Someone stop the Chief! We're freezing!

[Blueberryhill RR]

BOOM!!!!!!!

. . . And the lights went out all over the world . . .

You did it, didn't you? Holy Plaster, Batman!

Jim

 

And now his house lies all over Roseyville !!!!!!!!

[ChiefEagles]

Well, ran into a stud that the stud finder said wasn't there.  That is not unusual in these thick plaster walls.  Then it was 4 inches off.  Still got plenty of room to run two main lines through.  If I didn't, reciprocating saw would saw it out.  The white stuff yu see is non expanding foam from the pressure can.  Don't like it like I do the expanding kind.  Used it to fill the hollow walls above and below.  Think I will cover with a light coat of expanding kind.

Here you cn see where the "charges" are set for more blasting.  Back side already "blown" away [double wall]. Another stud so the main lines will go straight through and coal tipple siding will curve to miss the stud and go through.  At least this stud was the right distance from the edge of the closet.

This plaster is in sheets like sheetrock but hard as a rock with paper covering.  Then mudded over with more plaster.  DUSTY!!!  THICK!!  It eats saw blades like chocolate in the sunshine.  Eats masonary bits too.  Covered the layout with plastic drop cloth.  You wear a mask when you saw this stuff.  If you use a Rotozip, it takes a special high $$ bit.  Makes too much dust and gets hot.  So, saw is the best way.

[Buckeye Riveter]

Chief, say FLEXTRACK.

[Blueberryhill RR]

Chiefie.....you need a bigger hammer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

Chiefie.....you need a bigger hammer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah!  He needs a Single Shield Tunnel Boring Machine!

[ChiefEagles]

Here I am working away.

[daan]

Chiefie.....you need a bigger hammer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah!  He needs a Single Shield Tunnel Boring Machine!

 

I know one for sale, they left it in the soil somewhere under the north sea while digging the channel tunnel.. You'll have to organize transport and rescue from the deep sea yourself though..

[Nick12DMC]

Chiefie.....you need a bigger hammer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah!  He needs a Single Shield Tunnel Boring Machine!

 

I know one for sale, they left it in the soil somewhere under the north sea while digging the channel tunnel.. You'll have to organize transport and rescue from the deep sea yourself though..

I thought they left it on the middle of that roundabout in Calais??? Guess its the front part, maybe the Chief could use that as a starting point. Might be available at a discount, just provided your own C5 Galaxy for shipment...LOL

Nick

 

[phillyreading]

Chief, Have you tried using a sawzall electric saw? I use it to cut 2 X 4's and tree branches. What size drill (not the drill bits)are you using? A 3/8 or 1/2 inch drill should work fine on older walls. Like you I find that electronic stud finders can be off quite a bit. For all you jokers out there I didn't have any power loss while Chief did his work. Lee F.

[ChiefEagles]

Chief, Have you tried using a sawzall electric saw? I use it to cut 2 X 4's and tree branches. What size drill (not the drill bits)are you using? A 3/8 or 1/2 inch drill should work fine on older walls. Like you I find that electronic stud finders can be off quite a bit. For all you jokers out there I didn't have any power loss while Chief did his work. Lee F.

Sawzall is what I am using [that is what a reciprocating saw is].  Drill, Craftsman 19.2 V big sucker.

The other tunnel is done.  Plenty of room as the two main lines will go straight and the coal sideing will half curve and go through.

Other side.

Don't know how much I'll get done.  Wife off tomorrow.  Wants to take down Christmas.

[Anonymous]

Lookin' good there Chief... no aftershocks up here in Bal'mer!  

I'm getting the itch to take down the Christmas tree, but for selfish reasons!

I'm revin to get this FasTrack testing done, and I want to build something!

Wife said we are going to meet with the home builders in Mid-January! 

Not sure how I feel about shelling out this kind of money for a house, but if it gets me my train room... it may be worth it in the long run.  Christmas was really rough this year seeing how we had 14 people in our house.  The kitchen blows as you can only have one person working at a time, the dining room is only 12 x 14, and the living room is only 13 x 16 (train garden is 8' x 5.33' - so it took up a good chunk of real-estate).

