On that positive note, , time to close this edition off and look forward to Friday!
-Crandell
This is turning out to be the best WPH ever!
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
A few more before we close this one out...
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Silver PilotThat's one lesson. Another lesson would be to solder the rail joints on curves and then go back, cut in staggered gaps with a Dremel. Insert some styrene in the gaps so they don't close through expansion. What I can't figure out is the need to have insulated rail joiners there. It ssems to be just a long stretch on double track. Why divide it into a block??
Thats how I do it. I've never used the plastic rail joiners. They're also large and ugly. The styrene gaps work great. A little super glue, file to size and you're done.
CNJ831 duckdogger I took a photo using a small zoom to exagerate the curve kinks due to insulated joiners (and my own inattention to the situation while laying the track). When photoshoppong the frame I noticed a fly on the ties. "> The lesson to be taken away from the above photo of the kinked trackage is that one should make every effort to avoid joining both rails of two track sections at the same point on a curve. Rather than attempting to bend, or force the joints into alignment, they should instead always be staggered. In the case of these S-curves by at least 3-5 inches, to avoid kinking. Quite honestly, I'm amazed that locomotives successfully make it through these joints. CNJ831
duckdogger I took a photo using a small zoom to exagerate the curve kinks due to insulated joiners (and my own inattention to the situation while laying the track). When photoshoppong the frame I noticed a fly on the ties. ">
I took a photo using a small zoom to exagerate the curve kinks due to insulated joiners (and my own inattention to the situation while laying the track). When photoshoppong the frame I noticed a fly on the ties.
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The lesson to be taken away from the above photo of the kinked trackage is that one should make every effort to avoid joining both rails of two track sections at the same point on a curve. Rather than attempting to bend, or force the joints into alignment, they should instead always be staggered. In the case of these S-curves by at least 3-5 inches, to avoid kinking. Quite honestly, I'm amazed that locomotives successfully make it through these joints.
CNJ831
That's one lesson. Another lesson would be to solder the rail joints on curves and then go back, cut in staggered gaps with a Dremel. Insert some styrene in the gaps so they don't close through expansion. What I can't figure out is the need to have insulated rail joiners there. It ssems to be just a long stretch on double track. Why divide it into a block??
AggroJones
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EXPERIMENTATION TO BRING INNOVATION
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Well, I did ride the HOG this weekend..., that is the Heart of Georgia Railway excurison train, also known as the SAM (for Savannah, Americus and Montgomery,( the first two cities in Georgia and the latter in Alabama) Shortline. Shown below is the GP 40 locomotive used for this trip.
The train runs out of Cordele, Ga over to Plains, Ga. and believe me it was hot as blue blazes. The coaches were air conditioned though.
Jarrell
OK, I know this is my thrid entry, but work conitnues on my diorama. I have the rear bushes finished, and I also poured a biut more water for a stream. I also took the time to take some pics of my U23B, Conrail boxcar, and two palstic pellet hoppers that I still have a ton of work left on.
U23B close-up (cropped):
Headed home (cropped a bit):
small change of angle from the close-up:
EDIT I'd like to include a cropped photo of that!:
I MAY have an entry for tomorrow if I get the turf highlights done on the bushes. Thanks for bearing with me guys, busy weekend for me, guess I got bit by the bug this weekend!
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Very nice little loco!
Guilford Guy
Nice shot. By coincidence, my daughter took me over to the Bedford Depot Park for Fathers' Day, and we got to spend some time in the newly-renovated Budd RDC #6211, which used to roam the rails on the "Reformatory Branch" of the B&M before they tore the tracks up for the Minuteman Bikeway.
Over the last couple of weeks, I've been working on my new passenger train. I picked up 3 Rivarossi 60-foot coaches and one baggage car. They have dual-pivot body-mounted couplers, so they can easily negotiate my 18-inch curves. Walthers had the lighting kits on sale, so I picked up a set for each car. Then, I discovered that they were on sale because they didn't quite fit anymore. Well, it was a bit more work, but it was worth it. I also painted the interior of the cars, and added some passengers.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
My project for the last week (no I actually did more but this is all your seeing) is this N scale Ford pick up will a Willmodels cast resin utility box on it.The casting is awesome and even has a hitchball on the rear bumper.
Best $5.00 I ever spent on vehicle parts.
selector I have even resorted to using track nails driven tightly against the rail feet so that they rails are forced into compliance at gaps.
I use this method on most of my flextrack joints on curves. It really helps to keep the track in alignment.
One hard-to-find short circuit came from that though... I use aluminum tape to secure the 2" foam subroadbed to each other. I had a curve near my engine terminal that I spiked with pins to keep the rails from kinking. Meanwhile, a friend was helping me solder feeder wires on the other side of the layout. I turned on the track power to test the feeders, and ZAP!
We cut the two most recent feeder wires and tore up much of the track that another friend had just finished laying, before I realized that both rails had track pins contacting the aluminum tape, bridging the gap and causing a short!
Duck, I would recommend lifting the 6" on either side of those joiners and trying to actually impart a bend in the rails...not make them curved, but actually bend the metal so that that when they are restored into position they want to maintain their alignment. The last two inches of flextrack is always a bear to get to conform to your intended geometry. I have even resorted to using track nails driven tightly against the rail feet so that they rails are forced into compliance at gaps.
