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   Registered Member #3 Joined: Wed Dec 08 2004, 09:01PMLocation: Portland, OR Posts: 2112 | From the shots from Rice Hill, you really get an idea of high the layout is that part of the room, even with raised floor. Working semaphores would be awesome....how many more do you need though? Someday, this year I will get up there to see this layout.....its just a matter of when. Paul Paul: It's a combination of high benchwork (65" or so above the raised floor) and some guys shorter than me. Jim Laycock (in the red shirt) is about my height so the trains looks to be just below my nose. But several guys are shorter than me and look up at the trains. Gives you a real sense of there being a summit in that location! As to the semaphores, I need another 8 sets (16 total) and I have most of them now. Plus I need some searchlight signals around Roseburg, since that's what they had there in the 1980s. Joe Fugate http://siskiyou-railfan.net - 200,000 hits and counting!  In video ... | ||
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| Greyhart |
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  Registered Member #238 Joined: Sun Nov 13 2005, 03:06PMLocation: Denver, Co Posts: 134 | From the shots from Rice Hill, you really get an idea of high the layout is that part of the room, even with raised floor. Working semaphores would be awesome....how many more do you need though? Someday, this year I will get up there to see this layout.....its just a matter of when. Paul Paul: It's a combination of high benchwork (65" or so above the raised floor) and some guys shorter than me. Jim Laycock (in the red shirt) is about my height so the trains looks to be just below my nose. But several guys are shorter than me and look up at the trains. Gives you a real sense of there being a summit in that location! It looks like the Hauler West has a B unit GP in the center of the consist. You don't see many of those. That one is your dummy sound unit, but where did you find the shell? Ken Biles  | ||
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| Registered Member #3 Joined: Wed Dec 08 2004, 09:01PMLocation: Portland, OR Posts: 2112 | Ken: That's a TEBU ... a Tractive Effort Booster Unit. The SP rebuilt some GE U25B's in the late 1970s and early 1980s into these slug units. They're all concrete in the hood and then traction motors on the wheels and their main function is to add tractive effort to the loco lashup. Got this guy off E-Bay on a tip from Jon Cure. It's a very nicely done kitbash with a Steward mechanism. Runs like a top, so no, it's not a dummy unit.  Joe Fugate http://siskiyou-railfan.net - 200,000 hits and counting! In video ... | ||
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| Greyhart |
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| Registered Member #238 Joined: Sun Nov 13 2005, 03:06PMLocation: Denver, Co Posts: 134 | Ken: That's a TEBU ... a Tractive Effort Booster Unit. The SP rebuilt some GE U25B's in the late 1970s and early 1980s into these slug units. They're all concrete in the hood and then traction motors on the wheels and their main function is to add tractive effort to the loco lashup. Got this guy off E-Bay on a tip from Jon Cure. It's a very nicely done kitbash with a Steward mechanism. Runs like a top, so no, it's not a dummy unit. Ok, I know from your videos, you usually run the middle unit as a dummy for sound.  I've seen a couple of these units for sale from Walthers, or Athearn, but I don't know that I've even actually seen one in real life. I've seen pictures of them, but they must be rare. Ken Biles | ||
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| Registered Member #3 Joined: Wed Dec 08 2004, 09:01PMLocation: Portland, OR Posts: 2112 | Ken: The SP had a half-dozen or so of these units they ran in Oregon the Toledo and Coos Bay coast branches mostly. The other half dozen TEBUs ran out of El Paso on the Texas and New Mexico lines of the SP. So kind of rare, but not uncommon on the Oregon coast branch lines of the SP. [ Edited Sat Oct 21 2006, 03:27PM ] Joe Fugate http://siskiyou-railfan.net - 200,000 hits and counting! In video ... | ||
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| Registered Member #238 Joined: Sun Nov 13 2005, 03:06PMLocation: Denver, Co Posts: 134 | Well I think that if I should find some models of the 'B' units, I'll buy them. The advantage of proto-lancing, I can always say that my railroad bought them.  Ken Biles | ||
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