[jakeoregano]

Lookin' good there Chief... no aftershocks up here in Bal'mer!  ...

LOL - Bal'mer.  That's what the locals call it.  When I see that here, it reminds me of home .

I feel your pain about the house.  Our last one back in Ravens territory was an old cape code with an 8X10 kitchen.  You had to walk through the kitchen to get to the basement.  Dining room was a 9X10 room that we couldn't eat in because the front door of the house opened up into it(long story). 

When we moved out here to Ohio, we finally got some space.  I am now planning a permanent layout in the unfinished utility area of the basement (or maybe the 9X9 den if I can convince my wife of that idea).

Good luck with the home plans.

Jakeoregano (aka Dwayne) 

[Anonymous]

Lookin' good there Chief... no aftershocks up here in Bal'mer!  ...

LOL - Bal'mer.  That's what the locals call it.  When I see that here, it reminds me of home .

I feel your pain about the house.  Our last one back in Ravens territory was an old cape code with an 8X10 kitchen.  You had to walk through the kitchen to get to the basement.  Dining room was a 9X10 room that we couldn't eat in because the front door of the house opened up into it(long story). 

When we moved out here to Ohio, we finally got some space.  I am now planning a permanent layout in the unfinished utility area of the basement (or maybe the 9X9 den if I can convince my wife of that idea).

Good luck with the home plans.

Jakeoregano (aka Dwayne) 

Dwayne,
I try to fit in as best I can!  I'm a Steeler fan and getting used to all this annoying Purple is very difficult...

We are planning a move about 15 miles South of where we are now.  Trying to get into a much larger house.  I don't have a problem with anything other than the cost (sticker shock still gets me).  We are moving up from an approx 1800sq ft house to just over 3700 sq ft.

Why we need a house over twice the size of the one we have now I'll never know , but it will give me my gourmet kitchen, 12ft ceilings in the family room, and a HUGE unfinished basement (hence the reason for the train room)... BTW - wife informed me yesterday that I don't the entire basement because she wants a wine cellar, and a game room.

[dwiemer]

Chief, Keep up the good work.  I do think you need to slow down a little though, at this rate, You will be done before me.

dennis

[ChiefEagles]

Not much going to happen today.  Wife home and wanting outside Christmas down.  

[daan]

Chiefie.....you need a bigger hammer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nah!  He needs a Single Shield Tunnel Boring Machine!

 

I know one for sale, they left it in the soil somewhere under the north sea while digging the channel tunnel.. You'll have to organize transport and rescue from the deep sea yourself though..

I thought they left it on the middle of that roundabout in Calais??? Guess its the front part, maybe the Chief could use that as a starting point. Might be available at a discount, just provided your own C5 Galaxy for shipment...LOL

Nick

 Yep, they used 4 tunneling machines, one of them is in calais on a roundabout, one is somewhere in the middle of the tunnel and 2 are shredded. May be, if the chief has patience, there are 4 tunneling machines left in switserland after the new gotthard tunnel is finished. Those machines are more rugged to deal with the rocks and stone stuff, the channel machines where for soft chalkstone..

[daan]

Lookin' good there Chief... no aftershocks up here in Bal'mer!  ...

LOL - Bal'mer.  That's what the locals call it.  When I see that here, it reminds me of home .

I feel your pain about the house.  Our last one back in Ravens territory was an old cape code with an 8X10 kitchen.  You had to walk through the kitchen to get to the basement.  Dining room was a 9X10 room that we couldn't eat in because the front door of the house opened up into it(long story). 

When we moved out here to Ohio, we finally got some space.  I am now planning a permanent layout in the unfinished utility area of the basement (or maybe the 9X9 den if I can convince my wife of that idea).

Good luck with the home plans.

Jakeoregano (aka Dwayne) 

Dwayne,
I try to fit in as best I can!  I'm a Steeler fan and getting used to all this annoying Purple is very difficult...

