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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]//-->ONov/Dec 2007uIssue #35ScaleTrainsCelebratingthe art of1:48 modelingDisplay until December 31, 2007US $6.95• Can $8.95www.goldengatedepot.com/FAX: (408) 904-5849NEW!PULLMAN 8-1-2 SLEEPERS IN ABSGolden Gate Depot is producing 8-1-2 Sleepers in ABS Plastic, in a limited road names. 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HirailerBoBBerGiBBsroGerC. ParkerMikeCouGillGeneCleMenTsCareyHinCHnevillerossiTerSubscription rates: 6 issuesuS - Standard Mail DeliveryuS - First Class Delivery (1 year only)Canada/MexicooverseasThe Cabin Creek LineDon Eastman models a coal haulin’ branch of the C&O.Building Clugston’s Store — Part 1A great country store, by Martin Brechbiel, to fit any layout.Building a Small O Scale Layout — Part 18: ConclusionMike Culham wraps up his layout construction series.Two-Railing an MTH PRR R50b Express ReeferAn easy conversion by Harry Neff makes a nice scale model.Secrets to LaBelle Car AssemblyLaBelle kits are beautiful but complicated. Randy Brown offers some tipsto ease construction.Peoria & Pekin Union Railway NW2John S. Huber polishes a General Models NW2 into a jewel.2007 O Scale National Coverage2008 O Scale National PreviewDepartments91623293439496368686970Easements – Brian ScaceThe Art of Finescale – Mike CougillTraction Action – Roger ParkerOn A Rail – Editorial by Brian ScaceConfessions of a HiRailer – Hobo D. HirailerThe Modern Image – Gene ClementsProduct News & ReviewsNarrow Minded – Bobber GibbsBuy-Sell-Trade AdsEvents ListingAdvertiser IndexObservations – Joe GiannovarioVisa, MC, AMEX & Discover accepted. Call 610-363-7117 duringEastern time business hours. Dealers contact KalmbachPublishing, 800-558-1544 ext 818 or email tss@kalmbach.comAdvertisers call for info.www.oscalemag.com • ©2007 All rights reservedPrinted in the u.S.A.o Scale trains Magazine, iSSn 1536-9528,is published bi-monthly in January, March, May, July, September and NovemberbyOSTMagazine, PO Box 289, Exton PA 19341-0289. Sub-scription rates: US Periodical Mail, $35 per year, US First ClassMail, $45 per year; Canada or Mexico, $55 per year; Overseas,$80 per year. Application for Periodical Rate is pending at WestChester, Pa., and other entry points.PoStMAStErsend addresschanges to O Scale Trains Magazine, PO Box 289, Exton PA19341-0289.Contributors:O Scale Trains welcomes your feature articles,photos, and drawings. Such material should be sent to the aboveaddress for possible publication. If we accept, you will be notifiedimmediately. For more information concerning article preparationguidelines, please send an SASE to the above address andrequest our “Guide For Authors” or visit our website at: www.oscalemag.com.Cover: A C&O Alco RSD suns itself next to the ConsolidationCoal Co. tipple on Don Eastman’s Cabin Creek Line, thisissue’s feature railroad.Centerspread: C&O hoppers are loaded at the ImperialCarbon Co. tipple. Once loaded, they will be forwarded downthe Cabin Creek to their final destination.Nov/Dec ’07- O Scale Trains • 3The Cabin Creek LineArticle and Photos by Don EastmanCabin Creek Line was a coal haulin’ branchline of theChesapeake and Ohio Railway. This branchline wandered 18miles up the ”holler” through some of West Virginia’s richestKanawha coalfields. During the ’30s and ’40s, there were 51coal tipples along the route with no roads in sight. All suppliesto the coal tipples and company stores were moved in, andcoal was moved out, on a single rail line.Motive power, because of the stiff grade, consisted of 2-6-6-2 Mallets. Tandem 2-8-0’s, 0-8-0’s, and 0-10-0’s did theshifting of the hundreds of coal cars.During the late 1980s, layout and benchwork for my OScale Cabin Creek branchline model got underway. A grid-work of 3/4” birch plywood, cut in 5” strips, was drilled so thewiring would not hang below the gridwork. The backdrop is1/8” Masonite, attached to the wall for the ‘sky’. Cardboardmountain shapes were erected on the benchwork, free-stand-ing from the sky. Contours of cardboard and masking tape,covered with Sheetrock 90 plaster and paper towels, form themountain scenery.All rock outcroppings were hand-carved and painted witha mixture of latex white and oil-based