claycts wrote:Thank you and Merry Christmas to your family.We are trying to get an XJS finished. Pain in the %&&$.The trains are running perfect, got the new chips for the both BLI Hudsons. I do get to work on them a little.MC & HNYGeorge and Krysti.
Thank you and Merry Christmas to your family.
We are trying to get an XJS finished. Pain in the %&&$.
The trains are running perfect, got the new chips for the both BLI Hudsons. I do get to work on them a little.
MC & HNY
George and Krysti.
George,Just like me, you have too many toys!! LOL!!!
Me? 06 Mustang pony car ( yellow), 68 Mustang coupe (candy apple red), 85 Porsche Targa( white and for sale soon!), and 1946 Ercoupe full scale airplane, (yellow), and about 30 RC airplanes, and my HO layout I am still working on and YES, the Walthers 130 ft turntable is the best thing since sliced cheese!
Ed
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
George, It looks like the photos from this thread have disappeared. See you at Whistle Stop.
Sue
Happy New year to you also. Are you OK out there? Those storms had me worried about you West Coast folks.
Hoilidays where fine we had the 2 kids (25 and 28) and that was all. Very nice and quit. We ran a session lasyt night and I got to break in some new power.
The new Hornby H8
THe silver nosed Big Boy 4006
The Roundhouse at Nanticoke is sorta full.
The Vette was Kryst's Birthday Present. 50th Anniv for her ^&% Birthday.
Have got to get some cars done or I am in DEEP trouble.
claycts wrote: Planning our West Coast treck now.
Planning our West Coast treck now.
Happy new year. It think this is my favorite of the pictures that you have sent.
Did you have family for the holidays? Or have any operating sessions? Larry's friend came up on one of the days that I had to work, but I got in on tale end of the session.
George and Krysti,
Have a Merry Christmas. I have not heard from you in while. You must be having fun with your automobiles.
Later,
George,
With weight like that, you probably get gallons/mile instead of miles/gallon.
Don't forget to kick the tires on the locos from time to time?
Glad someone is working on trains! Sounds like the trip was little TO MUCH fun!
This beast has taken my time up in spades:
1994 S500 Embassy car. Bullet proof glass and doors. Bomb plates in the floor. This thing weighs almost 8,500 #.
All the toys including a car phone with encryption and a fax connection in the back seat. Needs some cosmetics but not bad at all. The fuel line at the tank is leaking so we have to drop all the metal protecting it. WHAT A MESS!!!
Just got back from Portland by Amtrack yesterday. We yielded to UP and BN freight trains both down and back. Our train hit the track layer with a work crew and initiated an emergency brake. It was quite exciting.
Larry had done some painting on the back drop while I was gone. We have more clouds now. He will work on ridge lines and trees next.
Back to work. Sue
Does Cheyenne have a lot of history for UP? I believe that they had a huge RH at one time.
I will put those dates on our calendar. Maybe we can get together. Larry is always up for a car show.
This is what we use most of the time. This was before the trailer got painted.
Close shows we will drive but 90% of the time it is in the trailer.
We will be in Washington from 8/7/07 to 8/12/07. We will drive th MB S500 and have the material shipped to the venue. Planing the stops along the way now. For sure is Omha for the UP venue. Krysit want to go to Yellowstone and, and and. You get the idea.
Do you have a large car hauler? How do you transport? How many do take to a show?
House cleaning and getting them show ready. Not all the cars are red LOL
We have White
oops another red one
this is OFF RED I guess
And burgundy
Add a Champagne Jag and a Blue Jag plus the MB fleet which are Black, White Burgundy and Gold.
This is not work, this is my other hobby. I took a year off the show and seminar circuit to build the trains.
claycts wrote: Sue, it was very nice and quit. Our daughter the opera singer was iin town so Krysti was happy about that. I am just running the layout looking for trouble with the track plan or the track. The CTC and CCTV make it easy. The computer runs (3) Doodlebugs and I run a freight or passenger trying to use all the sidings and such. May rip out about 80 ft of track to get better scenery but that is still up in the air. The TT track is smaller than code 83 and if you look close the engine has to stop down to the table. I addressed this once and got told that was not a problem. After taking a dremel tool to the rails it was no longer a problem. The Challenger and the Big Boy both did not like it. Well i am off trains for some time till I get cars ready for 2007. Hoping to have this one ready for Feb. and this guy for May.
