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thanks - Mike


ferroequinologist (n)


Latin ferrum iron + Latin equus horse + -logist
A railroad or model railroad enthusiast. (From Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations.) "Ferroequino" derives from the Latin for "iron horse," an early term for a locomotive.


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Sunday, December 19, 2010

From My Workbench


As the plans that I posted suggests, I have completed 3 of the 6 scratch built structures required for my Master Model Railroader Structure Certificate. For more information check out the plans that were used in an earlier post... And here they are;









Southern Pacific Main Line Tender Oil Storage Tank.

Completely scratch built using a PVC pipe union believe it or not.
I covered the union with plascticstruct, constructed the legs painted
and weathered.




The Pumphouse... complete with interior....

These were real challenges particularly in the interiors, in this case
everything is built from scratch with the exception of the steam
engine (click on all of these pics for larger view).




Grizzly Flats Station.... (this was a lot of fun)... really tested my skills and almost an exact recreation of the South Pacific RR in Ann Arbor California around 1943. The interior is complete right down to the toilet paper roll and newspapers, the world war II theme is seen throughout.












The roof rafters alone consumed well over 200 nut bolt washer castings. I went a step beyond and added conduit and electrical boxes and switches, also the interior is lit with 5 0603 LEDs







This was a fun set of structures, hopefully if all goes well I will have the remaining 3 structures completed by this time next month...





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