Watching you plow snow, replace ties, haul pellets and rerailing trains on the Mill Brook is always fun for me. It's a cool railroad and I appreciate your puns and humor, especially after you've had numerous derailments. Your videos building and repairing equipment are also great fun. So much work involved in running a small railroad. I'm retired now, have plenty of space and can afford to have a backyard railroad but, unfortunately, lack the physical ability to build one!
When I see your chain I know on motor cycles and gocarts chain that I have mounted a spring loaded tensioner pully or polly shoe to keep chain tieth like on dirt bikes with long travel suspenion works great , just a idea !
The difference, is on bikes and carts, the chain only travels one direction, and the idler can be installed on the slack side. On the locomotive, the chains travel both directions, and an idler would be trying to maintain tension under load.
It's all custom work. Despite my best efforts, so far, to make this model of little locomotives as cookie cutter as possible. All in good time, though. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I’ve been binge watching for a while. My wife is very understanding and brings meals to my cell. I appreciate the deceptively simple story lines and your “every man “ persona and self deprecating narration. I have an apple box in the office so I can ride along on the railroad tours. Double coil springs on the ES 2-500. Does that stiffen the ride while absorbing the bumps? What weight rider do you think this will survive? Keep the video coming. I’ve almost learned how to watch them in order. 😊
Nice, he is building a proper Shay, Steam! :) .............LOL yeah, I did say "What?" when you said Out west like Ohio! LOL I lived here my entire life and never knew I lived in the west! LOL
I live on the East Coast of the USA. Then in school I realized that we were The West & Russia was the East. but Russia is to the West of the USA. Then realized Russia was closer to the east coast in miles from the north. Guess I should have listened to my Relatives Theories on Relatives Day instead, so confusing.
@@rhythmsoftherailroad6484 yeah, I have always wondered about how that works that Russia is the east. I am not sure exactly where that line is either now. :)
@rhythmsoftherailroad6484 , if you're going to be anywhere, you may as well consider yourself in the middle of it. Whether it's north, south, east, west, or nowhere. But even nowhere becomes somewhere just by the very nature of its being there.
OK, I did a little searching online regarding different kinds of 'pillow blocks' available and found vertical mount types, both 2-bolt and 4-bolt mounting varieties, not too expensive either! I still need the information regarding your sprocket tooth counts and different sizes of wheel sizes availability. Thank you.
I’ve watched the videos chaining and adjusting chain as you assemble the engines. You use multiple sprockets- are you making a gear ratio change or just maintaining a one-to-one as you distribute the motion across the chassis? Some engines use a motor on each truck and a more direct drive system. Just wondering how you made your decision and the pros or cons of each. Thx for the Denver live feed.
I do a double reduction of 11 tooth to 35 tooth. That gives me a top speed of about 8 or 9 miles an hour and enough torque to rip small stumps out of the ground.
What tooth count drive and driven spockets are you currently using? Are 'pillow blocks' (the jackshaft and axle bearing holders) available in vertical mount configuration as well as the horizontal mounting style you are using? Are different diameter (cast or machined) wheels commercially available other than the size/diameter (1 1/2" scale versus 2 1/2" scale) you are using, and if so what manufacturer makes/offers them?
I use 5-1/4" diameter IBLS profile steel wheels. You can use either 2-1/2" scale or 1-1/2" scale wheels. The wheels are the hardest parts to source. I'm constantly looking for new suppliers and they're always running out of stock.
IT DRIVES ME NUTS THAT YOU REFUSE TO USE A RATCHET WRENCH WHEN IT IS APPROPRIATE. A simple spring loaded tensioning roller would self adjust. And a flat on the axle for the set screw to land on or a woodruff key would solve that too.
There are a lot of things you don't see in this video. Like when I tightened everything up with the ratchet after I stopped the camera. I hadn't planned to film this at all.
please allow me to say i am VERY much in favor of watching you assemble locomotives vs plowing snow. of course i realize plowing snow is part of it, as well as replacing ties and so on. but, who doesn't enjoy a good "build" video? more build videos please. keep on keepin' on my friend.
greetings Aaron, are master links directional? having to be assembled in a specific orientation ? it has been so long that I have had to work with chains. neat Shay steam engine! there is so much machining involved with custom parts, and all the assembly involved! it will be such a special engine once done! very nice video, it was nice having the dog interlude! belly rubs wanted.take care, be safe.
