Sunday Photo Fun 7-16-06

[FJ and G]

Thanks, guys,

Butch

The base is crusher fines (slurry). I've long advocated this type of ballast for indoor track as well. At $20 a ton, it's a bargain and actually consists of the same rock as real ballast, only it's crushed and contains powder as well, which helps it set up. I add concrete bonding adhesive diluted with water to seal it.

Here's the crusher fines:



I float my track in the crusher fines on battens, shown here:



I nail the ties to the battens and some I glue with Titebond III. After the track is affixed to the battens, I stain the cedar ties and battens with Thompson waterseal; but old motor oil would work even better.

Glad to answer more specific questions as they may arise.

[1688torpedo]

Hello All!     Nice Photo's. CSXJohn-  I bet that Highball was used as a Basketball by some bored Train Crews years ago. Take Care all.

[butch1]

Moved to Fla. 2.5 years ago.  Have collection of O and O-27.  Thanks for pointing out how I will get into Garden Railroading easily! 

I have read the posts on how to convert the engine, and just need to gather the materials.  There is an R/C hobby shop with car races on Saturdays within earshot of my home.  Maybe someone there has parts they consider junk, that could be my treasure.

How about some information on your track and track-laying.  What is the Base you have put your track on?

[RR Redneck]

I always enjoy looking at these threads.

[FJ and G]

John,

Live steam in the future will solve the smoke problem

Doug,

No problems with the battery car. The added weight of the components inside the car really helps keep it on track.

The only problem I have with the layout is after it rains, chunks of ballast will often be on the railheads and in the flangeways. It takes about 10 minutes to clear the debris with a paintbrush so it's not too bad. If I had to do it over, I'd have used larger rails, however, as when loose ballast lands on the inside of the rails near the spikes, it often protrudes high enough to hit the overly large flanges.

But that's only after a rain and I can clean it up in 10 minutes. If I don't clean it up, the train will run anyway, tho, just a bit bumpy. :-)

Only other problem is that birds hang out on my trestle and take dumps there, then dive down to the pond and splash around. Other than the scat, they are fun to watch, however. I may put some goldfish into the lake to attract egrets and let them snack on the fish, since they're so inexpensive to buy.

[jefelectric]

Mitch, Nice paint job on the 248.  I am using the same method that you are using to post pictures.

David, Great pictures again.  Good job on the conversion.  Guess the batteries wont fit into the tender?  To bad you don't have smoke, outdoors would be a great place to enjoy it.  Or would your neighbors object to that to.  BB looks to be bored with the whole thing.  Maybe you need to load up a gondola with dogie treats.

Enjoy your trains.

[cnw1995]

David, I know you handlaid most of that track - have you had any problems running that long battery car on your curves? That engine looks great! My dream someday is to do as you've done with my trolleys and run them indoors.

Mitch, beautiful job on that 248. I'm jealous of your good work. Here is mine.

[FJ and G]

TMCC,

No. I just simply removed all of the electronic components and am running "primitive". I will, however, add lights later; just been kinda busy.

One other thing about the conversion. You know the tender to engine drawbar? It has 2 holes. I was able to use the closer hole to the locomotive as my track radii are no longer tight. It gives a better look  to see the tender drawn in closer. Too bad this RK doesn't have valve gear action. I regret having purchased it b/c of this. Perhaps someday I'll add this extra detail, as that's one of the fun things to see when watching steam action.

[tmcc man]

Nice pics everyone,

 The OTTS crew looked like they were having fun at the NKP museum, and I like Buckeye's circus train. FJG, does the MTH engine you converted still smoke?

[FJ and G]

Successfully converted my RK to R/C

[Anonymous]

As always great pics guys  

[Anonymous]

I want that Cotton Belt!!! Please, please, please!!!!!

(then again....I want just about everything I see on here!)

 

[csxt30]

Oh Boy !! What great pictures here today !! I really don't have any new ones but I have some more of the museum in Conneaut, to add to Tom's , hope he don't mind !!

Here's the manual power of the time !!  My favorite, too !!  

 

Now we have a HIGHBALL !! Ther's a little model of one there too !

Sign for the eng.

And here's one of my grandson !!

