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[quote user="Texas Zepher"] [quote user="cudaken"]Far as pictures, do not have to be where you started, but where you are now.[/quote]Since no "early" photos are required. My history started some time in pre-school. My father had three locomotives a Varney dockside (of course), a Varney F3, and a hustler powered by a single F3 truck. He had reworked the Varney with the fancy valve gear. I had some plastic trains that fit on HO track. I had a loop on a board that folded
[quote user="kschmidt"] Well here it is. The 2009 edition of the TRAINS.com Forum member photograph. They actually let us behind the cash register this year. Probably because we had two very trustworthy representatives of TRAINS and Kalmbach with us this year. I believe that dknelson has the attendance sheet and can fill in the names. Thanks for coming out and letting others see the face behind the name. For more photos from Trainfest 2009 check out Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/22338037
How did you like Trainfest? Can you post more pictures??
[quote user="NittanyLion"] The legs are just clamped on for now, but heres the mockup of my Iron City Brewery on the almost completed benchwork for Phase I of my layout. Clearly I like buildings that look like they need rail service. [/quote] Looks great! Those buildings look good enough to just keep the mockup.
[quote user="Skipper"] Yes.. I've removed the couplers.... It seems like the shell is glued in place? could that be? [/quote] Its not glued in place. I have an MP15AC with tabs. Check and make sure there arent 4 tabs underneath the trucks that need to be pushed in with a small screwdriver.
Here are some pics of my latest Atlas engine weathered by JKTRAINS. He even modeled a working strobe.Many detail parts were added as well. I think the engine is awesome looking....now one of my favorites.
[quote user="route_rock"] Great stuff. I love DRI's SOO line engine there. Is it based on one of the SOO line engines in the Quad Cities? I had written down numbers back in the 90's but lost them all. Love the box car as well. The shot of it outside you have to almost do a double take.Very good weathering. [/quote] You're exactly right "route_rock"! That engine, but not the specific number was intended to capture the look of the Soo Line engines here in the Quad Cities
[quote user="cudaken"] I read some where that Rossie O' Donald is a rail roader.[/quote] Please tell me cudaken....how Rosie is an asset to the cause??
[quote user="markpierce"] [quote user="gerhard_k"] Well, Mark, that's a very erudite answer, but my first question to a modeler new to the forum would be "are you sure you mean 22 and 24 degree curves, or do you mean 22 and 24 inch radius curves?" [/quote] I was sure he meant curves measured by radius and inches, and I trusted most everyone would comprehend my point. Mark [/quote] I understood what you meant Mark in a helpful and constructive way and I don't
In the instruction sheet it at the bottom of the exploded parts diagram it has a "NOTE TO MODELER" " For Improved operations on a 24" radius curve,trim the center sill to clear wheelsets" So on the bottom of the car turn the trucks as far left and right as they will go. The area where they touch the center sill must be cut out. Add another 1/2 " or so beyond where they touch. I just simply cut my sills to the next support bar, or about an 1 1/2" of material. I used