Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-26 Thread Keith Taylor
> I heard or read somewhere that LBSC would design the locomotive projects in > his head, write up the building instructions, and then get around to > building the locomotive. Has anyone else heard about this bit of trivia? > > Casey Sterbenz > > Casey, from what I read, as often as not, he des

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-26 Thread Mike Chaney
Casey surmised:- > I heard or read somewhere that LBSC would design the locomotive projects in > his head, write up the building instructions, and then get around to > building the locomotive. Has anyone else heard about this bit of trivia? I'm quite sure he was not the only one to do this. A

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-26 Thread Richard S Griffith
Harry, thanks for your input! I tried the web site but got no hit. I respelled modeling but still no hit. Is the site not ready yet, or is there still an error in the address? Dick Griffith On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 07:53:43 -0500 Harry Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 09:37 PM 7/25/03

Unbuilt Designs was G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-26 Thread Harry Wade
At 10:18 AM 7/26/03 -0400, you wrote: >I heard or read somewhere that LBSC would design the locomotive projects in >his head, write up the building instructions, and then get around to >building the locomotive. Has anyone else heard about this bit of trivia? >Casey Sterbenz Casey, Although

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-26 Thread Casey Sterbenz
I heard or read somewhere that LBSC would design the locomotive projects in his head, write up the building instructions, and then get around to building the locomotive. Has anyone else heard about this bit of trivia? Casey Sterbenz At 06:32 PM 25/07/03 +0100, Art Walker wrote: The LBSC of ou

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-26 Thread Harry Wade
At 09:37 PM 7/25/03 -0400, you wrote: >At 06:32 PM 25/07/03 +0100, Art Walker wrote: >>The LBSC of our times in my opinion. The clarity of the drawings & >>instructions is just great. >I don't know about that, Sir Arthur! I have the drawings and words for >building his coal fired 'O' scale School

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-26 Thread Alison and Jim Gregg
Hi Peter. Updates were often given later - sometimes VERY much later- usually in the general "Lobby Chat" columns, or in response to correspondents. Regretably they were not collated or ndexed with the original, so that does make it difficult for later builders. Jim Gregg. At 09:37 PM 7/25/

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-25 Thread mart.towers
never completed a model to either gentleman's recipe. Sir Art - Original Message - From: "Peter Foley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, July 26, 2003 2:37 AM Subject: Re: G1 Loco Drawings > At

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-25 Thread Peter Foley
At 06:32 PM 25/07/03 +0100, Art Walker wrote: The LBSC of our times in my opinion. The clarity of the drawings & instructions is just great. I don't know about that, Sir Arthur! I have the drawings and words for building his coal fired 'O' scale Schools-look-alike, 'Bat'. I've found half a doze

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-25 Thread Mike Chaney
Art remarked (of Kozo):- > The LBSC of our times in my opinion. Yes, but without the humorous (!) remarks like ' "the entrance to the way out", says Pat', when describing the making of safety valves. I'm still undecided as to whether this is a good thing or a bad thing (:>) Mike

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-25 Thread mart.towers
The LBSC of our times in my opinion. The clarity of the drawings & instructions is just great. Art Walker - Original Message - From: "Dave Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of sslivesteam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 2

Re: G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-25 Thread Dave Cole
And Kozo Hiraoka's books for building a Climax, Shay or Pennsy Switcher give lots of "how to" information, including fabricating most stuff from solid rather than castings. Again, just divide by 2! i purchased the kozo shay and heisler books specifically with the idea that simple division would

G1 Loco Drawings

2003-07-25 Thread Susan Parker
Hi, The thought accoured to me that another source of drawings for scratch building in G1 might be those for 3-1/2" gauge locomotives, as all the dimensions can be divided by 2 for 1-3/4" gauge (and as most drawings are in fractional inches they are easily modified with a bit of "white-out" an