Sort of, for example on a motorcycle, the master link is installed so the open end of the link is pointing away from the direction of chain travel. This limits the chance of it catching something and being popped off. On a train engine that travels in both direction,it doesn’t matter.
I try to install master links so they are the easiest to maintain. That means having it disassemble in a way that you can get your fingers in to change a chain when it's time.
What about putting a little dimple in the shaft and double set screws. Looks like a little higher sides on the wheels would help in the derailing. How about studded wheels in the winter might help with the slipping. Ho Ho Ho 🎅🏻
Watching you plow snow, replace ties, haul pellets and rerailing trains on the Mill Brook is always fun for me. It's a cool railroad and I appreciate your puns and humor, especially after you've had numerous derailments. Your videos building and repairing equipment are also great fun. So much work involved in running a small railroad. I'm retired now, have plenty of space and can afford to have a backyard railroad but, unfortunately, lack the physical ability to build one!
Glad you're enjoying the videos.
I happen to know a couple gluttons for punishment who hire themselves out to build railroads.
When I see your chain I know on motor cycles and gocarts chain that I have mounted a spring loaded tensioner pully or polly shoe to keep chain tieth like on dirt bikes with long travel suspenion works great , just a idea !
The difference, is on bikes and carts, the chain only travels one direction, and the idler can be installed on the slack side. On the locomotive, the chains travel both directions, and an idler would be trying to maintain tension under load.
Fantastic video keep them coming
Lots and lots of custom work! Very coooooool ! Amazing
It's all custom work. Despite my best efforts, so far, to make this model of little locomotives as cookie cutter as possible.
All in good time, though.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
You sound like some of the doctors I have been to. Haha! Really enjoy all of your videos. Have a great weekend Aaron!
You need a shay ? Nothing says logging more than a shay !
I don't need a Shay, but Dean definitely does.
dont worry about dropping things and being an idiot. we all do it but its a way of learning too
I’ve been binge watching for a while. My wife is very understanding and brings meals to my cell.
I appreciate the deceptively simple story lines and your “every man “ persona and self deprecating narration. I have an apple box in the office so I can ride along on the railroad tours.
Double coil springs on the ES 2-500. Does that stiffen the ride while absorbing the bumps? What weight rider do you think this will survive?
Keep the video coming. I’ve almost learned how to watch them in order. 😊
The double coil springs have handled a 350-lb rider with no trouble. the light springs are for the engine running without a rider.
Nice video Aaron. Something a little different.
Nice, he is building a proper Shay, Steam! :) .............LOL yeah, I did say "What?" when you said Out west like Ohio! LOL I lived here my entire life and never knew I lived in the west! LOL
I live on the East Coast of the USA. Then in school I realized that we were The West & Russia was the East. but Russia is to the West of the USA. Then realized Russia was closer to the east coast in miles from the north. Guess I should have listened to my Relatives Theories on Relatives Day instead, so confusing.
@@rhythmsoftherailroad6484 yeah, I have always wondered about how that works that Russia is the east. I am not sure exactly where that line is either now. :)
@@s16100 Trying figure out where the middle of the east is, too.
@rhythmsoftherailroad6484 , if you're going to be anywhere, you may as well consider yourself in the middle of it. Whether it's north, south, east, west, or nowhere. But even nowhere becomes somewhere just by the very nature of its being there.
OK, I did a little searching online regarding different kinds of 'pillow blocks' available and found vertical mount types, both 2-bolt and 4-bolt mounting varieties, not too expensive either!
I still need the information regarding your sprocket tooth counts and different sizes of wheel sizes availability.
Thank you.
11 tooth on the motor to 35 tooth on the jackshaft to (2) 11 tooth sprockets on the kackshaft driving a 35 tooth sprocket on each axle.
The valve gear is Stephenson. Try installing No. 200 roller chain on a 12-ton Plymouth 3'-gauge loco.
Thanks for the confirmation on the valve gear!
No. 200 roller chain? That's got to be heavy and unwieldy stuff.
Put a flat spot on the shaft so the grub screw can’t slip past.
What's not keyed is glued to the shaft with Loctite 680. It won't slip unless you heat it up with a torch.
Congratulations on the beautiful Shay ....Millbrook Railway steam powered now ? IS MILLBROOK MECHANICAL GOING TO BE SELLING SHAYS NOW ...?
