Final assembly included adding a vi- sor of 0.010-inch x 0.250-inch styrene strip and 0.020-inch rod, and a foot plate of 0.020-inch x 0.156-inch strip. I trimmed back the foot plate at the cor- ners for swing clearance. Wire grab irons and a hand wheel to shake the grate were the finishing touches.
Crane Tender The Puget Sound built a tender car
from a surplus wood flatcar (this road never throws anything away). The fuel and water bunker is from a scrapped Shay, and tool boxes are salvaged Var- nish passenger car battery boxes. The car chassis was built of styrene — I wanted to paint it so it would be visu- ally distinct from the naked wood deck- ing. The stake pockets and brake gear are Tichy; the queen posts are from an MDC Varnish car and mounted on sty- rene queen beams, although queen posts from Grandt Line would serve as well. The truss rods are 0.020-inch brass wire.
The deck is board-by-board strip- wood construction, with the board ends notched to clear the side stakes. I washed the planks on the rear deck with thin white to give them an aged wood look. Those planks forward of the bun- ker were left untreated to look like fresh decking. Note in the photo to the right how the faded and heavily coal-stained deck ends just past the bunker. I bonded the stripwood to the plastic chassis with ACC after painting it.
The bunker is from an MDC Shay. The oil tank and front were cut away, and a new coal bunker and shoring
The deck in front of the tender was recently re- newed: it’s still “wood”-colored, while the rest is faded white. Note the barrel stains on the deck, and the water leaking from the hose.
added. The boom rest atop the bunker was made of 3/32-inch angle, H column, 0.060-inch styrene rod, and odd bits. The assembly sits on angle iron bases to spread the load over the bunker deck. As a final touch, a length of fire hose was made from fine solder painted Cream color with a Brass nozzle and a Brass valve at the bunker end. This is used to replenish the crane's on-board injector reservoir, but for the moment,
it lays on the deck. The water dribbling from it as shown in the photo above is thick ACC allowed to pool around the hose.
Other details on the forward deck are a couple of lube oil barrels (one used as a trash bin), a hose reel made from two brake wheels, a length of heavy pipe, some angle iron, various tools, and the fireman.
The rear deck features tool bunkers NOVEMBER 2015 93
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