{"id":12166,"date":"2024-04-01T08:47:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/?p=12166"},"modified":"2024-04-02T12:37:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T16:37:50","slug":"the-twists-turns-of-home-grown-tooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/?p=12166","title":{"rendered":"The Twists & Turns of Home Grown Tooling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Isn’t it funny to think about the manufacturing twists and turns to make one of our favorite little parts.\u00a0 Four years after acquiring the All Nation Line business, we are still discovering new things.\u00a0 Wait until you see this little gadget that was brilliantly developed.\u00a0 It creates the very important twist to the freight car steps we so affectionately love!\u00a0 Did you ever wonder how that perfect little twist is made?<\/span><\/p>\n

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I will take you back in time to when there was little automation in the world.\u00a0 Even if there was automation, sometimes the best things in life are small hand-tools to make just the right turn.\u00a0 I introduce to you the “Freight Car Step Bender Fixture<\/em>“.\u00a0 Yes, now you, too, are one of the few people who know the secret to perfectly putting the twist with a 90 degree bend to the legs of the steps for a prototypical part.<\/span><\/p>\n

In all seriousness, below you will see pictured two of the home grown tools.\u00a0 These hand held working jigs have been used thousands of times in the creation of freight car steps.\u00a0 What a unique creation by the machinists of a time long ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In delving more into the history of this hand-tool, we spoke recently to a great friend, who was part of one of the important families in the history of All Nation Line.\u00a0 Terrell Colson, the son of Bob Colson (owner of All Nation Line from 1958 to 1972), remembers many days working with his father.\u00a0 Indeed, he remembers bending many steps with this very tool.\u00a0 We continue to learn fascinating history about this company for even the smallest little detail part.\u00a0 Recently, we met up with Terrell while at the March Meet. With his permission I share a fun photo of the two of us (John on the left, Terrell on the right).\u00a0 What great conversations we had about the history of All Nation Line.<\/span><\/p>\n

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I made a short instructional video using this “Freight Car Step Bender” and thought you would enjoy watching. So now you, too, know the secret twists and turns for this beautiful little part.\u00a0 Wishing you well in your O Scale 2 Rail adventures.\u00a0 John Wubbel<\/span><\/p>\n

Freight Car Step Bender Fixture<\/em><\/span> Video Click Here<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isn’t it funny to think about the manufacturing twists and turns to make one of our favorite little parts.\u00a0 Four years after acquiring the All Nation Line business, we are still discovering new things.\u00a0 Wait until you see this little gadget that was brilliantly developed.\u00a0 It creates the very important […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-main-line-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12166"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12267,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12166\/revisions\/12267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allnationline.com\/WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}