We are planning a move about 15 miles South of where we are now.  Trying to get into a much larger house.  I don't have a problem with anything other than the cost (sticker shock still gets me).  We are moving up from an approx 1800sq ft house to just over 3700 sq ft.

Why we need a house over twice the size of the one we have now I'll never know , but it will give me my gourmet kitchen, 12ft ceilings in the family room, and a HUGE unfinished basement (hence the reason for the train room)... BTW - wife informed me yesterday that I don't the entire basement because she wants a wine cellar, and a game room.

It's simple.. Build a wall, on one side the first 3 feet from the ground up, is wine cellar, in the wall. Aboven the wine storage, on the other side of the wall you can build your trainlayout, as long as it's above 3 feet they don't bite eachother. The wine cellar is a wall in the game room (convenient also, because reaching for refreshments when gaming is easy) This way you can use half the basement (and by miscalculation while building the wall even 2/3!) of the basement for the trains, while your wife has her winestorage and gameroom..

[wrmcclellan]

FYI you guys,

At some point soon I am going to have to change from the Comcast Server I use for hosting photos to a Time-Warner Server. This means my photos on this post will disappear. I am unsure at this point if I will load then to the new server (once I figure it out!).

[ChiefEagles]

Wired all the switches on the right side to the remotes.  Got all the switches on the left side on aux power.  Now to wire their remotes.   Using colored bell wire to extend the leads.  Later

[Brutus]

Just curious - what's the gauge on the wire you're using?  I was at HD the other day just looking and didn't see any wire that looked the right gauge - it all looked too fat to my untrained eye....

[Anonymous]

I was in the pot earlier today and asked Chief if the layout was finished.  I was totally unaware of this thread ( the title is a bit deceiving ).  Well, after spending 2 hours reading all ten pages here ( I can read faster than that but dailup delayed things a bit ) I must say I'm astounded how quickly things seem to be coming together for the Chief.  Very well done, Chief!  Don't let'em kid ya about the trashed room though...If that were my project you wouldn't see the benchwork for tools and scraps and empty liquor bottles, not to mention the blue air. 

 Just AWESOME!

Bruce Webster

[ChiefEagles]

Just curious - what's the gauge on the wire you're using?  I was at HD the other day just looking and didn't see any wire that looked the right gauge - it all looked too fat to my untrained eye....

To lockons, 14 ga speaker wire.  Son gets it wholesale in big spools.  The aux power wires for switches is 12 ga solid and the 14 ga speaker wires dropped and soldered to the buss wires.  To extend my switch controlers, I use 18 ga door bell wire.  My accessories will probably be  buss wires [like the switch power] with bell wire for droppers.  All my lockon wires are run back to buss MTH buss "bars" as to make sure DCS works.  Seems TMCC only needs a good ground.

[Brutus]

Thanks for the info!

[ChiefEagles]

Just realigned track on main lines and the coal siding.  Now they align and go through the tunnel holes.  Insulated the two sidings on the right side so they are not connected to the mainlines.  Will do the same on the left side and insulate the two mainline from each other [the only connedting switchs right now are on that side].  Moved my grain elevator to the grain siding that is now fixed with straight track.  Pictures later.  Time to eat dinner.  BTW: no switches at Miss Edna's yet.

[ChiefEagles]

Pictures of re-done track tha tlines up with tunnels.

 

[mitchelr]

Chief- What no new layout progress pictures in the new year yet???

Mitch

[jefelectric]

Chief- What no new layout progress pictures in the new year yet???

Mitch

Could it be too much partying?

[mitchelr]

Chief- What no new layout progress pictures in the new year yet???

Mitch

Could it be too much partying?

Probably too much GRITS.  Eating grits is like eating lead, bound to clog you up and slow you down

Mitch

[Blueberryhill RR]

Chief- What no new layout progress pictures in the new year yet???

Mitch

Could it be too much partying?

Probably too much GRITS.  Eating grits is like eating lead, bound to clog you up and slow you down

Mitch

Chiefie has got a GRITS clog !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I knew it !!!

The old gizzer needs some Drano.

[ChiefEagles]

Wiring and more wiring.  Interrupted.  Had to go to In-laws for dinner.