Great "portable" look

Reminds me of the portable "Gregg" switches and track used in the cane fields. Nice little car too!

Neil Erickson, Hawaii

track

Hi Neil,

I was hoping to make a few turnouts and track sections in short 'panels' that could be arranged in a temporary manner as done by many agricultural and mining concerns. However, I was unable to get this turnout to stay in gauge and navigable without adding more ties (sleepers) than I wanted. 

I have since begun following the 0-14 efforts in the UK ( http://o14group.org) and their track standards ( http://www.kbscale.com/track-parts.html) and plan to make trials again when time allows. The War Department (WWI) used panel track successfully within the trench systems and the 0-14 approach seems to have made some inroads to modelling this.

The wagon came out well mechanically but, as usual, my painting techniques let down the finished product. The sides are removable from the stake pockets, and loose chains block the ends to keep cargo on board.

Wish I could find the model itself - I seem to have mislaid the box it was in.

Hmm... Where are these templates?

Hi, I do love the look of that switch, and have been making little cars using those methods for a while, only where did you find those templates on his blog? I've been searching through it for a while and cannot track them down anywhere.

- Brian Panthera (pflarrian1@yahoo.com)

Templates

Hi Brian,

Those industrial trackage templates used to be located in the On30 Conspiracy Yahoo! Group. This group was inadvertently closed and deleted by Yahoo some time ago due to a misunderstanding involving the group owner. I will contact Geren and see if he can provide a current link.

Re: Templates

Hmm, that figures. I've been a member of that group for a while, but I joined after that misunderstanding happened. I hope he can replace the link.

Templates tempest

Sorry Brian,

Geren says he no longer has the files for those industrial turnouts.

I'll see if I can fire up the oldest PC and determine if I made copies back then.

Not quite as sharp as yours

Not quite as sharp as yours but right out of the catalog! I can scan one of these to print at your scale if you like. 

Neil Von Erikstein, Luna (Most of the plantation field managers, or Luna in Hawaii, were German or Portuguese who wore wide brim hats and rode horses in the fields - I'm no relation, aside from part German. Neil Erickson) 

no need to scan it, but thanks

Sorry I've been otherwise occupied, Neil.

Appreciate the offer, though. Can you tell me which catalogue the switch images came from?

Narrow Guage Pictorial

These were from a Hawaiian Narrow Gauge book by Jesse Conde. Many drawings and illustrations from the Gregg catalog were reprinted. I have to keep some of these books in tough bins with descant to preserve them in our humidity. I've been surprised at their value on Amazon and EBay! Couldn't afford to buy books on Hawaiian railways today. 

Neil

Found it!

Hi Neil

I actually found the industrial turnout templates in a backup archive I had made of my old PC.

9" and 12" radii.

They are in an XTrakCAD parameter file that Geren created (the On30Guy). XTrakCAD is available free, prints 1:1, and still opens the file (just checked it).

If there is any interest, I'll make the parameter file available.