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Jun 20, 2011, 12:12 AM
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Side paddlewheeler
Need help.
I seen somewhere a picture of a side paddlewheeler that carried trains. Anyone know of one or where I can get plans? Thanks |
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Jun 20, 2011, 05:45 AM
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Motor City
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There are several... for example, the Pacific, which only carried cars, to the enormous Solano, which could carry two entire trains with locos. Anything specific you're after?
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Jun 20, 2011, 07:28 AM
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Motor City
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Jun 20, 2011, 04:37 PM
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Motor City
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I also have a little info on the Great Western, which carried cars between Windsor and Detroit for the Grand Trunk, post Civil War...
Edit: Adding what little more I have on GW. . |
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Last edited by patmat2350; Jun 21, 2011 at 05:54 AM.
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Jun 20, 2011, 10:33 PM
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I'm leaning toward something that would be about 4 ft long when built at a scale of 1/50th. I have a plastic model train I plan to put on it to help the effect.
I just found this(pic). Maybe I'll design my own. |
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Last edited by Ironman929; Jun 20, 2011 at 11:27 PM.
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Jun 21, 2011, 01:51 AM
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USA, CA, San Francisco
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If you want to do a side paddle-wheeler train ferry,why not to one of the greatest and at 424 feet long and 116 feet wide she was for a long time the largest of them all; the Central Pacific Railway Company's Railroad Ferry Steamer "Solano," that carried trains across the Straits of Carquinez between Port Costa and Benicia on the northern San Francisco Bay leading up to the Sacramento Delta or her sister ship the Southern Pacific's Contra Costa that plied the same waters. At 433 feet long by 116 feet over the guards, the Contra Costa supplanted the Solano as the rail largest ferry ever built. Both remained in service until the 1930s
. Goggle from here... Wiki Here A PDF on Contra Costa from November 1914. A PDF on Contra Costa from September 1915. From the CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD Photographic History Museum web site... A Central Pacific/Southern Pacific Solano ferry plan package (zip file) A model of the Solano.      
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Last edited by craig_c; Jun 21, 2011 at 02:48 AM.
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Jun 21, 2011, 05:50 AM
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Motor City
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Solano? Hey, there's an echo in the room!
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Jun 21, 2011, 08:45 AM
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I've been into model RRing for a long time and Im trying to figure out what kind of train you have in 1/50th??Thats not one of the "standard" model RRing scales.
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Jun 21, 2011, 09:41 AM
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Probably 1/48 scale. I am working with two others on a ON30 narrow gauge RR. Jerryj98501
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Jun 21, 2011, 01:35 PM
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Jun 21, 2011, 01:42 PM
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Motor City
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No need for sorry, we loves pics!
More in my article on the Solano model in the Jan 2008 SiS: 
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Jun 21, 2011, 08:42 PM
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Jun 22, 2011, 01:30 AM
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USA, CA, San Francisco
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A 1/50th Contra Costa would be 8 feet, 8 inches by 2 foot, 4 inches... way Cool!
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Jun 22, 2011, 11:31 AM
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Pilot needed ?
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Jun 26, 2011, 06:43 PM
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Hi,
I found some of the plans above in The Engineer or Engineering technical magazines which were available for photocopying in the State Reference Library old books collection, which I photocopied some 30 years ago now. It's nice to see I can at last link some pix to the plans of the Solarno and scratch an itch, I've had for years. BigBenn |
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