Just for Fun

Jeremy,
In the absence of a heavy lift American crane in Z, I bashed several of these cars. It's a combo of a Marklin Triple truck heavy flat car / several brass parts, the cab from the small euro crane car and a lenthened cab. I also made lots of tripple dome tank cars, heavy depressed flat cars, LARGE log cars, long flat cars, smoothside passenger cars, coil cars, work cabosees, centerbeam cars, billboard cars, open auto carriers-- and the list goes on.. I even made well deck container cars and containers well before FR and MT.
Slowly the manufactures are producing some of these units- this crane was made probably 15 + years ago. As this was one of my favorite cars in O in the 50's, and the N in the 60's-70's, I just had to make a few in Z --. Some are Santa Fe!
Thanks for asking,
Fred

Kicking Horse--- or wild mustanges

Self Explanetory

Ferry boat

Hey Fred,

That brought back memories of going to the shore. Granted, now I call it the beach, good job.

Terry- The Hot wire is great for cutting foam mountains. It does it with heat and as Beverly mentioned- you have to go at it's pace and allow for the heat to work. You can also use it for other hobbies- I made my ship's emblom out of foam, It looks good but I prefer the heft of wood.

I can only post one picyure at a time ....
Fred

I guess I could call this picture.."Sweetie and Tweetie"....BAD!!!!

Ship's insignia painted on reel steel

In Balmer--- we go down the ocean, Hon
Fred

Fred, your very talented. Thanks for all you help.

Talented??? Perserverance!

Well, you know Fred that it is the beach here in the Carolinas. Any way your still the man. I had an announcement from Anthony at ZScale Monster that AZL is going to make the AC4400. I think more CSX stuff will be coming out soon. Also, the GP38 is supposed to be coming back. I think AZL and Micro-Trains are setting up a good competition between each other that bring a great variety of American rolling stock in the next year or two.

Cog Railway Mount Washington
Static model
Fred
Notice the Boiler is built at an incline so it remains somewhat horizontal on the trip up and down- it backs down.

Opened in 1869- the first engines had a vertical boiler on gimbles so it remained vertical. Later version had horizontal boilers but built on an angle. Average grade 25%
Maximum grade- 37.41% spd going up about 2 mph- going down 4 mph.
Fred

Top of the mountain-- these two portals and the two in next post (can't post two pictures on same posting) Cover a 90 degree crossing. The top actually comes off, with the portals, for track cleaning and retrieving runnaway trains. I can run a "TWO SIDED TRAIN" on this figure 8 layout, and the one train looks like two.
Fred

the FAR SIDE

Hello Fred,
Fred wrote:

can't post two pictures on same posting

only if you want to post the picture only in the message, but if you insert them as a link you can show more pictures:

how to define Plug and Play


or maybe this way:


the downside is that you have to store the pictures at another place in the web. Also the gallery of the ZCS board will do.

If you go to the list of buttons over this edit field you see the button "Img". If move the mouse over the button you see how the syntax has to be.

Thanks-- Still learning computer box 101.
Fred

Chief Crazy Horse stone carving in South Dakota
This was from 10 years ago- Have seen pictures where the face has been completed.
Fred

If you do a google search it shows a picture and the face is almost complete. jeff