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American Flyer 971 Lumber Unloading Car/772 Water Tower/NKP 765/Mischievious Bear and More
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- Follow along with Moe and Joe as they journey from car restoration to delivery of lumber. Moe and Joe ride American Flyer 971 Lumber Unloading Car into the train shop for a complete restoration. Meanwhile, New York Central 8552, recently upgraded with Flyerchief components, is building a train. NYC 8552 picks up the restored car and takes it to the sawmill for loading and then continues building the train. The Nickel Plate Road 765 couples up to the train and heads off. As NKP 765 passes the campground, we find that some bear mischief occurs. Finally, Moe and Joe deliver lumber for a customer. ENJOY! Did you spot the bear at the end of the video?
Music during the mischievious bear scenes from Free Stock Music by Alexander Nikarada.
Video recorded from iPhone 13 at 1080p and 60 FPS and edited in iMovie.
Speech bubbles created with Balloon Stickies Plus app.
Stop motions created with Stop Motion app at five FPS.
Over the past winter many pieces of rolling stock were acquired. The NKP 765 was recently acquired. All of the pieces in this train are included in those acquistions except for the yellow NKP reefer car. Some needed simple cleaning and lubrication while others needed significant restoration. The 971 Lumber Unloading Car was disassembled and cleaned. Rust was removed from the sheet metal parts and then they were painted with sandable automotive primer. A coat of gloss black paint was applied. The plastic flatcar section was given a light coat of CRC 2-26. Two very small tabs for fastening the parts together had broken so very small screws with nuts took their place. The car was reassembled. Meanwhile, my wife restored Moe and Joe with beautiful paint work. It took some work to "tune" the operation of the car as precision is needed for the solenoid to operate properly. First, the sliding platform needed to be adjusted so that only the two contact points touch the rest of the car. Then the rear of the platform was adjusted so the solenoid would push out the sliding platform just enough to unload lumber and the return springs could pull it back.
The 772 Water Tower waited many years for restoration as it looked as if someone had stepped on it. I finally purchased a new platform with railing, four new anchors for the base, and a metal ladder recommended by Doug Peck from Port Lines Hobby instead of the original plastic one. I cut and glued pieces of styrene to repair the broken and missing pieces of the superstructure. Other cracked pieces were glued together. CA glue and Plastruct Plastic Weld were used as needed. The new platform was glued to the superstructure. Testors contour putty was applied and sanded to fill the cracks. After all seemed good, a coat of sandable automotive primer was used. The assembled superstructure was painted with Testors Flat Aluminum paint. The water tank and anchors were painted with Krylon All in One Matte Fire Red. The dried parts were then glued together.
Overall, I think these two models turned out very well. I really enjoy running the NKP 765. I have run into the situation that when the NKP 765 goes through track switches (coming in on the curve) the frog is moved away from the straight rail eventually causing a derailment. I am not sure why this happens so any recommendations for a repair would be appreciated. Please place them in the comments section.
Upcoming projects include expanding the railroad empire. I have more accessories and no place on the layout to put them. I am looking into building a small hump yard, which I think would be fun and interesting to operate. A Gilbert two bay hopper car is being repaired. I plan to repaint it with a different road name. The Pennsy GP9 is being repainted with plans to change it to the Western Maryland paint scheme and create a matching caboose.
I’m glad to know I’m not the only place that has bear troubles! Excellent story telling. Thank you!
Thank you for the kind comments. The bear scenes were fun to do and they worked out nicely. The bear chasing the man around the picnic table was inspired by a story I was told of that happening to my grandfather. Good luck with your bear troubles and thank you for watching.
That was truly enjoyable!!!
Thank you for the kind comment. It was fun to do and I enjoy watching the results.
Another busy day on your railroad. Great video. Thank you for showing.
Thank you for the kind comments. I am honing my videography skills and looking for more story lines as I go.
I am looking forward to seeing more of that Great Northern locomotive you created.
Thank you for watching.
Excellent job on the restorations and production of the video, but then again this is what we have come to expect from the employee owned Flyer Junction. 👍👍👍👍👍
The action scenes were seamless and operated without a hitch.
I am surprised the bear made it to the billboard dodging vehicles and trains.
I too ran into the frog moving on a LH switch last night (when the die cast 293 was set to 60 MPH on the throttle). I look forward to that answer as well. I will look in T. Barker's book and his S Gaugin Rounhouse Articles.
Thank you very much for the kind comments.
We will get to the bottom of the moving switch frog mystery. I am doing more investigation of the issue.
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Found a possible fix for the moving frog of a 720A switch. Tom Barker calls it "wobbly" and he describes where to look for the problem, wearing of the Bakelite body under one or more of the 5 metal support points on the bottom of the frog. It details removal of the frog and repairing the wear point with epoxy or removing a little bit of the Bakelite and epoxying a piece of metal shim stock. Page 161 & 162 of his book "Gilbert American Flyer S Gauge Repair and Operating Guide Color Fourth Edition" describes the condition and repair. It is in his third edition (not sure of pages) as well, but I just happened to grab the fourth edition from the book case.
Good find! I will look into that. Doing more investigation, I have noticed that some switch frogs have a little different appearance on the curved rail where it lines up with the plastic insulating triangle. It am not sure if it is wear because it seems to be the same thickness at the end of the rail as frogs that seem to have a more expected curve to them. This difference in the frog leaves a slight "bump" on the inner side of that rail about a 1/4 inch from the end. This seems to be what the 765 is pushing on with the rear drive wheel. Once the frog moves over and the 765 comes around again, The rear driver may fall down between the rails and then climb back up on the rail farther down the switch. Eventually, this leads to a derailment of some kind. I think the 765 may have slightly thinner wheel rims on the drivers. Just enough to have this problem. I have removed a frog from a switch with this peculiar appearance and replace it with one that has a more natural looking curve to it. The 765 has been operating over it with no problems. I will look into the wobbly frog issue as well. It may have something to do with it as well. I have several switches that are having this problem and anything that can be done to make them operate more smoothly will be done.
Thank you for the input.