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Awesome... luv the attention to detail !
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Awesome job as usual Fritz. Now finish that ringer!!
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Superb work Fritz!
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Truly amazing work and ability!
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sorry mistake
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sorry mistake
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Hi Fritz,
Great ,great job , I like it
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Fritz, really awesome job!!! As a model railroader and former member of the NMRA I really appreciate the attention to detail you did on this!! The Schnable car is definitely a model to be in awe of and you did an outstanding job of replicating it!!! Thanks for the pics and the detailed description of the process!!!!
Dain
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I am not a real big model railroad fan, but I am a lover of CRAFFTMANSHIP, and that is what this is. Beauitful, Thanks for sharing.
Dave
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That thing kicks butt. Great job.
Dave
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Thanks Guys, it make all the effort worth while. The hardest part is when you have a lot of time and effort in a certain section, like assembling the sides of the main frames together and then find out it came out twisted and I had to go back to square one and design a custom jig hold every thing square. It was a rather involved process and then I made jig support to hold the cross tubes in place so they would be square to the sides and not out of alignment.    The blocks on top trap the frame side vertical pieces I installed to hold the side true to the top profile of the main frames. The block in the rear hold the rear section in place to glue. I milled profile passes of the top view on the jig base so I had something to square against and to use for line up points. The only part parallel to the base is the rear section, everything else is at an angel which makes it hard put together square and not twisted.  You can see how much I have to pull the top arms in to line up with the line blocks... In the end it was worth it but there were some very low points trying to figure it all out. None of this comes out or is notice in the final model. The main frame is most likely the hardest thing I ever had to figure out how to put together. All the CAD files don't solve all your problems. Some times you just have to keep trying and sooner or latter it will work out. More to follow. Fritz
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Fritz, This is as fine a piece of scratch building as I have seen in a long time. Your craftsmanship is superb. Your jig is very well thought out. One can see how difficult it is to align pieces that are angled to each other. Now that you have made the jigs, and the learning curve is easier, you can churn these models out in no time!!!
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RI CRANEMAN wrote:Fritz, This is as fine a piece of scratch building as I have seen in a long time. Your craftsmanship is superb. Your jig is very well thought out. One can see how difficult it is to align pieces that are angled to each other. Now that you have made the jigs, and the learning curve is easier, you can churn these models out in no time!!! I was going to say something similar. Fritz, there is a bit of truism to the fact that when building custom equipment there has to be specialized jigs made to allow the construction. I think your igs are wonderful and as RI Craneman said, they will come in handy if you want to build more. I know that as of right now there are no "O" scale (1:48) Schnable cars around and there is only one company that is making them in "HO" (1:87) scale. Again awesome build and thanks for letting us see the process!!
Dain I'm a kid at heart, so I will play with any model construction vehicle from 1:87 scale to 1:1 scale!!!! Age is a state of time NOT a state of mind!!
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not entirely true Dain MTH has been making them for years, just not nearly as big as his nor as detailed http://www.mthtrains.com/content/20-98577a new release of them just came out this year
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Excellent craftsmanship......it's hard to say much more when my jaw has hit the floor.....brilliant execution! 
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