Rich Yoder Models

I really liked his models. I have several different GE engines that he did. Looks like the website has not been updated for quite a while.

Jeff

He's had the Mather cars on his site for years - and no cars!    Like so many importers, wonder if he is done, once he sells out his remaining truck inventory.

These are the worst of times.

Wow ...hope not!  He sponsors the Strasburg O  scale show, and there are not enough O scaLe shows.  Hope he just laying low until plague ends.  If cars are made where l think, how can you initiate and oversee production, there or anywhere?  

Norm, you really missed a unique piece of freight equipment in Rich's naval gun and flatcar combo. The 16-in gun is for a Colorado Class Battleship. I talked with Rich at Strasburg several years ago, wondering if it would handle my min 72-in curves and not tear out my catenary poles. He showed me how the Navy designed it to handle tight clearances/tight curves on the real railroads. I was satisfied with his explanation/demonstration and bought it. A beautiful piece of craftsmanship. When I run 1930s era on CONUS Lines, it's always the piece that gets the most attention from visitors...along with the perennial question, "Why was that locomotive built backwards?" (SP Cab-forward)

Two images: First, the gun leaves Ellison Yard, westbound for Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Second, a cab-forward working hard, helps a consist, including the gun, through Cumberland. There is another cab-forward on point.

Outstanding.  I wish that he would make these again.

Norm

Rick - Oh no! Battleship rifles always traveled breech end forward. Importing a second run of freight cars devalues a customers investment. I don't do that.

Remember,  good things take time.

richyoda

Rick, Your layout is first class! Keep up the good work.

richyoda

@Richyoda posted:

Rick - Oh no! Battleship rifles always traveled breech end forward. Importing a second run of freight cars devalues a customers investment. I don't do that.

Remember,  good things take time.

richyoda

I could use some more of your PRR H21 A hoppers with the power brake.  You can never have too many PRR hoppers!

I'd like to beef up my portfolio!

Simon

@Richyoda posted:

Rick - Oh no! Battleship rifles always traveled breech end forward. Importing a second run of freight cars devalues a customers investment. I don't do that.

If his cab forward is going forward, the breech is forward, right?

@Richyoda posted:

Rick - Oh no! Battleship rifles always traveled breech end forward.

Do you know the reasoning on that?   Perhaps if there is some kind of accident the breech end is thicker/stronger so less likely to be damaged?  Or maybe some kind of unloading issue at the shipyard?

When I worked at St. Juliens Creek Annex (84-98) there was three 16" barrels on wood framing, laying on the ground.  4 of the guys I worked with were on battleships.  One guy said he was on the BB-3, BEFORE WWII!!!  He was old in 1984, so I'm sure he was telling the truth.

The GAS factor on this one is pretty low!

Simon

FYI

BB3,USS Oregon.  Laid down in 1891,stricken in 1942,scrapped in 1956.

11688 tons. 2x2 13" turrets and 2X2 8" turrets.

Norm

If the breech end was not pointed forward, the overhang could strike an obstacle and the barrel would be flipped off its mounts.

Jan

I would guess it's the physics involved; having the largest and heaviest area forward presents the largest area to be blocked and braced, the inertial dynamics are greatest on the load as it decelerates from braking, likewise the lateral sway/shear against the rest of the blocking and tie-downs is best minimized.

That is an interesting detail.  When we moved the wrecking outfit, the Derrick boom was always to be facing rearward. I was told this was incase it broke loose it would do less damage at bridges and tunnel portals.  For the gun barrel to be mounted on two cars, one mount has to slide and swivel to accommodate curves, slack in the coupling and compression in the draft gear.