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- Designing New Two Foot Gauge Trucks - Need Advice
Designing New Two Foot Gauge Trucks - Need AdviceDue to the scarcity of available two foot gauge trucks we over at the J L Narrow Gauge Railroad have decided to design and build our own Since our railroad is set up to represent heavy duty steel mill railroading, our truck design is quite heavy and is based on a standard gauge ingot mold car truck
- never built railroads
On the subject of never-built railways (see the FS K discussion below), this past Thursday I found this beautiful stone arch bridge, built around 1855 (!) for the Allentown Auburn RR here in Pennsylvania, conceived as a shortcut to move anthracite coal from central Pennsylvania to New England The A A went bankrupt during the Panic of 1857 and never laid a rail nor turned a wheel The bridge
- Boston, Revere Beach Lynn RR Laconia Car Company
Boston, Revere Beach Lynn RR Laconia Car CompanyI have recently stumbled across a strange little narrow gauge railroad that ran in the suburbs of Boston The Boston, Revere Beach Lynn Railroad I am trying to track down all the information I can on their MU coaches that were converted from Laconia built coaches Do any of the Laconia Car Company drawings exist? If anyone here has
- new Billerica Bedford book
new Billerica Bedford bookGeorge Mansfield and the Billerica and Bedford Railroad is a new, comprehensive book on the first two-foot gauge common carrier railroad in this country The narrative goes into great detail on the conception of the two-foot gauge idea and the formation of the B B using original railroad documents, newspaper and journal accounts Moreover, it is the first book to
- Hancock Inspirators vs Sellers Injectors Part 2
Hancock Inspirators vs Sellers Injectors Part 2In the last blog Superintendent Morrill changed his mind on what type of feed water injection system he wanted on the new Vulcan No 3 which was near completion in Pennsylvania He chose the Sellers Injectors over the Hancock Inspirators due to frequent cronic problems with the Hancocks But what was wrong with the Hancocks? What’s the
- Us Army 611 - forum. wwfry. org
Us Army 611The view of the cambox drive end is not 'missing' a piece of mechanism; refer to the figure The 'cruciform' piece with the nut in its center is the piece marked 66 in the figure, it's the 'driving' end of the cam stack The four cruciform 'dogs' engage in the four visible milled slots in the end of the driving sleeve, which is shown simplified as 76, with its driving gear 79 I
- Eagle Lake West Branch *PICS*
One of my co-workers over the 4th of July weekend took a trip down the Allagash Waterway and visited the site of the locomotives of the former Eagle Lake West Branch railroad The Railroad was built in the late 1920s and operated for only a few years It replaced a tramway which hauled logs from Eagle to Chamberlain lake The railroad ran from Eagle to Umbazooksus lake These structures were
- Wiscasset Upper Yard Artifacts
Wiscasset Upper Yard ArtifactsSimmons explained in email responses Monday, the Olver report “has been in the works for many months (and) mentions maybe relocating the plant to Federal Street or Mason Station I think DEP had mentioned Federal Street before because of its close proximity to the current plant The town owns the land that the school sits on
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