Drawings in Progress
At any given time I usually have a dozen or so drawings in progress. Sometimes it takes years to finish them depending on my whims of the day. Here are some of them. Left click on any drawing to enlarge it to full screen.
Bridgton & Saco River Caboose 101
Franklin & Megantic RR Caboose, which became SR&RL 554
This car was built from one of the Billerica & Bedford RR excursion cars.
F&M Baldwin No. 3/4
This is a pencil drawing that did not scan well. It is very accurate, however, as it is drawn from original Baldwin blueprints.
B&SR RR Hinckley Forney No. 2. The Monson RR Forneys were nearly identical to this engine. F&M No. 1 and B&SR No. 1 were similar to it.
Wiscasset, Waterville & Farmington Railway No. 10
I first measured this locomotive at Edaville in 1994 and have been altering the drawing as the Wiscasset Museum has altered the engine. The version shown below shows the rear frame extended six inches, which the Museum plans to do but hasn’t yet. I think it would be a big improvement.
Text and drawings on this page Copyright 2010 by Wesley Ewell and may not be used in any form without permission. An exception is granted for modelbuilders who may copy the drawings for personal use, but may not sell, distribute or publish them in any way.
June 14, 2011
On April 28th a massive bolt of lightning wiped out electronic devices in at least four houses on my street. It fried my CPU and wide-format printer, along with my wireless router, land-line phone, answering machine, four GFIs, and a large oak tree that was hit by a fragment of the main bolt. The gurus at Cape Computer recovered all of my drawing files, but I have not been able to run my CAD software on the new operating system and cannot justify the cost of replacing it. As a result, I have returned to drawing with pen and ink for the first time in twenty years. I plan to redraw many of the subjects shown here for publication in the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette. Watch for them in coming issues.
July 9, 2011
Peter Barney asked if he could use my drawing of Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes RR Railbus 4 in the book he is preparing for the Bridgton Historical Society. He had previously published this drawing in the book on SR&RL railcars that I illustrated many years ago. Bus 4 was moved to the Bridgton & Harrison RR as their Bus 3 after the SR&RL closed.
My drawing showed this vehicle as it looked when first rebuilt with a four-wheel lead truck and steel drive wheels. In 1935, however, the split windshield was replaced with a single pane. Here is what it looked like when it ran on the Bridgton & Harrison RR from 1936-41 and still looks today.
