"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
JaBear:
188? Is that all? And they are pre-formed to boot (or did you make them?) - whatcha whining about?
Seriously, you have a bit of a task ahead of you but it will go quickly once you get started, and it will look fantastic. Remember to take a break or two.
Not wishing to out do you, but my caboose fleet required 224 grab irons, almost all of which I had to form by hand. I bought a pack of Tichy curved grabs for the sides of the cabooses but in most cases they didn't fit properly.
Then came the task of painting the wee beasties. I tried to make some masks from recipe cards but they didn't work well at all, so it was all done freehand. I used Humbrol enamel and I found that with the right amount of paint on the brush I could get good coverage with just one application, and a bit of touch up of course:
The caboose was temporarily assembled for the picture so the ladders are missing as well as the left side end platform grab. Those will go on after the window glazing (I'm not doing full interiors) has been completed and all the wiring for the marker lights and the conductor's desk lamp has been done.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Just experimenting on a road to rail/ rail to road transfer facility.
it fits on 8.5 x 11 but I'm gonna have to do some rearranging, and there's hopefully be a concrete dock on the other side of the ware house building.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Gary:
Looks good.
If I may suggest, why not chop out the two windows between the existing freight doors and put in two more freight doors? To me, that would suggest that twice as much activity is happening at the transfer station.
hon30critter Gary: Looks good. If I may suggest, why not chop out the two windows between the existing freight doors and put in two more freight doors? To me, that would suggest that twice as much activity is happening at the transfer station. Dave
hon30critter188? Is that all? And they are pre-formed to boot (or did you make them?) - whatcha whining about?
hon30critter but my caboose fleet required 224 grab irons, almost all of which I had to form by hand.
hon30critter and all the wiring for the marker lights and the conductor's desk lamp has been done.
hon30critter 188? Is that all? And they are pre-formed to boot (or did you make them?) - whatcha whining about? Are they preformed??? (the Bear coughs and splutters into his beard) I certainly wouldn’t be having a whine with my cheese if they were. No, I did them in three batches with the TV on as a slight distraction. Not too bad as I was in the mood. hon30critter but my caboose fleet required 224 grab irons, almost all of which I had to form by hand. You win!! hon30critter and all the wiring for the marker lights and the conductor's desk lamp has been done. I hope you’re going to have a “show and tell” on the subject. Looks OK to me, Gary. Cheers, the Bear.
hon30critter 188? Is that all? And they are pre-formed to boot (or did you make them?) - whatcha whining about?
Gary,
If you're considering a site plan revision, I'll offer a slightly different one. The building looks to only have a spot for one car, even with the original long way turned parallel to the tracks. Is it possible, instead of turning it 180, to turn it only 90 degrees so it T's into the track at the narrow end, presuming a door can be cut into it to serve the rail siding, if not already present?
Then you would have 4 doors for trailers, maybe six if you added more in between the existing doors on each side.
So long as you stick with older trailers, they are short enough you should have the space needed with the changed orientation, which would see trailers back up to both sides of the building. If you need 40, 45 or 53 foot trailers, what you have laid out would be too short, I suspect, but don't know if you need to confine yourself to this small a footprint or could add another inch to its width.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
mlehman Gary, If you're considering a site plan revision, I'll offer a slightly different one. The building looks to only have a spot for one car, even with the original long way turned parallel to the tracks. Is it possible, instead of turning it 180, to turn it only 90 degrees so it T's into the track at the narrow end, presuming a door can be cut into it to serve the rail siding, if not already present? Then you would have 4 doors for trailers, maybe six if you added more in between the existing doors on each side. So long as you stick with older trailers, they are short enough you should have the space needed with the changed orientation, which would see trailers back up to both sides of the building. If you need 40, 45 or 53 foot trailers, what you have laid out would be too short, I suspect, but don't know if you need to confine yourself to this small a footprint or could add another inch to its width.
I'm not sure I'll be able to do that planned layout in N scale but Z scale is looking like a better option now that I have a Z scale BN GP38-2 on it's way.
Finished the major work on my adobe farmstead this week.
I've been documenting this project here http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/240237.aspx
A pic of the household water tank. The "water" is a disc of .010" styrene, painted with Krylon Hunter Green, then topcoated with acrylic gloss.
I'll post a bunch more pics of the build of the barn in the next day or so.
A couple of more pics. Out of hours, a crew member walks over to Hesperus station to wait for the crew bus.
