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Lee B
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Yesterday, I realized I had the right kinds of pilots for my ten-wheelers,
which they carried in the 30s and 40s, in the spare parts package.
I hadn't known that before and was pondering scratch building,
the right kind of wood pilot they carried in the war and pre-war years.
Clearly, I was happy I didn't have to do that,
and also angry I didn't know that earlier.
An hour of paint and weathering,
and now ET&WNC 9, 11 and 12 all have the right pilots!
Here, you can see what they'd carried up to yesterday,
boilertube pilots that were correct for the final days of the narrow gauge era on the RR:
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-Lee
Commanding Officer, 796th Railway Operating Battalion (in On30 gauge)
https://willysmb44.webs.com/modeltrains.htm
Photos of my layout: https://www.flickr.com/photos/53587910@N05/albums/72157668176638961
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Lee B
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Thanks, John, for the kind words.
I just never know how anything I do will be received, so I usually brace for bad feedback,
but apparently I must have done okay as I hadn't gotten any "This stinks" messages...
My wife heard me giving the presentation from another room and for the life of me,
I have no idea how she didn't bust in and give my feedback during it
(she often interrupts me having phone calls if she thinks I'm incorrect about something)
but she later said I was talking "Way too fast."
I've done public speaking since my teens,
and I've noticed that as long as you don't talk too fast for people to understand you,
talking slow will put them off quickly.
That said, I went back and watched it and didn't think I was talking TOO fast.
If I was, I apologize to anyone who watched.
What you saw was heavily edited down, as there was a lot of Q/A throughout.
I like how it got edited down to the 'meat' of the presentation, such as it is.
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-Lee
Commanding Officer, 796th Railway Operating Battalion (in On30 gauge)
https://willysmb44.webs.com/modeltrains.htm
Photos of my layout: https://www.flickr.com/photos/53587910@N05/albums/72157668176638961
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Lee B
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Over the weekend, I decided to do something about hopper car 44,
which had issues on one turnout, it’d often ‘split the switch’.
I thought it was the turnout itself
(and dreading the very idea as of course it's the least accessible)
but then it occurred to me that one of the axles might be out of gauge.
I swapped the wheel sets on one truck,
and sure enough, that seems to have done it.
Here I am pushing it back and forth,
coupled to 36 (the new 3D print from Western Rails)
which sailed through with no problems.
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-Lee
Commanding Officer, 796th Railway Operating Battalion (in On30 gauge)
https://willysmb44.webs.com/modeltrains.htm
Photos of my layout: https://www.flickr.com/photos/53587910@N05/albums/72157668176638961
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