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• Simple Wooden Rolling Stock
  ...ated well. The HALS track is rather large, and his wooden and PVC rolling stock made it around the track several times. What mattered most is that he had
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• Browning Railroad
  The rolling stock consists of 14 gondolas, five flat cars, two box cars from diesel engine. To go along with the rolling stock there are approximately
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• Victor Shattock
  == Rolling Stock == Rolling stock included 22 scratch-built freight cars and a Harriman Coach. The wood bodie
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• History of IBLS
  ...te, both Nurnburg-based toy-manufacturers provided locomotives and rolling stock for these standardized gauges. However, it was Bassett-Lowke, together with ...The track could accommodate both 2 ½ and 3 ½ gauge locomotives and rolling stock.
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• IBLS Coupler and Safety Chain Standards
  ...to destroy the hook (straighten it out) instead of destroying your rolling stock or let your cars get away and be stopped by the next train that follows. ...t for derailments, but to keep rolling stock and a cargo of pasengers from rolling away in the event of a coupler failure or disconect. This is because very f
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• Steam up on the Backyard Railroad
  ...ing with live steam is the fact that you can't buy such engines or rolling stock. Each unit has to be made by hand, down to the last coupling pin, and the The rolling stock of the "Colorado Central," in addition to an eight wheeler and tender, incl
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• Doug Alkire
  ...track rental shed in the southwestern corner of the facility, where riding stock could be stored with locked doors. ...s brought new equipment because storage was available, and hauling rolling stock from home to LALS was no longer needed. This, in turn, gave a larger roste
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• 3-1/2 Inch Gauge Flat Car
  ...full length of the car. The small trucks used in <i>"O"</i> gauge rolling stock for electric railroads embody an excellent way of making the trucks flexibl ...l how far the counterbore has gone by watching the graduations on the tail-stock spindle. After all the recesses are bored for the ball bearings, face off
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• Comanche & Indian Gap Railroad
  ...ge, building and maintaining signals, and servicing and rebuilding rolling stock. We have folks that come from all over, and some of the gypsies have recent ...d, the Comanche and Indian Gap. It would be spread over about 150 acres of rolling land, some heavily forested and other parts out in the open.
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• Victor Shattock Basement Railroad
  * Rolling Stock: All railroad locomotives, rolling stock and accessories totally “scratchbuilt” from raw materials in Victor Sha
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• IBLS Journal 1931
  ...urately to scale which aided considerably. A sufficient amount of rolling stock had been built, five box cars, two flats, one tank car, one gondola and a c At present time improvements and additions are being made to the rolling stock. And the cars have been equipped with springs and they ride like Pullmans.
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• Wild Cat Railroad
  ...ree passenger cars full of happy kids. And--except when "Casey's" rolling stock is turned over to some charitable organization for money-raising purposes-- ...' Wildcat Railroad at Los Gatos, California. He has some old time rolling stock and locomotives that were used in the 1915 World's Fair. This line is in 1
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• Gail Gish
  ...track! Amazingly, Gail hand-crafted narrow gauge steam engines and rolling stock from scratch! ...-1/2" scale live steam creations. His 1-1/2" scale N.G. Rio grande rolling stock was awesome. A gracious host, Gail held live steam meets every fall for man
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• Wimberley Blanco & Southern Railroad
  ...and 15/16 inch foot. This helps center rolling stock assuming the rolling stock has tapered wheels. The only change we had to incorporate into the 7-1/2 i
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• Atkinson Railroad
  ...and then drawing a picture of it. My grandfather’s locomotives and rolling stock could be looked upon as early day “tin plate” equipment when compared t All of the rolling stock wheels are fabricated from canvas base [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheno
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• Robert Day
  ...ill be another car yet to be completed that will be designed to resemble a stock car. A.R. Sutch is credited with building the caboose and gongolas, using
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• William L. Daney
  ...ocomotives and re-built a third, in 5/12 NG Scale, as well as some rolling stock, which evolved into the beautiful 15-inch gauge Paradise & Pacific RR at Mc ...ch scale was born as an answer to the problems of track curvature, rolling stock stability and passenger-carrying efficiency, factors of great importance to
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• Seymour F. Johnson
  ...g stock and locomotives as well as much larger 3" scale, 15" gauge rolling stock and locomotives.
