Progress

Much progress has been made. Developed a system to do the cowlings. An old way, yet a tried and true way.
The turnbuckles, and then today the beginnings of the end walls.

Progress

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."

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.

Bettendorf Etc.

Link

Don't know if I already have this link up....
Need to consolidate them into one document....


http://pennsyrr.com/

Train Renderings

PRR 2-8-0 Consolidation

 Scan from Model Railroader Cyclopedia Vol 1.



http://www.joesherlock.com/Consolidation.html

http://www.prrho.com/index.htm

Trucks

Wonderful set of files. Greatly researched.
http://www.greenbayroute.com/1947diagram30.htm

Forum discussion on blueprints for trucks....!!! Finally....

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?64127-Blueprints

Trucks
The best example of resource I've seen on trucks....
And the best explanation I've seen....

http://jamesriverbranch.net/clinic_2a.htm

Some Reflections

On January 28 I took photos in San Marco.
This was near the beginning of doing "precision" drawings.

Early in February I started the Amphitheater project...
This took a while......

February 16 I started this blog.

On March 31 I took my train book to Office Depot and had some things scanned. That was the beginning of  "trains."
I started on the Mikado 2-8-2 and quickly realized I was way in over my head.

April 1, proto Mikado and coal car under the Brooklyn Bridge....
I obviously abandoned this and worked some more on the Brooklyn Bridge.

On April 5, my band fired me.

On April 16 I converted the file of the CS#24, the coach and baggage car, to a reverse black and white file.
This was the beginning of working on this car.
I posted my first images on my blog of these trains....

I spent some time working on that car.

Knuckle.
I started photos of the Pullman Car at the Prime Osborne on April 27
Sunday, ‎April ‎27, ‎2014, ‏‎2:47:11 PM

Same day I downloaded the Knuckle blueprint.
That day I started on the knuckle. That took about a week to get something decent.

Then the coupler assembly...
May 4 animation of knuckle and coupler.
 
then the bracket...
May 16 coupler bracket
Then the Oil Tanker....May 22-23

Then the Caboose...  May 23-24.

Then a simple animation.....May 25?

Then back the Mikado

Long and short, I've been doing trains for about two months....
It's amazing what you can learn in a couple of months...It seems like I've been doing trains much longer...Guess that it testament to my immersion in this....

More Links

http://prr.railfan.net/documents/ModernLocosandCars/

This link below contains some diagrams for the "Decapod", which has a firebox very similar to the 2-8-2 Mikado L1, with useful dimensions.
This is from the July 1917 issue of Railway Mechanical Engineer. An amazing, way ahead of its time, publication. It's hard to see the actual numbers. Guess I'm going to have to buy the actual issue.

http://prr.railfan.net/documents/pdf/PRRDecapodTypeLocomotive_1917_RME_370-373_DennisShort.pdf

National Model Railroad Association
http://www.nmra.org/library/periodicals.html

Where to find Railway Mechanical Engineer publications..
https://archive.org/details/railwaymechanica96newy

Northern Pacific Reseach

http://research.nprha.org/NP%20Cabooses/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=11

http://www.trainweb.org/s-trains/davis/davis.htm

http://railworksamerica.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=6811&start=60

http://the-blueprints.com/

Big Four Caboose NY Central.

http://madisonrails.railfan.net/lewman_drawings.html


http://nycshs.org/

Actual model maker...nice images....

http://mulletrivermodelworks.com/

Wheels and the Oil Tanker

I realized today I made a mistake on the wheels of the CS passenger. When I started a new file, using the wheels and basic lines as a template, I saw the distance between the inner "rails" to be NOT 4' 8.5".

These guys make and repair wheels axles trucks etc.
http://www.lyonsind.com/index.html

These guys make rail tank cars. They have diagrams in pdf form.
http://www.americanrailcar.com/RailcarManufacturing/Car.aspx?car=tank

http://www.railpark.org/stories/tank_car_cn_agrx-802.html


Lest I forget.
Getting the dome ends on the oil tanker turned out to be a major pain....
Eventually I solved it by using NURBS spheres in blender, creating circles and importing them into blender, whereupon I used RAW NUMBERS, not snap points, to solve it.

I don't like the 12'7" height the drawing asks for....

Not sure.

http://www.cumberlandmodelengineering.com/CADFiles.html


http://www.turbosquid.com/3d-models/narrow-gauge-passenger-cars-obj/784074

This Week

 Coupler Bracket Support from the Pullman at Prime Osborne

 A lettering test.

 Coupler animation.

Prime Osborne Center Jacksonville, the old train station.

Pullman drawings

Pullman collection of drawings

http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/index_nby_pullman.php?CISOROOT=/nby_pullman

Seven Days, a Knuckle, and a Caisson

 This took a week (not really a solid week) to figure it out this far.

 The knuckle on the Pullman at Prime Osborne

Just an idea to show the foundation of the NY side of the Brooklyn Bridge.

LINK FOR COLUMBUS STEEL

http://www.columbussteel.com/locomotive_couplers.html