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Saturday, June 14, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Delaware Public Archives _ Chicago & South Side Transit
Following up on my beginning work yesterday....
Found these wonderful drawings in Delaware Public Archives...
Jackson and Sharp were train car builders.
The wiki article on Chicago South Side Transit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side_Elevated_Railroad
states that it began with 180 46' wooden passenger cars.
This kind of jibes...The drawings I found spec'ed 45'11 1/4" with didn't make sense with anything else in the drawing. This kind of thing always happens.
This is wonderful. Jackson and Sharp's car #1 is on exhibit at the Chicago History Museum
This is Chicago L org's archive page.
http://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/car1.html
From this document..
"Car 1, Chicago's first rapid transit passenger car, was part of an order for 180 cars purchased by the Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company. Ordered on February 15, 1892 from the Jackson & Sharp company, the cars were trailers built to be hauled behind steam locomotives.
The cars were of wood construction and had center end doors with open platforms at each end of the car and railroad-style roofs with stained glass clerestories. The cars, as delivered, were painted dark Pullman green and had intricate stripping and gold leaf decoration on the exterior. The railroad's name was spelled out in gold lettering along the letterboard -- the long, thin, horizontal space on the carside between the tops of the windows and the roof -- with a unique peculiarity: a period at the end of the name.
The interiors were luxurious and typically Victorian, with varnished woodwork, ornate light fixtures, decorative ceiling trim, slatted window shades, cork floor mats, rattan seats, and leather straps hung from the ceiling for standees. Originally, the cars were heated by steam from the locomotives, circulated in the cars through pipes, and were lit by gas lights supplied from tanks under the car floor. The cars weighed 42,500 pounds; were 46 feet long, 8 feet 9.75 inches wide, and 12 feet 10 inches high; and seated 46 people."
Found these wonderful drawings in Delaware Public Archives...
Jackson and Sharp were train car builders.
The wiki article on Chicago South Side Transit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side_Elevated_Railroad
states that it began with 180 46' wooden passenger cars.
This kind of jibes...The drawings I found spec'ed 45'11 1/4" with didn't make sense with anything else in the drawing. This kind of thing always happens.
This is wonderful. Jackson and Sharp's car #1 is on exhibit at the Chicago History Museum
This is Chicago L org's archive page.
http://www.chicago-l.org/trains/gallery/car1.html
From this document..
"Car 1, Chicago's first rapid transit passenger car, was part of an order for 180 cars purchased by the Chicago & South Side Rapid Transit Railroad Company. Ordered on February 15, 1892 from the Jackson & Sharp company, the cars were trailers built to be hauled behind steam locomotives.
The cars were of wood construction and had center end doors with open platforms at each end of the car and railroad-style roofs with stained glass clerestories. The cars, as delivered, were painted dark Pullman green and had intricate stripping and gold leaf decoration on the exterior. The railroad's name was spelled out in gold lettering along the letterboard -- the long, thin, horizontal space on the carside between the tops of the windows and the roof -- with a unique peculiarity: a period at the end of the name.
The interiors were luxurious and typically Victorian, with varnished woodwork, ornate light fixtures, decorative ceiling trim, slatted window shades, cork floor mats, rattan seats, and leather straps hung from the ceiling for standees. Originally, the cars were heated by steam from the locomotives, circulated in the cars through pipes, and were lit by gas lights supplied from tanks under the car floor. The cars weighed 42,500 pounds; were 46 feet long, 8 feet 9.75 inches wide, and 12 feet 10 inches high; and seated 46 people."
Monday, June 9, 2014
Wheels
So, I figured a simple way for wheels. I did a profile of the wheel and used the spin function in Blender. Then I added a line 4'5 1/2" for the new standard inside length between wheels, and some points in the original file for it to snap to.
Now I can use this wheel profile file again with little alteration to create any wheel I need, and still alter it as learn more.
It worked out pretty well.
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