[PRCo] Re: models

[Ken and Tracie]

Happy New Year, Bob.

Relax,  my reply was tongue-in-cheek. I wasn't thinking about you when I 
posted that. I know you'll get around to casting those crossarms. 
Incidentally, my real ones have "PRCO" cast into them.

Along the same line of thinking, I am wondering how we can model trackage in 
need of repair and have our models still run without derailing?

But you are correct, model feeder would be in the way of handling the cars 
and the scenery, especially with a module layout which is frequently moved.

There is no miracle material to model feeder cables. Yarn can be made to 
represent peeling insulation, but it snags and holds dust. Regular 
automotive wiring with peeling insulation glued on? Perhaps weathered with 
some gray paint. I wonder if that would work?

But wouldn't all that cable cluster up the layout, as we look down upon the 
action , rather than seeing it at eye-level as in the case of the prototype? 
Feeder cable out along the lines should be relatively easy, as there were 
usually just one to four thinner cables along the route. South Hills 
Junction's maze of feeders was like a box of snakes during the streetcar 
era.

BTW, has anybody here ever tried to string model trolley wire with a cat in 
the house?

K.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "BobDietrich" <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 6:47 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: models


> Ken:
>
> You sent me pictures and plans for the cross arms s couple of years ago 
> and
> I still intend to cast some.  My real issue is with the feeder cables.  I
> don't know how to model heavy, sagging, cables with insulation falling 
> off.
> It must be capable of taking the abuse of a hand reaching down to re-rail 
> a
> wayward car or replace some scenery.  The only modeling product I know of
> that will take that is the spandex thread but what I've seen is too thin 
> and
> won't sag properly.  Maybe I need a trip to a fabric store to find a 
> heavier
> thread, then pull it taunt and forget the sagging.
>
> Maybe you got me off dead center on this one.  I'll at least start on the
> cross-arms.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org] On Behalf Of Ken 
> and
> Tracie
> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:27 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: models
>
> I can be "picking nits", too. Nobody seems to want to acknowledge feeder
> cables, or even just mount the crossarms to their layout's line poles.
>
> I have some PRCO feeder cable brackets which I can photograph and provide
> dimensions to the more daring modelers.
>
> K.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 12:59 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: models
>
>
>> What Fred Schneider finds particularly inspiring about this car is
>> that the builder put a motorman in the cab.   When it is run on the
>> model pike, one does not wonder who the ghost is that is running
>> it.   It looks realistic.
>> I know.   I'm picking nits.   But it seems so strange to me to have
>> trolleys or trains running on our railroads without engineman,
>> fireman, motorman but we'll put passengers in the coaches and people
>> on the streets.
>>
>> On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Phillip Clark Campbell wrote:
>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----
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>>>> From: BobDietrich <bob.dietrich1 at verizon.net>
>>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>>>> Sent: Monday, January 5, 2009 12:27:47 PM
>>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: models
>>>>
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