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Ah "the bay", my Dad was into collectibles and had a 4 digit number on there as a seller back in the day(ground floor action mode) went from .50 cent ashtrays of the States to dealing 12 hundred dollar glass plates and turn of the (last) century carnival glass in about two years, then went up from there, did great for a while but then 911 happened and the bottom fell out of the collectible market. I still got 50 boxes of that stuff. THATS most of what needs to get up out of my space and elsewhere on the property so I may commence with the program activity action mode most closely associated with this web-site.

Can't wait to see how those parts are gonna look when you 'git r dun.' LOL
 


50 boxes of odd lot junk that is not fit for garage sales. I looked and was disappointed, thought maybe I could sell some of it to offset the trains but nooooo. Gotta order a dumpster instead. If I can get it past "miss GREEN" and her recycle machine, she so GREEN she gets MEAN when you put GARBAGE in the GARBAGE! wtf??? WHY do I have to wash it and sort it so somebody else can make money on it??? NO!
 
Thinking of rebuilding/replacing the fuel tank on the RS-3,
while tweaking with it, would these fit with a bit of work, I
'm most interested in the top one, if I can remove those
air tanks at the top, without them leaving a too big a hole...
Suggestions, ideas?

Alco C424-C425 fuel tank.jpg

Alco C424-C425 fuel tank b.jpg
 
Dremel em off and glue in a piece to fit? There must be a little bit of stock around to meet the need. The paint will make it look "factory fresh" or

"like it growed there" as Grampa yousta say.
 
Sub bed of 5/8 or 3/4 ply with some kind of foam insulation type board for the actual surface. The 1 inch thick types are many, has anyone had experience with that stuff. Is the surface paintable (will the paint hold or will it bubble and peel?) Trying like heck to figure a materiel out so that I'm not constantly tearing/messing up the wood when I add a turnout or change something. Setting it up on foam will also give me some depth to work with as far as water features and cuts. I figure the foam will give me several/many chances to change it around before the foam is too pitted and glue/paint messed to be visually pleasing to my optic nerve. Better to change out a piece of foam than the plywood bench itself.
 
Slug or B unit...?

As one's always bouncing around with ideas for projects for my Milwaukee & Western and its subsidiaries one never really get bored...lol
Anyhoo...the latest paper project, for now anyway, is a mother-slug-mother set, or make it a A-B-A set of sorts, haven't really decided yet...
What kicked this of was Milwaukee Road's mother-slug-mother set of U28B-RS3-U28B, with the RS3 (former #2491 and later #463) being rebuilt into a slug, #SG-1.
What I was thinking for this one, is that's it's to be used in one of Milwaukee & Western's subsidiaries iron ore traffic, helper service and for switching at the docks.
What I can't decide, is if I should turn this unit, which will be an RSD 4/5, into a slug or a B unit, which would be better for railroad and this kinda operation, suggestions, ideas?

With iron ore traffic a rather heavy business, I'm kinda leaning towards the B unit idea...

Oh, I'm thinking of using SD9 or SD24's as 'A' units...
 
Milwaukee Road 113 said:
What I was thinking for this one, is that's it's to be used in one of Milwaukee & Western's subsidiaries iron ore traffic, helper service and for switching at the docks. What I can't decide, is if I should turn this unit, which will be an RSD 4/5, into a slug or a B unit, which would be better for railroad and this kinda operation, suggestions, ideas?

With iron ore traffic a rather heavy business, I'm kinda leaning towards the B unit idea...
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Well, a slug is used when the prime mover it is attached to generates more electricity than can be used by the motors of the main unit. This is almost always very low speed applications. So I would say if your unit is ever going to get over 15-20 mph you want a B unit. If it is always under 15-20 mph it would be a slug.
 


This thread makes me feel not so bad about the mish-mash I'm planning on running, old steam, modern freight and Japanese Bullet trains side by side, pulling circus cars, ww2 railguns and oil tankers all together! Still looking for a cool Bullet. All I've found is pre-order and I ain't down with that!
 
UP SD9 and slug unit.jpg

Text says:

The Union Pacific Pocatello, Idaho hump switcher grabs a cut of cars from the yard on July 28, 1980. This SD7 and yard slug team worked between June 1974 and November 1982 first in North Platte, Nebraska before moving to Pocatello. The UP S-2 was rebuilt from UP GP9B 341B in June 1974. By 1982 it was paired with UP SD40 No. 3031 until retirement in May 1985 when it was sold for scrap to Southwest Railroad Car Parts in Longview, Texas on April 2, 1987.
 
......at the moment, the Milwaukee & Western are the proud owners of:

5 Alco RS3,
4 Alco RS11,
4 Alco RSD4/5,
1 Alco RSC2,
1 Alco RS1,
2 EMD SD7,
1 EMD SD9,
1 BARF,
1 Baldwin VO-1000....

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