I have not blogged you all in a while and must tell you there has been a lot going on. On Wednesday Nov. 10th, I was in Ocala, FL with Jim Manzone, president of the Ocala Model Railroaders Historic Preservation Society. Jim is painting the model train donated by Bachmann Trains, we will be using in the film. He is doing a great job and you can see the photos from my trip in a new section of the website you can find here: http://www.engineeringtragedy.com/The_Model_Train.html
We have also picked up a new sponsor The Canton Bandag Co. and they are repairing the wheel of the fire steamer owned by Dave McCaff, so we can use it in the film. The Canton Bandage Co. is the ONLY company in the world that still makes old solid rubber tires. The wheels on this 1892 American La France Fire Steamer are large, heavy and they don't make parts for them anymore. I am very lucky that the only place in the world I could get this work done is right in my back yard. Dave McCaff was kind enough to allow us to use his fire steamer in exchange for getting the wheel repaired. Normally this repair would be around $2,700.00. Thankfully the owner of the Canton Bandag Co. (Dave Richards) likes our film project and has offered to do the repair as a donation. WOW, what a blessing that was!
The first photo you see is Patti looking at the broken wheel on the steamer in the barn and the second photo is the steamer outside the bar before it had a broken wheel and was still in operation.
The dirt moving at the Peterson farm in North Bloomfield, where we are building our outdoor movie set is done. Now we are waiting for the bridge and then we can start laying track, and decorating the mini set with trees and ground cover.
I have about four more behind the scenes videos I need to edit and get up on the website. As soon as I get time to do that, I will get them up.
That's all the news for now!
Len Brown
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