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• Lee Wright
  ...lectric locos until he got the performance he was looking for. His rolling stock...works of art down to the finest detail. If something wasn't commercially : But man did he ever create some incredible rolling stock and locomotives! To him looks was everything. He surprised me one day by co
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• Tipsico Lakeshore Railroad
  ...idge and 2 buildings. The following is a list of motive power and rolling stock. * Rolling Stock
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• Louisiana, Texas & Pacific Railroad
  ...m to control operation on the long single track main. Current LT&P rolling stock, all scratch-built on site, pays tribute to favorite New Orleans area mainl
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• Simple Wooden Rolling Stock
  ...ated well. The HALS track is rather large, and his wooden and PVC rolling stock made it around the track several times. What mattered most is that he had
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• Alva Trook
  ...live steamers, the locomotive is it. Very few bother about adding rolling stock except for a flat car on which the engineer rides. Designed for power rath ...in constructing just one. Too, maintenance and repair of existing rolling stock is no little matter. And where the model builder has a track, as Trook doe
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• The Miniature Southern Pacific Railroad
  ...Pacific", comprises box cars, gondolas, hopper dump car, tanks, flats and stock cars, one caboose and one passenger coach, 23 in all, and when coupled back ...for track cost about $50 and each locomotive, calling for the purchase of stock materials such as copper, brass, steel rod, rivets and small bolts and nuts
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• A 3/4 Scale Flat Car With Brakes
  This bit of rolling stock is not an original idea of mine. It was copied from a [[3-1/2 Inch Gauge F ...t is just as easy now. The easiest way is to saw them from a piece of bar stock and later face them to size. They do not have to be made this thick; the r
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• Bill Michaels
  ...fference is that the live steam model railroader rarely builds any rolling stock other than a flat car to ride on, nor does he worry about his "scenery." I ...gauge. Each engine costs him about $75 for steel and brass bar and sheet stock, copper tubing, etc. A Bassett-Lowke pressure gauge is the only commercial
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• Don Isom
  ...d [[Don Isom|Isom Craft]]. He constructed live steam locomotives, rolling stock, and buildings. ...:DonIsom PickleCar MolollaOR1.jpg|Don Isom Pickle Car (ISOMCRAFT), new old stock, never used, offered on DiscoverLiveSteam.com, October 2016. Located at [[P
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• Mid-South Live Steamers
  ...g from scratch. The wide selection of ready-to-run locomotives and rolling stock that we enjoy today simply was not available. Leroy Nessen completed a beautiful scratchbuilt scale stock car with hand planed shiplapped wood floor and hand-made fasteners and arch
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• Colorado Central
  Only those of us who have seen the R.R. station, water tank, rolling stock and R.R. accessories can appreciate the picture. When they are assembled t
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• Koster's Miniature Railroad Supplies, Inc
  ...built and was followed with various other types of locomotives and rolling stock. Though an exact record was not kept, Bill’s estimate is that he produce
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• Golden Gate Live Steamers
  ...s back garden, we helped him by putting down the rail. We used square key stock. We drilled holes and put finishing nails down through it. I wanted to ta ...ionally good start Saturday morning, September 5th, 1953, and keeping them rolling until the following Monday evening. Engines operated were all types from a
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• Sandy Ridge & Clear Lake Railway
  ...otives. It is not that there are almost as many locos as pieces of rolling stock. It is so much more.
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• Miniature Railways
  ...er route on Romney Marsh in Kent. Track construction, locomotives, rolling stock and operating systems are described, with examples from the past and the pr
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• Who Ever heard of a Diesel Engine?
  Rolling stock on the [[Goleta Valley Railroad]] includes half-a-dozen steel gondolas, a w
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• Tom Thumb Railroads
  ...e [[Whysall Light Railway]] at Bloomfield Hills, whose engines and rolling stock were built as a hobby undert the critical eye of Jesse Gall, superintendent
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• The Rattle and Ruin Railroad
  ...ign and build from scratch in my own shop a live steam locomotive, rolling stock and trackage of such size and extent as to required a machine shop, a patte
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• Junior S. P.
  ...ing equipment, including three locomotives, flat, box, tank, refrigerator, stock and gondola cars, as well as cabooses and maintenance cars.
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• New York Live Steamer Society, Inc
  File:1951 Oct MechanixIllus007.jpg|Most of the rolling stock is hooked up to a flat car in order to give the kids of the neighborhood a
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• Huron Valley Live Steamers
  : The embankments are solid enough for very light locos and rolling stock but not for any steamers over about 200 Lbs. The next thing needing work i
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• Midwest Scale Rail, LLC
  ...ll provide for longer rail life, less resistance, and less wear on rolling stock wheels.
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• Railroad Supply Corporation
  ...en I can. I'm still working on our new catalog which will have our rolling stock and diesel detail parts. I am in the process of making all new pattern boar
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• The Iron Pony
  [[The Iron Pony]] cataloged a full line of locomotives, rolling stock, and track. For locomotives we started with an EMD GP9 and eventually produ
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• The Marblehead Railroad
  The motive power and rolling stock consists of one locomotive and one passenger carrying trolley. The locomot
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• IBLS Library
  * "Rolling Stock Plan Book of HO and O Gauge Car Plans", <i>Railroad Model Craftsman</i>, Se
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• 1/2 inch scale
  ...United States, along with less expensive electric train models and rolling stock, people of more modest means could get into model railroading. Because of s
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• Annetta Valley & Western Railroad
  ...vid fan of the Erie Railroad, collecting many Erie locomotives and rolling stock. He had a positive attitude and was one of the most friendly people I ever
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• Locomotive Operators of Central Oklahoma
  ...plate bridge, and a 40 inch long tunnel which is used to store the rolling stock. A Live Steam Atlantic and a FP-7 battery/diesel provide the motive power,
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• Grasshopper Shortline Railroad
  .../www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=100072 "Sale of rolling stock at the Grasshopper Shortline Railroad", <i>Chaski.org</i>]
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• Dwight Durkee
  ...1873 locomotive. Some 1,500 hours later, a 100-pound head of steam had it rolling. He fabricated most parts with a hacksaw and acetylene torch, jobbed out a ...brasses and working wedges, while the frame and pilt were made up from bar stock and brazed together. H states that he has some 740 hours of work in the en
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• Oliver Burnaby Bolton
  ...ng sets of NSWGR and Victorian steam locomotives by Ernest Winter. Rolling Stock, Diesel locomotives and stationary engines designs by Ernest Winter have al
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• Raccoon Gulch Lines
  Rolling stock is modeled after old narrow gauge equipment and is one-fifth full size.
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