Sunday Photo Fun 6-12-05

[daan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jaabat

Nice photos, Daan! I'm planning a scratchbuilt bridge or two as well. Yours turned out great.

Jim

Thanks, it's made out of 1x1cm rectangulair steelprofile, welded together. (so I can stand on it too[:D]) I first made the two sides, made a groundplate and bolted the sides to that frame.

And the chief has a saying; easy does it... so he'll come up with a layout some time later..

[wrmcclellan]

..and then there are those bulls that don't look but act!...[^]

[ChiefEagles]

Roy, don't forget I have friends in the Dallas area [as Tony S. sould say]. [;)] Some times fastness is not the bestest. [remember the yung bull and the old bull looking at the cows?] [:-^][:-^]

[wrmcclellan]

Daan - nice!

Seems everyone is pulling away from the Chief with their layouts [:O]

[Jumijo]

Nice photos, Daan! I'm planning a scratchbuilt bridge or two as well. Yours turned out great.

Jim

[pbjwilson]

Bing a ding a ling

[daan]

QUOTE: Originally posted by jerrylovestrains

Daan, I like how you can throw the switches with a throttle cable! Neat Idea!

To be honest, it's not my idea. Märklin used this system in the 30's for a short time.
I saw it in a book about the mechanics of old toytrains. It's however extremely cheap and works great!

[Anonymous]

Daan, I like how you can throw the switches with a throttle cable! Neat Idea!

[cnw1995]

Love to see the C&NW prominently featured this weekend. Chief, that looks like a simpler job than I supposed - I'd like to see more of what you did if you don't mind posting.

[ChiefEagles]

Daan, great job. I remember the first photos of the blank floor with track.

[daan]

Now I have some pictures.. It's not plastered yet, but it's a small view of how it the substructure is built.

On the top left is the road crossing with the lights built in, top right the tunnelentrance from the station, middle left the canyon trackpart with the K-line mp15 and chalk hoppers from K-line (bought them for $50[:D]),bottom left the mp-15 on the same track with some bits of rockmolding. Bottom right is the selfmade metal bridge.

[tgovebaker]

Hey Chief, that looks great. A couple of months ago you told me in a post that you told me that an MTH dummy could make that kind of transition, but I figured it would be too much work, so I sold it. Now I'm kicking myself.

This should be a lesson to everyone out there: when anyone with five stars says it can be done, pay attention.

Nice work!

[dougdagrump]

Walt, What's the latest on your camera car project?

The club's camera car, pin hole cam and transmitter using track power.

[waltrapp]

From my 200? layout:





- walt

[ChiefEagles]

It works. MTH NS Dash 8 dummy. Was a "Plain Jane". Now it has stripes, decals, lights and smoke.
Original:

After striping and decals:

And now:




Will post more later so anyone interested, you can build your own.

[spankybird]

QUOTE: Originally posted by choochin3

Hey Spankybird,
Is that the new Lionel Berkshire that just came out with the Chessie passenger cars?
That's what I'm asking Santa to bring me this Christmas.

Cheers,
Carl T.

This is an MTH PS2 RailKing engine that is about 3 years old.[;)]

tom

[daan]

Roy, your engine is stunning! I'm not so into steamers, but this one is a great one. I would love to have one of those real cab's scottsmith, I would know someplace in the backgarden to combine it with a barbeque in the bonnet. (But I think it's too big..)

Nice pictures!! I'll submit some pictures too, soon, when I plastered my landscape.. It's now a mess of meshwire and wood.

[choochin3]

Hey Spankybird,
Is that the new Lionel Berkshire that just came out with the Chessie passenger cars?
That's what I'm asking Santa to bring me this Christmas.

Cheers,
Carl T.

[scottsmith]

Scott Smith

[underworld]

pbjwilson I really like the tinplate on oriental rug. Very colorful!!!


underworld
[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[FJ and G]

nice shots, guys

[pbjwilson]

Great pics yuz giz! (got that from Laz)

Here's a little Marx action -

[zwbob]

A nice hot day to spend at the swimmin hole.

[ChiefEagles]

Great shots guys. Bob Nelson has been guiding me through controling the voltage to a smoke unit I am installing in an MTH dummy. Without lowering the voltage [18 V from transformer for DCS/TMCC], I was afraid it would burn out the unit. Here is what we came up with:

Added pickups to the unit earlier:


Added lights [including ditch lights]:


Now to mount the smoke unit in the right place to fit under the exhaust in the shell.

[webenda]

I am sure everyone knows about the Southern Pacific Rattlesnake.

http://www.calmzoo.org/stories/storyReader$220

Not so well known is the LBG Scorpion.

With the popularity of outdoor model railroading, more and more garden railroaders are discovering the LBG Scorpion. It lives under rocks and timbers used for landscaping the railroad. Scorpions can be a nuisance because they have a penchant to sting when disturbed. While its large size can be alarming, fortunately, the sting of the LBG Scorpion is not considered deadly.

http://insects.tamu.edu/extension/bulletins/L-1678.html

[spankybird]

Here are a few pic of our Chessie with flat cars and truck trailers






















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Lets have some fun [:D] [:)] [8D] [:p]
tom

[dougdagrump]

An early start for me also, does that mean I can sleep late tomorrow.....
Container trains at the crossing.

Completing the loop to clear the main.


Cleared for departure.


Auto train past the airport,

Over the bridge,

Off to Willoughby maybe?

[wrmcclellan]

Jon,

Thanks for your kind comments. The mods took about 7 hours, working slow and meticulously, check and recheck, etc., to ensure I did not blow the new circuitry (a lot of wires to keep track of, route, and/or trim to fit). I had to modify the tender connector board that goes in the engine as it would not fit due to the frame being narrower than some circuitry on the PCB (took about an hour to figure out). One hour was spent trouble shooting a pesky short in the wiring to the AC feed to the constant lighting board. I also had trouble getting my laptop PC (USB2 to RS-232 serial converter issue) to download the sound files and ended up using my desktop machine (which has an RS-232 port).

I have bought another kit to do my Proto1 NYC Hudson.

Regards,
Roy

[jonadel]

Roy--

Thank You! Those are wonderful pic's, would love to see those in person. Any guess as to how many hours you spent on the upgrade? Very impressive!

Jon