Sue, it was very nice and quit. Our daughter the opera singer was iin town so Krysti was happy about that. I am just running the layout looking for trouble with the track plan or the track. The CTC and CCTV make it easy. The computer runs (3) Doodlebugs and I run a freight or passenger trying to use all the sidings and such.
May rip out about 80 ft of track to get better scenery but that is still up in the air.
The TT track is smaller than code 83 and if you look close the engine has to stop down to the table. I addressed this once and got told that was not a problem. After taking a dremel tool to the rails it was no longer a problem. The Challenger and the Big Boy both did not like it.
Well i am off trains for some time till I get cars ready for 2007. Hoping to have this one ready for Feb.
and this guy for May.
None of our locos have a problem with the TT. My wish list loco is a Challenger. I am looking for a NP or unlettered single stack.
I hope that you still get operating sessions, and that you need to do the 9 - 5 on the cars.
Do you like red? I am on my second red car. Both of them were sideswiped the first day that I drove them to work. What a way to ruin the new car experience.
What type of work are you doing? Leather interiors?
We have most of the yard up and running. There are 6 bays in the RH and a line to the engine shed. Maybe I will get some pictures. The track on the TT seems to be slightly narrower that the code 83, but the switcher has not hesitated yet.
How was your holiday?
gear-jammer wrote: Sometimes debating is just rationalizing. If you have to ask, you can't afford it. HaHa. We started on our 5" extension for the RH yesterday. When we held the 1 foot x 8 foot piece up we decided that we could have a 6 stall RH instead of a 3 stall RH. Back up to Tacoma to buy another kit. The extension gives us lots more acreage. We are up to 13' x'14'. The 130' TT has turned into a blessing. It still seems to be right on. We have not had to reset anything yet. I shouldn't say that out loud. George, Isn't there a fancy lodge at Stevenson? It seems that I attended a seminar there several years back. Larry's uncle, the one that got us started in MR, is coming up this morning, so I had better get to cleaning. OPERATING SESSION. Later, Sue
Sometimes debating is just rationalizing. If you have to ask, you can't afford it. HaHa.
We started on our 5" extension for the RH yesterday. When we held the 1 foot x 8 foot piece up we decided that we could have a 6 stall RH instead of a 3 stall RH. Back up to Tacoma to buy another kit.
The extension gives us lots more acreage. We are up to 13' x'14'.
The 130' TT has turned into a blessing. It still seems to be right on. We have not had to reset anything yet. I shouldn't say that out loud.
George, Isn't there a fancy lodge at Stevenson? It seems that I attended a seminar there several years back.
Larry's uncle, the one that got us started in MR, is coming up this morning, so I had better get to cleaning. OPERATING SESSION.
Later, Sue
Knowing RROC that is where they will go. It must be 5 star, expensive and snobby or they do not go!
Debating can be fun, but some people take it a little to far. In 2007 I will have to do some seminars and things with the cars. I took a year off to build my layout to running stage. This hobby has been great for my health and realy gave me a chance to talk something other than car. With the end of the UP deal maybe the Back EMF will go away also and things can progress.
In a dream world there would be a layour featured in MRM that was not a $50,000.00 investment and would not raise the bar so high that folks lose heart. Yes they did Turtle Creek but there needs to be more for the people just starting out. I have the SAME questions everytime someone sees what I have built in less than a year.
Q1, How Much Money
Q2. How many hours per week to get to this point
Q3. How many people worked on it.
There response was almost the same. I can not afford that, no way they could spend that much time and where did I find 4 helpers. The last was easy, join the railroad club. THe other two where the killers for them.
OOPS of on a tangent, sorry!!
claycts wrote:Glad to hear it. you asked the right questions and got the answers, then you did it and all worked. That is what this forum is about. Not debating the cost of the hobby.
