Rob That's a very nice start on yours. The USATC's ex. Silverton Northern caboose was ex. D&RG, so its the obvious possibility. But construction era photographs of the WP&Y include a few glimpses of t

Brian I have one i won't be using. Send me a US Mail address, direct reply. John Stutz

I am surprised that no one has so far mentioned Nigel Lawton in England . His home page is <http://www.nigellawton009.com/VeeTipper.html> and his online shop is at <" rel="noopener" target="_blank" da

Bruce In principal, you can take a rod off of your locking spring and use it to throw a lever at the base of your mast. rotating it from 45 degrees to 135 degrees relative to the rod. Which is just th

Doug Quickest solution might be to provide Grandt compatible axles for Kadee's wheels. It is possible that the existing Grandt axles have a compatible wheelseat, but if not, it should not be too diffi

Mark I have no knowledge of specifics regarding the K-37, but conversion from coal to oil firing usually includes replacing the grates and ashpan with a solid firebrick floor and side walls,the latter

Actually Mark, I believe that the Iron Horse DL535E's center axle and gear must be in the truck in order to power the outer axle. Its a rather busy design, with three idlers between each axle gear, an

Ed I seem to recall seeing a RoW map of this section of the Colorado Central, reproduced in one of the histories that focused on this area. I am not at all sure of the date, which might have been from

Sean Someone has modeled the White Pass in HO SG using ALCo RSDs as the basis for DL535Es. I am probably recalling James Eakin's article in Short & Narrow Rails #23. There was also an article on doing

Rob My misunderstanding, and your luck! My 2.02 mm axle measurement was taken between the wheels with a metric digital caliper, and yours at the smaller wheel mounting stubs. This means you can, in pr

Rob No instructions. They did provide 3 xerox's of photographic parts identification listings, but that is all that I have, and I do not currently have access to a scanner. I will try to get decent ph

Bob As several people have noted, rolling resistance is as much or more a matter of trucks than of weight. Blackstone's will work very well, but their range is limited. Precision Scale (PSC) has a muc

Bill The D&RG never had any narrow gauge Mallets. BLW did build a 3' gauge OF compound 2-6-6-2 for the Manati Sugar Co, of Cuba. This was e a very near duplicate of a pair of IF meter gauge Mallets bu

Bill I am not a D&RG guy either. The Loree evaluation of the D&RG was commissioned in 1917. Mr Hess did the motive power aspects, Those regarding the narrow gauge power were generally ignored. Hess re

Mike Recapitulating: The D&RG class 125s, later D&RGW K-27s, were built in 1903 with saturated steam boilers and Vauclain compound cylinders worked by inside Stevenson valve gear and inside piston val

Thanks for the link Sebastien The discussion was so informative that I had to update my copy of O'Berry's "Mudhens"! http://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,378057,page=1 John Stutz

My alternative: A couple 2"x 2"x 24" mailing boxes on end. The wood is in the original polyethylene sleeves, one sleeve per size, each stick labeled with the scale size at the top end. Multiple sizes

Robert On the early Van Dykes, #7-11, White Pass fitted their "69-class" trucks. I believe that these were duplicates of the Baldwin tender trucks supplied with locomotives 68 & 69, which were 56" WB,

Jim In the 1906 Car builder's Dictionary (CBD), reprinted circa 1980 by Glenwood and available online, figure 88 (photo) and figures 489-91 (drawings) depict the 10,000 gallon version of the Van Dyke

I use a variation of Don's approach. In my case a couple of 2"square by 24" mailing tubes, with each size in its individual plastic sleeve. I also take the precaution of labeling each piece with its s