Sadly he was killed just after the photo was taken by a fast moving container train. I sure hope PETA"> doesn't hound me as they did the President.
selectorIt is Father's Day, and also the first day of summer...a time of dreams. Well, I was having a couple of winks in the shade, propped up in my chair against the porch's back wall. It was hot and lazy, and the last local had run through the yard at Seneca pulled by a Mikado from the NYC. In my dream I found myself in the highlands above Seneca, and I saw a new right of way. On it were two of the strangest engines, I guess from the future. They issued almost no smoke and they rumbled....no chuffs, no hissing. They had a terrible high-pitched whine to them, but boy were they pretty.
That's no dream...That's a TIME WARP!
Jon: Very nice work on the Geep!
Zak: As usual, great work and an excellent night photo!
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Today´s weather is not really nice, overcast with the odd spell of rain, and temperatures of not more than 14 C - is this summer?
A day for leafing thru old magazines and lokking at some pictures.
Here are some of my old layout it is east German narrow gauge in HO scale.
and a last one:
Super photos posted today!
It is Father's Day, and also the first day of summer...a time of dreams. Well, I was having a couple of winks in the shade, propped up in my chair against the porch's back wall. It was hot and lazy, and the last local had run through the yard at Seneca pulled by a Mikado from the NYC. In my dream I found myself in the highlands above Seneca, and I saw a new right of way. On it were two of the strangest engines, I guess from the future. They issued almost no smoke and they rumbled....no chuffs, no hissing. They had a terrible high-pitched whine to them, but boy were they pretty.
This is what I saw:
Excellent photos guys.
I have been finishing off a 5-year-old loco project this week by adding a sound decoder and weathering to a BN GP39-E
Jon
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Late in the evening on this June Summer day we see the MRL Local, lead by #404, exiting the Bozeman Tunnel heading to Livingston to be tied up for the rest of the night as a typical evening thunderstrom surrounds the pass.
Photo of my new Athearn GP35 that I just finished painting to match one of MRL's unpainted GEEPs. I added the ditchlights and they seem to work pretty good.
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in the middle of building the benchwork for my "Dogeared & Broken Spine RR" n switcher layout (almost done! will post picts soon!)family in japan so moved the 1x4 module out to fam room & so able to take some picts from different angle:
at this moment building the coal mine at the far end(darkened the alcohol / paint bath so the basswood came out much darker & lovelier than the enginehouse in farback)pardon the magnets, they will go!
thanks, everyone, for another weekend of groovy picts!all of yr diverse & quality work give me moocho incentive to shoot for, from weathering to backdrop to bridges to photography!cheers,--mark
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Hazy hot and humid here in the Mid Atlantic, so what better way to spend the day than up in the mountains of Western Maryland enjoying the breeze and the shade.
First we do a little bicycling on the C&O Canal, then it's down to the river to take a dip... but sometimes the fun gets a little out of hand...
We had to do a little explaining about our interpretation of Washington County's "open container" law...
Lee
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zgardner18Packers#1 zgardner18 Just make sure you weather the ties and the rails and that diorama will look great! Thanks Zak! I think I've got some paints that will be good colors to hit the ties with some drybrushing. Might be able to get at the rails too. NICE! To me your diorama looks like it could be an old branchline not used too much. If it was mine I'd make the ties like they were drying up to almost a grayish color and that place would look sweet. Looking good. Maybe better than my diorama.
Packers#1 zgardner18 Just make sure you weather the ties and the rails and that diorama will look great! Thanks Zak! I think I've got some paints that will be good colors to hit the ties with some drybrushing. Might be able to get at the rails too.
zgardner18 Just make sure you weather the ties and the rails and that diorama will look great!
Just make sure you weather the ties and the rails and that diorama will look great!
NICE! To me your diorama looks like it could be an old branchline not used too much. If it was mine I'd make the ties like they were drying up to almost a grayish color and that place would look sweet. Looking good. Maybe better than my diorama.
I've gone more w/ black and a dark brown/mud color. I'm going to clean the tops of the rails off and it should look good. Looks pretty close to the ties around here. Thanks man, but better than your diorama?????? no way!
Another great weekend with some awesome work being shown. Way to many to mention all of you. But I do check out every photo.....
I have been working in the cornfield......... Starting to take shape. This is not finished but may be next week.
This shows the whole field:
I dehorned (Polled) the Herefords in the field as well. wish I had done it before gluing them in place. I could have done a better job of it. Oh well next time I will know.
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
zgardner18steamage Lone Pine Local heading southward on SP's Jawbone Branch. I love that background! It looks like the mountains around SP's (now UP) line out by Palm Springs here in So Cal. Tell me what you did, please.
steamage Lone Pine Local heading southward on SP's Jawbone Branch.
Lone Pine Local heading southward on SP's Jawbone Branch.
I love that background! It looks like the mountains around SP's (now UP) line out by Palm Springs here in So Cal.
Tell me what you did, please.
zgardner18,
zgardner18 I love that background! It looks like the mountains around SP's (now UP) line out by Palm Springs here in So Cal. Tell me what you did, please.
Ditto. The Eastern Sierra and their opposite-Owens-Valley-cousin the White Mountains contain the most beautiful scenery in the U.S.
Mark