Chief, I understand your problem completely. As you can see my Lionel GP-30 hardly smokes, too.
Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
TCA 09-64284
Frank53 wrote:Jim:w-o-w! Nice photo - that's one of the ones Chief took for you when he was up north?
Jim:
w-o-w! Nice photo - that's one of the ones Chief took for you when he was up north?
Nope. Took it myself. It also comes in a Santa Fe F3 version, but you'll have to wait a while to see that one.
Chief, I see you still haven't fired your erect missile!!! Is there a problem???
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
Who says Lionel and Atlas diesels won't smoke? [actually too much light so it does not do them justice]
Two Atlas diesels heading for the tunnel.
Back room is full of trains [storage right now].
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
So many wonderful photos this week! Daan, your layout is really progressing well. Love that Union Station!
Frank, great looking city scape! Great illusion of depth!
Doug - Apitz Forest? What a name! Looks like you know what you're doing with that furnace filter material!
A pair of Williams 2023s pull a post war passenger train.
The forest ranger is doing some yard work
Frank53 Nice work again Frank!
Hey I just saw that Sunday photo fun had 666 views!!!
underworld
Few more from today's progress:
daan:
that's outstanding!
Nice Pic everyone!
daan wrote: @underworld, that's a nice engine you've got there.. It's on the wrong tracks by the way..
@underworld, that's a nice engine you've got there.. It's on the wrong tracks by the way..
Thanks! I wanted to take a picture in the snow so I used the Aristo Craft track because I didn't want the ties on the GarGraves to get wet. I have some Lionel G gauge that I bought really cheap that I am going to add a third rail and also some assorted Bachmann, Aristo Craft, and LGB tarck that I'm going add a third rail to as well. I have some other pre war stuff that I will take pictures of this week. Nice work on your Union Station and road!!!
c-burke9
That Marx is BEAUTIFUL!!!! I assume it is new production?
Jim H
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Apitz Forest, newly cut down backdrop and malfunctioning semaphore New signals
RIP Chewy - best dog I ever had.
underworld wrote: c-burke9 Is that a ram that you have doing track work by the GG1??? underworld
c-burke9 Is that a ram that you have doing track work by the GG1???
And he is laying down on the job, man its hard to find good people / animals today.
jefelectric wrote: Buckeye Riveter wrote: Due to ice on the track, we couldn't use the engine to plow the snow. Gotta have juice!!Buckeye, You need to build a Winter snow plow with battery power like David has done with his outdoor pike. On the Atlas forum there was a post within the last couple of days by another modeler who had converted a G guage GP7 to battery power contolled by DCC contoller & RC. All kinds of ideas out there.
Buckeye Riveter wrote: Due to ice on the track, we couldn't use the engine to plow the snow. Gotta have juice!!
Due to ice on the track, we couldn't use the engine to plow the snow. Gotta have juice!!
Buckeye, You need to build a Winter snow plow with battery power like David has done with his outdoor pike. On the Atlas forum there was a post within the last couple of days by another modeler who had converted a G guage GP7 to battery power contolled by DCC contoller & RC. All kinds of ideas out there.
BUCKEYE how about a jet engine snow melter like LIONEL is coming out with. A nice propane torch mounted on a flat car would do the trick.
laz57
HighrailJon - Now I am not sure who made the coaling tower. I thought he kit-bashed the Lionel one, but not sure. I will have to check with him. This guy also has a house in Belgum and a layout with 20 engines there (also2 rail, mostly brass). His Belgum layout has be publish back in 93.
I am a person with a very active inner child. This is why my wife loves me so. Willoughby, Ohio - the home of the CP & E RR. OTTS Founder www.spankybird.shutterfly.com
About smoke-units, on http://norm.beesky.com/ there is an "how to" page on smoke units. See the link on the bottom of the page. MTH smokeunits have hotter elements in it.
On my layout there is a bit of improvement. Not much though. I've been building a roadbridge and started a coalmine, but tore them down again. It didn't "feel" good, so my planes have been changed a bit. What I'm planning to do I don't know yet, but the articles with the water in the last ctt gave me some ideas though..
The union station has a roof now and the platforms are installed..
Also the road has pavement and the parking places are made.
And the forrest road is now embedded in the landscape..
John, most of the time the difficulty in getting the trains to run outside is not the snow. We seem to almost always get some freezing rain just before a snow and it coats the tracks. I use a garden hoe to scrape the ice from the tracks. After I scrape, the engines can move most snow with the cow catcher.
Also, ice sometimes coats the ties and lifts the engines and cars off of the track such that they do not get power. Everything gets brittle at the cold temperatures.
Another great set of pictures!!! Thanks for posting.
Regards,
John O
FJ and G wrote: Work progressing on my Plymouth (got about 8 projects keeping me busy). BTW, I'm thinking about putting shellac over this wood when all the details are added. Does anyone know if spray paint can adhere to shellac?
Work progressing on my Plymouth (got about 8 projects keeping me busy). BTW, I'm thinking about putting shellac over this wood when all the details are added. Does anyone know if spray paint can adhere to shellac?
David,
Shellac is often used as a primer / sealer in woodworking. It should not be a problem to paint over it.
It is 19 degrees and high on Mount Zodiac, the trains are running:
Here's my Marklin gauge 1 making it through the new snow.
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