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7-Plus-NGM Digest April 2006
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Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 07:20:34 -0800
From: Peter Moseley
Subject: Re: Re: Ridgeway Roundhouse Products
He has yet to set up a web page.
You can contact Paul Lavacot as follows:
Ridgway Roundhouse Products
lmwpbl@hotmail.com
or
(909) 628-9601
Peter Moseley
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Date: 2 Apr 2006 13:27:51 -0000
From: 7-plus-NGM
Subject: New file uploaded to 7-plus-NGM
Hello,
This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the 7-plus-NGM group.
#7 at Phelps waiting to go get wood
srcl_24
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 16:48:51 -0000
From: "Chris Allan"
Subject: Rudy van Wingen passes.
Our beloved Rudy passed away around 9 PM last night. He was surrounded by his family and a few friends.
Rudy was a driving force at JT&S and owner of Como Roundhouse Products. He has provided tremendous leadership for many years and his generous contributions have made many things possible. But most of
all, Rudy was a great friend. We all will miss him.
Please keep Rudy's wife, daughter and family in your thoughts.
Posted by the Joshua Tree and Southern Railroad Museum Directors.
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 15:09:45 -0400
From: "russ@hobby-tronics.com"
Subject: RE: Rudy van Wingen passes.
Chris,
Please pass on my condolences to his family. I've enjoyed talking with him over the years and he will surely be missed.
Russ Wood
Chiloquin Oregon
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Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:30:08 -0700
From: Peter Moseley
Subject: Memorial Service for Rudy van Wingen
A Memorial Service for Rudy van Wingen will be held at Descanso Gardens in La Canada Flintridge, CA on Friday Morning April 14. People can gather beginning at 9:30 AM and the service will begin at 10:00 AM.
Esther has requested no flowers and will announce where donations might be made in Rudy's memory at the service, if not before.
You can send cards to Esther at
Esther van Wingen
2764 Cumberland Road
San Marino CA 91108
Descanso Gardens: 818-949-4200
1418 Descanso Dr
La Canada Fltrdg, CA 91011, US
MAPQUEST LINK
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?address=1418%20Descanso%
20Dr&city=La%20Canada%
20Fltrdg&state=CA&zipcode=91011&country=US&title=%3cb%3eDescanso%
20Gardens%3a%3c%2fb%3e%20818%2d949%2d4200%3cbr%20%2f%3e%201418%
20Descanso%20Dr%3cbr%20%2f%3e%20La%20Canada%20Fltrdg%2c%20CA%2091011%
2c%20%20US&cid=lfmaplink2&name=Descanso%20Gardens
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 03:31:08 +0800
From: "Johan Pretorius"
Subject: Re: Rudy van Wingen passes.
I have never met Rudy in person, but via the Web got to know of him. My deepest condolences to Rudy's family and friends.
Sincere,
Johan (South Africa)
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:58:22 -0400
From: Arno Martens
Subject: Re: Memorial Service for Rudy van Wingen
Peter,
this link may be a little easier for most.
http://tinyurl.com/mozqz
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Regards,
Arno
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Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 17:58:26 -0400
From: Arno Martens
Subject: Re: Rudy van Wingen passes.
Thank you for letting us know.
In the past I had some very pleasant eMail exchanges with Rudy.
His post have already been missed here of late.
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Regards,
Arno
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:32:27 -0000
From: "Hubert Wetekamp"
Subject: Re: Rudy van Wingen passes.
Hello all,
I'm really shocked to reading this message, although I expected to get such bad news.
Without Rudy, our list never would have been such a success, and without Rudy, I never would have become a member at Train Mountain nor would I have been their in 2000 and 2003.
And our schedule for our vacation this summer was set up in such a way, that we planned some time in Los Angeles in the hope, to see Rudy a last time.
Sadly, this hope will never be fulfilled, and so I only can ask you all, who will be next Friday at the memorial service to pass my condolence to Esther and the remaining family.
It's hard for me to be so far away and not be able to escort Rudy on his last way.
I hope, that someone will give me the direction to his gravesite, so that I can spent some time with him in june.
Rudy's friend and Your moderator
Hubert from Germany
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:14:40 -0000
From: "Chris Allan"
Subject: Rudy's Bio.
Hello all,
I just finished up the Spring JT&S newsletter, which includes a bio of Rudy, written by a member of his family:
http://www.jtsrr.org/browsers/spring06a.pdf
Chris Allan
JT&S RR Museum
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:04:17 -0000
From: "locomotive112"
Subject: K-27 drawings, Rudy passes
My condolences to the Van Wingen family, I only spoke with Rudy a few times through the years, but it was clear that he loved our hobby and has done as much as anyone ever has to promote it and share his enthusiasm for it. We all have gained from Ruby's participation. Thank you Rudy!
