Very nice models.

 I'd like to add that steel loads would be coated with some sort of rust-preventing stuff like grease. Shiny things don't last long in that condition when exposed. Jose.

Maybe you are right, ...

Maybe you are right, pipopak! Maybe it's not correct!
However I love these machinery parts with their brightness. I'm not sure if I can overcome myself.

Nevertheless, thanks for your good advice and opinion.

Carlisle

Would Bill be a member of our club in Mechanicsburg, PA? My railroad is also located in Carlisle - a great place to live and a short line extension of the N&W nearby. Very nice models and excellent machinery loads. Thanks for the pictures.

David, I will ask him.

David, I will ask him.

the cars

where did you get the flat cars? 

The cars ...

Models are scratch built out of trucks and couplers. However not extremely many work.

Should I build a second batch? This time with the better and more prototypical 5' trucks made by TMW?
This was only an idea, sorry. I have absolutely planned to rebuild three brass engines and after I will build also four or five different cars most in lots of three to five pieces. This all takes its time.

David, my friend Bill ...

David, my friend Bill is member of Cumberland Valley Model Railroad Association - CVMRRA - in Carlisle, not of yours.

Next "member's breakfast" will held in Carlisle, Fairgrounds Diner, March 26th, 8 AM.
Follow date is one week later, Wednesday again, in Mechanicsburg, Colony House Restaurant at West Main Street.

Enjoy!

Right or not

However I love these machinery parts with their brightness. I'm not sure if I can overcome myself.

Hey, it's your railroad and you are The Boss!. Jose (who also does "wrong" things).

Flatcar HO

Fun project before eyes went bad. Never did finish it. Found the article in MR magazine some years ago.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/richg1998/Flat%20car/Flatcarwithload.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/richg1998/Flat%20car/NBWCastings.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/richg1998/Flat%20car/Flatcar4.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l267/richg1998/Flat%20car/Spanbolsterwithtrucks.jpg

Rich

Great work Bernd

I love those awesome custom loads!

Hey

Jürg which Bernd you talking to? Never thought I'd run into that problem with my first name.

Bernd

Thanks to all for your

Thanks to all for your lauding words. Yes, I love these models and never one of my 1900 trains will run without my Wabash cars.

@Bernd, no problems with our first name.

Yes, my official first name is Bernhard but everyone says Bernd to me, a very commonly used abbreviation for Bernhard used here in Germany and also a regular first name. And I was surprised to read here from you, Bernd, in an American forum and so my irritation happens in the beginning, too. I'm sure, that we will not have great problems of confusion, I think.
I will write as Bernhard here also in future, although this is not my usual-used name.

Rich, thank you very much for

Rich, thank you very much for adding of pictures. I have seldom seen a finished model of this impressive flatcar and load.

Really nice models In

Really nice models

In looking at the old photo from Kalmbach, it sure looks shinny in the picture judging by how much brighter it is than everything else. As to coating it with oil or grease that may be in the future, from after the photo was taken or the load may be tarped before shipping as well. If that steel had a high nickel coating it might stay shinny as well. I do not have pictures but I have seen lots of large metal forgings (in photos) that were shinny due to their machined surfaces, think of alloy wheels on automobiles some of them stay shiny for quite a while with little other than a wash.

Really nice models, had to say it again.

Rob in Texas

Rob, thanks ...

Rob, thanks also to you for your opinion.

You are right, there a many different reasons for wrapping or coating a load - or also not! The most bad idea was given by a modeler who opined that I should prevent this load by a big box. For seeing the big shaft I could make the cover plate removable! But he did not know the picture with the original load.

Here yet a picture of an other spectacular load - a shiny Pelton wheel that should be made from chrome-nickel steel. I love such machinery parts that come fresh from the producer and where you can see the inherent power and the technical development at once. And maybe is such a turbine wheel exactly that which was mounted on the shaft and hub of Wabash car #20006 as a member of an other forum wrote.
Here his arguments:
"The load looks to be the shaft and hub for a Pelton turbine with cranks for compressors. Pelton wheels came in all kinds of sizes, up to 20-30 feet in diameter, with the larger ones built like bicycles wheels with spokes. These turbines were typically used for mining locations because of the requirement for compressed air and the “high head” of water available from mountain streams."

