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Herb Kephart
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Now Si
Just because I sold you a lot of stock in the Herb-O Rivet Enterprise (company sounds SO mundane), don't think that it's value will go up the more you mention it.
Herb--Exalted President 
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Robert Comerford
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Excellent work on the Ingersoll-Rand and the Chevy.
I hope to see more of the layout too.
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Bob Comerford
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W C Greene
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Si, I just looked back at the old posts with photos of Herb's beautiful work and...and...photos$^t has deleted his photos. Those cheap-ass pieces of s%^t!
Who knows where PB is located, I know guys who like to break legs and heads!
Woodie
Look what I found in Herb's gallery!
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Herb Kephart
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Si
Not to disturb your time /space reasoning, but there are TWO 1:41's each day (Q.E.D.)!!!
Small loco is scratch built, brass, with K&D #1 motor (how many remember them? )
Modeled from plans of the H&F switchers it had poles for many years, but when I decided to go to all pantographs, it got one (also scratch).
'Erb
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W C Greene
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Herbie, I remember K&D, brass, and scratch built! I own several Lindsay (marimba them?)motors. Who out here knows where they come from?
Troublemaker
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Daniel Beresford
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Wow, those are some TIGHT reverse curves. What's the radius on those, Herb? Very cool!
Is there a photo of the loco at the front of that train on that picture Si posted?
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Herb Kephart
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Hi Dan
That pix was part of a test just to see if it could be done. The curve is 12 or 12 1/2 inch radius. After I pulled the train around the loop, a friend said "bet you can't push it back." So, as most of the brown bottles were empty by then-and it was after one in the morning--I very cautiously reversed and slowly backed around the curve. With on board batteries, and RC, I never seems to have the higgles and jiggles that a wheel running over that last microscopic bit of dirt on the rail can cause. Now all this was to prove to Mr Greene that a certain opinion of his, was, as the Brits would say, rubbish. I wont embarrass a good friend by going into the subject matter again, he is busy with his new layout, which has to be at least half finished by now, with the speed that he fills scenic area with track. Amazing man.
Where was I? Oh yes, the curve. The ultimate use of this loop will be only to reverse the electric pantograph equipped passenger cars--for those it is wholly appropriate and prototype. Lacawanna & Wyoming Valley (the Laurel Line) had one like this at both it's end terminals.
Work is progressing (?) at both the end termini, but I'm like a garden slug at a drag race anymore, so don't dust off your 5x7 Speed Graphics. When enough transpires to make a difference, I will post.
H e r b (that slow)
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chasv
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my brother just bought a rolliflex 35mm camera made in 1955 for $27 with leather case in good shape and wants to take some pictures
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Herb Kephart
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Dan-
I forgot that you wanted pictures. Took a while to find my crayons---
Attachment: rdg 0-4-0 004c.jpg (Downloaded 80 times)
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Daniel Beresford
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Love the camelback, Herb.
Those 12" curves are awesome. 
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W C Greene
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The anthracite(?) coal used caused a large firebox (more coal was needed) which caused the cab to be even wider or moved further along the boiler. If I was assigned to a camelback loco, I would surely want to be shoveling coal rather than sitting above the rods which sometimes broke and "cleaned house".
I think this is the right answer, isn't it Herbert?
Woodie
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Herb Kephart
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Correct, Woodie.
Anthracite coal requires a much larger grate--Hence wider boiler.
While breakage of rods didn't occur all that often, I wouldn't want to be "up close and personal" either. The FRA (I think it was)--decreed that no new locos of that design be built after 1935, principally because of the large separation of fireman and engineer. One could drop dead without the other knowing. Since some of the Eastern railroads had anthracite mines for customers- or were outright owners of coal companies, it made sense to burn the stuff. It did burn much cleaner.
Said Phoebie Snow,
about to go
upon a trip to Buffalo,
My dress stays white,
from morn to night,
while on the route of anthracite
And Thanks guys, for the kudos!
Herb
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Herb Kephart
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Don't know that there ever was one Si, But Wolfie could be a pioneer-----
'Erb
And Phobie was part of a Lackawana ( Help Woodie, was it D&LW ?) advertising pamphlet
There was 3 or 4 more verses. Before Dylan's time. Heck, even before my time.
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