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Wreck Trains by Ron Dukarm Available through the
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his month it is back on the road and off to Collinsville, Connecti- cut, for the Tenth Annual New
England/Northeast Prototype Modelers Meet. A quick review: it is held at the Li- brary/Community Center in Canton, Connecticut, (Collinsville is technically part of Canton and does not always show up on a GPS by itself) on the first weekend of June, this year the first and second of the month; it always features good presenatations, exhibits in the dis- play room and layout tours on Sunday; and it is always a great time with friends from all over. It seems as if “just about everyone” is there. You always go home fired up about the hobby, too. As usual for these roports, I will let
This 100 page, five chapter spiral bound book includes 153 photos of Lackawanna, Erie, and EL wreck cranes and their associated equipment. Most of these photographs are being published for the first time. The book also includes 36 drawings and equipment charts. Ron thoroughly covers the complete roster of wrecking cranes, wreck trains, and wrecking procedures of all three railroads. Ron also provides the first ever explanation of Erie's mysterious Maintenance Of Way numbering system.
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the photos and captions do the work here. These are small sample of what was on the tables. See you there next year—or at another meet before then. I should mention one thing that got
packed up before I had a chance to pho- tograph it. Ted Pamperin and Ted DiIo- rio brought along an HO scale C&O Al- legheny equipped with a test version of an on-board battery power supply from Tam Valley Depot (makers of the Frog Juicer). It works with any radio con- trolled DCC system but has three differ- ences: the propulsion is from lithium- polymer batteries (in this case in the tender) recharged from the track while running or standing; a radio transmitter is hooked to the command station; and there is a receiver connected to the de- coder and it passes the usual DCC com- mands to it. At this time the system is under development. Way back in the May, 1976, RMC Don Fiehmann de- scribed his R/C F7A-F7B set powered by rechargeable batteries (also from the rails). It took 36 years to get here, but we are finally on our way to on-board battery power. Onward! —BILL S.
How about an HO model measuring roughly three by five feet, yet representing less than 20 percent of the original? Mike Rose is modeling Mehoopany, Pennsylvania, the home of this Proctor & Gamble mill which produces napkins, toliet paper and the like. It has a rail side and truck sides for inbound and outbound shipping, and five tracks. Needing a “bunch of them,” Mike had the truck bumpers and door hoods made by a rapid-prototyping company.
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