black paint, mixedtogether in the same can. This resulted in excellent rock paint-ing. The forest effect of West Virginia was achieved with bagsand bags of lichen. The roadbed was band-sawed, from one-inch barn pine, to the curvature of the track. The ties were cutfrom basswood and stained with Jacobean stain. Code 125plastic tie-plates were pre-painted and handlaid, precedingthe weathered nickel-silver rail, hand-spiked at every third orfourth tie. There is a total of 250 feet of track.Turnouts were kit-formed and are from Old Pullman. Themaximum grade is 5% for the Shay to climb to the sawmill;otherwise the total trackplan is at zero, or 54” from the floor.The railroad is controlled using a MRC Tech 3 Power Com-mand 9500 and an Innovator 2000 hand-control.On my O Scale layout, all the actual structures are fromthe West Virginia area, and were drawn to scale and scratch-built to an exacting detail. More than 100 structures were allbuilt from basswood that was cut in my wood shop, althoughNortheastern and Mt. Albert Scale Lumber Company suppliedthe wood siding. Most of the windows are commercial, butsome prize models were built from scratch.All coal hoppers and C&O cabooses were scratchbuilt ofcardstock, wood siding, styrene and brass angles. Trucks werefrom Jim Watson (Old Pullman).Let’s take a ride in a Weaver 2-8-0, #701, up the branch-line. This locomotive is pulling the daily mail car and a con-verted C&O coach from the 1880’s. This car has been rebuilt14 • O Scale Trains - Nov/Dec ’07to include an enclosed vestibule with a headlight for the con-ductor to ride while backing down the branchline. Since thereare no roads up the branch, many family members walk therails and the train is the only way for the extra miners to get towork and home again.Photo 1:#701 is leaving the station at Cabin Creek Junc-tion, crossing the Chesapeake and Ohio mainline, andproceeding up the branch to the coal mines. C&O Brill gas-electric #9055 is picking up passengers on their way west toCharleston, WV. Number 9055 is scratchbuilt, with a North-west Shortline drive. The workers are replacing a section ofrail and a couple of men are taking off the cribbing on thearched bridge repair job.Photo 2:On our way up the branchline, we pass a GP-7pulling empty hoppers soon to be loaded under the coal tip-ple. The new construction on the tipple indicates a new largercoal seam has been discovered and increased storage is nowneeded. The foreground retainer wall keeps the track fromslipping into Cabin Creek.Photo 4:C&O #701 is passing the main structure of theImperial Carbon Company’s tipple. Each coal company has itsown power supply, welding shop, water supply and company store.The long conveyor on the left brings coal to the tipple from amine on the other side of Cabin Creek.42Photo 5:Behind our train is the Consolidation Coal Com-pany tipple. It is a more modern building, with a vertical shaftto the underground coal seams. This tipple replaced the oldwood one on the right. Some new and experimental alumi-num hoppers are being loaded. A sample company house canbe seen in the foreground. A small Wheel Works metal 1934Ford pickup is available for some yardwork around the tipplearea. These trucks were brought into the ‘holler’ by rail, asthere was no outside road.5Photo 3:There is plenty of activity at the Imperial CarbonCompany Store as our mail/coach train approaches. In thebackground are the coke ovens. Large chunks of coal arehand-picked from the screening at the tipple. The electric coaltruck dumps them into the ovens.3Photo 6:Our train stops briefly behind the ConsolidationCoal Company store. We see plenty of activity here on thestore’s front porch. Some local carpenters are building a newcompany house. These houses only had one plan, and couldbe built on posts on any hillside. The water tank in the back-ground stores water for area use. Water must be brought in byrail as the quality is poor in coal areas.Photo 7:The last of the miners exit at the Carbon FuelCompany General Store and United Miners’ Union Hall. Atthe left is an unusual three-floor tower. The old Hocking Val-ley caboose is now a resting spot for the train crew, while theNov/Dec ’07- O Scale Trains • 5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]