Me? The dang "Mule" is kickn my back side!!!
Toad
Toad, with all that lead in your mules a$$, its gonna pull alot!
Still working on the Class A, to quote Dr Frankenfurter, "Come up to the lab, and see whats on the slab" you would find I have to following to finish, hopefull before christmas;
the Class A
Steam Dummy Inspection Locomotive
F40PH body shell painting
Repowering one of my Gooses with busted the motor block
Converting another Goose to battery power
Layout wise:
Clear junk off layout and begin placing structures so scenery can be planned
Continue on the 21" diameter ultra-microlayout
Continue detailing the 36" pizza Portable
Have fun with your trains
The Home of Articulated Ugliness
this is what i just did , I put 2 sets of wheels on my bobber caboose and 20 ft. open car. ben
Great!!! Everyones busy beavers! or Trainsman
Ralph,
Look on eBay some people will cut to your size on there, leased I have found a few in the states.
At present I am not working on anything. I am spending time running my trains - 1:29 Aristo and 1:22.5 Bachmann whilst the longer days are still with us and the cold and rain are minimal. In order to maintain marital bliss, and maintain the duties which I have, I generally only run in the afternoons and early evenings.
But a list is in preparation, noting various tasks, which I feel could improve my railroad and its rolling stock. When all is said and done winter evening can be long and cold which leaves adequate time to complete these tasks. However I think I can safley say that all will not have been completed by the 1st. day of Spring 2009.
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
https://www.buckfast.org.uk/
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
cabbage wrote:£57.40p
57.40 GBP
=
105.370 USD
Is this right Ralph? If so dang man!
Alan,
Now we have another Hurricane coming and who knows where.
vsmith wrote:Toad I gotta feeling its coming your way, looks like you might have a wet Labor Day
Normal!
Toad Under Water
I'm working on this:
So far I've only made a few cuts to a USA reefer car
lownote wrote: I'm working on this: So far I've only made a few cuts to a USA reefer car
Looking good, cause I could not have made those very nice circle holes like that. Have not learned that yet!
Still Ralph you need to wear eye & ear protection.
At the moment I am working on the Kittatinny Mt. RR first structure. A water Tower made from scratch. So far it is coming out nice (at least for my limited skill level) No pictures till it is done though.
Toad you need to change your name to bullfrog. They like water better.
SNOWSHOE wrote: At the moment I am working on the Kittatinny Mt. RR first structure. A water Tower made from scratch. So far it is coming out nice (at least for my limited skill level) No pictures till it is done though. Toad you need to change your name to bullfrog. They like water better.
Really I am a Horney Toad! Lets see some pictures!!!!
Most mornings, my time, (your early morning around 05.30CT) I check the weather in Wisconsin. I then look at the States weather map to see who is getting a hammering. N. Texas and OK seem to feature quite a lot as does Missouri.
I watched Fay and now I am keeping an eye on that ole Gustav.
Hey Lownote,
What in the world is that? Sure looks cool what ever it is... Look'n good so far! Please keep posting pictures.
Toad to answer your question...Nothing right now. My wife and I just had our 2nd. child 3 weeks ago and with a 2 yr old already it is all I can do to keep up with him and the new baby. Right now I just enjoy watching all of you work
Happy railroading!
Joe
Joe,
Happy new babby!
Can put him/her to sleep just build a larger g scale car and put them in with all the click-de-clack they should soon fall asleep
SNOWSHOE wrote: I have a 4 year old and one on the way Feb 1st.
Shoe, Tell your wife NO not Feb 1st but Feb 6 on my birthday so I can have something to look forward to Shoe as you know my dad passed on Feb 6.
If she has problems tell her to cell phone me.
I've been trying to spend at least one hour a day (night) working on garden rr items. So far I've converted one end of my freight cars to Kadee, and all my passenger cars. I've been frustrated by couplers that won't connect or stay connected, and cable ties look so tacky.
Also, I've rebuilt a Llagas Creek#6 switch which had given me trouble. I replaced the switch ties, remounted the air motor, and improved the power switching performance of the points. If I could find pc board that had copper on both sides, it would be perfect!
Lastly, I've built two new end of track bumpers for my yard, using left over ties from a track building project.
And yesterday I helped a fellow SVGRS club member build about 25% of his home layout roadbed.
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot Visit my blog! http://becomingawarriorpoet.blogspot.com
Joe, Snoe, congrates on the baby boom.
I've been a virtual prisoner in our house, yard has had a bad flea problem thanks to an abandoned flea ridden kitten we had under our house, kitty went to the pound but that left a mess of fleas behind, exterminators been out 4 times in a month, I've sprayed twice under and around also, sheesh! Its like theres an endless flea fountain under there.
So Ive been trying to get a few old projects off the workbench, heres an old Delton Doozie cadaver (body only, no drive, no trucks, no interior) I picked up off ebay about a year ago, so I'm rebuilding the baggage end as an enclosed vestible combine:
I cut off the hood, shaved the front window frames and shade, and used scribed styrene over the face, then added strip styrene to frame out the vesibule door, and added some Ozark handrails and a brake wheel. Next to add some old LGB coach trucks...
I'm find I'm referencing Harry Brunk's "Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge" quite a lot as I ponder the layout, this model uses the drawings he did for C&S combine #20 as a reference.
Hi Toad
I am on the home stretch of the Witches cottage it has taken far longer than I would have thought reasonable to get to this stage.
I have also started work on a cottage that is based on one photo of what is suposed to be the smallest cottage in Wales it has a floor plan 8 feet square and is also to be made from some of the fridge packing.
regards John Busby
Hi lownote
OK pardon my ignorance but what is it a loco of some sort?? with a wooden body ??
A couple of months ago I built a long tunnel (8ft.) out of timber joists and builders planks. A substantial item which can stand a persons weight. The idea was to locate it on a spur and should a sudden rain shower arise the train could be housed there in the dry.
It didn't quite work out that way. The rains can be quite sudden here, we seem to get too many of them of late as well, and I was finding it difficult to bring the train to the spur and reverse the train down the spur to the tunnel in good time.
So I have relocated the tunnel on the main and luckily it is quite well concealed with bushes and plants: just as it was on the spur. So far I have beaten the weather and I am pleased that the effort to move it was worthwhile.
At a later date, during the autumn and as some of our stored wood stocks diminish, or get moved nearer the homestead the greenhouse will become the "dry zone". The spur will be extended to form a siding and will re-join the main. A spur, from the siding will then, hopefully go into the greenhouse.
Greenhouses can be nice warm places in the winter often with good light : an ideal place to watch trains and do the small repair or kitbash.
John
Yes its an electric Freight motor. The picture shows the pole down right next to the ladder and they came in all shapes an sizes imagnable which is why they are always eye catching.
A bach 2-6-0 from a mauler
A Pacific from an aniverisery 4-6-0
A Fairbanks Morse unit
Batteries, sound and RCS in all.
Oh and find my F....n Camra!!!!!
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