{"id":3219,"date":"2016-01-15T15:31:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T21:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:17:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:17:38","slug":"hold-on-whats-going-on-here-oh-my-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=3219","title":{"rendered":"Hold on\u2026 What\u2019s going on here? Oh my Goodness\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pennsy_A3\"<\/a>Something has snapped. I am actually thinking about dusting off the Penn A3 project<\/a>. Wow! Is it a dream or am I retired? Oh yeah, I am retired now.<\/p>\n

I have the Kozo Shay, Climax and Heisler live steam locomotive how-to project books on my shelf as well as the Pennsylvania A3 Switcher. Are they ALL possible now?<\/p>\n

Ha! They are possible but probably not all probable. But I never say never.<\/p>\n

I have decided to stop chasing the buck, even with my on-line e-store \u201cRamblin\u201d Dan\u2019s Store\u201d (RDS)<\/a>. I want to spend my time making things in my shop. RDS will hang together for a while but I decided not to try and increase or even maintain the e-business. It has always been a very low profit and I ran it more for the experience of operating a business.<\/p>\n

Any for profit \u201cBusiness\u201d I do will probably be with my silver work (Lost Wax Casting) as I really enjoy working with very hot liquid metal. Of course the skill can be used for making small brass locomotive castings.<\/p>\n

I started the \u00be\u201d scale project because Kozo provides excellent guidance in his books and the size of the parts are reasonable. The drawback is where to go to run the locomotive. I think there are club tracks in the Houston, TX area, but nothing in the Dallas area that I know about.<\/p>\n

That has made me consider Gauge1 which has many various scales involved with that track size. Generally, it is used with any scale between 1:13.7 (7\/8N2 or M scale) to 1:32 (Number 1 Scale)<\/p>\n

The 7\/8N2 grabbed my attention because it is only slightly bigger than \u00be scale (6\/8) but runs on a very common gauge track although this is 2-foot narrow gauge in prototype. Most engines modeled in this size are therefore \u201ccritter,\u201d very small industrial engines but with tons of detail. \u201cForney\u201d style engines are also built to 7\/8n2 scale.<\/p>\n

I will probably never run a \u00be scale engine, but it is the construction that is the hobby. The fact it can run can make it a collectable, worth more than the metal from which it was built. (scrap value)<\/p>\n

I feel I can stay with \u00be scale. I actually designed my machine tool acquisition so I could work in this size with little to no problem. Of course smaller is always an option with the same equipment. I will never say never to working in any particular size. It\u2019s nice to have a free choice.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Time to get back on track?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something has snapped. I am actually thinking about dusting off the Penn A3 project. Wow! Is it a dream or am I retired? Oh yeah, I am retired now. I have the Kozo Shay, Climax and Heisler live steam locomotive how-to project books on my shelf as well as the Pennsylvania A3 Switcher. Are they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[82,79,80,81,83],"class_list":["post-3219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-steam-2","tag-34-scale","tag-a3","tag-kozo","tag-live-steam","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3219\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}