I wasn't referring to your wanting a 45-tonner but to the several other list members who urged you to start witha 44-tonner. It would really be easier to start from scratch with styrene and an HO drive--the siderods are the leastof the problems, as they only go along for the ride in smaller scales--of which there is quite a selection.
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 17:01:22 +0000 > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Another idea for creating a 45 tonner > > Jace, > > My "fixation" with this 45 tonner comes from the fact that it is the only > true locomotive to operate in the Valdez Yard and the one piece of > operational motive power I thought I might have a chance of making. > > There was a wheel loader equipped with a coupler that worked in the yard and > I intend to produce this by modifying an Ertl 950E, but this could only be > powered by the 0-5-0 hand. > > The other two units that worked in the Valdez Yard were a Whiting Trackmobile > and a CF-55-AF Aircraft Tug, and I don't think that I'll be able to make > either of these simply because, to my knowledge, no similar vehicles exist in > `S'. > > That leaves the GE 45 ton. > > I'd heard that it is possible to create some SN3 locomotives by modifying > certain standard gauge HO engines. I was hoping that the reverse might be > true and that I might be able to create a standard gauge `S' 45 tonner by > modifying a ON30 45 tonner. Unfortunately, this idea wasn't a very good one… > > Here are the pictures of both the GE 45 ton and the other motive power the > operated in Valdez. > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/1380536279/pic/list > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/1946337466/pic/list?mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&dir=asc > > ~JJ~ > James > > > --- In [email protected], JGG KahnSr <jacekahn@...> wrote: > > > > > > What is this fixation on trying to use ANYTHING from a 44-tonner to create > > a 45-tonner? Exceptperhaps for a few detail parts, it simply won't > > work--the cab is lower (and wider) and the frameis conspicuously shorter > > (5'-6'--and that is a LOT). In S scale scratchbuilding is the only wayto > > go, probably using an HO standard gage diesel drive. > > > > Jace Kahn > > > > General Manager > > Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > > > > > > > > > > > > > I suggest starting with a 44 tonner and using 25 tonner hoods > > > TCC:} > > > > > > On May 10, 2012, at 7:48 PM, empirebuilderjjhill wrote: > > > > > > > Do you think "double ending" a Railmaster 25 tonner with a second > > > > hood would work? > > > > > > > > Even if I was able to make the "body" of the 45 tonner using this > > > > technique, I'd still have to figure out how to make the trucks and > > > > those push rods… > > > > > > Talmadge C 'TC' Carr > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
