07/02/13 SCRATCH BUILT CAR FERRY FINISHED

Alex

The guy who gets to put this on their layout is lucky!   

Looking amazing!

That is some amazing work!!

Alex,

The ship is really coming along great.

Alan Graziano

Alex, I don't know how I missed this thread before.  That is awesome!  What a great looking ferry!  What a unique idea as well!

Alex,

This is really coming out nice. Great job on something you don't see modeled very often. 

Looks wonderful. Quite the undertaking. That must be going on a huge layout!

Hi, Alex.

As someone for whom marine railroading is a topic of great interest, I would like to compliment you on work in building the car ferry and thank you for sharing it with us. As a lifelong resident of the region, I very much enjoy researching information pertaining to the extensive railroad marine operations which were conducted in and around New York City, as well as the countless railroad facilities which quite literally lined all waterfront shores in the vicinity of New York Harbor.

Thank you again.

Bob    

Alex......once again you have blown me away with your skills as a model builder. I can only imagine what you have in store for us as far as the interior of the cabin goes. When she is done will she display the Malliae flag until the transfer of ownership?

At the risk of looking like a fool, which I am pretty good at by the way, is the green NYC boxcar on the wrong pair of rails? It appears to me that there is only 1 rail to the left of the car as well as a single rail between the 2 boxcars. As I said I am probably missing something obvious.

Alex

I want some of these

Good afternoon all,

Thanks to all for your very kind comments, Alan, Jay, Steve, Jeff, Jim, Big truck Pete, Alan G, John, Joe, and O gauger.

Coloradohiraile, Yes it looks much better with two rails. I thank you

Bob (CNJ 3676) I'm glad you enjoyed the post. I thank you

Strogey I'm not totally sure I had the freight cars on the correct rails at the time of the photo's. I would say you might be correct. I thank you

Ben you got it, just give me the sizes and one or two close up photos and consider it done.  

Again thanks to all, Alex

Top notch Alex!

When do we start on my ore dock ?

Thanks Charlie for the kind words, Charlie I'll build you anything you want

Alex

Kenn,

While I do agree with you that this thread and many others on the 3 rail forum belong in the other sections, I have my reasons for posting them here.

1st- When I used to post them on the other sections, I would only get 5 views/replies and hardly anyone on the forum will see what I did. I'm not saying this to get replies, it's because I enjoy helping folks anyway I can so if I'm on the 3 rail section my posts will be seen by many. I really enjoy helping my fellow forum members.

2nd- I'm a 3 rail section guy,it's my favorite part of the forum I'm on it 95 % of the time.

3rd- In the past I've seen other forum members post items in the other sections only to just waste away to the second and third page in those sections as well. To me that's a shame.

4th- I post my work on the 3 rail forum because I think it's quiet helpful to my fellow forum members and I'm thrilled that they post their work here to. So many many folks can view, reply and make suggestions and comments.

To me this forum is to help each other out and post our work and great idea's

and have civil conversations. Most of all, to enjoy it and have fun.  If Gunrunner John (or anyone) posted his awesome thread somewhere else it would have received only a few views or replies and only a few folks would have seen it there. To me that's a shame.

I'm a member of this forum for 3 years now, and I've learned so much from the 3 rail section with the great idea's that have been posted here.  To sum it up, the 3 rail forum is where all the action is, and that's where I enjoy posting.

Alex

Hi Dennis,

You are welcomed anytime, just give me a heads up and you can come by and hang out.

Killian,

Thanks for the nice words, Maybe someday I'll come for a visit!!!!!!!!!

Thanks again, Alex

Alex,

With each new post/pictures this project just continues grow inexcellence! Magnificent work! Terry

We should find each other at York and talk

Thanks Terry for the very kind words.

Charlie I just emailed you my cell phone number so we can get together at York

Thanks,Alex

Alex....I just had to say it again....what a great project!!  You are doing a masterful job at capturing the feeling and looks of the car ferry....love it!!

