The San Juan Central

 

J. Neils Shay Rebuild SN-1643 A New Beginning 2020

Hello all, great news. 

I was fortunate to receive a email from Wayen Kroeger, as he describes himself "one of the new volunteers" to pick up where we left off several years ago. That is, Mr. Kroeger has volunteered to send me build updates as Mr Dave Eiteen started back in February of 2012. 

So, after an 8 year pause, I'm happy to begin again posting updates of Shay 1643. 

If your interested in starting from the beginning, click here.

This is picture intensive so keep in mind this is a record of the rebuild of this locomotive. Obviously I'm not a professional writer and I don't try to be, keep this in mind when viewing these pages. We are all volunteers in this journey. 

The following pictures and verbiage is from Mr Kroeger, hope you enjoy.

Greetings Dean, I am Wayen Kroeger, one of the new set of volunteers that have taken over the rebuild of Shay 1643.  Work has been progressing steadily but slowly on the Shay.  It turns out the lower half of the fire box had to be rebuilt.  We are currently in the process of reassembling the firebox.  The boiler has been removed from the frame which will need extensive repairs.  The trucks have been completely disassembled and the wheels are being prepped for being turned at a local machine shop.  And of course there are always parts to clean and refurbish.

The building has been completely enclosed with concrete floors. 

Inside the engine house with the boiler in the back of the picture and the parts of both trucks on the rails.

Luke Johnson of Toutle Valley Locomotive Works working on one of the patches on the engineers side of the boiler.  Also note the long patch on the front of the boiler.

Inside the firebox.  The lower portion had to be removed because of excessive corrosion behind the fire brick.

Looking opposite of Photo 1 showing the parts of the trucks and also our 10 T chain hoist.

The frame sitting outside, the front is closest to the camera.

Shooting down the frame.

The rear truck frame.

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 The Gump Stump On30 Layout

B.T.S. McCabeWater Tank, Woodland Scenics yard office, Bachmann 2 Truck Heisler, Micro Engineering Code 70 track and turnouts

http://www.btsrr.com/bts7489.htm

Scratch Built Stamp Mill in the background

Picture with the old Chooch Retaining walls, they were okay but I preferred a scratch built one shown above, made from styrene. It gives more depth for a wall this size.

Loading Dock for the Stamp Mill

Lighted Interior

Older Picture

I have 2 Tam Valley Hex Frog Juicers, great product if you want live frogs.

https://www.tamvalleydepot.com/products/dccfrogjuicers.html

Full Layout Pictures (Very early on) 

Midway on the warehouse build, this is a Banta Modelworks kit.

https://www.bantamodelworks.com/

Completed Warehouse Build 

Below- Locomotive Oil facility, oil tank was 3D printed, the platform was leftover lumber materials, and the oil column was scratch made using Plastruct items.

Here I mocking up the area using foam, Cripplebush rubber rocks, and some 3D printed western desert rocks as an experiment. I was floored by how well they are printing out, and the quality of the files are outstanding.