Arizona Gandy Dancers

Discuss park gauge trains and large scale miniature railways having track gauges from 8" to 24" gauge and designed at scales of 2" to the foot or greater - whether modeled for personal use, or purpose built for amusement park operation or private railroading.

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Topics may include: antique park gauge train restoration, preservation, and history; building new grand scale equipment from scratch; large scale miniature railway construction, maintenance, and safe operation; fallen flags; track, gauge, and equipment standards; grand scale vendor offerings; and, compiling an on-line motive power roster.
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Well, Our roundhouse is mostly built - at least in O gauge scale. Denis and Scotty have been working together to design and print a table top model of the real thing. Pretty amazing what digital technology can do for you. I am in the Seattle area, Denis is in Cincinnati, and
Scotty is in Phoenix. Couple clicks of the buttons and we each get our very own building:
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We’ve decided to print out all our planned buildings and build a table top diorama to display our Phase 1 LOOP and Phase 2 freight yard. We'll use O gauge track and some of our Museum’s engines and rolling stock to theme out the setting. Then use the diorama for fund raising and seeking corporate support.
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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge

Ahaha, Retirement: the good life - drifting endlessly on a Sea of projects....
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Very Cool!
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What happens when your hydraulic press slips a bit off your 1” shaft…
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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge

Ahaha, Retirement: the good life - drifting endlessly on a Sea of projects....
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Good news on the Permitting front. Maricopa County Flood Control District has granted our Phase 1 15” gauge ROW track construction permit. We’ll be starting construction in mid September: initial 1260’ mainline loop around our freight yard and passenger plaza, 160 sq ft interchange tower, beginnings of our desert arboretum. Expected finish date - June, 2023.

We’re now regauging our primary motive power - 15” Hurbut, 4-4-0 steam outline park gauge locomotive and riding cars.

Big membership drive coming up. Come Join us!

Glenn
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Motive power : 1902 A.S.Campbell 4-4-0 American - 12 5/8" gauge, 1955 Ottaway 4-4-0 American 12" gauge

Ahaha, Retirement: the good life - drifting endlessly on a Sea of projects....
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A good place to follow the progress of the new startup!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085875515887
After you get there please select "Follow". This helps Facebook insure our site!
BTW The Hurlburt has just been converted to 15". We will post videos on that site soon!
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No chance of a non-Facebook posting host?
I would love to follow your progress.
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ChipsAhoy wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:02 am A good place to follow the progress of the new startup!
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100085875515887
After you get there please select "Follow". This helps Facebook insure our site!
BTW The Hurlburt has just been converted to 15". We will post videos on that site soon!
Scotty

Can’t you find website hosting that is neutral and doesn't demand that you sign up so they can bombard you with advertising, friend requests, etc? I, for one, don’t do Facebook, Twitter et al.

Also, videos on Facebook won't always play if you aren’t logged into Facebook. The best place to post videos that anyone can watch is on Youtube or as MP4s on your hosted website.
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NP317 wrote: Thu Sep 15, 2022 9:10 pm No chance of a non-Facebook posting host?
I would love to follow your progress.
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Yup, there is. Web site is coming, for now we are taking what is quick and free.
Right now the local government us eating up our cash reserves faster than ballast and ties!!!
Most likely, what we post there will be shown here also.
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Scotty and Team:
Thank you for your efforts and positive update about following your RR progress.
I'll enjoy watching.
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ChipsAhoy wrote: Fri Sep 16, 2022 7:28 amRight now the local government us eating up our cash reserves faster than ballast and ties!!!

That’s what local governments are for: to prevent your accumulated cash from become excessive. :D
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As we saw previously, step one was to get the Hurlburt out of display and into the Car Barn for reguaging.
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Next, get the drivers off the Loco.
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Here are both axles, note the bronze journal boxes are also the bearing.
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