Kittyduck
Yes, I’ve ran out of pictures again….
-T.
Westinghouse Wheel Room
An interesting vintage film from 1904 showing a long pan shot of the interior of Westinghouse’s streetcar wheelroom, featuring several dozen men with hammers.
They sure spent a lot of time banging things with hammers here. The finale is a guy with a real big hammer. Along the way (I think the cameraman was hung from the traveling crane) several men in bowlers and bow ties ensure the hammering is on pace.
Around the 1 minute mark I think part of the roof falls in, almost beaning a guy right on his bowler with what looks like a piece of pipe. Or perhaps someone let fly the hammer.
I don’t think we even have a hammer in our Fast Tracks fixture factory….
-T.
only temporarily though…
Mark let me borrow his Walther’s Carfloat for a while to get some dimensions from it as I am thinking of scratching building some for the Terminal. It fits right in nice as the Walther’s version is correct for this area. Even the size is right, 17 40′ cars. I am also waiting on some drawings of carfloats from this area as well, hopefully between the two I can come up with something suitable.
It does reveal one flaw in my design though. The water level is a bit low, by about 1/2″ or so. At this level it might be close to the low tide level of the Harlem River. The float dock would be angled down to reach the float if left this way. I might try to raise it up a bit so it isn’t so distracting, but that will be a bit of a job.
Also, had I made the water 1″ wider I could have fit in a tug, which would have been a very nice scene. Perhaps if I add material to raise the water level I could make it a bit wider without it looking funny.
I’ll have to give that some thought.
-T.
