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Olde Frothlingslosh

It starts with a plan.  In this case it's from a book: “A Century + Ten of D&RGW Narrow Gauge Freight Cars, 1871 to 1981” by Robert E. Sloan.

This is an excellent publication with plans, pictures, and car rosters covering essentially the full span of D&RGW narrow gauge rolling stock.   It is 304 pages and spiral bound so you can open each page/plan fully.

I scan the appropriate pages at a fairly high quality so I can build this.

The plans are in HO scale.

I used a utility called "Scale Print" to print it out in large scale, in this case 1:22.5 (I had not yet converted to 1:20)

Scale Print is part of my RailDriver Car Builders Cyclopedia (1922) that came on a CD.

I made the frame from some redwood strips I had lying around.  

They weren’t quite scale, but it’s not like I’ll look at the bottom very often.

I cut the sides and ends from 1/8” plywood.  

I’ve added some internal bracing to prevent the sides from bowing out.

Not a contest quality model by any standards, but it is meant to be run on a daily basis.  (Bob McCown later coined the term "operations quality" - looks good, but is meant for running!)