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MDC 3tr Shay

Introduction

In the opening months of 2006 I built a 3-truck Model Die Casting RoundhouseShay. On these pages you will find information and photos of that process. If you ever consider building the MDC Shay: brace your self. It's a beast to build, but you'll learn a lot.

It's a struggle. I used Jeff Johnstons book "The MDC Shay Handbook" as a guide to help me through the process. My advise: don't consider building the MDC Shay without the book. These pages are not a complete rewrite of Johnstons book but merely an addition to it. It wil show you the difficulties I have encountered and the fun I had. It will also give you some insights in my views and solutions and the (simple) tools I used.

Model railroading is fun and thankfully there are many builders everywhere. I've learned much of the skills I apply to this model by reading books and on the internet. One site has been particularly interesting and the owner of it very supportive, http://home.hetnet.nl/~f2hhanshobbyhoek/. But unfortunately this site has since disappeared.

For those who cannot wait to read the whole story, here is a quick preview of my Shay


This site will not contain prototype information. There is enough of it in all sorts of books and on the internet. So please take a look at

http://www.shaylocomotives.com/
http://www.gearedsteam.com/
http://www.steaminthewoods.com/

For the tooling I used to build the MDC Roundhouse Shay I refer to my tools section

regards, Garrattfan

 

Update February 2023

Aktuelles Februar 2023

This keeps attracting visitors and questions do occasionally come. I was surprised by a German fellow builder who translated the whole Shay story into German for an elderly friend. Dieser Seiten bleiben noch Besucher ziehen und ich kriege auch gelegentlich noch Fragen. Ich würde völlig überrascht von ein deutscher Kollege-Bauer die für ein ältere Freund all Shay Seiten auf Deutsch übersetzt hat.
So here it is if you might be looking for the Shay build in German Also finden sie Hier die Baubeschreibung der Shay auf Deutsch.