I also added some cold storage space at Webber's as well as extended the dock
Before
After
Mike:
The adobe structure looks really good with the scenery details around it, and the water tank is excellent.
The cold storage addition looks good too, but I don't see any cooling systems! How are you going to keep it cold?
Congratulations on having the patience to form 188 of those stantions!
Hope everybody had a nice Thanksgiving!
Bear, your bridge is looking good so far. I can't wait to see the finished product.
Dave, Your caboose is looking good.
Gary, Your transloading facility is off to a good start.
After working on Kittanning Point last week, I focused my attention back on Horseshoe Curve. I'm modeling it as it existed in the 1950s despite my penchant for running Conrail and NS equipment as well as Pennsy.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Bear, I sort of know what you mean with those stanchions, I have sat there with my NWSL Chopper making up pieces to scratchbuild Superior Doors for some of my 60' Auto Parts cars.
GP-9 Man, thanks for the nice comments last week, but the scenery is on the club layout that I really had nothing to do with as I just joined a couple of years ago, but I did do some structure and scenery work on a club I was in back in Anchorage, AK. (I will see if I can find the pictures and scan them at some point). By the way your horseshoe curve looks great to me.
Gary nice start on your facility, any scenery work is good work.
Mike, your ongoing work is always outstanding.
Well for me the new car pipeline is still leaking but a lot of progress has been made on some cars, like the Athearn Airslide I am putting together where all you get is a drawing with part numbers ( and the part numbers on the drawing do not match the part numbers on the sprues). Also some resin kits that take a lot of time, and waiting for my next order of Plano Roofwalks. So here a a few more pictures of the club layout.
DT&I GP38 and SD38 passing the campground on the other side of the river. PC SD40 & SD45 on siding near the town of Thurd! NKP GP30's with a mixed freight! Thanks for looking! Rick J
DT&I GP38 and SD38 passing the campground on the other side of the river.
PC SD40 & SD45 on siding near the town of Thurd! NKP GP30's with a mixed freight! Thanks for looking! Rick J
PC SD40 & SD45 on siding near the town of Thurd!
NKP GP30's with a mixed freight! Thanks for looking! Rick J
NKP GP30's with a mixed freight!
Thanks for looking!
Rick J
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Hi JaBear nice work and really waiting to see the finished ferry.
With an enjoying two evening works this week I have scratchbuild thes turnouts in Nscale code 55 using fastrack jigs
There is three #6 and one #8 curved, they will take place in the exit track from my ongoing project of a working high lift coal dumper.
May be you will notice in this picture a special turnout This is a #6 whith full gardrails everywhere I need this special turnout to include it in the exit track of the hoppers coming from the coal dumper. When empty, the car is pushed out of the dumper and roll on a small ramp to take speed only by his own weight and gravity; he rolls through this turnout go on a elevated ramp, stop, and come back through the turnout on the diverging road to reach a nearby small yard; he rolls again only by his weight and gravity. Here is a high lift coal dumper, the same I am scratchbuilding. Here is a plan of the ramp wher the cars roll empty
May be you will notice in this picture a special turnout
This is a #6 whith full gardrails everywhere
I need this special turnout to include it in the exit track of the hoppers coming from the coal dumper. When empty, the car is pushed out of the dumper and roll on a small ramp to take speed only by his own weight and gravity; he rolls through this turnout go on a elevated ramp, stop, and come back through the turnout on the diverging road to reach a nearby small yard; he rolls again only by his weight and gravity. Here is a high lift coal dumper, the same I am scratchbuilding. Here is a plan of the ramp wher the cars roll empty
I need this special turnout to include it in the exit track of the hoppers coming from the coal dumper.
When empty, the car is pushed out of the dumper and roll on a small ramp to take speed only by his own weight and gravity; he rolls through this turnout go on a elevated ramp, stop, and come back through the turnout on the diverging road to reach a nearby small yard; he rolls again only by his weight and gravity.
Here is a high lift coal dumper, the same I am scratchbuilding.
Here is a plan of the ramp wher the cars roll empty
Bear, Thanks for the WPF lift-off. Ah, been looking forward to seeing your wheelhouse/deck construction. 188 stanchions! makes 29 fence posts seem quite paltry.
Thanks to all and regards, Peter
Thanks for the kind comments, everyone.
Beautiful trackwork, Marc, looking foward to seeing more of that massive project.
