Re: National Summer Steamup -- July 27-29, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Tom Eaton
Tony, The Midwest Small Scale Steamup will be May 4-6, 2001 at the Holiday Inn Select in St. Peters MO. It will start with 2 tracks, one gauge 1 track with 10 ft. radius and a dual gauge track with 7 ft radius. For more information send your snail mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tom E -

Re: Repeatable curves

2001-01-05 Thread Trent Dowler
Just a thought. If the rail is bundled and/or packaged immediately following manufacture, most of the rail should be oriented the same. I'm sure that it goes through far too many hands and gets periodical inspection for this to be 100% accurate. Especially considering that this question came

Screwed up again! Mis-adventures of Salty

2001-01-05 Thread SaltyChief
I finally got the last piece machined for my Ruby rear truck and put it all together. Ah ready for DH!!! Well maybe I had better fire it up on the bench to make sure every thing is working. After all the normal preperations to steam and firing up the boiler I noticed small

Re: Screwed up again! Mis-adventures of Salty

2001-01-05 Thread SALTYCRABB
In a message dated 01/05/01 11:52:22 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It was not a great day! Hope today goes better I respectfully disagree -- any day spent with our little fire breathing dragons (even when things apparently go wrong) is better than a day at

Re: Screwed up again!

2001-01-05 Thread VR Bass
All over the nation -- if not the world -- small-scale live steamers are desperately trying to get their little beasts into top condition (or finished, in many cases!). If we could only hear their combined comments, I'm sure we would learn many new and colorful words! -vance- who finally

Re: Screwed up again!

2001-01-05 Thread Keith Manison
VR Bass wrote: All over the nation -- if not the world -- small-scale live steamers are desperately trying to get their little beasts into top condition (or finished, in many cases!). Vance, How true! I'm working around the clock to finish (another) Class A Climax which is due for

Re: National Summer Steamup -- July 27-29, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Tom Eaton
correction email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Tom Eaton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:51 AM Subject: Re: National Summer Steamup -- July 27-29, 2001 Tony, The Midwest Small Scale Steamup will be May 4-6, 2001

Re: Screwed up again!

2001-01-05 Thread Cgnr
In a message dated 1/5/2001 10:31:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: All over the nation -- if not the world -- small-scale live steamers are desperately trying to get their little beasts into top condition (or finished, in many cases!). If we could only hear their

Re: Screwed up again!

2001-01-05 Thread Charles Brumbelow
Vance -- How successfully will that Forney be at handling cars coupled on the rear around curves??? I built an 0-4-4T Forney in On3 with a comparable slot in the truck bolster and found it needed a surprisingly wide radius. Effectively, that Forney is a six-coupled loco with a very long

Re: Tanks

2001-01-05 Thread Mike Eorgoff
What is the engine at the bottom of the page?? Mike Eorgoff -Original Message- From: Sam Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of sslivesteam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, November 20, 2000 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Tanks To illustrate the types of tank under discussion,

RE: Re: Repeatable curves

2001-01-05 Thread Gary Broeder
Just a thought. If the rail is bundled and/or packaged immediately following manufacture, most of the rail should be oriented the same. Ok, maybe not a good thought, but it may spark another idea or two. Trent, Actually this has been thought of. Micro Engineering buys their rail from

Re: National Summer Steamup -- July 27-29, 2001

2001-01-05 Thread Anthony Dixon
Hi Tom, Thanks for info on dates and correct location etc. Will advise my address seperately. Regards, TDAt 02:51 PM 1/5/01 -0600, you wrote: correction email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Tom Eaton" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: Screwed up again!

2001-01-05 Thread VR Bass
Vance -- How successfully will that Forney be at handling cars coupled on the rear around curves??? I built an 0-4-4T Forney in On3 with a comparable slot in the truck bolster and found it needed a surprisingly wide radius. Effectively, that Forney is a six-coupled loco with a very long