Dash 8

Hello Nick, a suggestion from me, try a load of squared timber, this is easy to build and loosens up the great train a bit. A picture attached as an example, not of me. You may like this :) Regards Jan

Hello, found a great pic… Their large sawmill operation was located at Pino Grande, originally spelled Pinogrande and pronounced a Pie No Grande. Located approximately 18 miles northeast of Placerville, CA the operations lasted until the late 1940s. The mill had the capacity to produce 200,000 board feet of cut lumber every 10 hours, and that was in 1910. From Pino Grande the rough cut lumber was sent to their mill in Camino, CA. To get to that mill the lumber had to traverse a 1,200 foot high canyon, via a cable tramway. The cable way was built in 1901, burned down twice and after the second time in 1949, was never rebuilt. Update: Cable car Camino Regards Jan

Hello, small update today, not done yet.... Hi Sean, thanks for pictures. This method is modern, but not what I want to do. That didn't exist at the time. Nick, I think this will be different, for tree trunks I would take chains, how Is Bug ? Regards Jan

Good evening, I hope all dogs and horses are doing well. Nick,what do you mean by binding, as in my picture certainly not. Okay, little fun has to be. I am an old miner and try it with turnbuckles, steel anchors and a cross beam, the turnbuckles you see in the second picture, made of 2mm brass tube, this is a nerve job... Let's see how all this is soldered. Regards Jan

Hello Sean and Nick, I also think that the dog looks younger, normally he has a lot of hair, I was a bit irritated. Nick, the charge is only half finished, the picture does not show that, now I'll take a break ... Thank you for your answers. Regards Jan

Didn't I quite understand, sorry, 13 years or weeks and the rest I don't understand either? Regards Jan

..... and all are sweet. Looks very young. They'd better take a ladder…:) Regards Jan

Sean, thank you, we'll see what comes... Today I did something different, a little break from the woodwork. I don't like the plastic wheels anymore, and they seem too big for my eyes. I shortened the Truckbolster by 4 mm. The new axes are from AMS. When the glue is dry, everything is assembled. The same job as the first . Greets to Bug Thank you Jan

Hi Nick, Gauge 1 is very expensive, I tried to keep costs low, everything I have built is made of wood, signals, buildings, turntables, lamps etc. Not everything was good, but I was satisfied. If you recreate things in a simplified way and leave out the details, you have already won. If you want to build all the details, you've lost. That's a matter of the head..:) Make things easy, and you'll have fun. Regards Jan

This machine has very nice wheels, low wheel flanges and fine coupling rods, I have never seen before, thank you. Regards Jan

Hello Nick, that's exactly how it's meant to be, a wooden order with beams and boards, I don't always find the right words. That will be high, about 30 boards. With the beams I built my tracks and switches, these are the remains, this is oak. Thank you Jan

Hi Chuck, very well explained. The switch motors are less susceptible to interference and can dcc with a decoder, I use feather motors in analog with 12 volts DC. Another method is operation with servo motors. For the frogs you can also take frog juicer, unfortunately there are only for small amperes. Regards Jan

Thank you Chuck and Nick for your warm words, this was our last cat, we had 6 in 35 years. These were all Turkish Angora, the name is Wada.Today I cut, sanded and glued a few ice sticks....a life's work, there are still 10 on it, all together 400 pieces....:) Regards Jan Forgot, sorry, Nick I only have this car with link and pin.

Great, the machine has to work properly, there is no automatic control for speed, as in real life. My first DC locomotives also ran like this, in a curve they slowed down. Well done Nick ! Regards Jan

Hi Nick, no problem, on Thursday our cat died, 21 years old, we are all sad. I translated some of the text, the skeletons also transported boards and beams. I still found beams made of oak, had built track with them. I think they can carry the stacks of boards. Provisionally cut here, think that's possible. The felled wood was brought by forest railway to the sawmill of Pino Grande and processed into boards and beams. These were then led by the forest railway to the cableway, where the "log cars" were decoupled and loaded onto the cable car. On the other side of the valley, the wagons were taken over again by the forest railway and led on to Camino, where a large sawmill and planing plant stood. In 1949, the Cableway suffered another fire and was no longer built. The timber transports were moved to the road, 2 years later the forest railway was also abandoned. I sawed the oak beams to 8.8 inches. Between the bars come spacers for the right width. Regards Jan

I would like to recreate these chopsticks as a board load. Unfortunately, they are too short, there must be something underneath, maybe a few bars next to each other or.... no idea yet. Regards Jan

Beautiful, what a technique Thank you Nick. Regards Jan

Hello Nick, very nice machine, I have never seen with livesteam. Thank you. Regards Jan

Hi Nick, I translated some text with the cable car, For this load I bought 600 stems for ice cream made of wood. These are 2x10x100 mm. Hopefully it will work…:) Aerial cableways were rather rare and inte- Part of a forest railway network. The technical effort was rel. large, so that it was only worthwhile to use it if great effort had to be made with the rail. A classic example of such a "cableway" was commissioned from 1903 by the Michigan-California Lumber Co., near Placerville (California). In 1930, the cable car was rebuilt after a fire. The cabin, called "cage", ran with a total of 36 rollers on 4 cables of 51 mm diameter each. From the "North cable" to the "South cable" station, a distance of 853 m was overcome, with the highest point being 365 m above the American River Canyon. The payload was 13 to 17 tons. The 4 wire ropes were tensioned with weights of 60 tons each. Regards Jan

Logging by Chris Ott All Pics together, but in german Regards Jan

Great, Hello Nick, ok striped maple is not in stock, an alternative is a pile of boards like in the picture. And you can take the eyelets for fixing. I think an interesting Alternative. Regards Jan

Hi Nick, what are you building right now, Skeleton or .... ? I found another nice picture, maybe it will help you build. Interesting color for the wood, gray. Regards Jan

Hi Nick, I like that very much. I hope you are in the mood for more....:) Greetings from Max and Moritz to Bug. Regards Jan

Hi Nick, this one looks better. Of course, the wheel discs also need some dirt. You learn quickly :) Another pic… Regards Jan

Hi Nick, you're on the right track, I like it. I attach a picture of the dirt splashing on the truck from below. I would now make a few more places black, the axle bearing covers and the springs. Ready :) Regards Jan