Re: What is RGS Bridge 1A? - Answer here.

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I have one of Marty's boilers (302 lbs) sitting right where we offloaded it over a year ago.

The tender tank is held together with kleckos awaiting riveting. My table saw was out of commission until reciently so I didn't even get the deck cut yet. The trucks and frame are done. Also still need to cut the end beams, now that I have a large hunk of oak. I got it from the crane operator who craned the water wood stove off my trailer to the concrete pad.

The frame for the locomotive is sitting under workbench under the tender with the spring rigging, drivers and pony truck under it. I took the rods back off and put them back in the parts cabinet. I need to get the money set aside to buy the cylinder castings from Tom A.

Oh yeah, the cab is upstairs in the barn set in a safe place so the wood would not get busted up. Yeah, it's real wood.

Here's a link to my webshot's directory with some photos -> RGS webshots directory

My plans are to get the enginehouse done over the winter which includes a connection to the water wood stove to keep it from freezing. After I have a place to store the equipment out of the weather, I'll get the tender done and painted and moved to the enginehouse to free up space to assemble the locomotive. And I need to design a crane of some sort as well to get her on and off the workbench. But with the new bridge I will pass right in front of the barn doors so all I need to do is pick the locomotive up off the workbench, roll the bench out of the way, set her down on snap track, roll her out of the barn to the tracks and lower her on the rails. It's a double track here so I have room. I figure the locomotive when done will be around 750 pounds heavy. The tender, 250.

In front of the enginehouse I'm building a large inspection / ashpit so I will be able to do a lot of my repairs without moving her back into the barn.

So there is a method behind my madness. Currently I started the fall project of redoing the chicken coop which involves a new henhouse that is made of plastic parts so it can be washed - got to watch out about bird flu. The new coop will be built behind the henhouse and will be nice and large and enclose the birds. I am tired of having chicken-lanches. It's like an avalanche of leaves, sticks and whatever is loose that the chickens scratch up (sometime my nice new plants I plant too!!!) and they fill in the ditches and then it just overflows the tracks. So I have to get out a leaf blower each time before I want to run. So by keeping those birds away from my track, it'll save me time. And save our gardens! And if I get some time and want to, I'll have to build some stock cars to haul birds around. My wife would kill me! Maybe. She might think it is funny too.

Here's what those dumb birds do to my track after a couple days. Click on the icon.