{"id":25,"date":"2004-11-04T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T16:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=25"},"modified":"2004-11-04T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T16:42:42","slug":"sunset-2-8-2-mikado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Sunset 2-8-2- Mikado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Sunset 2-8-2 Mikado sitting on a Diamond scale turntable.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This was my very first brass engine, purchased before the price of brass engines got stupid. I paid $140.00 CDN (That&#8217;s about $94 in US dollars) for this engine in 1993. You would never find a deal like that now.<\/p>\n<p>I heavily reworked the Diamond Scale turntable, with ball bearings and finer detail. They look nice if you put the work into them. It&#8217;s not yet motorized; I plan on getting to that soon. I don&#8217;t intend on indexing it, as the real ones weren&#8217;t and it&#8217;s close enough to the operator to see it clearly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/pkimages\/pk-mikado.jpg\" alt=\"Makido\" align=\"baseline\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/>\nImage Copyright ? Tim Warris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sunset 2-8-2 Mikado sitting on a Diamond scale turntable. This was my very first brass engine, purchased before the price of brass engines got stupid. I paid $140.00 CDN (That&#8217;s about $94 in US dollars) for this engine in 1993. You would never find a deal like that now. I heavily reworked the Diamond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.port-kelsey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}