Talking T Gauge The Original Forum Dedicated to the World's Smallest Model Railroad Scale    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  NYC Jet Budd          Talking T Gauge Forum Index -> Modeling in T View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message DJdeTrainman Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 93 Location: New Jersey, USA Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:08 pm    Post subject: NYC Jet Budd How hard do you think it ould be to convert a 103 into one of these? It is a NYC RDC3 (mail-baggage-coach combination) Budd car, with a a jet engine and a nose slapped on it. There are many more pictures here: http://jalopnik.com/359202/new-york-centrals-m+497-jet-powered-train _________________ D.J. (Now also Other David, since Mr. Smith was here first) http://www.trainweb.org/mccann/offer.htm -Silence is golden... ...but the noise from T gauge must be at least a bronze. Back to top TBA Joined: 08 Sep 2008 Posts: 120 Location: Massachusetts Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:37 pm    Post subject: ...or the Russian version. http://englishrussia.com/?p=1316 _________________ Brian Austin Back to top DJdeTrainman Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 93 Location: New Jersey, USA Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 9:47 pm    Post subject: WOW I had never seen the Russian one as well, I thought this was only done by the New York Central _________________ D.J. (Now also Other David, since Mr. Smith was here first) http://www.trainweb.org/mccann/offer.htm -Silence is golden... ...but the noise from T gauge must be at least a bronze. Back to top rmyers Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 73 Location: Evanston, IL USA Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:18 pm    Post subject: Someone in my club did one of these based on a Kato RDC in N. Someone has already done an etch for a shortened to fit RDC in T. You'd just need to make the nose and engines pod. Bob Back to top DJdeTrainman Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 93 Location: New Jersey, USA Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 7:57 pm    Post subject: Yes, I seem to remember seeing a how-to of that once... http://www.katousa.com/cgi-bin/dl/dl.pl?dl.mif,NYC-JET-CAR.pdf ...Oh, here it is!!! _________________ D.J. (Now also Other David, since Mr. Smith was here first) http://www.trainweb.org/mccann/offer.htm -Silence is golden... ...but the noise from T gauge must be at least a bronze. Back to top rmyers Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 73 Location: Evanston, IL USA Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:01 pm    Post subject: DJdeTrainman wrote: Yes, I seem to remember seeing a how-to of that once... http://www.katousa.com/cgi-bin/dl/dl.pl?dl.mif,NYC-JET-CAR.pdf ...Oh, here it is!!! Yep, Mark Runyan. That article originally appeared in NSR. Plus, Mike Skibbe who took one of the photos, is a T-Gauger. I talked to him at a train show this weekend where his club and mine had adjacent layouts. (Neither of us brought our T). Bob Back to top DJdeTrainman Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 93 Location: New Jersey, USA Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 12:29 am    Post subject: Sorry to veer off topic, but NSR is the acronym for what now? Also I read about a man who drove the engine, and had a MTH budd custom made like it... http://www.mth-railking.com/club/pdfs/winter03.pdf (page seven) ...man, where do I keep finding these things _________________ D.J. (Now also Other David, since Mr. Smith was here first) http://www.trainweb.org/mccann/offer.htm -Silence is golden... ...but the noise from T gauge must be at least a bronze. Back to top rmyers Joined: 19 Nov 2008 Posts: 73 Location: Evanston, IL USA Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:46 pm    Post subject: Quote: NSR is the acronym for what now? Sorry. NSR = N Scale Railroading, Kirk Reddie's N scale magazine. Bob Back to top DJdeTrainman Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 93 Location: New Jersey, USA Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:54 pm    Post subject: Oh, thnx for the info, always ready to learn new train things. _________________ D.J. (Now also Other David, since Mr. Smith was here first) http://www.trainweb.org/mccann/offer.htm -Silence is golden... ...but the noise from T gauge must be at least a bronze. Back to top DJdeTrainman Joined: 05 Feb 2009 Posts: 93 Location: New Jersey, USA Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 10:07 pm    Post subject: I just found the original link again for the N scale conversion on the Kato website, and it said right next to it: Quote: ...From N Scale Railroading magazine... (InsertBangingHeadAgainstWallSmileyHere) _________________ D.J. (Now also Other David, since Mr. Smith was here first) http://www.trainweb.org/mccann/offer.htm -Silence is golden... ...but the noise from T gauge must be at least a bronze. 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