Scattered Thoughts . . .

A fter building and installing new front and rear bumpers on my large scale trolley, I felt that these new bumpers were a bit bare for being so large so I went on a search for detail parts that would make sense in this situation and fit on these bumpers. The first thing I knew I should add is an air tank on the rear bumper.  This would be an air tank (or auxiliary air tank) for the brakes so it would make sense that it would be located on the rear bumper.  Many small switching diesels (Plymouths) had rear mounted air tanks so that was the logical place to put one on my trolley.   Unfortunately, it turns out that finding a tank in the size I needed was a problem.   I wasn't finding anything in F scale which is what I needed.  Since I needed only a small tank, I tried finding a tank in smaller scales.  Unfortunately, I didn't find any G scale tanks that would look right.  I tried O scale but most of those would be ridiculously small.  I ev...

I captured a few more photos of the trolley this morning and thought I would add them to the blog since they are better than last night's photos. Actually, I wasn't too happy with some of my first photos after working on these steps and the front and rear bumpers.  The light wasn't that great yesterday which made for some mediocre photos.  This morning, the light was a little better in the living room so I captured a few more photos.  This photo, below, is a better shot showing the new bottom step I added.   The next two photos are just better views of the trolley from front and back.  The light on the trolley only lights for the direction it is traveling but, in these photos, I know it appears as though both the front and back headlights are lit all the time.  The front headlight is only lit when in "forward".  The rear headlight is only lit when in "reverse". This last photo is a good photo showing the rear bumper.  I know that these new b...

T his morning, I made quick work of rounding down some sharp edges on the newly installed wood bumpers for my large scale trolley.  Then I put a quick coat of charcoal-ish colored stain.  It is looking much better now! I thought I had blown off all the dust I created by filing and sanding down edges but, clearly, I missed a bunch of dust! I added the bottom step and the triangular-shaped support holding up one end of the bottom step.  I did this on all four of the entries to the trolley.   Maybe tomorrow morning I'll attempt to make four grab bars for next to each of the sets of steps.   I'm waiting on some detail parts for this little detailing project to arrive.  I ordered an air tank for the rear bumper but it might be too large.  If so, I'll need to find a smaller one.  I'm also waiting on a horn and coupler gearboxes.  The coupler gearboxes will fit in well on these new bumpers.  I'm still not sure where to place the horn ...