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Steve's Workbench This is going to be a long complicated build. I will do my best to keep the site up-dated with my progress. In the Fall of 2009 a friend of mine came out to my place in Pennsylvania unexpectedly. Since we are both rail fans and we were not far from Strasburg we imposed on our wives and convinced them to take a ride with us. When we got to Strasburg the Lancaster, Oxford, & Southern Motorcar was running and we decided to take a ride on it. As soon as I saw it I knew that I wanted to model it. I started doing research and taking pictures, a lot of pictures. The next step was to start obtaining the materials necessary to do the build. I chose to model the motorcar in G gauge 1:24 scale. Since it was originally built as narrow gauge it was going to work out. The next decision was what materials to build with, I decided that I wanted to model it in brass and wood. The following photo essay will show the construction details.
Brass, wood and assorted hardware ready to start construction.
"Little, Old, and Slow" by Benjamin F. G. Kline, Jr. is a publication about the rise and fall of the "Lancaster, Oxford, and Southern" Railroad. There is a lot of information in the book on the Motorcar including; drawings, dimensions, and construction details.
The motorcar siding is attached with rivets, a lot of rivets.
One of the challanges has been finding materials in the correct size. I searched for the 3/8" brass channel for months. Unable to locate it I decided to build my own by soldering two pieces of 3/16 angle.
It took some experimenting but I worked it out. I soldered it with 4% silver solder. This gave me two benifits; it is stronger than regular lead tin solder and it has a higher melting temperature. The higher melting temperature will make it possible to solder the completed pieces to other parts of the substrate using lower temp solder preventing the channel from coming apart.
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