White Pass & Yukon Route - On3 update

I was just talking to John McDermott about you yesterday. You hadn't been on the forum for a while. Glad to see you back on here.

By the way, the website looks great. I'm excited to see those cabooses get paint jobs.

Really nice work so far! I have a real affinity for the WP&Y, having ridden it twice and that my favorite RR sent two of their ten-wheelers (ET&WNC #s 10 and 14) there during WW2...

I'm sure the White Pass had stock cars, but I can't find anything on your website or wikipedia. Any idea of their numbers or any pictures you know of?

Jut curious, have you ever thought of taking a Bachmann On30 ten-wheeler and re-gauging it to make a model of either WP&Y # 10 or 14 (formerly ET&WNC locos of the same numbers)? I think that would be a 'quick and dirty' way to get a decent representation of one of the WW2-era WP&Y locomotives...

I hope you are putting in that long, rickety trestle, either in use, or bypassed as it is today....

The first kit arrived. I just added a video on YouTube how easy I asseble the underframe of the caboose 905.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM9A-aB2IMo

More will follow.

Looks great Boerries!

Are you planning on selling this kit?

More updates are on my web page, as it is not so easy to add more images here in the Forum. The caboose 905 in brass looks nice. New the first White Pass 8 foot containers were added to my collection.

Boerries

http://www.whitepassfan.net

colorado hirailer posted:

I hope you are putting in that long, rickety trestle, either in use, or bypassed as it is today....

I wouldn't imagine someone building even a compressed model of cantilever bridge 18A in O scale, as it'd rival anything ever built on a layout:

Can't wait to see what these hacks will look like when you're done with them!

Here is my contribution to this topic. I just finished the CAD design of the narrow gauge cab diesel and then will continue with the 3D printing...

Here is a quick-n-dirty printout in G scale with a cheap DIY 3D printer...just for benchmarking of a benchwork on a workbench...

Those are great.  Please make this available on Shapeways or elsewhere in Fine Ultra Detail plastic.  I would like a pair.  Thanks.  Charles.

Out of curiosity, where did you find the drawings to work from of a Class 90?

Dylan Lambert posted:

Out of curiosity, where did you find the drawings to work from of a Class 90?

Unfortunately I didn't find any precise dimension drawing, only one abstract schematic outline drawing with no poor details, which was enough to roughly figure out the proportions of the body shape. All the details (roof, left/right side, front and rear) have been taken in approximation from the photo gallery on the web. While studying the images I noticed some variations between the original end-cab GE90 and the re-built one. I prefer more the old version since I am a vintage guy, but it is not a big effort to derive the modern version. Here few unpainted results in various scales made with my cheap DIY 3D printer...

Here is another model variation coming in various scales (TTn3, H0n3, Sn3, On3, 1n3, Gn3) ...

...coated with yellow primer after 3D printing...