Sunday Photo Fun 2/20/05

SpaceMouse

Member since
December 2004
From: Rimrock, Arizona
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Posted by SpaceMouse on Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:43 PM

I can't believe I'm the first.

Well I'll start with my daughter. We had five bridges we wanted to match in color and style and my daughter wanted to make them rusty. Here's what came out.

In the meantime, I spent the last two days crawling around under the layout twisting wires and soldering switches. Several s weeks ago while I worked on the turnouts to make the trains run smoothly through them, I found that one of the 14 turnouts on the layout didn't work. I took it apart and got it working. Now after wiring them up, I find that two more don't work. So out of 14 turnouts 3 would not work and one is still rough enough that you have to be perfect in your speed through the turnout. Not a good average in my book. I'm not looking forward to un-soldering them and pulling them off the layout.

Anyway, here's what I did this weekend.

Chip

Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:44 PM

I will psot tomorrow from what I do tonight. I am going down to my basement to work

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TBat55

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February 2003
From: Finger Lakes
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Posted by TBat55 on Monday, February 21, 2005 7:08 AM

Here's my solution to moving my layout on rare occasions. There are now 4 of these along one side of my 5'x9' sectional.

starting position, held up by velcro

lowered position

another view

hinge pin removed; heavy duty leveling foot from Woodcraft with lip

hole to remove hinge pin

my only completed scene so far; a mix of steam and diesel because I like both

Athearn on top, BLI's on bottom

up next

Terry

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 21, 2005 10:51 AM

Well, not exactly new, but here's the museum's current passenger roster:

The Milwaukee FP7 on the left is the E R Models version, has had a Lenz 1024 decoder fitted and Kadees, I also spent a while painting the frames for the number boards. The two cars behind it are a standard Athearn Bombardier coach and cab car. The C&NW Erie-Built is Proto 1k with Kadees and a Bachmann decoder, the cars are Walthers.

The Erie-Built in the background, my 3 week old Bachmann Doodlebug in the foreground - this has had a Lenz 1014 decoder and a couple of resistors to stop the lightbulbs blowing added, and works superbly on DCC. Apologies for the backscene - I still need to get round to painting it fully!

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 1:57 PM

alright here we are.... the few photos I was able to take from the Long Beach WGH Train Show on 2/20/05.... then the battery died..... That's what I get for using my brothers camera.

Roller Coaster

D&RG 4X4 Normal scale layout

LGB Lillian Disney Locomotive (Disney World)

LGB Ft. Wilderness RR Locomotive (Disney)

Normal Scale Disneyland Main Street Station and Bachmann E.P. Ripley Train Set

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Anonymous

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April 2003
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:44 PM

Spacemouse-

Have you ever heard of a product called Rustall? Not that your bridge doesn't look great (it does) but Rustall will actually put real rust onto plastic, metal, or anything else. And as you might imagine, nothing looks more like rust than rust.