US Civil war. On30 Bachmann 4-4-0s?

[fred lundgren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7yRD0asz8&feature=em-uploademail

[Royce Wilson]

Great modeling but Kennesaw was called ,Big Shanty back then.

Keep up the good work

Royce

[p51]

Nice layout!  
Balloon stacks would be more correct for the timeframe, though.
The real W&A was a 5-foot gauge railroad until the 1880s, but it does look good as a 30" line, doesn't it?
The only thing I have on my layout to recall the "War of Northern Aggression" is a memorial, as my layout takes place in 1943:

My Father made the barrel on a lathe for this, and is an accurate rendition of a M1857 12-pounder "Napoleon" barrel. In the 1940s, this is the only type of Civil War memorial you'd likely find, other than a statue of a soldier. Battlefields didn't have replica cannon carriages on them until the late 1950s and an original carriage would have rotted away after 70 years. So a pedestal is historically accurate.
I'm looking into ways to chemically speed up the oxidation as it looks way too polished for what it is...

[Royce Wilson]

His work looks great and I was not going to nitpick it but the flag in the photo is personal flag of R.E.Lee and he commanded the Army of Northern Virginia.



Royce

[dutchbuilder]

Nice layout!  

I'm looking into ways to chemically speed up the oxidation as it looks way too polished for what it is...

Apply a solution of copper sulfate and then heat it up with a torch until the copper sulfate turns black.
Then clean the excess sulfate (green) off and repeat that process several times until the brass is a very dark brown,
Clean and wax.

Ton

[hminky]

The layout is actually 55n3, three foot gauge on HO track, 5.5mm/ft.

The use of funnel stacks was the most common during that period.

Harold

[dutchbuilder]

It was created by Ronald Halma from the Netherlands.
For as far as ik know it's 0n30.
I have fallowed it's creation on a Dutch American trains forum.
I also seen it in real life at the Ontrax exhibition at the national rail museum in Utrecht.

It's in Dutch, but here is the original thread.
http://www.amerikaanse-treinen.nl/forum/index.php?topic=43.0

Ton

[hminky]

http://metusajunction.blogspot.com/

http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40456

Harold

[dutchbuilder]

You are absolutely right, it's been a while.

Ton