Post by Vermin King on Mar 12, 2019 6:39:01 GMT -9
As a spin-off of the Wild Wild West thread, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/8281/wild-west-project, I decided my next practice run will be the Lincoln Funeral Train
Since the Old Nashville is probably more difficult than I wish to attempt right now, I think I will do the 2015 Re-enactment train, which was pulled by the Leviathan. The Leviathan was actually built in 1868, but it is very similar to the engines used to pull the funeral train, and there are lots of photos of it. And it is a 4-4-0 which is going to be similar to the Inyo.
The stack is closer to the Genoa, but no big deal there.
I'm still trying to work out a good way to do a cow-catcher. The one on the old Yoshi-tsune is awkward, but the top anchors for the rods/plates is straight across, as seen in the photo above. The new Yoshi model has a funky-looking cow-catcher, easier to build, but hardly representative. Usually on old steam engine models, there are two roads to take, triangular box (Ravensblight, Kaukapedia, Tweetsie) or a triangular anchor point (RXR). I want to try something different. After all, I'm not just doing it for this engine, but also for additional steam engines (they are addictive).
I did a funeral car based on the Lincoln Funeral Car for the Tweetsie thread, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/8652/tweetsie-trains-buildings. While the Tweetsie train cars are 'toys', but they are toys that capture the roofline of the old trains well
But that's not how the roofs were on the Lincoln Train
Yes, all the cars on this train in 1865 used this style. So I plan on having the funeral car, which will double as passenger cars (since they all were draped with black bunting), only the funeral car will have the emblem on the side that marked it as 'The United States'. And then the Leviathan to pull it.
Since the Old Nashville is probably more difficult than I wish to attempt right now, I think I will do the 2015 Re-enactment train, which was pulled by the Leviathan. The Leviathan was actually built in 1868, but it is very similar to the engines used to pull the funeral train, and there are lots of photos of it. And it is a 4-4-0 which is going to be similar to the Inyo.
The stack is closer to the Genoa, but no big deal there.
I'm still trying to work out a good way to do a cow-catcher. The one on the old Yoshi-tsune is awkward, but the top anchors for the rods/plates is straight across, as seen in the photo above. The new Yoshi model has a funky-looking cow-catcher, easier to build, but hardly representative. Usually on old steam engine models, there are two roads to take, triangular box (Ravensblight, Kaukapedia, Tweetsie) or a triangular anchor point (RXR). I want to try something different. After all, I'm not just doing it for this engine, but also for additional steam engines (they are addictive).
I did a funeral car based on the Lincoln Funeral Car for the Tweetsie thread, cardboard-warriors.proboards.com/thread/8652/tweetsie-trains-buildings. While the Tweetsie train cars are 'toys', but they are toys that capture the roofline of the old trains well
But that's not how the roofs were on the Lincoln Train
Yes, all the cars on this train in 1865 used this style. So I plan on having the funeral car, which will double as passenger cars (since they all were draped with black bunting), only the funeral car will have the emblem on the side that marked it as 'The United States'. And then the Leviathan to pull it.