Scratchbuilt pile driver

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I jst finished my scratchbuilt pile driver that was sitting in a box unfinished for about 3 years:

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It's entirely scratchbuilt with no comercial castings except a handful of grandt Line NBW castings. The dokey engine is a mix of styrene shapes and clock gears. The boiler is a cut down rifle shell with a homemade spark arrestor on it.

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Very nice job indeed, especially for the amount of detail. Very ingenious way to make a boiler too. Let me guess, 7.62 mm? :)
 


I too scratchbuilt one many years ago, looks like from the same plan:

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Also scratched the boiler, but from a clear plastic tube. Mine is mounted on Kadee disconnect log trucks.
 
Thanks all.
My plan came from an old RMC magazine. Bob I have to say that yours looks alot better than mine, especially the hoist engine. I should try to weather my egine a little more, right now it looks a little too black.

Behind it is my JV models Lucas sawmill project. I have a bunch of construction pictures but haven't posted them yet. I'm scratchbuilding all the interior equipment for it as the model came pretty much empty except for some crude drwings of the interior.
 
Great looking model, Bob, I don't know how you do it AND take such good pictures.

Glen, in looking at Bob's model, that's the one thing that's missing from yours -trucks. The Bridge and Building gang had to move from place to place and a pile driver needs trucks. Looking at the way yours is built, you could probably skid mount it to a modified flat car.
 
I hadn't planned on putting trucks underneath it since it's sitting on my trestle under construction. I also tried putting a set of HOn3 trucks under it and they were too small to look right (it's sitting on my HOn3 loogging spur) Both Bob's and the Pile driver in the RMC article are sitting in the Kadee disconects which work alot better proportionally.
Maybe the piledriver was brought up in pieces and assembled at the jobsite or something
I also didn't add the roof, figuring that it was a quickie build by the lumber company (as many things were)
 
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