EconoUnderframes

This time the photo shows the underside view of my EconoUnderframe. the bolsters and end beams are cast in resin and key right into styrene shapes to form an industrial steel under frame. Right now of course it's a flat car, but in the future this one will be a short wooden box car following a Russian prototype, but with the change of coupling and lettering, it looks completely like a stateside home-built box. These parts are available now for $10 a set for one car plus shipping of $6 per up to each 5 sets in the USA and $11 foreign. The rest of the parts are stock styrene and simple to come by. The width of the outside side rails is 3-1/4" and the length is as long as one wants. i will have other parts ready soon including a steel tank. The cars are equipped to accept Kadee couplers or link and pin. Truck mounted couplers will also work. The best trucks for these cars is the small Bachmann 20' car truck with small wheels.

Pay via PayPal or send a check. My PayPal account number is tomyorke@bellsouth.net and my address is 210 Pitch Lake Ct, Roswell, GA 30076. Why not try a couple of these sets and make a few industrial flat cars? A basic plan is included with each order.

Until next time...

 

A Bachmann Saddle Tank 0-4-0T

   Here are a few shots of a loco I have been working on. It's an old Bachmann 0-4-0T. I have detailed the tank a bit with styrene pieces for steps and tank patches. The patches are thin .015" sheet that are bonded into place. When dry I flood an edge with solvent and "chew up" the soft edge with a dull X-Acto knife blade. This mashes it down and creates a weld line. complete this effect all around the patch. A generator platform was fashioned from styrene and a new stack base was added. It comes through the tank as per the prototype
   The cab is from the 2-6-6-2T. It is a little large but since this is a rebuild, I decided that the larger cab would be fine. I had to add a piece with a new radius for the boiler. Other pieces were added to the sides at the bottom. A new floor was made using the old 2-6-6-2T one along with new pieces of styrene. It sits over the original 0-4-0T floor. The loco will be a coal burner, hence the whole in the center of the rear cab wall at the floor.
   That is all I have done at the moment. As usual, I stop and start projects all the time. Well, I stopped this one to start and finish a Bachmann old style 2-6-0 and turned it into an "Argent-type" logger. As soon as I shoot photos I will post them here. I left the air pump in place on it even though Argent didn't use them. It was a nice detail. The loco features a totally new tender frame of wood, a new cab from the 4-6-0 reshaped into a steel one. A new Rushton stack from my own patterns, pilot beam, Connie steam dome and an extended smoke box. The tender is full of wood from my scrap box mimicking cut-offs from the mill. It is fairly well weathered. I said I finished it earlier, however, as usual, there are more details to attach. It looks quite close though.
   More later...

Welcome!

   This site will show new kits suitable for G Gauge (1:22 and 1:20.3) rolling stock and detail parts. In the next few weeks I will add several pieces of rolling stock and a few detail parts, mostly cast in resin. These items may be purchased from me at; Tom Yorke, 210 Pitch Lake Ct, Roswell, GA 30076.

   The first cars to be offered will be a short industrial flat car, tank car and side dump ore car. These are all double truck kits and mostly made of styrene, wood and resin with some metal details. All equipment is sold less trucks and couplers except in the case of the Chihuahua Mineral Railway four wheel caboose which will include the pedestals but no wheels. The latter kit is mostly cast resin with a wooden frame.

   The following photos show a few of my past offerings some of which may be available at a later date. The first locomotive photo shows a 23 ton Box Cab GE made from my resin castings added to the frame of a short Alco S3 engine block and wheel assembly. The second photo shows an 18 ton Diesel Critter made from my conversion kit added to a Hartland Mack switcher.

   I will also discuss and give tutorials in this blog on painting and weathering as evidenced by the photo of the 1941 Plymouth Pickup. This one is in 1/24 scale and is a die cast vehicle.

Large scale is fun!