Oh, I forgot, them O scale LPB are too expensive to melt down

You're right, Bob, it is an amazing layout!

I noticed today that the mine made an appearance in Carl Arednt's SMALL LayoutScrapbook in April. I guess I should visit his site more often.

carendt.com/scrapbook/...index.html

Congrats Fred! We all should visit more often.

I like the colorful write-up! Congrats, Fred!

Congrats, Fred... there needs to be a bunch more articles written about your Guano Mine. It is truly unique, and it's a great piece of modeling!!!

Bob/IG

cool deal there Fred! Congrats!

Great!

Carl's site is one I visit often. Lots of good ideas. Glad to see you made it.

Glen

fred_m wrote:

I guess I should visit his site more often.

Seams like he would let you know? lol

Thats cool right up Fred, you tha man

We are famous again thanks to Fred!
Way to go my friend.

The mine layout runs so well that last show, in Nov 2008, I just set it up, turned it on, and went shopping and then went up front to work the door. The guy on the layout next to it was keeping an eye on it and something happened and there was a derailment and one of the cars and the locomotive went to the bottom of the concrete canyon. The locomotive survived with only the cab coming off and the air tank falling off. The tank was quickly attached with a bit of ca and it was back in business, but the ore car was beyond field repair with both coupler screws stripped out. So the rest of the show it ran with only one ore car.



So I found a piece of spru the right size and drilled out the holes and epoxied the spru in. I then marked and drilled holes for "cotter pins" with a 78 bit.







I then put it together and made the pins from the leads off a 1/8 watt resistor. Fix...ed.




I also cleaned the wheels on the locomotive, oiled the motor and gears, and glued the stack back solid as it had broke loose in the fall, but gravity held it in. Ready for the Bentonville show Feb 28, 2009.

78's are sum small en eh?

Philip

Smallest I have. Can't find 80 around here.

OUCH!!

That little sawed-off LPB engineer kept his seat huh?

Good job on those repairs!

Been there - done that!

The engineer came off a long time ago, I glued him on with clear silicon and he never has came off since.