Show Me Your Brass

Thanks bob2

I made sure I checked that when I swapped them out, although...

...since this is on a 3 rail loco, does that still matter?

Mark in Oregon

Wow what a lot of neat content here guys. Always a fun read when you guys share your passion with me here. Cool stuff!

if I ever learn how to take a decent picture I’ll share some of my passion, someday.

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OMI

I have one of those Light Harrimans - let me see . . .

Still have to make a UP-style tender.  Locomotive is 17/64; tender is Adams castings with my wrappers.

I recently acquired this Westside Models Virginian Triplex at an estate. Needed a lot of repair.

It was missing one of the ladders on the tender....so I redesigned and had it 3d printed and cast in brass. I couldn’t find anything aftermarket that would work.

Nice

The Mona Lisa of railroad models.

That's impressive Bruk! How did you find someone willing to make the brass ladders based on your 3D prints?

I was wondering the same thing.  Bob Stevenson can do it, as can most dental labs and jewelry makers.  I am trying to find a sand cast foundry that can do three or four pieces at a time - had one that did it for reasonable $ but cannot make contact any more.

Starting to forget what I have posted on this thread - you may have seen all my bare brass.  Well, maybe you need to see my giant brass Vanderbilt tender?

.032 brass, riveted with brass escutcheon pins.  Rivet gun was Boeing surplus - we figured it had driven a million rivets into B-17s in its lifetime.  It blew a gasket last year while riveting an aileron for a Cub. 1.6" scale, 7 /2" gauge.  700# locomotive only.

@0-Gauge CJ posted:

That's impressive Bruk! How did you find someone willing to make the brass ladders based on your 3D prints?

Shapeways! I will say it wasnt cheap,

@Bruk posted:

I recently acquired this Westside Models Virginian Triplex at an estate. Needed a lot of repair.

It was missing one of the ladders on the tender....so I redesigned and had it 3d printed and cast in brass. I couldn’t find anything aftermarket that would work.

Awesome! Impressed! :-) That's a cool technique!

Kind regards

Sarah

@Erik C Lindgren posted:

The Mona Lisa of railroad models.

I quite agree!

Other than the fact that I for some reason didn't get the truck on the track correctly and I used to kitbash N scale, here are some photos of my Overland P5a(modifed).  It was recently serviced and runs well.  I just need to get the time to clean it and finally get some paint on this.

Beaver Creek V&T #26

Thanks for forum member Taycotrains, I have been able to remove this off the list of desired two rail locomotives for my future layout.  DD1 set by Sunset.

Brass is such an addiction.  I didn't understand it until I bought one.  I still don't have many, but I do have a couple of pieces...some painted some not.  I do love these pulpwood cars....need more must have more!

Your pulpwood cars are very nice, I also have two of those cars in brass but really no idea of the manufacturer...

And I just got for a very low price a hopper, no manufacture marking on it except Japan on a truck; maybe an old Max Gray. I do not know what type of hopper it is and from what time period.  It has been sold with a gold paint to preserve brass certainly, not  a really good idea, I will repaint it in a prototypical color.

And another car in needs of completing and paint, as the previous one no idea of manufacturer....

Daniel

@FRENCHTRAINS posted:

And another car in needs of completing and paint, as the previous one no idea of manufacturer....

Daniel

The box says it all.  International Model Products imported brass from Japan starting in the early 1950's.  The imported HO and O scale products.  Budget brass for their time, but I have several of their offerings.  Some of it was 17/64" scale and some was 1/4" scale.

Just in from 3rd Rail

One of kind 3 Railed Sunset NYC K5a.

Pete

I have added these since my last post.  Sunset/3rd Rail.

My Weaver Chicago South Shore & South Bend 800 series (Little Joes)

3rd Rail PRR T1

Weaver Milwaukee Road Baltic

Weaver Milwaukee Road Little Joe

RRDOC   the Joe's are beautiful,  the Baltic , is perfection! how did you do your track, and turnouts

So, we've seen quite a parade of the big guys ... here's one from the opposite end of the size spectrum - PSC On3 Porter

@marty track posted:

Nice

umm.. are these not 3rd Rail Plastic? I know the Demo is...cause I have it.

@prrhorseshoecurve posted:

umm.. are these not 3rd Rail Plastic? I know the Demo is...cause I have it.

Yes.  They are all plastic models. 

I almost posted my Train of Tomorrow forgetting that the engine and cars are plastic.  It sure looks nice.

I bought my first brass item recently, a 3rd Rail SP MT-5. I've been looking for one of these for quite awhile, and I was able to finally find one at a decent price, so I grabbed it.

www.youtube.com/trainbros89

Overland O scale outdoors

A "Before and After" in brass:

A Balboa import of the1970's this is an Illinois Central Forney, used in Chicago suburban service. They were built by the Rogers Locomotive Works of Paterson NJ in the late 1880's.  IC engineer John Luther Jones ("Casey Jones") ran one for the 1892 Columbian Exposition.  He disliked operating this type of locomotive "being trapped in a closet all day."

With some surgery and detail work, the IC engine is becoming a model of an 1895 Baldwin built Forney for the Staten Island Rapid Transit.  It was during a period of B&O bankruptcy and Pennsylvania RR control (1893-1905) that brought three of them to the Island.  SIRT was a dyed-in-the-wool exclusively Cooke/Alco buyer. But in this case, PRR arranged the purchase.  Numbered 16-18, they were all sold and went south to lumber mill owners in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana by 1906.  SIRT by then was converting all its Cooke built Forney engines with Wootten patent fireboxes to burn low smoke anthracite and get new steel cabs. New anti-smoke laws were taking effect in the NY area by then. So, for best shop efficiency with a uniform locomotive roster, the three odd Baldwins were sold.

Forneys did not need to be turned around at the end of a run as they ran well in either direction.  The black cord you see is for the emergency brake. The emergency cord running through all the coaches attached to it. The trains were equipped with Eames vacuum brakes. Pulling the cord opened a reset-able emergency valve in the locomotive that unsealed the vacuum which held the train's brakes in an 'off' position. This let air into the brake system which then stopped the train.

The 1895 SIRT Baldwin Forney painted and lettered. Aluminum trim and paint were more costly than gold in 1895 and aluminum trimming was thought to be a mark of quality. (A lot like chrome trim on cars of the 1950's, when more chrome trim told the world you bought a more expensive car).

Prototype SIRT 18 at Arlington in 1900.  The train has a "smoker"/ combine for mail bags, express packages and newspaper bundles. Men over 18 only could ride in it, smoking pipes, cigars, ciggies or chewing tobacco.  The middle car was for young people who could travel alone without chaperones and mothers or families with children. The last car was for women only and young girls traveling with a chaperone.  Such were the public sensitivities of those "gay 'nineties" we read about.

S. Islander

...another small engine of note - The Amenia

At long last my High Iron K4 #1361 is done. A lot of work went into getting it fixed up but I’ve always liked these engines despite the bad rap they seemed to have gotten over the years.

Looks great.  Did you weather it?  My only complaint is the video was too short!

Thanks, yes I weathered it. Experimented with some Vallejo Model Air acrylic which I’m not quite the biggest fan of yet.

@Norm Charbonneau posted:

Thanks, yes I weathered it. Experimented with some Vallejo Model Air acrylic which I’m not quite the biggest fan of yet.

LHS carries the Vallejo line. I don't use it for weathering, just standard painting, but I'm not a huge fan. Coverage is so so with a airbrush.

Personally I prefer automotive paint. It's one and done for base coats. Just have really good ventilation or the fumes will kill you....