Piedmont steamup a success
By Rob Seel Friday, June 15, 2012
Attendance was from far and wide — and the rain held off — for Bruce Gathman’s annual “Plumes Over Piedmont” backyard convocation in Easley, S.C., held April 20-22. Friends from as far away as Florida and Illinois came to the South Carolina upstate for three days of smokin’ up the neighborhood on the elevated, 160 foot-long, double-tracked main line.
The weather was very good for gently drifting displays of smoke from these fascinating, alcohol-burning marvels.
1:32-scale Harriman set
Friday, June 1, 2012
Northern California’s Custom Model Products Inc. said recently that it has contracted with Kern Valley Railway of Bakersfield, Calif., to create a five-car set of Harriman-type 1:32-scale cars for Gauge One, making them some of the few U.S.-made model railroad products.
The car set will be individually lettered with “Southern Pacific,” and will include one baggage car, three coaches and one dining car. They will be manufactured with cast-resin bodies, precision-milled acrylic sides, ball-bearing trucks, metal wheels by Gary Raymond and couplers by Kadee.
15-inch gauge scale drawings
Friday, May 18, 2012
A new collection of scaled drawings of equipment designed by English industrial railway pioneer Sir Arthur Heywood has been released by Decker’s Trains of Hot Springs, S.D.
The collection is being made available as Compact Discs with the drawings distributed in vector-based Portable Document Format (PDF) files, capable of being printed on 8½-by-14 (U.S. legal) pages on either Windows- or Macintosh-based computers.
‘Rube Goldberg’ steam trains
By Geoff Spenceley Friday, May 4, 2012
There is more than one way to skin a cat and more than one way to power model trains with live steam. This “Rube Goldberg” arrangement was was designed by Carl Mueller as part of a fund-raiser for the Timber Heritage Association in Eureka, Calif. Carl is the master mechanic (“passed fitter” in British practice parlance) engineer (“driver”) and fireman for the association.
‘Duchess of Atholl’ coming soon
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Reviving a model of a London Midland and Scottish Railway Coronation-class locomotive, Aster Japan and Aster Hobbies UK have announced production of the “Duchess of Atholl.” The sister engine of this popularfour-cylinder Pacific type, the “Duchess of Sutherland,” was first produced in 2006 and sold out immediately.
The new “Duchess of Atholl,”with its Royal Blue livery, will be mechanically identical to the earlier version.
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