I updated the farmstead build with the barn construction sequence: http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/240237.aspx
GP-9_Man11786:
Thanks for your compliment regarding my 'caboose'. In fact there are eight of them all in the same process. Next step is to Dullcote them, and then install the windows when they arrive.
I painted the ladders tonight - all 16 of them! Got my shorts in a knot because I didn't clean them properly before painting. They had been primed a few days ago and I didn't notice the bits of dust that had settled on them since then. My bad!
Marc_Magnus:
You are scratchbuilding the coal dumper, plus all your switches!
Boggles my wee brain!
Congratulations on being such a great modeller! Please show us pictures as you progress.
I notice that your cutting mat has had a lot of use, as has mine. I discovered that they can be sanded down with medium grit sandpaper and the surface comes out almost as good as new. The lines are lost of course, but that isn't any big deal.
the tests of patience are impressive.
busy holiday weekend with company coming tomorrow railroad time is abbreviated. i was however able to paint/install a few sets of wheelstops (insurance) and had fun taking this photo:
you guys continue to set the bar high. Thanks
T e d
I did a pair of Cab Forward Conversions just for fun
"> Heres a video of them running on the layout after installing a couple of Wow Steam Decoders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KA6_SXTY2k
Heres a video of them running on the layout after installing a couple of Wow Steam Decoders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KA6_SXTY2k
TerryinTexas
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hon30critterThe cold storage addition looks good too, but I don't see any cooling systems! How are you going to keep it cold? Smile, Wink & Grin
Dave,
Thanks for the comments. If you look at the other end of the building, on its roof is the condensor for the plant's cooling systems. Typically, these systems use ammonia as the refrigerant. The cooling tower can be right overhead or plumbed into a larger system with a central cooling plant. In a building this small (relatively), I assumed the latter.
I made the condensor from louvers left over from hacking up one of the Walther steel industry kits (the rolling mill building IIRC) and a coupler of brass tube sections
This is my favorite thread every week.
It does, however, make me feel inadequate.
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
Another operating coal dumper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLbqnw2bKeI
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
FB page of my layout *new*
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thread to my layout
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pics
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hon30critter Marc_Magnus: You are scratchbuilding the coal dumper, plus all your switches! Boggles my wee brain! Congratulations on being such a great modeller! Please show us pictures as you progress. I notice that your cutting mat has had a lot of use, as has mine. I discovered that they can be sanded down with medium grit sandpaper and the surface comes out almost as good as new. The lines are lost of course, but that isn't any big deal. Dave
And for your brain, two more #8 I build this morning again for the small yard around the dumper.
This is also one prototype for the clamp which old the cars on the elevator, it's all brass and move through the tube just by gravity.I hope to finish the two lateral side of the dumper this week to share it whith You. The clamps, The scale of the clamps and some pulleys, they are at the scale for Nscale
This is also one prototype for the clamp which old the cars on the elevator, it's all brass and move through the tube just by gravity.I hope to finish the two lateral side of the dumper this week to share it whith You.
The clamps,
The scale of the clamps and some pulleys, they are at the scale for Nscale
I got 2 videos processed this week of my excursion trip from Steamtown to Carbondale from this August:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DxVaiXz0Hw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1mv4fh94Ik
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Wonderful work as always folks! I always love checking out what you all have been up to. I have gotten a guard rail made and installed on the small girder bridge I have built. I made the points using a Fast Track #6 turnout jig, and then just cut and bent some old code 70 rail I have had for many years to fit.
You can see I have installed some fishplates to join the rails properly. The track behind and below is in the process of being ballasted. Ballast is down, just needs to be glued in place. Maybe later tonight. Another angle:
Then the rail gets rusted....
73
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been trying to "sharpen" my weathering skills and abilities. I started with some older/less used rolling stock to "practice" on. That way, if I messed up, wash off and move on; or if it didn't wash off, not much would be lost.
This is my latest attempt at weathering - an HO scale, AccuRail ACF 3-Bay Centerflow Hopper Kit, painted for the Santa Fe. Here's what it looked like when I started. Severely over-sprayed with acrylics using an airbrush (I did this years ago when I first got an airbrush).
First, I disassembled and washed all parts, removing most of the acrylics.
Then, after weathering the body and trucks with chalks, a little dry-brushing with acrylics and spray painting the wheels, I end up with this...
I tried different techniques on each side. I'm still trying to imitate rust on the body, so, back to the weathering desk, got plenty of test subjects remaining.
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