What's New on the PRR Panhandle 2.0?

[G3750]

How are you tearing your retina? Maybe you need turn down the sub-woofer in the car,,,

I'm guessing it is due to too much XBox.

Yup! Does it every time......

Lesson learned. I've got way too much important stuff to do. I played around with wiring smokestacks.

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George

[healey36]

Wow, those are very cool...and tall. Do you have a fan-driven smoke-unit in there? Seems a couple of those are really tall to expect the smoke to naturally rise and escape...

[G3750]

Wow, those are very cool...and tall. Do you have a fan-driven smoke-unit in there? Seems a couple of those are really tall to expect the smoke to naturally rise and escape...

Thank you. The normal Lionel Industrial Smokestack 6-14142 comes in 3 sections. None of those picture above are normal. I cannibalized 2 smokestacks to make 2 extra (4 section) stacks. These will go into my Open Hearth. The "shorty" will be used somewhere else on the layout. The remaining "shorty" requires the soldering of a wire to a small board. It was sold to as MIB but wasn't. A friend bought it for me on eBay and shipped it to me. By the time I got it and opened it, any chance for recourse had passed. Anyway, I used the middle section of the stack to extend one of the two.

I don't know if Lionel used a fan, but I tend to doubt it. Smoke volume is not prototypical. If it were, we'd all be dead of lung cancer caused by the inhalation of particulates. The perfect industrial smokestack would marry this exterior with an MTH smoke unit.

George

[healey36]

I'll give MTH credit...their smoke units are prodigious when it comes to production and exhaust.

I have a nice, eleven-inch hexagonal stack cast from resin. I'd love to drill it out and install a smoke unit, but resin doesn't handle stress well. I do have a fourteen inch bit...maybe I'll try it some day.

[G3750]

I'll give MTH credit...their smoke units are prodigious when it comes to production and exhaust.

Agreed! They do that very well!

I have a nice, eleven-inch hexagonal stack cast from resin. I'd love to drill it out and install a smoke unit, but resin doesn't handle stress well. I do have a fourteen inch bit...maybe I'll try it some day.

No guts, no glory!

Actually, I'm looking for a circular brick smokestack for the Federal Paperboard factory. I think Westport Models made it. Anyone know anything about it or where I might find one?

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Actually, I'm looking for a circular brick smokestack for the Federal Paperboard factory. I think Westport Models made it. Anyone know anything about it or where I might find one?

I've got a bag of O scale bricks you might use to build your own!

[G3750]

Actually, I'm looking for a circular brick smokestack for the Federal Paperboard factory. I think Westport Models made it. Anyone know anything about it or where I might find one?

I've got a bag of O scale bricks you might use to build your own!

Rufus, I'm trying to save my sanity, not lose it! (Might be too late, anyway. )

Just out of curiosity, how many bricks do you have?

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Actually, I'm looking for a circular brick smokestack for the Federal Paperboard factory. I think Westport Models made it. Anyone know anything about it or where I might find one?

I've got a bag of O scale bricks you might use to build your own!

Rufus, I'm trying to save my sanity, not lose it! (Might be too late, anyway. )

Just out of curiosity, how many bricks do you have?

Ummmm.............no idea. A zip lock bag of them? I'll check.

I have actually used them for building a chimney brick by brick.............once.

[Tom Dempsey]

Is there a problem with using paper or thin plastic brick sheets wrapped around a form to make the chimney?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is there a problem with using paper or thin plastic brick sheets wrapped around a form to make the chimney?

None at all! Little tricky on a slight cone shape, but most won't see or notice it.

[Tom Dempsey]

Is there a problem with using paper or thin plastic brick sheets wrapped around a form to make the chimney?

None at all! Little tricky on a slight cone shape, but most won't see or notice it.

My point, exactly.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Is there a problem with using paper or thin plastic brick sheets wrapped around a form to make the chimney?

None at all! Little tricky on a slight cone shape, but most won't see or notice it.

My point, exactly.

Most are not as OCD as I when it comes to building structure either - that one that I posted above is entirely stick by stick with 2x4 full framing in the walls; full interiors on the 1st & 2nd floors. I have been known to get a little out of control............

[Tom Dempsey]

Indubitably, that's what makes the journey worth the trip.

[healey36]

Couldn’t agree more re: Capitals...surprised they made it this far. Haven’t followed them for years. Other than Ovechkin, couldn’t name another guy on the team. Still, Penguins have been a nemesis for eons...feels good to see it rip back the other way once in a bit.

Well, I almost feel bad now, having doubted this bunch. They played with a lot of heart, more than I've seen any Washington Capitals team play with. Hats off to them...to have beaten Pittsburgh and Tampa enroute to the final says a lot. Many demons were slain last night...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Couldn’t agree more re: Capitals...surprised they made it this far. Haven’t followed them for years. Other than Ovechkin, couldn’t name another guy on the team. Still, Penguins have been a nemesis for eons...feels good to see it rip back the other way once in a bit.

Well, I almost feel bad now, having doubted this bunch. They played with a lot of heart, more than I've seen any Washington Capitals team play with. Hats off to them...to have beaten Pittsburgh and Tampa enroute to the final says a lot. Many demons were slain last night...

And there is much celebrating to be done!