09-06-2014, 11:49 AM
Paul Larson, wrote the article, it was on two pages, but could have easily fit on just one. It was an "MR one-evening project".
In the same issue there is an article for a Narrow Gauge 25-ton Drop Bottom Gondola, by Len Madsen. I'm really tempted to build a few of those for the SHS&D - - there has to be something used in the shipyard that would be hauled by those gons.
There's also drawings for a Narrow Gauge coach, and a Narrow gauge Combine ( S scale drawings ).
1958 was also a good year for Jack Work construction articles - - Sept. the lineside supply shed, I did the first version of that one with the only materials I could afford at that time in my life - - Balsa ! :o
Have built that one ( slightly modified ) twice, since.
The shed in this picture is one of those variations:
In the same issue there is an article for a Narrow Gauge 25-ton Drop Bottom Gondola, by Len Madsen. I'm really tempted to build a few of those for the SHS&D - - there has to be something used in the shipyard that would be hauled by those gons.
There's also drawings for a Narrow Gauge coach, and a Narrow gauge Combine ( S scale drawings ).
1958 was also a good year for Jack Work construction articles - - Sept. the lineside supply shed, I did the first version of that one with the only materials I could afford at that time in my life - - Balsa ! :o
Have built that one ( slightly modified ) twice, since.
The shed in this picture is one of those variations:
We always learn far more from our own mistakes, than we will ever learn from another's advice.
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!
The greatest place to live life, is on the sharp leading edge of a learning curve.
Lead me not into temptation.....I can find it myself!