Thanks, John

[spankybird]

Tom,

     Great shots of your outing.  Where did you find all those "Scale" itmes?  I have been to several rail museums with pleny of photos to just add to my frustrations as I try to duplicate scenery on my layout.  Thanks for the photos and keep 'em coming.

Dennis

These are all at the NKP Museum in Conneaut, Ohio. John (csxt30) lives about 4 mile from it.

[Frank53]

Frank, No not my layout.  It is the club I attend.  Angels Gate HiRailers, in San Pedro Ca. 

 

Don:

OK, what are they using for streets?  

[mitchelr]

I just finished up reassembling the pre-War 248.  I think it turned out OK for a first effort at restoration.







Now I need to repaint the 629 and 630 coaches as the shade of paint I used does not match what is on the coaches.  The coaches and engine had been  hand-painted with a paint brush at some time in the past.  They are a mess.

Mitch

[dbaker48]

Frank, No not my layout.  It is the club I attend.  Angels Gate HiRailers, in San Pedro Ca.  The layout is in an old Army barracks located on Fort McArthur.

The stockyard is really great!

[jefelectric]

Dan,

The photos that I posted are hosted on dotphoto.com.  I tried to use them with the copy & paste and they showed up in the preview but not when I posted?  Not sure what the problem is but I won't fight it, just do what works.  Other guys say the old img &/img won't work for them now.

[Anonymous]

I'm begining to think it's different strokes for different folks.  Copy & paste doesn't work for me but the old img & /img works just fine.  Guess I'll just use what works.

I posted pics for the first time today - it didn't work until I copied and pasted from shutterfly (Spankys suggestion).  It won't work if you try to copy and paste directly from a program on your computer like IE .  Like Spanky says, you need a web hosted program that shares your photos.  I think that's right, but I just did what he said to do and it worked.

Dan

[jefelectric]

I'm begining to think it's different strokes for different folks.  Copy & paste doesn't work for me but the old img & /img works just fine.  Guess I'll just use what works.

[jefelectric]

Nice bunch of pictures guys.

Buckeye, Nice garden layout, like the daylillies.

A couple of pics of the long running stockyard project.

Future location of stockyard.

 

On my neat workbench.

 

In place on the layout temporarily.

[Frank53]

is this photo on your layout?:

 

 

what are you using for streets?

[dbaker48]

Thought I would try to post a couple of pictures of the speeder that I upgraded with TMCC.  It isn't the most cost effective scenerio, but it sure has had a tremendous amount of fun value.  The upgrade was more expensive than the speeder.  I also upgraded the two beeps, they are doing duty as yard switchers.  Have remote couplers on them as well.

[dwiemer]

Tom,

     Great shots of your outing.  Where did you find all those "Scale" itmes?  I have been to several rail museums with pleny of photos to just add to my frustrations as I try to duplicate scenery on my layout.  Thanks for the photos and keep 'em coming.

Dennis

[Anonymous]

Good Morning everyone,

Trolley set I purchased off of Ebay.  It's in the Lionel catalog in 2000.

Booker and the trolley

[Buckeye Riveter]

Thought I would post a photo of the shell of my 248 that I am preparing to reassemble. I stripped the shell using Simple Green. I found that the old brass could be reused if I clean it with asolution of salt and lemon juice. All the tranrnish came right off. I will polish the brass with Brasso and reassemble. Mitch

Mitch, email me and I will send you the code that made the photo appear.

Mitch received your email.  Your CTT email address might need to be checked, because it keeps bouncing back when I reply.

[mitchelr]

Thought I would post a photo of the shell of my 248 that I am preparing to reassemble. I stripped the shell using Simple Green. I found that the old brass could be reused if I clean it with a solution of salt and lemon juice. All the tarnish came right off. I will polish the brass with Brasso and reassemble. Mitch

[Frank53]

Got close to wrapping up two projects this week:

Marczi Brothers Brewing is made from a Walthers (I think) building front, repainted with a dock, signage and lighting added:

Before:

after:

The mail transfer station is built to cover a post war switch:

 

[Buckeye Riveter]

Photos from Roger’s Corners, Ohio

Elevation 936 Feet

The Circus comes to Roger's Corners