After spending way too much time on the lead tracks to the new Crescent Locomotive Works electric engine house, it's finally had it's first test with the GN EP-3!
The pans clear the door arch by about 1/84" of an inch .... 
Probably will jack it up a toothpick to give it just a hair more room.
It's a wonderful addition and the first part of the new Engine Servicing Terminal to be operational ... with temp wire hookup ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...amp;feature=youtu.be
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Congratulations....David makes awesome products.
Enjoy.
Nice; like the box cab. However, I have a question: if it an "electric" engine house,
what are the four smoke jacks for? Are steamers also serviced there, as a steamer
has its stack positioned under a smoke jack to remove the smoke from the work area?
Passenger electrics had steam boilers for the car heat systems. If one of those needed work, the shop crew might fire it up to test it after repairs. Also, if a shop like that were located at a transition point between steam and electric, like Othello on the Milwaukee Road, the shop likely would be fitted out to work on both.
Ah ha and your both right! Come on down!!
The story on the juice shack is it was the original engine house when the Cabin Lake & Western was a smaller railway, at the turn of the century ... the previous one ... then expanded to become a bridge line which hosted power for contract trains ... including the GN and Milwaukee. Then entered into an agreement to provide servicing of the electrics. Which then enabled management to be convinced to convert the old steam shed to the electric shop, and build a new roundhouse and turntable for the big steam beginning to show up on the property.
The smoke jacks are used for testing the steam heat boilers, as Southwest Hi pointed out, and for the occasional running repair of a steamer when space in the roundhouse isn't available and a stall is open in the "juice hog pen".
Now the newly constructed engine service facility will eventually include two electric tracks under cat next to the Juice Shack, three diesel/turbine service tracks with fuel racks between the tracks, a big coaling tower, an ashpit and cinder hoist, new water system including tower and standpipes (that's how we explain away the putty fill lines between some sheets of homoboard that ended up looking like what was done in a local industrial park), and the GM's favorite, a new track behind the to-be constructed division office building upon which to park his private car.
Currently looking at a door/wall enhancement to provide enough clearance to service the Bipolar ...
The work never stops on the CL&W MOW and B&B gangs ...
Nice; like the box cab. However, I have a question: if it an "electric" engine house,
what are the four smoke jacks for? Are steamers also serviced there, as a steamer
has its stack positioned under a smoke jack to remove the smoke from the work area?
Passenger electrics had steam boilers for the car heat systems. If one of those needed work, the shop crew might fire it up to test it after repairs. Also, if a shop like that were located at a transition point between steam and electric, like Othello on the Milwaukee Road, the shop likely would be fitted out to work on both.
IT's nice but VERY looks similar to the IHC/Atlas O engine house. I think he wasted his development time. IMHO he should have Americanized it with:
IT's nice but VERY looks similar to the IHC/Atlas O engine house. I think he wasted his development time. IMHO he should have Americanized it with:
Just for fun after working on this track almost forever, or so it seems, I make a short video of the Milwaukee Bipolar creeping down the electric house lead at the yard speed of 10 mph max.
Like the way it rocks down the track.
Leaving those dips and sways in it.
The MOW crew doesn't do much work around the engine yards ...
Isn't that the former Aristo engine house, now being imported or, at least being manufactured by Atlas? it's a really nice building, and fairly long engine house with good, molded in detail. On my layout, it sits next to my turntable which services a 3 stall roundhouse. It's primary purpose is to provide a "home" for the vintage diesels on the layout. My layout represents `1950 and that building fits in just fine.
Paul Fischer
I had an original IHC engine house including a lot of weathering and automaton with one smoke stack with Seuthe unit. I received the 36" CLW a few months ago. Quite an improvement over the IHC with more detail and longer! The interior lighting is great too! The firsts engine in the house was a Q1 from 3rd rail with a MTH smoke unit. With the smoke stack under the collector hood, the smoke blows up though and out the house smokestack. Really cool! Enjoy what ever you do in the hobby.
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