Eastern Narrow Gauge Time

[ebtnut]

The BRB&L locos were for the most part 2-4-4T Bogies.  They looked somewhat like the Bachmann inside-frame Forneys, but maybe about a third bigger, and with drivers about 48" diameter. 

[Hamish K]

Looks like the topic has almost derailed. What did the BRB&L Railroads locomotives look like?

See http://www.ironhorse129.com/Prototype/MasonBogie/Mason_Bogie.htm
for pictures of most Mason Bogies including the Revere Beach ones.

Hamish

[Dusten Barefoot]

Them suckers were big for narrow gauge! I liked them, but the spacing of the wheels were not to my liking.

[glennk28]

I was going to open a new topic but you guys already started it-  Wha I would like to see Bachmann make in On30 (I'll buy several and re-gauge them) is the ET&WNC piggyback car that they did in G Scale some years back.  That ought to be an easy one since the design work is already in-house.  gj

[Dusten Barefoot]

Do you already have a layout based on the ET&WNC? If so i would like to see some pictures of it. I was attempting to build it, but two 4x8s and one 1x12 wont work.

[Dusten Barefoot]

Forgot to tell ya'll that the open car design on the et&wnc can ve viewed on www.johnsonsdepot.com/crumley/tour1.htm , ya'll can the rise and fall of the et&wnc railroad

[glennk28]

My under-construction layout is D&RGW in On3--but if I like something I'll add it--can'y you picture a string of cars carrying "Rio Grande Motorways" trailers over Cumbres Pass?

[Dusten Barefoot]

Do any of ya'll think if bachmann were to make the tweetsie ten-wheeler they would modifie it to turn a sharper corner? I had a G-scale 4-6-0 and it turned some sharp curves why can't bachmann do the same with the smaller scale? By the way if any of ya'll checked out the site, what did you think of it?

[ebtnut]

How tight a curve a loco will handle is a function of how many compromises to scale that you can live with.  The Large Scale models took some liberties with the Tweetsie locos to handle those sharp curves.  Could it be done for On30?  Probably--they've gotten the Ma & Pa Ten-Wheeler to handle those curves, and the mechanisim isn't much smaller than a narrow gauge O scale model would be. 

[Dusten Barefoot]

Well shoot. I have just learned that tweetsie had a rail bus running on there line. I guss that every NG railroad has at least 1 motorized peice of equipment.

[ebtnut]

I'll have to look later, but that might be the one the Tweetsie pawned off on the EBT back when both roads had interlocking directorets   As far as is known, the unit never turned a wheel in regular service on the Broad Top, and they acquired the M-1 instead.  It looked a bit like a cable car body with a hood out front.

[Dusten Barefoot]

Looks like the ET&WNC sold the thing to the EBT. The thing was made out of a johnson city street car, Jitney. It ran off rail alot and so it was sold to the EBT

[Dusten Barefoot]

Have you all seen the scenic express grass prairie trufs? They look like the real deal, and it is in mats instead of having to glue and stick packs of grass to something. It looks great. Go to www.scenicexpress.com the mess on there is great.

[Dusten Barefoot]

Wont to start sharing how do to do senery and stuff. I would like to know how to build a great layout

[Ken]

I was going to open a new topic but you guys already started it-  Wha I would like to see Bachmann make in On30 (I'll buy several and re-gauge them) is the ET&WNC piggyback car that they did in G Scale some years back.  That ought to be an easy one since the design work is already in-house.  gj

   Gleen
      RMC had an article on constructing the piggyback cars years ago, still
  have article in a binder (but which one is the question)<G>. Will see if
  I can find article and give a issue date and post.
   
    They are on my O2IT list, along with a lot of other O2IT's

    Ken
      GWN