His comment and the picture of Pelton turbine wheel are very convincingly for me. And maybe is this the opening about the function of this big shaft with hubs and eccentrics?

Stationary engine

Great work on the models, Bernd. Very nice.

I am curious about the location of that stationary engine in your photos.  I could not see the other side so not sure if it is a slide valve or Corliss type, though it looks like simple slide "D" valve from my view.

Thanks!

Stationary steam engine

Hallo Skip,

thank you for your interest. I have worked in my youth as an steam engine repair and roundhouse foreman and so my interest in steam engines, locos, steam ships is great. And I'm lucky that I have "explored" this old working (!) stationary steam engine.

No, this steam engine that I have pictured has not a flat bed valve steering yet it is a Corliss steam engine. The engine has a poppet valve steering with two inlet valve, sitting above on cylinder, and two exhaust valves at bottom. Look these picture again and click on for an enlarged view.

The third picture shows in right half the horizontal working governor. It rotated and works very similarly to a vertical governor. It pushed the well visible four rods (three visible) to valves about each a set of two intertwined excentrics with a different and automatic controlled hub dependent of rpm of steam engine and governor rotation.
I have seen how the steam engine works already many times and I'm fascinated any time on a new!

By the way my home city owns the largest fleet of working river paddle ships - eight steam ships swim each day on our Elbe river. Steam engines of all ships are working as compound engines with steam condensing and some of ships have oscillating steam cylinders, a fascinating smell of steam, oil together with shining steel and brass!

Click this link for some impressions of - The Saxonian Steam Ship Society. Click on pictures and use download-button for large views.

Bernd, I must a bit search

Bernd, I must a bit search for the term 'Geneva index plate' but I have found what you mean. We say to such a plate a 'Malteser Cross' also if such a plate is divided into more then four segments. And it's the same mechanic construction like here on this  picture of an US patent description.
More exactly: Indexing attachments used in machines for sharpening multipoint tools - US 3638513 A. The function is written as "The indexing attachment according to the invention is characterized in that the index plate is turned through the angle of indexing by means of a driving Geneva motion, which is cinematically connected with the index plate through a four-link crank-and-rocker mechanism.

Yes, my shaft with this Geneva index plate (Wabash #20008) was part of a temperature measurement device implemented by a time-interrupted writing device. The time interrupt steering was adjustable by a more or less high voltage for a slow or faster rotating electric motor. The added gear wheels are parts coming from my phantasy where I made the spoked wheel from a simple solid tooth wheel.

Stationary steam

Thanks, Bernd. I will go look at the steamship pages.  I have not seen that arrangement of valves on a Corliss engine before. All of them I have seen over here have the valves and linkage to the side.

My early interest in steam was partially inspired by the stationary Corliss engine at the University of Illinois, where my father was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering.  The engine was operated each year during "open house." I made friends later with a man who had restored a 1916 Case Traction Engine which operated at fairs and exhibitions. I learned to fire with coal and operate the engine at the age of 12 or 13. Later moved up to railway locomotives and among others, have operated steam locomotives in Colorado as a paying job.  There is still a special place in my heart for stationary steam and maritime steam engines.

Cheers,

Corliss steam engine

Skip, search for "Corliss engine" or "Corliss steam engine" and change especially to pictures. You can find a big number of information.

A really large stationary steam engine ...

... can you see on this link of a compound steam engine for a large weaving mill shot at inauguration ceremony in 1867. Maybe is this an example where a similarly large shaft was used how it was loaded on Wabash car #20006?

I received the friendly permit by the DIERIG Holding Corporation in Augsburg/Germany for using this private picture on my website. Thanks again for permission!