That's my cue...see you next weekend, fellas.
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Lots of great pictures! This one just will not stop until it runs into next weekend.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Good deal!
jep1267 I really like your track plan but I'm not sure its going to work in 4X8. I think the curves are a little too tight assuming it's not a narrow guage railroad. What radius are your curves going to be? On the plan they look tighter than 15". J.P.
I really like your track plan but I'm not sure its going to work in 4X8. I think the curves are a little too tight assuming it's not a narrow guage railroad. What radius are your curves going to be? On the plan they look tighter than 15".
J.P.
If your talking about my plan, they're 11" radius, but the biggest stuff I'll be running (a U23B and plastic pellet hoppers are the biggest) make it around them just fine. Mostly, it'll be a GP35 leading a bunch of boxcars (the longest being 53 footers) and a few hoppers around, lol. They'll run fine. Thanks for your concern though!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Those are some really nice shots, D&H...
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
I know I am late but I wanted to try this photo. This is a new AC4400CW passing an old Sd40-2 which has been taking care of switching a local. The AC is pulling a once a week unit grain train with two older geeps trailing.
Driline timbob Dave Vollmer Good gosh, folks... "Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle. Who is Al MAyo?? tim A top Ukranian terroist suspect. Do not talk to him. He is very dangerous. Don't even speak his name.
timbob Dave Vollmer Good gosh, folks... "Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle. Who is Al MAyo?? tim
Dave Vollmer Good gosh, folks... "Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle.
Good gosh, folks...
"Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle.
Who is Al MAyo??
tim
A top Ukranian terroist suspect. Do not talk to him. He is very dangerous. Don't even speak his name.
Oh.....................................
blownout cylinder So he is more of a kind of radical perfectionist?
So he is more of a kind of radical perfectionist?
No, he's more of a "Unless this is 110% PERFECT, you suck at model railroading" kind of guy. And ditto, he just might be a terrorist. I've heard that he loves UP, and yes, he is a good modeler.
Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry
I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...
http://modeltrainswithmusic.blogspot.ca/
Heartland Division CB&QI suppose we should be careful. I did google as suggested, and there is a guy with a decent website with a UP theme model railroad. Looked like a neat layout. My concern is that I would not want for us to pick on the wrong guy.
I suppose we should be careful. I did google as suggested, and there is a guy with a decent website with a UP theme model railroad. Looked like a neat layout. My concern is that I would not want for us to pick on the wrong guy.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Drilinetimbob Dave Vollmer Good gosh, folks... "Mr.AtothaM" ... "A to the M..." Al Mayo. I mean he's not exactly being subtle. Who is Al MAyo?? tim A top Ukranian terroist suspect. Do not talk to him. He is very dangerous. Don't even speak his name.
Mm yes, it only makes him stronger...
VOLDEMORT! VOLDEMORT! VOLDEMORT!
Alex
timbobWho is ** ****??
cudaken Happy belated Birthday Packer. Your post remained me I have a U-Boat SP Bloody Nose, I have not ran it for years. Need to see if I can find it. MRC 220 is pretty good as well, I remember when I got my first MRC 1400 transformer, it was the first step of upgrading. Cuda Ken
Happy belated Birthday Packer. Your post remained me I have a U-Boat SP Bloody Nose, I have not ran it for years. Need to see if I can find it.
MRC 220 is pretty good as well, I remember when I got my first MRC 1400 transformer, it was the first step of upgrading.
Cuda Ken
Wrong Packer, Ken.
CS, where'd you get the squid? hope it wasn't out of the bait cooler. (I've used squid for bait, only catches pinfish an puffers [the hard part about them is getting the hook out with out them puffing up])
Missabe, like the lumber scene.
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
A low life loser that has nothing better to do than spam train forums and Youtube videos. Just do a Google search for his name. He's everywhere. (just like dog crap...)
SpaceMouse shayfan84325 I've spent the last few evenings working on a little 36' truss-rod gondola. I staged a picture of me putting on one of the final touches: Phil, That is great. Where did you get it.?
shayfan84325 I've spent the last few evenings working on a little 36' truss-rod gondola. I staged a picture of me putting on one of the final touches:
I've spent the last few evenings working on a little 36' truss-rod gondola. I staged a picture of me putting on one of the final touches:
Phil,
That is great. Where did you get it.?
Thanks Chip.
It's a Ye Olde Huff 'n Puff kit that I bought on eBay (my favorite hobby store).
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
CS--
Where'd the crew find those huge chains?!
Lotsa good stuff this weekend. Thanks to all who posted.
CS; loved the vid. a rousing chorus for the morning!!
That aint bait - it's sushi!!
The CP Bait Train! I love it!
steinjr Not quite up to the stellar standard some of you other guys set, but here is my little project for this weekend - a scratchbuilt Mississippi coal barge for the municipal Barge terminal on my layout. It is 4" wide and 12" long - about 30 x 90 H0 scale feet. I know that a modern coal barge is about 200 feet long and 35 feet wide, but this is supposed to be 1957, and 4x12 inches visually seemed not too horribly compressed. Built from 0.40" sheet styrene, some foam from an old matress to flesh out the piles without adding too much weight, black ballast glued into the bin over the foam to look like coal, and the thingies to fasten ropes to (I know that the shoreside equivalent is called a bollard - but couldn't locate "barge terms for dummies" using google to find out what the boatside equivalent is called) is made from sprue leftovers. It is my first attempt at scratch building any kind of boat, and it still needs a bit of TLC - sanding down the edges a little, painting it black and weathering it. That will have to wait until next week sometime - we are celebrating Thanksgiving her with the extended family on Sunday Nov 23rds (I know it is really Thursdag Nov 27th - but that is not a holiday over here in Norway, so we do it the weekend before or the weekend after). So Sunday will not be part of the model RR weekend for me. Smile, Stein
Not quite up to the stellar standard some of you other guys set, but here is my little project for this weekend - a scratchbuilt Mississippi coal barge for the municipal Barge terminal on my layout.
It is 4" wide and 12" long - about 30 x 90 H0 scale feet. I know that a modern coal barge is about 200 feet long and 35 feet wide, but this is supposed to be 1957, and 4x12 inches visually seemed not too horribly compressed.
Built from 0.40" sheet styrene, some foam from an old matress to flesh out the piles without adding too much weight, black ballast glued into the bin over the foam to look like coal, and the thingies to fasten ropes to (I know that the shoreside equivalent is called a bollard - but couldn't locate "barge terms for dummies" using google to find out what the boatside equivalent is called) is made from sprue leftovers.
It is my first attempt at scratch building any kind of boat, and it still needs a bit of TLC - sanding down the edges a little, painting it black and weathering it.
That will have to wait until next week sometime - we are celebrating Thanksgiving her with the extended family on Sunday Nov 23rds (I know it is really Thursdag Nov 27th - but that is not a holiday over here in Norway, so we do it the weekend before or the weekend after). So Sunday will not be part of the model RR weekend for me.
Smile, Stein
Even though you and I don't see eye to eye on most things, I will say your barge is coming along very nicely.
Thanks for the link to the tow boat. Living along the mississippi, I always wondered if there was an HO scale model available.
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Driline.
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I was thinking AtothaA-hole...
I hate Rust