Men I need to locate a set of K-27 builders drawings. A few years ago there was talk of putting the set on CD, does anyone know if this took place? Also "Soni" seemed to be the person that had the first set to come out of Chama, does anyone have a good email address for "Soni"? If you know anything about these drawings, please let me know.
Loco
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:24:07 -0000
From: "Hubert Wetekamp"
Subject: Re: Rudy's Bio.
Hello Chris,
thank's for putting the bio online.
Is their a chance to send some money through PayPal? And if yes, to which address?
Thank you
Hubert from Germany
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:25:08 -0000
From: "Chris Allan"
Subject: Re: Rudy's Bio.
Hubert,
You may donate via my email address: wsflco@earthlink.net, please make a note in the box "In memory of Rudy", and I will forward a check to Cherie, our treasurer. You may also send a check to:
JTSRR Museum
PO Box 475
Joshua Tree, CA 92522
USA
Thank you, your condolences will be passed along to the family.
Chris Allan, Director
JT&S RR Museum
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:13:04 -0500
From: "David Hannah III"
Subject: Re: K-27 drawings, Rudy passes
A complete set of K-27 plans in 2-1/2" scale can be brought from Rich Ulin in Colorado. I have a set, and they are very nicely done.
David Hannah
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:23:40 -0000
From: "locomotive112"
Subject: Re: K-27 drawings, Rudy passes
David, I called Richard Ulin today, he probably does have 2.5" scale drawings, but I can't use those, I need full scale builders drawings. I'm working in a larger scale so I need copies of the originals.
I read that someone was going to scan and put them all on CD a few years aoog, does anyone know if this ever happened.
Loco
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Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 19:04:37 -0700
From: Peter Moseley
Subject: Re: Rudy's Bio.
Chris:
Very nice.
Thank you.
Peter Moseley
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:08:02 +1200
From: Grant & Donna Alexander
Subject: SR&RL #24
Can anyone help me with general arrangement drawings for one of these? Or the location of same.
Grant Alexander
Squirrel Valley,
Cambridge,
New Zealand.
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 10:17:00 +0200
From: "Hannes Paling"
Subject: Re: SR&RL #24
Hi
Contact Gary Kohler at m2ftq@aol.com,(Maine 2-Foot Quarterly), I got some from him plus a CD with pictures of the origial loco.
If you locate any more drawings I would be interested also.
I have some pictures of a South African built one for 7 1/4", if you are interested I could send them directly to you..
Hannes
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:21:55 -0000
From: "fred veenschoten"
Subject: Re: SR&RL #24
http://www.roundhouse-eng.com/srrl24/
http://www.sscom.org/ds.html
there is a lot of info out there but this can get you started.
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:53:07 -0000
From: "William Van Lenten"
Subject: Re: SR&RL #24
Contact Dave Skagen in Shelton Washington. He is at http://www.sscom.org/ds.html
Bill
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 06:53:18 +1200
From: "Chris Draper"
Subject: Electric Drive Calculator
Hi all,
I have uploaded an Excel spreadsheet to the files area that might be handy to some for sizing electric motor drives. ( DriveSystemCalculations.xls)
I was partly inspired by Tom Artzberger's item on the Riding Railway University DVD volume 2, and you can see some of his rules of thumb in the load & friction calculations. The motor characteristics came from distilling a variety of sources as it soon became apparent there is a huge amount of opinion that varies so wide as to be diametrically opposed in some cases. In these circumstances I chose what I thought was the more consistent case.
A couple of warnings:
The sheets are laid out in a mixture of metric and imperial. Growing up with both, I prefer the math in one and the visualization of the other. I guess I am a 5ft, 25mm kind of guy who thinks all power should be of the horse
variety, but Kilograms make more sense than ounces - you get the picture
Second warning: I have tried this sheet on a friends existing locomotive and it was exceptionally conservative in its predictions. Actually it reckoned a quite capable locomotive in reality should have trouble moving much of a load at all. I haven't decided whether this is just good conservative design, or there is an inherent problem in my calculations.
This has been a huge learning curve for me - digging into all the necessary formulae and physics - but fun all the same. Naturally I am interested in any feedback or suggestions and I hope we all end up with a solid, proven and useful tool.
Chris Draper
Winter Creek Bush Tramway
Auckland, New Zealand
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:05:15 -0700 (Pacific Standard Time)
From: "Boyd A Butler"
Subject: Re: Electric Drive Calculator
Ah yes but to all of us guys long in the tooth, the old stuff sticks with us as MMs are the little colored things that one eats for a snack. Dont think that beyond one meter 39inches that I will ever understand the metric system have had good hearted people try there best to explain it to me also. So I guess that a liter will always be something that one is carried on rather than a liquid measurement. Yes my head is made out of stone. Just a little humor on a beautiful sunny eastern Washington Sunday morning to you all.
Good Steaming and hope that most can make it to Train Mountain this year.
Boyd Butler
Oh yes and to that surveyor fellow who shows up at TM, still dont understand how to read one of them poles he uses to measure with.
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