Gondolas of Lake Terminal RR.

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Gus,
unfortunately my „nails“ do not “laying about somewhere...” I must them make piece for piece from wire – not more than 30 per car alone for the brake components. What I could buy are small rivets from a model supplier – however there are the shafts too short for a real riveting and I need a fine tip in order to find the small holes. These rivets can be used only as imitation similarly to NBW. However I have seen “riveted” metal profiles on side walls of O-scale model cars; it was looking brilliant!

Before new pictures – brakes are installed to all five models. A big step to finishing of the models! Now I can add the truss rods – made in the “home shop”.



Here are pictured the good half. Altogether I will need 60 pieces again for all five cars.





Now here two pictures after mounting the inner four truss rods (of the first model). It is the first time that I fixed (and strained) the truss roads really by nuts – cut from plastic NBW. Before I cut short screw thread to ends of truss rods; these are from 0.5 millimeter wire (0.020”) so I could get the corresponding cutting tools. Additional I fixed the nuts after straining by a drop AC-glue and I hope for a fixing all the time. In other case I must change the nuts by such made from metal NBW. Do you identify the two different types of nuts? The two center truss rods are strained by square nuts on the wooden buffer block in difference to the outer hexagonal nuts which are placed on the heavy metal strip which will dispense the power from the outer truss rods over the overall width of the car. Sorry, the last picture is not defined enough for seeing these small differences of nuts. A few next pictures of ends will show you more, I think.
The next four truss rods will make a bit more trouble because they will need a few additional small parts again for guiding and fixing.