Re: G1MRA "Dee" locomotive
> "The Project" loco has been a mainstay of the G1MRA for many years. It is > the predecessor to the "Dee". It fits your description as not a tea kettle > by being a 0-6-0. I am almost half way through building mine. My understanding is that you really should have the Project book if you're going to build a Dee, as the book is written with the assumption that you have build a Project loco or at least can look up techniques in the book. It's one you should have anyway, a classic. regards, -vance- Vance Bass Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass
Re: G1MRA "Dee" locomotive
At 05:00 PM 10/20/01 -0400, you wrote: >Having just received my first copy of the G1MRA Newsletter and Journal, I am >very impressed with the project locomotive "Dee" a S.E. & C.R. 4-4-0 >Keith taylor Keith, Although I don't yet have the book (I think one is on the way to me at DH) this is one of my top six favorite locomotives. (Sorry, can't have just one.) I would expect at some point to build one but not in the immediate future. As for castings, I haven't seen the book so I don't know how extensive the use of castings is but my experience tells me that aside from the wheels, and possibly cylinders, there are few, and only the wheels would be an absolute requirement. Being an inside cylindered locomotive the cylinders are probably just as well be made from a solid block of bronze, if they aren't already. I've never seen the point of a casting if its going top end up being a simple block of metal anyway. In this scale if one is able to contemplate making the locomotive at all, machine-wise, you would probably also have the capacity to do the cylinders from solid. I've seen two suppliers of wheels so far, both in the UK, Barrett Engineering (Walsall) price unknown, and Mark Wood (Essex) at £120/set. There would be fourteen wheels in the set so the Wood wheels end up averaging about $12.50 per wheel. I don't know about Barrett's but the Wood wheels present me with a dilemma. They are very expensive but for the price you get wheels which are "fine scale" in every sense of the word, in fact ultra-fine scale, which will support any achievable level of fidelity and detail you can muster. The dilemma that presents me with is do I want to use Wood wheels (and pay the price) yet only build a workmanlike runner, rather than that exquisite museum piece, which then actually makes only partial use of the available fidelity (and cost) of the wheels. It's another of the choices to be made but at almost $200 for the set, by the time you get them over here, it's a significant decision. >Four wheeled thingies are, to me, a piece of construction equipment That attitude is NOT going to win you friends. :-) Cheers, Harry
Re: G1MRA "Dee" locomotive
At 05:00 PM 10/20/01 -0400, Keith Taylor wrote: >Having just received my first copy of the G1MRA Newsletter and Journal, I am >very impressed with the project locomotive "Dee" a S.E. & C.R. 4-4-0 I too, have just received my first (back issue) newsletter. I was impressed with the Dee shown. >there are any other USA builders of this model? If so, did you buy the rough >castings from British suppliers? Or are there any US sources for the rough >castings? It can be machined from bar stock. Only the wheels and the axle boxes for the tender are castings. UK sources are recommended. >It is a treat to me to finally find a model engineering project >model in No. 1 gauge, and something more than shake it out of the box! "The Project" loco has been a mainstay of the G1MRA for many years. It is the predecessor to the "Dee". It fits your description as not a tea kettle by being a 0-6-0. I am almost half way through building mine. John Kowalchuk maker of mutes/horns/canoes/paddles/bikes/harps Oshawa, Ontario http://home.istar.ca/~johnk Canadians don't surf the net, we paddle it.
RE: Accucraft 0-6-2
Tag, I would like to see the picture please. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you sir! Charles W. Walters, CEO Twin Lakes Railway .-. ] [.-. _ .-. ." """| .--` (:--:--:--:--:--:--:-| [___.. | : : : : : : : [_9_] |'='|.-Twin Lakes-.| /|.|___|'-._.-.___.-._.'| / ||_.--._.--..--._ |---\'-\-/=\-.-/=\-/'/ /__;^=(==)=(==)(==)=^~^^^ ^^^(-)^(-)^(-)^^ ~~~^~~~^~~~^~~~^^~~~^~~~^~~~^~~~^~^^~~~^~~~ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tag Gorton Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 5:37 PM To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam Subject: Re: Accucraft 0-6-2 On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 08:14 pm, VR Bass wrote: > Hey, all, here's a bit of news. Garden Railway Supply in the UK shows > an > unpainted brass Accucraft 0-6-2T in their catalogue. It's called > "Superior, > based on an engine preserved at the Whipsnade Zoo. The picture's a bit > grainy, but it appears to be an outside-frame engine with Ruby > cylinders and > smokebox. There's something that could be bashed into some interesting > variations! Not Ruby cylinders Vance!! These are larger Pearse type cylinders making it a much more powerful locomotive than Ruby. I have a pic of it "in the brass" if anyone fancies a look Yours Aye Tag Gorton Longlands & Western Railway Trematon office Cornwall ICQ 135971280
Re: Accucraft 0-6-2
On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 08:14 pm, VR Bass wrote: > Hey, all, here's a bit of news. Garden Railway Supply in the UK shows > an > unpainted brass Accucraft 0-6-2T in their catalogue. It's called > "Superior, > based on an engine preserved at the Whipsnade Zoo. The picture's a bit > grainy, but it appears to be an outside-frame engine with Ruby > cylinders and > smokebox. There's something that could be bashed into some interesting > variations! Not Ruby cylinders Vance!! These are larger Pearse type cylinders making it a much more powerful locomotive than Ruby. I have a pic of it "in the brass" if anyone fancies a look Yours Aye Tag Gorton Longlands & Western Railway Trematon office Cornwall ICQ 135971280
G1MRA "Dee" locomotive
Greetings list! Having just received my first copy of the G1MRA Newsletter and Journal, I am very impressed with the project locomotive "Dee" a S.E. & C.R. 4-4-0 Passenger locomotive. I will be ordering the construction book soon. I am interested to know if there are any other USA builders of this model? If so, did you buy the rough castings from British suppliers? Or are there any US sources for the rough castings? It is a treat to me to finally find a model engineering project model in No. 1 gauge, and something more than shake it out of the box! It is doubly a treat to find that the model is NOT a teakettle! Nice as they are, some of us want to build mainline locomotives. (Just a personal preference of mine, but I don't consider anything with less than six wheels to be a locomotive. Four wheeled thingies are, to me, a piece of construction equipment) Any comments would be welcome! Keith Taylor
Accucraft 0-6-2
Hey, all, here's a bit of news. Garden Railway Supply in the UK shows an unpainted brass Accucraft 0-6-2T in their catalogue. It's called "Superior, based on an engine preserved at the Whipsnade Zoo. The picture's a bit grainy, but it appears to be an outside-frame engine with Ruby cylinders and smokebox. There's something that could be bashed into some interesting variations! regards, -vance- Vance Bass Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Small-scale live steam resources: http://www.nmia.com/~vrbass
