Quill

It's taken a few lunch hours to get here, but...

with Tim's donation of boxcab parts the work is already half finished.The textures on the sideframes kinda cover the details, but

they are there.Only a few dozen lunch hours to go Moving America into the 19th Century!

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Oh, WOW!!! Frank, it's come so far since a couple days ago! WoW!!!!
Do you ever get to eat on your lunch hours?Tim

Street and Interurban Electric Railway Models
Sumpter Valley B&B Gang
Willamette Valley Route
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Cool. I guess those plans helped, eh?Now If my scanner was working, I'd bribe you with shots of MILW 10301, the quill that was experimentally split in two and drawbarred together. Looking real nice. Bradley Linda
Waco, Texas

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What's the bribe, Bradley? Tim

Street and Interurban Electric Railway Models
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Oh, I don't know. Bradley Linda
Waco, Texas

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So, what was the idea? I mean Milwaukee splitting the Quill like that? Were they planning on using them separately on locals, like they did on some EF-1's?Tim

Street and Interurban Electric Railway Models
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No, they were having problems with the frames breaking. Evidently Westinghouse didn't beef the frames up for Milwaukee's 10 degree curves. So they split 10301 in two, and drawbarred the two halfs together. It was shortlived and unsuccessful. It was later rejoined into one unit again, and they found another way to beef the frames up. If you have Noel Holley's book, there's a picture of it in there.An interesting note, Pres. Harding once ran 10305 Bradley Linda
Waco, Texas

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Wow! Looks awesome!! I wonder, when will that dubble unit beast with coupling rods be made, or is that the one? That beast is awesome!Good luck to yeh! /JonatanSteam rules!

Never trust computers. If you do, they will betray you.I'm the steam freak, ph34r me!!

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Westinghouse built some very similar locomotives for the New Haven, except those had cast frames. Apart from possible axle-loading problems, I can't see why they built the Milwaukee units were built with bar frames. Clearly, that was their undoing. Have any of you run across any reason whay they were built that way? -Phil

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I thought this was a casting...

...it sure looks like one.Moving America into the 19th Century!

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o boy o boy o bo! more MLW Electrics for me to tinker with this is sooo cool

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Whatever happened to that big ass steamer that you were workin on?
Nice model btw.

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Jim

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I gonna assume you're askin' me, and that you're referring to this Erie P-1...

It got blown away in a unrecoverable NTFS disk crash (which is why my drive is FAT again...I was able to ressurrect it from an older backup. This is as far as it has gotten.A more dramatic loss was this L-1...

which is only just now getting worked on again. The new version has the first 8 drivers done, but nothing else.I'm learning a lot of techniques in building articulated electrics that will help finish these models.There are other smaller camelbacks started, and waiting for me to learn enough to finish them...Reading and CNJ engines.There are others, some part of a slew I started in an effort to burn myself out in 6 months, and some I've started as n outgrowth of Lil' Joe.My wishlist is too long to post Moving America into the 19th Century!

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Sorry to hear about the loss of those locomotives. I hate when computers crash. Had to replace my whole motherboard about 3 months ago. luckily i keep everything well backed up. keep up the great work

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Jim

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