gaps between body and roof were filled with hot glue. Excess glue was cut away and everything was smoothed out. A layer of masking tape was applied to the sides of the body and painted flat black. The paint is acrylic and soaked through the tape insuring the tape adhered well to the body. The fans and exhaust stacks on the roof were cut away and the area sanded smooth then it too got the tape and paint treatment.
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This is Lionel #616 Flying Yankee from around 1937 running on Charlie’s layout.
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all because of some request I stopped the destruction of the den long enough to post/show off my latest set I bought which is back to classic serries NYC F-3’s set [:D]
Iwas thinking the engines were short but then I got reminded that I’m use to my PA-1’s which are scale and these aren’t
Been adding people this week
And some corn to the farm
Why are my pictures not working?
Around the layout
New rock work around tunnel portals
Before
After
Staying with this month’s CTT Steam Tune – Up.
How about some Postwar Photo Fun with our 681? [:D]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15J-uXfa9dg&feature=context-cha
Around the layout
New rock work around tunnel portals
Before
After
New signal bridge from Z-Stuff…
It has motion sensors for each track…
Only 2 wires to hook it up. There is a 5 second delay between lights on each track. Works great every time.
Nice pictures/videos, guys!
Chuck, THAT is a cool accessory!!! I like that…and the hook up is 2 wires? VERY nice!
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New signal bridge from Z-Stuff…
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It has motion sensors for each track…
I agree Chuck, That is a sweet signal bridge. I am envious. [bow]
Nice stuff today guys, Tks,
your using shutter fly and thats an all new ball game for posting I use photobucket which is a lot easier for me anyway I forget how to do it using shutter fly where you don’t have to go back each time to shutterfly to see the pics
Nice pics thou
Chuck,
That is one great signal bridge. Looks really detailed. Can you buy additional lights for the bridge?
Moozuki,
I use Shutterfly with no problem. I just open the picture in Shutterfly, right click on it pick copy then paste in into the post. Give it a try, Works for me. BTW I love the barn yard witht he field and corn.
Well what did the other guy do wrong then ? I seem to remember for some strange reason I did it a couple of time then it wouldn’t work for me for some reason then about a week later it so I gave up and went back to photobucket
Nope kevin for some reason it won’t let me I tried what you said and tried a couple of other things just won’t do it for me
now this time it worked [banghead]