THe Kittinny Mountain RR started to provide limited passenger and freight service to the backwoods and its small hamlets.
thats a great idea. I will have to give it try. Thanks
While you are there, find their "popsicle" sticks packages and you should find packages of wood that is very close in size to a scale 1x8. 100 1x8’s for a uck sure saves a bunch of time at the table saw.
Tom Trigg
Shawn
Here’s a thought. Stop by your local fast burger joint that provides BROWN PAPER TOWELS/NAPKINS (unbleached). Pick up a few, cut to size to fit the opening, mix some "Tight Bond II" or other equivalent grade of exterior glue, 50/50 with water. Soak the paper in the glue mix, shape and trim to size to cover the "offending hole". Allow to dry. Cut the second layer into little "shingle size" chips soak in the glue mix and "wallpaper" them into position. Allow to dry, and paint with your favorite color of exterior grade house paint thinned to 50/50. If you leave off the "shingles" and leave it unpainted, you have something that looks very close to a canvas patch.
For added special effect, stop by your favorite "Scrapbooking" section of your favorite department store. They have paper scissors with a wide assortment "pattern cuts". You can end up with some sharp looking shingle patterns.
Here are a few more pictures of my improved power switch box and my new storage for trains
The roof will like nice once rusted
Its not the greatest looking structure but for a low budget backwoods RR it does the trick. I still want to hide that gap at the rood arch.
Would you mind sending me about some of your lot ?, mine is way too small for my RR
Dave
ps welldone lookin good
The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.
gbbariShawn - your RR still looks great- even better with the summer flora all around. Is that switch box roof cut out of a tin can? If so, great idea - it will rust up soon and look like it was there all along. Al
Al
The roof is a tin can like the cabin roof. Im actually in the process of changing the box im adding wood siding to it and a door.
Here are a few more pictures I took today. Been mostley cloudy all day, much better light for picture taken. Sorry I posted so many can never decide what pictures to use.
Lookin good! Sunshine beats snow any day!
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On the other hand, Triggy, he might want to let the "moonshine" in!
Hope Jack*** knows where to contact a good roofing contractor. Looks like his "new digs" has a roof that is not quite that good at keeping the moonlight out.
Rene Schweitzer
Classic Toy Trains/Garden Railways/Model Railroader
Your RR just keeps getting better and better every time you post a pictures keep up the good hard work...
I took a few shots of some new additions to the RR. (Not my best shots sun was too brite for a change)
New Bachmann log cars, have to weather them still.
Now that I have my new aristo train engineer I had to change around my switch boxes to turn the power on/off for my sidings. I came up with this. I have a outdoor switch box I painted brown and added a metal roof to it. (the metal has to rust yet. The roof sits straighter now. I had to fix it after seeing how off it was in the shot LOL Im still playing with it but I might add some wood to the box to make it look more like a shack
A new jack *** moved into the homestead (donkey)
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