The Last Resort

Here is a sketch of the layout for the model. The base has grown slightly to almost seven feet in length, but the width remains at the initial four. The Welcome Center would appear in front of the loco and above the dock. The island will be very lush with foliage and very green. Only the bare rock work is shown in the sketch. There probably will be a natural rock spire to the left and totally separate from the island. Atop it will be a small gazebo. There will be a bridge of some sort over to it. 

No streamlining here!

Thought I'd post a few photos of an interesting project that I finished a few months ago. I might use this one also for the Last Resort. Only room for one at a time, but it would depend upon my mood, which I might run at any given time.

This one is from New Zealand and is covered in my new Teakettles book. Resin parts are available for anyone who might like to build one. It uses the Bachmann On30 Street Car motor block. My favorite motor arrangement.

The original was built with a Hudson auto frame and running gear. It was successful and another unit of similar design was fashioned soon after the first was delivered. This is a bag of resin parts that needs to be combined with a 1/24 scale plastic auto or truck frame and running gear. I used 1919 Olds parts for mine. The wooden parts of the body are actually styrene. The water tank is a plaster 55 gal. drum. How it works is beyond me. I copied the original arrangement, so the real thing worked somehow! Plans are in the new book.

A little closer still...

Teakettles is in the process of being printed at last. I shot a few more photos to round out the documentation. Spell check done, but still some weird things do happen at times. The first 20 volumes will be signed and numbered and the price is $25.25 which includes Priority shipping in the US. It can be ordered through my web site and PayPal, or simply by sending me a check to; Tom Yorke, 210 Pitch Lake Ct, Roswell, GA 30076. 

Perhaps a little premature, but...

Teakettles, Dinkies & Critters is finally being put together and should be ready soon. Full of plans, B&W and color photos plus notes on many of my locomotive creations built over the years. Some rather normal looking while others are, well, not really normal looking! More info later when we get closer to actually printing the thing.
Tom