No. That's a Banta Modelworks engine.
I’ve watched the videos chaining and adjusting chain as you assemble the engines. You use multiple sprockets- are you making a gear ratio change or just maintaining a one-to-one as you distribute the motion across the chassis?
Some engines use a motor on each truck and a more direct drive system. Just wondering how you made your decision and the pros or cons of each.
Thx for the Denver live feed.
I do a double reduction of 11 tooth to 35 tooth. That gives me a top speed of about 8 or 9 miles an hour and enough torque to rip small stumps out of the ground.
What tooth count drive and driven spockets are you currently using? Are 'pillow blocks' (the jackshaft and axle bearing holders) available in vertical mount configuration as well as the horizontal mounting style you are using?
Are different diameter (cast or machined) wheels commercially available other than the size/diameter (1 1/2" scale versus 2 1/2" scale) you are using, and if so what manufacturer makes/offers them?
I use 5-1/4" diameter IBLS profile steel wheels. You can use either 2-1/2" scale or 1-1/2" scale wheels. The wheels are the hardest parts to source. I'm constantly looking for new suppliers and they're always running out of stock.
IT DRIVES ME NUTS THAT YOU REFUSE TO USE A RATCHET WRENCH WHEN IT IS APPROPRIATE.
A simple spring loaded tensioning roller would self adjust. And a flat on the axle for the set screw to land on or a woodruff key would solve that too.
I think I saw a pun in there somewhere.
There are a lot of things you don't see in this video. Like when I tightened everything up with the ratchet after I stopped the camera. I hadn't planned to film this at all.
please allow me to say i am VERY much in favor of watching you assemble locomotives vs plowing snow.
of course i realize plowing snow is part of it, as well as replacing ties and so on. but, who doesn't enjoy a good "build" video?
more build videos please.
keep on keepin' on my friend.
greetings Aaron, are master links directional? having to be assembled in a specific orientation ?
it has been so long that I have had to work with chains. neat Shay steam engine! there is so much
machining involved with custom parts, and all the assembly involved! it will be such a special
engine once done! very nice video, it was nice having the dog interlude! belly rubs wanted.take care, be safe.
Sort of, for example on a motorcycle, the master link is installed so the open end of the link is pointing away from the direction of chain travel. This limits the chance of it catching something and being popped off. On a train engine that travels in both direction,it doesn’t matter.
I try to install master links so they are the easiest to maintain. That means having it disassemble in a way that you can get your fingers in to change a chain when it's time.
Also, what size and type of chain are you using for your locomotive drives?
#35 roller chain.
Do you have any 1/2 links for the chain to making the chain adjustable for your adjustment slots
I do have some half links. That's the next step.
You can get shaft with a keyway cut into it.I was getting 3/4 shaft fo $30 for a 36 inch length.Chains don't need to be really tight.
Where is your source for 36" long 3/4" shafts with keyways already cut in them?
I buy axle stock, cut it to length on the saw and turn them down on the lathe, then cut the keyways on the milling machine.
What about putting a little dimple in the shaft and double set screws. Looks like a little higher sides on the wheels would help in the derailing. How about studded wheels in the winter might help with the slipping. Ho Ho Ho 🎅🏻
This engine has never derailed. It's a new build.
I didn’t know you sell them. Is it your design?
It is my design. Inspired by a design by Bill Gardei at the Island Pond Railroad.
Couldn't you get your buddy to cut a couple of keyways in the shaft with the milling machine that's behind him??
I could, but Loctite 680 is just as strong and much quicker to do.
3:00 if it's got wheels it's a real locomotive. I'm told them's the rules.
use idler sprocket
So Aaron what’s this locomotive # 😉
It doesn't have a road number. It is build number 2301.
@@MillBrookRailroad 👍
It seems to me that the flange on those wheels should be a little higher to prevent derailment. Just my opinion.
These wheels are made to the IBLS wheel standard.
6:20 It's not a real design unless there's some CAD involved.
Just remember to get genuine cardboardian alloy, don't accept imitation products.
Only the best corrugated fiber core will do.
How about your electronic setup! Radio Control would make a nice How To video. Instead!
Setting up the radio control would be a fairly short video.
Anything other than a Willamette Shay three piston is sacrilege.
Limas aren't that bad.