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: Back in the day I was the Secretary for years (around 25) for the [[Milwaukee Light Engineering Society|M.L.E.S.]] and wrote the newsletter that was claimed the best in the industry by some. One of the things I wanted it to do was teach the members of our club that they could do a lot of things themselves. [[Tom Artzberger]] was a friend that got me into live steam. I was an HO modeler and he a O scale modeler. We met in a round robin group. We hit it off and I join the [[Milwaukee Light Engineering Society|M.L.E.S.]] club that he was a member of and started building what I called <i>U-scale</i>. Everything else in the hobby has a letter why not 1 1/2 inch scale. You build them / You ride'em, You break'em / U fix them! Anyway I worked in Tom's shop quit a bit over years more and more as time went on. Became an employee when he started building stuff for sale and it became a business, the [[Pike Lake & Eastern Hartford Shops]]. You could say we became very close friends. | : Back in the day I was the Secretary for years (around 25) for the [[Milwaukee Light Engineering Society|M.L.E.S.]] and wrote the newsletter that was claimed the best in the industry by some. One of the things I wanted it to do was teach the members of our club that they could do a lot of things themselves. [[Tom Artzberger]] was a friend that got me into live steam. I was an HO modeler and he a O scale modeler. We met in a round robin group. We hit it off and I join the [[Milwaukee Light Engineering Society|M.L.E.S.]] club that he was a member of and started building what I called <i>U-scale</i>. Everything else in the hobby has a letter why not 1 1/2 inch scale. You build them / You ride'em, You break'em / U fix them! Anyway I worked in Tom's shop quit a bit over years more and more as time went on. Became an employee when he started building stuff for sale and it became a business, the [[Pike Lake & Eastern Hartford Shops]]. You could say we became very close friends. | ||
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* [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_Diesel_I.pdf Volume I Diesel (PDF)] | * [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_Diesel_I.pdf Volume I Diesel (PDF)] | ||
** See also [https://www.tacllc.biz/pledeslcalc.htm Diesel locomotive design calculations] | |||
* [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_Steam_II.pdf Volume II Steam (PDF)] | * [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_Steam_II.pdf Volume II Steam (PDF)] | ||
** See also [https://www.tacllc.biz/plesteamcalc.htm Steam locomotive design calculations] | |||
* [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_General_III.pdf Volume III General (PDF)] | * [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_General_III.pdf Volume III General (PDF)] | ||
* [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_CarParts_IV.pdf Volume IV Car Parts (PDF)] | * [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/LSMRE_CarParts_IV.pdf Volume IV Car Parts (PDF)] | ||
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** [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/Hopper_Plans.pdf Hopper plans (PDF)] | ** [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/Hopper_Plans.pdf Hopper plans (PDF)] | ||
** [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/MLES_hopper.jpg Hopper photo (JPG)] | ** [http://ibls.org/files/2024/Artzberger_Rodig_Articles/MLES_hopper.jpg Hopper photo (JPG)] | ||
== Rodig Equipment == | |||
[[Kenneth Rodig|Ken Rodig]] worte, May 2024: | |||
: Find enclosed some pic's of my train from just a year ago. I built everything in it from scratch using our [[Artzberger-Rodig Articles|club plans as we called them]], except the caboose which was a Mountain car company kit and the brown Round top box car another kit. | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:07, 3 June 2024
- Back in the day I was the Secretary for years (around 25) for the M.L.E.S. and wrote the newsletter that was claimed the best in the industry by some. One of the things I wanted it to do was teach the members of our club that they could do a lot of things themselves. Tom Artzberger was a friend that got me into live steam. I was an HO modeler and he a O scale modeler. We met in a round robin group. We hit it off and I join the M.L.E.S. club that he was a member of and started building what I called U-scale. Everything else in the hobby has a letter why not 1 1/2 inch scale. You build them / You ride'em, You break'em / U fix them! Anyway I worked in Tom's shop quit a bit over years more and more as time went on. Became an employee when he started building stuff for sale and it became a business, the Pike Lake & Eastern Hartford Shops. You could say we became very close friends.
- So we were always looking for ways to improve our club and I wrote the newsletter and convinced Tom to start doing some "Engineering" for the newsletter. He is a Mechanical Engineer and I had a degree in Accounting. Tom at the time had Pro E programs on his computer and did the drawings. I went back to tech school and learned Pro E as well. So I created L.S.M.R.E. (Large Scale Model Railway Engineering). In the shop we would talk about what to do for the club and improve it and the newsletter. Tom and I would pick a topics, and I said "How about we create a series." We would publish projects in steps each mouth for the newsletter and then at the end I would compile them into booklets.
- So to answer your question, I would say go ahead and publish the articles if you'd like and give the club M.L.E.S. credit and Tom Artzberger. We did it to help grow the hobby.
- Ken R.
- Former Secretary, Milwaukee Light Engineering Society Ltd.
- Former Secretary, International Brotherhood of Live Steamers, Midwest Division
- Volume I Diesel (PDF)
- Volume II Steam (PDF)
- See also Steam locomotive design calculations
- Volume III General (PDF)
- Volume IV Car Parts (PDF)
Rodig Equipment
Ken Rodig worte, May 2024:
- Find enclosed some pic's of my train from just a year ago. I built everything in it from scratch using our club plans as we called them, except the caboose which was a Mountain car company kit and the brown Round top box car another kit.