True. But debating the costs can be fun, too. : )
Jeff
Heh.
Now. How much was that 130' TT again?
LOL.
Cheers,
I got my 90' turntable on Thursday from my local hobby shop. I cut out the new 2" thick blue plug where the old Heljan 98' turntable was. I secured the foam plug last Thursday (9 days ago) with Liquid Nails for Projects.I did not have to move the crossmember, because the turntable is less than 2" deep except where the wire that connects to the contacts comes out, and it did not conflict with the crossmember. I installed the control box ajacent to the turntable, since it is front and center. I was just able to squeeze it in between the TT and the layout edge.. I simply cut out a square hole, angled a spot in the foam for clearance of the wires, hooked up the 15VDC power supply I got at my local Radio Shack, and all worked well. I pinned the tracks down going to the 5 stall Korber roundhouse in a temporary fashion, programed the stops and all seems to work well. Now all I have to do is run the DCC to the tracks and the turntable. It does seem to be smooth, and it does stop in the same place everytime.
The programing instructions leave alot to be desired, and after some toying around I finally got it.Once I knew what I was doing the instructions kind of made sense, but they jump around.
I also used a drill bit a bit larger than the holes at the base of the arch to ream them out, as I had to push harder than I should have to get the arch on the pins of the bridge. With only two minor complaints I would say this is an excellent kit and well worth the $225.00 (+ tax) that I spent at Online Trains, and well worth eliminating the frustrations from that old Heljan Turntable. Now I will have to buy another Niagra because I can't turn that engine on a 90' table, and I will need one to run Eastbound and one Westbound. With only one I can only go one way...It is terrible being addictedd to model railroads!
I also got some other work done on the Springfield yards and station and (drats!!!) my weekend ended so I had to give up on serious work for four days. I will run the DCC wires to the radial tracks the week after Thanksgiving, as it is our 30th anaversarry on the 25th.of November and I have a one week vacation. Hard to believe My wife has put up with my model railroad for that long. At least it keeps me out of trouble. She knows exactly where I am. Everybody have a great Thanksgiving.
I would say this is a great product and well worth the money.
Paul DeMuth
Dayton and Mad River RR
The weather was nice enough yesterday that I was able to pick up the piece of lumber to do the add on for the RH. I am excited to get that running. We can actually do some switching now. Larry is home through the holidays, so we might get that down and wired. I was thinking of using some kind of nail/pin on my machine shop and just piling junk to cover it.
Stevenson is about 50 miles east of Vancouver which is across the Columbia from Portland. It can be warm there in August if there is no breeze. It is a nice little town. We are 150 miles from there, but it would be nice to meet you and Krysti when you come out.
We are off to the Puyallup train show. Talk with you later.
Sue if you look real close you can see where I drilled tiny holes and pushe spikes into the cork. These will never come off since I will not have the time to build another layout. I did make them so that if you cut the wires for the feeders you could pry the RH up.
I am doing the other one different. I am sticking #10 awg bare cooper wire as a post in the cork and then laying the RH over thse locator pins. I glued the floors together on both RH's . The Ashlet RH has the nails and the Nanticoke has the pins. Another change was to NOT CA the rails to the pit like I did in Ashley. again you miust cut the leads but only have to pull up the nails by the pit to remove the RH.
The CAR BARN is just in place sine there is no floor other thand the simulated pit.
Does Stevenson in Washington ring a bell? That is where the RROC will be. It is on the Columbia River. THat is all I know so far.
claycts wrote: Fianly got a picture of our Ashley yard This is the larger of the the two yards. At least the roundhouses fit this time!!
Fianly got a picture of our Ashley yard
This is the larger of the the two yards. At least the roundhouses fit this time!!
George, Did you permanently attach the floor of the RH to the layout? I was trying to think of a way to attach it semi-permanently, so it could be used on a different layout in the future.
I am also scratch building a car machine shop and thought that I might do the floor and get back to the walls later. I was wanting to lay the track from the yard to the shop. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might do that?