Rainy day project, something cool in the cab!

I like it!

Hal

Looks like he had a little too much coffee.   Great idea to have the cab crew move and not just be glued to their seats.  Nice job.

Well it's an interesting start. Now all you have to do is get the engineer to pull the throttle back and forth just like that o scaler did with his cb&q northern!

Danr posted:

Looks like he had a little too much coffee.   Great idea to have the cab crew move and not just be glued to their seats.  Nice job.

He does have the jitters on the rollers.....I’ll have to see how he does on the rails......it’ll be interesting.....Pat

THAT......................................... is one fantastic idea! 

I have a newly-acquired steamer with a fireman and engineer figures, and it kinda' drives me nuts to watch them stiffly sitting in the cab of a bouncing, huffing, puffing, and chuffing steam locomotive with absolutely no motion whatsoever by the crew.  Might as well have motionless and expressionless crash-test dummies sittin' in there instead of a railroad crew.

Watching your video with movement by the fireman brings a lot of believability that there really is a live person sitting in cab, in my opinion.  I'll bet visitors will do a double-take on that one! 

I believe that's called Yankee Ingenuity!   You better hurry up and patent that before someone else does.   What a splendid idea. 

Chief Bob (Retired)

PUFFRBELLY posted:

I believe that's called Yankee Ingenuity!   You better hurry up and patent that before someone else does.   What a splendid idea. 

Chief Bob (Retired)

You right Chief....US patent # 3346732212....The But Spring............Pat

Excellent.  I like it.

That spring implant procedure has got to hurt....

Very cool idea!

I remember an article YEARS ago about an Engineer on a switching engine (H0 scale) that turned his head when the train reversed. IIRC, the head was cut off, the body drilled out, the head was mounted onto a rod and then the protruding end attached to some kind of gear or cam which was then hooked to a small solenoid from a turnout and wired to the motor (DC of course). Thought it was a pretty cool idea back then. 

I just got the lights going, so pretty soon I’ll try and video Mr. Jitters the fireman, and his engineer buddy going down the rails on the layout.....I’ll do my ****dest to video that.......Pat

I don't see anything, does he just jerks around from the spring?

Dave

david1 posted:

I don't see anything, does he just jerks around from the spring?

Dave

Go to full screen, are you wearing your glasses?

harmonyards posted:

I just got the lights going, so pretty soon I’ll try and video Mr. Jitters the fireman, and his engineer buddy going down the rails on the layout.....I’ll do my ****dest to video that.......Pat

Fireman Jitters and Engineer Shakey Jones.  Running the Highball Express!!! 

Can't wait for that video - I'm lovin' it!  

My cinematographer skills suck...no need to let me know that...I’ll keep trying at that...but here’s Mr. Jitters, getting his brains shook up....

I’ll definitely get a better video....that one was pretty bad.........Pat

So I’m getting a little better at taking a video of Mr. Jitters.....hope this looks pretty cool...or does he wind up looking like a speed freak on a bad binge......

Very good. Nice mod to a beautiful loco !

Fireman Jitters.....LMAO

That's cool! 

I think it looks terrific. What a beautifully simple yet effective approach. 

Mark in Oregon