| CLINIC: 3D Printing - Part 1: What You Can Do with It | ||
| DAY: Friday | TIME: 1:30-2:30pm | ROOM: Wayne |
| DESCRIPTION: This is not a how to clinic, but rather what can be done with 3D printing–figures (people) in poses you want, large structures not easily built with conventual methods, mechanical devices like switch machines, all with incredibly fine detail. | ||
| CLINIC: 3D Printing - Part 2: Prototype Modeling & Operation | ||
| DAY: Friday | TIME: 3:00-4:00pm |
ROOM: Wayne |
| DESCRIPTION: 3D printing has allowed me to start a layout I've always wanted to create. It would be a small piece of a prototype line that had some interesting operation and built exactly as it existed in the 1945 - 1950 era. I started with a section of the Wilmington, DE waterfront from the PRR station to the Davos shipyard. After over a year building a model of the PRR station I realized that with the modeling tools available 30 years ago this vision was simply unattainable. Using 3D printing highly detailed structures can be produced relatively quickly and for a very reasonable cost. At 80 years old and following the C&O prototype, there was only one option, Thurmond, WV. The engine terminal, mainline,and staging tracks, all hand laid, are complete. Background scenery based on a high definition topographic map, is being installed before foreground buildings are positioned. The current project is the truss and deck girder bridge across the New River, which has to be completed before building the South Side yards where empty hoppers were stored. |
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About the Clinician... I was born on W 16th street in Wilmington, Del, not far from the B&O station. Northbound trains would often slip on the grade approaching the station and my mom would pack me up and run down to the station where I would see this smoke and steam belching thing pounding the ground coming directly at me. To this day I can’t shake the feeling of dread or excitement when a steam loco approaches. My grandfather and uncle were both engineers on the PRR so I guess I’m from a railroading family although I became a chemist. I’ve been a model railroader for over 70 years now. Like most modelers I was started by a Lionel Christmas layout at a time I can barely remember. My first permanent layout was with the Lionel equipment, but I never liked that three rail system. I've been involved in HO scale model railroading since the 7th grade except for a few years I took to build and sail a 40' sailboat. I'm currently building my sixth layout. Until recently I was a free lance modeler with a collection of whatever locomotives I thought looked good. I began collecting brass while in Utah and Texas with the Air Force so most of my collection was western roads. My current layout started out as a free lance design, but will into construction I found myself being attracted to C&O motive power. I decided to follow the C&O prototype, which resulted in a pretty massive rebuild that continues today to model (with some artistic license) the western Allegheny grade from Ronceverte to Allegheny Summit. I scratch build or heavily kitbash just about everything. I made many business trips to Manchester, UK and became friends with John Yates who at the time was the chief signal officer for the East Lancashire Railway. Operating the signal box (the British term for a signal tower) at Ramsbottom got me hooked on signaling. I'm installing operating interlocking cabins (the C&O term) on my layout. A portion of that project provides the examples for this clinic. |