As I was cleaning up and packing away all my craftsman kits and tools, I found this Ameritowne kit buried underneath the mess.  I figured I might as well put it together and pack it away with everything else.  As mentioned last week, I have to pack away all the trains because I need serious basement repairs.  So I will make this my last post, and I thank everyone for all your posts and help over the past 10 years.  It has been a joy.

Dennis

Patrick,

Very nice work on the pump house.

Dennis,

The Ameritown building looks very nice.

I am tranforming five engine sheds into one Sant-Fe passenger engine shed for POPSR. Bill, You never stop coming up with ways to test my skills.

Alan Graziano

Great stuff so far...

Patrick... I would say that the balloon on top of the pump is an accumulator.  The balloon was charged with whatever liquid you were pumping and this liquid under pressure allowed the pump to adjust to a higher pumping rate faster and smoothed out the pulsations.  I believe it also allowed for self priming of the pump when starting.

As far as a color I would recommend a flat black as this type of accumulator was most likely constructed of rubber. 

Found a $20.00 RK on ebay. Perfect compressed size for an N-22.

Removed the bay window sections and cut the body & frame down.

The cabin went from 36' to 26' using a hacksaw and rotary tool.

Since LIRR block letters don't exist, I printed out the sides developed by using M.S. Excel.

The faded yellow to cream logo was obtained from Yahoo photos and positioned onto the printout.

Several fonts were needed to obtain the look.

Paper sheet was applied with 3M spray glue and flat coated.

This is the first N-22 short caboose made in O scale.

Not exact, it's close enough considering the MTH model available.

With R&D, this was a long project taking about 25 hours to do.

One of my favorite Mother pictures

Back in February, I posted some early photos of a new retail coal dealer I was building for the railroad.  Here is a link to those early photos.

https://ogrforum.com/t...ic-showcase-2-3-2013

The scene is now basically finished (I seem to work at a glacial pace) and here are a couple of current photos.  Click on a photo to see a larger version or right click and "open in new window" to see the photo full-screen.

The dealer has a board fence on some sides and chain link on the rest.  The chain link fence was used so as not to block our view of the weigh scales and delivery truck. 

The office interior is lit with one segment of the stick-on LEDs that come on reels.  A stove, a couple of figures and some wood blocks for desk and file cabinets provide some interest.

Several things are still left to do: repaint and finish the delivery truck, build a conveyor and add some general clutter.  But it is coming along. 

Pat:

As Metjet suggested, the bulb is an accumulator but only partially for liquids, and it was generally of cast iron. They had an air volume within to keep the pump from hammering itself apart as liquids are non-compressive. Early steam-driven fire engines had rather large accumulators that were quite ornate, some even being of bronze.

Your project looks good!

Neil 

Bob.

As a kid I used to drop pennies down into the water under the truck (scale)

I did an HO coal yard model of where I played as a kid located on my photo site – http://steves3roscale.shutterfly.com/pictures/3740

Nice work!

Walthers H.O.

Thanks Steve, I've always admired your work.  I would have liked to build a more ambitious dealer including some fuel oil and maybe sand/gravel but I only had a small amount of "leftover" space available.

Looks good everyone! Steve great idea looks great!

Brian,

Glad to see you posting a few scenes here and there.

Anyway, I think you have plenty of skill.

Alan

Great shots everyone. Good luck with your basement Dennis.

Alan, the ATSF ABBA Shop is looking vert nice. I have been gone today with Mother's Day activies and it was a GREAT surprise for me to come home and see the SHOP. I am liking what I am seeing.

Please tell Lee Ann Happy Mothers Day for Dianne and I.

You guys are awesome!  Really great work by everyone this week.

I have been working on a making a passenger station front from an MTH building.

Started here:

Now we're here (still have a way to go):

Started working on a coal gas processing facility. So far the process building is complete. Next up will be some external tanks for more filtering and extraction then the big gas holder tanks.

The building is the same MTH Public Works built-up mentioned in Zeke's post.

Joe

Some new building fronts