NorthCoast RR What is that in the sky???
What is that in the sky???
Hum, guess we are not alone.
Cuda Ken
I hate Rust
Shoudn't this be locked? I mean it is weekend photo fun, and a new ont starts tomorro.
Samuel A. Kelly
I can draw pictures with my keyboard!
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mlehman Mike Nice looking bridge and the backdrop is stunning.
Mike
Nice looking bridge and the backdrop is stunning.
Thanks Mike, I appreciate that! I feel bad, since I have not made any progress on this extension room layout, but I plan to get back to it soon.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
In Cheyenne a railfan catches an D&RGW SD45 crossing a bridge.
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Stourbridge Lion A little something I picked up on vacation...in ALASKA!!!!!!!
A little something I picked up on vacation...in ALASKA!!!!!!!
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
A little something I picked up on vacation...
in ALASKA!!!!!!!
Darren (BLHS & CRRM Lifetime Member)
Delaware and Hudson Virtual Museum (DHVM), Railroad Adventures (RRAdventures)
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slow train Ed lake ,I see you have light blubs on your switches .Do they work and if so how? thank you slow train Ed
lake ,I see you have light blubs on your switches .Do they work and if so how? thank you slow train Ed
If you mean the green and red, those are pins used in sewing with the little colored balls on the ends. Since I use ground throws these show the direction of the points.
Ken G Price My N-Scale Layout
Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR
N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.
Tom .... your mountain layout with big steam is absolutely fantastic. I bet the ground is rumbling under the people standing on the station platform!
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Two more before I go this weekend:
2-8-8-2 #3612 lifting a train on the 2.2% eastbound grade out of South Yuba Canyon
And rounding the curve at Wagon Wheel Gap on the South Yuba Overlook
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
lake ,I see you have light blubs on youe switches .Do they work and if so how? thank you slow train Ed
BNSF grain hoppers being switched by GP7 NSNX2012 and TexMex GP38.
Another shot of NSNX2012 and grain hoppers. The weathering on the hoppers turned out pretty good.
Nice work all around. 'Really enjoy seeing everyone's contributions here! This is the "much smaller than I originally intended" City section of the layout. And before you tell me - I know it's an AT&SF station. I think the "City of Denver" is just stopping to ask directions....
Geared Steam,
Thank You!
ChadLRyan Very nice looking Shay, I am considering taking on that type of conversion as well, Very nice work!!Would the effort be about the same on the Climax? I don't have any of the Bachmann Shay's or Climax's yet, & am not near a place I can see them in real life. Thanks for sharing!
Very nice looking Shay, I am considering taking on that type of conversion as well, Very nice work!!Would the effort be about the same on the Climax? I don't have any of the Bachmann Shay's or Climax's yet, & am not near a place I can see them in real life.
Thanks for sharing!
Hi Chad
Thanks, I haven't considered modifying the Climax, so I haven't really looked into it.. Bachmann already released a 2T in the past but was plagued (like the shay) with a gear problem, that has been corrected but they haven't re-released it, many believe they will stay with a 3T Climax because it has room for sound, the 2T would be a tight fit.
I got the idea from Skip Luyk's (Arcadia & Betsy River RR) website, then he later published an article in Issue 88 of the Tall Tiber and Shortlines Gazette. Another forum member, Graffen, has also done this modification as well.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
An Atlas Dash8 40, & #812's new buddy & running pal.
Nothing new this week, these are some pics from the Strongsville Ohio Club Layout.One of my favorite engines a PRR N1s 2-10-2 hauling a coal drag!NKP Geeps with a general freight just leaving a stop at the tower.Rick J
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Nothing new, so my modified 3T to 2T truck Bachmann Shay
restored an old mantua tankcar with cardboard tank:
and decaled my scratchbuild sfrd reefers:
Have a nice week all!
Frank
Thanks for the compliments guys. I haven't been back to the computer since I posted the videos.
The bridge piers are an A.I.M. plaster product made taller by attaching them to foam bases. I then painted and stained them with craft paint and washes. The girder section is two Micro Engineering kits kitbashed into one span. The trestle (which you barely see) is completely scratch built.
For those who haven't seen the whole thing, here it is. It's changed a little since then but you get the idea.
Very nice here this weekend. Some great photos and work being shown!
I have been doing a lot of odds and ends over the past couple weeks... I have cut, Creosoted, and hand laid a couple hundred ties:
I have also hooked up power and finished the basic ballasting to the lower staging area. The pencil line on the wall is where the bottom of the Upper Staging will be. I have stained and started to varnish the baord for the upper staging, but it will be a week or two before I have it installed. I still have a lot of things like removing stray pieces of ballast, painting the rails rusty, and adding some weed and grass there..
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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!
mlehman I'm liking that IT gon, Jeff. Looks good, having seen a few back in the day.
I'm liking that IT gon, Jeff. Looks good, having seen a few back in the day.
Here's a couple more pics of recent projects since looks like a lot of folks are on vacation. I built the Durango Car Shop, but only had room for the track to it come off the turntable, rather than as a run-through like the original.
This is the Oriental Oil Refinery. The two big tanks are made from 4" PVC caps, with added Plastruct details from the Plastruct Refinery kit that I'm still using to build more refinery equipment. The fenc is from Walthers.
Behind the refinery and the view of the carshop past the turntable can be seen some short viewblocks I made to help "close in" the center peninsula some, as well as to guard the structures from stray elbows. I tried plexiglass, but didn't like the look. The 1/4" hardboard is cheaper and the paint is as simple as it looks, yet it works well. You have a greater sense of going places with them in place.