What have you done?!?!

[Anonymous]

Now that Spring is really here, the weather is nice outside and now there is less time to go work on the layout, I look back to see just what did I really get done this past season. Well quite a bit actually, I have been working on my steel mill and engine facilities, installing the Walthers 130' turntable and working on some of Kato's SD38-2's and building some Sn3 cars for my oldest brother and painting some models for my older brother. Here is a link to a few photos of mine. I have many other irons in the fire on those to hot or rainy days that we are bound to get.

http://www.railimages.com/gallery/michaelmiller?page=1

I just purchased my first digital camera, about time, so I will be adding more photos of the layout as I get time. I should get some shots of the ore dock approach along with the ore dock that I am building from Walthers along with many many more details added on.

So how productive have you been on your layout?

DMIR230

[pike-62]

Well, lets see. I scratch built a GE 132 ton engine and painted it for the Wellsville Addison & Galeton RR



I also worked on building a bazillion puffball trees to cover the mountain range on my layout. I still have a couple bazilion more to go.


Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com

[cwclark]

please make the picture smaller..it's taking up too much band width and can't read your post without scrolling from one side of the page to the other...what i'm doing now is about to install train detection circuits..but not until I get all my rolling stock up to par...i have about 10 pieces of equipment left to re-couple and re-wheel, 4 locomotives to paint and decal then start the train detection circuits ..hope all this will be done before christmas so i can finally start some scenery..my layout is still the "plywood central"...chuck

[jwar]

Gads...reworked all my freight cars, wheels and tossed the non-kadees. Built a five turn helix, finished the track on the upper level of a around the walls fiesco. built three more swing ups, replaced old turnouts with Picos, did some geodesic scenery, reworked all the track (no derails)

But what takes the cake is finishing my Feather River, really nailed the colors to the pictures, then if that wasent good enough, i added a bit of color here and a bit of color there. Finding one can over scenic a river and the sinking realization that its like trying to save a ship at sea, after one throws the bilge pump overboard. So this week is a redoooo

[jacon12]

I just started this hobby a month or two ago and since then I've bought some rolling stock, a couple of diesels, track and a Digitrax Zephyr. I've built 3 of the 5 bench modules, just 2 to go and hopefully will complete that this week. Then... hmmmm... heck I don't know... like I said.. I'm new.. :)
Jacon

[twhite]

Actually, I got quite a bit done this past season. Worked a lot on scenery, then decided to un-hide my hidden return loop, which meant building an extension, which gave me a chance to actually put a town on the layout (they're mostly 'hidden', which means they're in my imagination). Put in a double-crossover so I don't have to back trains into the staging yard (which is still to be built). Oh, and put slider contacts on all of my old brass locomotives to improve contact (it's a garage layout, so you know I have to clean the track frequently), and a bunch of formerly jerky locos are now gliding around the layout like Brian Boitano. Built a bunch of Aggro's furnace filter evergreen trees--oh,and yes, occasionally I reminded myself to run some trains for the sheer fun of it.
Tom [:D]

[twhite]

DMIR230--Your Missabe steam roster makes me drool, my friend. What a bunch of handsome locos they are!
Tom [:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

Redoing the plumbing on the bathroom so I can buld the work shop area so I can work on the layout.

[Anonymous]

Well I have to say I am very impressed with the 132tone GE Dan. Ah I remember making all of the polyfiber trees when I was modeling the N&W.

Well Tom as far as my missabe roster goes, let me just say I had to sell allot of stuff to get it. I did many custom painting jobs for friends and sold off allot of custom diesels that I did for myself. And my Missabe roster is allot smaller than other railroads that I modeled as well, at one point I had 136 locomotives, now I am down to 30.

Jacon welcome to the hobby, as you will find out there is always a next step that you will want to take, wether its weathering your equipment, or doing super detailed buildings, or detailed scenery. One cool thing about this hobby is once you think your done, you find something else to do or improve on.

Jwar, I too have found the cool Pico switches, I have no problems with them as compared to the countless problems with the Atlas ones. The WP in the Feather River, that should look very cool. Well don't feel bad cause I had to redo allot of scenery on my layout, the latest area is around the new ore dock approach. I had to reroute mainlines and sidings to make way for the dock approach.

CWClark I will someday get to installing a working signalling system. Are you planning on Circuitron?

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got out of bed and put on a pot of coffee

[cwclark]

QUOTE: Originally posted by DMIR230


CWClark I will someday get to installing a working signalling system. Are you planning on Circuitron?

I built homemade train detection circuits from plans at www.gatewaynmra.org they are a lot cheaper if you build them yourself....I have the circuits built already, just have to build the target searchlights and install the circuits...the only thing i use from circuitron is the tortoise machines and i purchased an occilating crossing gate flasher that also will go on the layout someday...chuck

[AggroJones]

Good thing Spring is here. Cause I got alot of projects that need Dullcoting outside.

Somthing I finished recently is my "soon-to-be-scrapped" UP 4-6-6-4.


What else did I get done....lets see....Oh yeah, I made a dozen+ more pine trees which brings the number of conifers for the layout to over 200. And I went into fine detailing certain spots of scenery recently.
My scenery is done in stages: Painted glueshell, Basic earth( dirt, fine foams, sawdust), Major ojects( large bushes, trees, coarse foams), Fine detailing (small weeds, other small plants), and Finishing (man-made details, figures, animals).

I got half the high lines ballasted and 2 /3 the lower lines done. Ballasting goes pretty quick. The most time cosuming portion of it is protecting items near the track from alcohol. I swab the railheads with oil before I apply the glue mixture to prevent it from bonding. Cleaning dried up white glue off the rail is a pain in the [censored].