And another ...

 
More to come 

Hello Rob, I like Bernds work

Hello Rob,

I like Bernds work and regulary check his site for updates. Keep on updating.

Markus

As I said

As I said on Facebook, I absolutely LOVE that White Swan car and wish I could get my hands on one. I also love pickle cars too!

That whole train is just beautiful!

Flat cars with interesting loads

Here we have another two of Bernd Schröter's creations. A Wabash flat car with a model of a prototypical crank shaft and V&T flat car with a "fictional" load based around a heavy gear wheel:
Visit https://us-modelsof1900.de/ for more info.
 

magnificent

Wow, how cool! The cars, the loads, the setting, just wonderful! 

That crankshaft tickles my curiosity: would an object of that size have been machined on all surfaces? 

Jeff Allen

Hello Jeff, ...

An interesting question which never was come into my thoughts.
However such large shafts and many other technical items were produced after the needs for their use. Take a sample. I know it of cropped axles of three-cylinder steam angines from Germany where the cropped axles where a steel casting and only the surfaces for seats of wheels and the surface in center for the main driving rod were machined. If you see the multiple "bowed" crankshaft of a car then they will find full machined surfaces because the many higher rotation speed where an unbalance could be generated by unmachined and not exactly centered and not balanced sections of such higly spinning parts could destroy the crankshaft and the whole motor.
This replic of the original heavy crankshaft, which I built as a car load, is turned and machined from all surfaces where the center shaft is an ordinary smooth part of a steel rod. The prototype jhowever looks like not completely machined especially on the center flanges where you find deepened seats for larger srew bolts. Please look the first picture on this gallery on my website - https://us-modelsof1900.de/?p=2672. All other surfaces will be machined, I think.
Could this be the wished answer?

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All surfaces would be machined during the turning process.  You don't just get a nice balanced shaft by casting alone...

Fabulous

Bernhard, that photo blows my mind and amplifies my already ample appreciation for your models!

I was contemplating exactly Benny's point about controlling the balance, but I know some smaller crankshafts are balanced by adding and removing material while leaving many cast surfaces "raw." I suppose those adjustments are still necessary on large parts, but are less severe if the initial conditions are consistent. 

Thanks so much for your work and for the enterprise it must have taken to get them onto Rob's amazing layout, and to Rob for sharing the photos. Incredible!

Jeff Allen

Coal Hopper

Todays photo of another example of Bernd Schröter's excellent rolling stock:

 

 
More to come ......

Benny, you are right, ...

I know this fact and would like to follow your argiments. However look the prototype of crank shaft. These flanges in center aren't complete machined.

Big crankshaft?

  What was this intended for? The rod bearings look very small or the size of the crank. I'd expect the real one to not be so shiny based on one's I've seen. Probably a blackish tint except on the bearings where there would be a nice grease coating? .....DaveB

This part, no:This part on

This part, no:

This part on the first flat behind the tender, most certainly Yes.

You balance wheels but you turn shafts.  Otherwise you get an untrue shaft that will have ​vibration present no matter what you do.  The counterweight is the only part I would expect to find unmachined, the rest of it I would expect to find fully machined, with the holes for the wheel bolts drilled while it is still in that lathe.

Long Gon

66′ Lake Terminal RR Gondola by Bernd Schröter.
Note the wonderful "bowing" due to the truss rods pulling against the very light steel load.
Find more information at https://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/17502
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Green Eyed Monster!

Rob,

I'm absolutely jealous!  I've admired Bernd's outstanding work as long as it has been shared online.  The subject matter is dear to my heart and the quality can't be beat.  His attention to detail is super.  The only thing that could make it any better is to see it running through the beautiful scenery you have created. 

It's not easy being green.

Galen

Those are great scenes, Rob.

Those are great scenes, Rob. Love that bridge and rock work!

Mike

Moving Pictures

Galen

It is my intention to make a movie or two with Bernd's cars. Might take a couple of weeks but I'll be posting them on this thread.

Rob

Galen, ...

All my projects are online, now and in future, on my website https://us-modelsof1900.de/ - in German
and on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bernd.schroter.566 mostly in English and in the American model train groups in any case.

Steam roller on the move

Judging by it's shiny condition, the Iroquois steam roller on the Canda flat car is on it's way to a museum

 Rob Clark

Art.  That is what comes to

Art.  That is what comes to mind when I see this.  This is a really impressive piece of art work.  I will never attain this level of mastery but I certainly appreciate it and saved a copy for my files  

Oh, God, I'm ruined

Coming to this place has ruined me, I will never be the same and am now hopelessly lost in the small world of HO modeling.  Thanks a LOT, geez.  (lol) 

Is model railroading art?

Thanks GT (and apologies )

Model railroading as art? - certainly a topic worth exploring and that's exactly what I'm doing next year, by presenting a clinic at the 2019 NMRA British Region convention in Aberdeen (Scotland):

http://convention.nmrabr.org.uk/clinics/is-model-railroading-art-rob-clark/

With an hour to fill, you can bet it's not going to be a simple yes (or no) answer

Get your tickets booked folks ......

Rob Clark

"Get your tickets booked

  Are you going to record it for all us stuck over here in the colonies?  .......DaveB

Yours Is Art

Rob  I don’t know what is better your modeling or your photography, both are fantastic! I so enjoy your posted pictures, they make the scene truly come alive. Curt

Flat Car Loads

No matter the load, a loaded flat car will draw more attention than any box car or reefer.  From my experience giving clinics on flat car loads, a yard full of box cars, reefers, tank cars, etc., always comes out as the lesser choice when compared to the same yard filled with a variety of loaded flat cars.  A box car or reefer has no story to offer the viewer.  Sure, you have the car name, but beyond that, is it full?  Is it empty?  Where did it come from, and where might it be going?  A loaded flat car adds dimension and depth to any story the viewer can imagine.  It adds as much, or even more to the scene than any piece of scenery material.  Try it and see where your imagination goes.

LG