On another note....to comment about what forum to post on....I am with you Alex on this one.  May I respectfully suggest to Ken and others that may feel they have missed or will miss great threads like this.  All you have to do is follow that person's posts and you will get an e-mail letting you know when they have started or commented on a thread.  Then you will have a direct link to it no matter what page it is on....

I will agree with Alex in that the 3-rail forum has the greatest chance of reaching and helping those that need, appreciate, and enjoy the wide variety of talent and topics over here.  I enjoy all of the forums and believe me have made an effort to support more than just the 3-rail forum but found that the much larger feedback I get over here has helped me be a better modeler and inspired me....this is kind of a melting pot of all levels of talent.  I for one believe we can all learn from each other and appreciate what we each bring to the hobby....  To each his own but IMHO if one is not checking out the 3-rail forum, they are missing out on some fantastic posts just like this thread!!!

Thanks,

Alan

Alex,

You hinted at this project when you were at my home delivering Penn Station.

I haven't had time till now to look for the thread. WOW!! As always your attention to detail is amazing.  BTW, I am still getting complements on Penn Station and also the lightbox that made for me.

Jim,

The layout in my imagination always had a waterfront scene with car floats as extra storage. I can't wait to see the finished car ferry project on your layout.

Got to see this project in person last week.  The pictures do not do it any justice  Its an awesome piece.  All you Michigan guys should be lining up for the next one Alex makes. 

In my opinion we have too many subforums now  I don't have the time or the urge to go checkk all of them  I like just perusing the titles in the 3 rail forum only  Every once in awhile the subway forum draws me but thats it.

Thanks Alan, Bob, and Ben for all of your kind words.!!!!!

I agree with Alan and Ben This is where it's at.I call it the central hub of the entire forum. I love to hang out here.

Bob thanks very much for the wonderful words,it means a lot to me

and it goes for each and every fellow forum member.

Thanks again,Alex

Ben I'm going to take the whole gang out to the Hong Kong gardens for dinner tonight

LOL LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!

Alex

I will have the Moo Goo Gai Pan if its 5 oclock

Good evening everyone,

   I'm thrilled today, Jim had asked me about 10 days ago or so about adding smoke to the stacks. So I've been working on it for quite a few days and I was able to finish it today. Here's some of the details, I purchased a Lionel 27 ohm smoke unit from Box Car Bill (thanks Bill ) and I had to do a lot of modifications to get this to work. So what I did first was attach a Number 8 1/4 aluminum spacer to the exhaust hole of the smoke unit, next I drilled out the other end of the spacer just slightly so I could slip the 1/4 plastic tubing into the spacer. I had to make a tee fitting so the smoke would exhaust out of both stacks. So I drilled very carefully into the 1/4 tubing and made openings, now I slipped the tubing into the openings and used J-B Weld to permanently seal and lock all the joints together. There will be intake ports cut into the base soon so the smoke unit can get even more air.

THANKS TO ALL FOR LOOKING,

Alex

Alex great ingenuity!

Nice work ...you need something to defuse that a bit though.

How about a cyclonic path so they are rising in a swirling rotation?

Looks good, I'd follow the previous suggestions, perhaps a fine screen in the stack to scatter the smoke.  This is going to be one deluxe boat!

Hi guys thanks for the nice comments,

I failed to mention I already have screens made to go in the stacks to defuse the smoke. My fault

Thanks, Alex

Alex....this project just keeps getting better and better!!

Alan

Alex,

You are smokin' now!!

Will there be any problem filling the reservoir? Will the fluid get all way down to the unit or stick to the tube?

You really know your ship! 

This floats my boat, nice addition Alex.

I put a smoke unit in a building with a 6" tube, I have no problem filling it.  I just have to blow in the tube after filling and all is well.  I also split out the smoke to drive two stacks from a fan driven unit.

Looking great Alex!  Gonna smoke up my basement!

Thank you Alan, Bob, farmer bill, Brian, John and Jim for the wonderful words

Alex

Hi Bob There won't be a problem filling the reservoir as soon as I put it in the pipe it goes right in the smoke unit.

Thanks, Alex