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7-Plus-NGM Digest March 2007
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Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 21:14:11 -0000
From: "locomotive112"
Subject: John Darby
Do any of you have a phone number or email address for John Darby?
John was the past owner of Darb'y Railraod Supply.
Thanks
David
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 16:39:13 -0600
From: "David Hannah III"
Subject: Re: John Darby
I believe John Darby past away over ten years ago.
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 17:20:36 -0800
From: Peter Moseley
Subject: Re: John Darby
John Darby
Darby's Railroad Supply
work (909) 948-0773
home (909) 980-9514
work PO Box 1816
10832 Wildwood Drive
Rancho Cucamonga CA 91730
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:33:09 -0000
From: "wdbarbe"
Subject: Re: John Darby
I heard John moved out of state, but don't know where.
Bill B
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:49:58 -0000
From: "locomotive112"
Subject: Re: John Darby
Wow, what a difference of opinion.
Thanks for your help guys, but I need a consensus here. Ha Ha.
I've got one; He's dead, He moved, and one; here are the phone numbers.
???????
How about this, does anyone know:
who bought his estate,
knows where he moved to
or knows a new phone number as I tired the (-0773 number) already.
Thanks guys I might not find him, but I'm having fun anyway. (I'll try the other number tomorrow and see who answers)
Loco112
"David"
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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2007 22:06:51 -0600
From: "David Hannah III"
Subject: Re: John Darby
Thank you Peter, I guess I was thinking of another gentleman who the owner at one time and past away at the office of Railroad Supply in Burbank.
David Hannah
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 09:01:52 -0700
From: "Mike Decker"
Subject: Re: Re: Lost Valley work report 27 Feb + Muskauer forest railroad
Hi Gerd:
Those are nice looking cars.
My maintenance of way car uses the same techniques. There are three new photos, and a drawing, of it in the Erskine Tramway folder. The car is a copy of an 18" gauge mine car from the Homestake Mine, only in wood instead of steel. The body will be reinforced by through rods and nuts. I had a piece of metal folded up to cover the floor slopes so that they wouldn't get too beaten up by the ballast being dumped in, and I'm adding Koppel style levers to regulate the door opening. There will be an angle iron frame around the top to protect the edge of the plywood. It will also have a pair of "trailer" screw jacks mounted on one end to use for levelling track. Hopefully, I'll get it done in time for this years' track construction 
Ballast car - The body of the ballast car temporarily mounted.
A side view of the ballast car, with some other wagons.
The linkage for the gable car doors.
Gable car frame - The ballast car frame...2x4 stock with 4-1/2" wheels in pillow blocks.
Best,
Mike Decker
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Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 09:43:11 -0600
From: "Tom Casper"
Subject: RE: Mike and Gered pics
Mike, Gerd
Nice cars. U R making nice progress. Keep the pics coming.
Later:
Tom Casper
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:31:05 -0000
From: "Gerd Ziller"
Subject: Trackbuilding-Weekend
Hello,
I'll show you some photos from the past weekend. Me and a friend started to build my new mobile tracks. I've uploaded some photos to my Lost-Valley-Folder in the photo-section.
We finished round about 230feet of track and 7 stubswitches (3 left, 3 right and one three-way) are ready for the detailing with levers and ties.
BTW.: First photo shows me behind the pressdrill.
Drilling steelbars for ties - That's me
welding curved tracks
Rails and switch-parts
Working on first stub-switch
Finished tracks
The 3-way stub-switch
Gerd
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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:57:32 -0000
From: "Frolin Marek"
Subject: F&CC loco found in Nevada
Folks,
While this might be a tad larger gauge, its the 'real thing'. A real 3 foot gauge loco from the Florence & Cripple Creek railroad is in Nevada and might get moved back to Colorado.
In the Cripple Creek Railroads group, there is a message and the link to the article about Florence & Cripple Creek locomotive #10, sold to a line in Nevada, after the line in Phantom Canyon was washed out.
The F&CC equipment went all over the place, with several locos going to the Rio Grande and some to the Rio Grande Southern.
Here is a link to the message and the article link...
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/CrippleCreekRailroads/message/419"
(Addition from the moderator: If the link or the additional-link to the Pikes Peak Courier View will fail, here you can find the article of the Pikes Peak Courier View.
Interesting note is, the engine ran for 10-12 years on the F&CC, and less than 5 on the Nevada line. So it has limited run time and might be in good condition (options???).
Frolin
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