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Todays Progress on the N Scale ACTRR

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Anonymous
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, July 9, 2010 7:08 AM

 ... and it turned out very, very well, Mike.

Your pictures are this week´s highlight!

 

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Posted by mfifer on Friday, July 9, 2010 9:01 PM

Sir Madog

 ... and it turned out very, very well, Mike.

Your pictures are this week´s highlight!

 

Thank you very much Ulrich. I am pretty happy with the results but the river almost overwhelmed me. I just couldn't seem to get it the color of the workers here in the Southwest.
Thanks again Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by mfifer on Saturday, July 10, 2010 8:34 PM

Here is todays newest video of the Albuquerque Carnuel & Tijeras RR.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXpEMx4lb0

Thanks , Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, July 10, 2010 11:43 PM

 Mike,

that river of yours nicely represents a stream after a long and heavy rainfall - with all that mud flooded into it. Looks very realistic to me - much better than the blue or green ones I have seen so many times.

Just another few words to your layout. The work you do makes me seriously think of "converting" to N scale. I am very short of space, living in a small apartment after losing my house due to the financial crisis and the subsequent end of my business. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a job ( I am too old, being 54), so there is no money left for a new start of my own MRR activities. But should I be able to start over again in a I hope not too distant a time, it´ll be N scale!

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Posted by mfifer on Sunday, July 11, 2010 1:00 AM

Ulrich , above all I hope you can return to a stable life and then hope to see you in N scale.

Thanks , Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by mfifer on Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:03 PM

Here is the Period Miniatures shed in place as well as some completed ballasting around the engine house and turntable and the instalation of the oil depot from the old layout(with some modifications).

Thanks , Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by flyboy10 on Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:15 PM
hey mike great to see you on the forum im a big fan of your layout and ive been following progress on youtube, bowen (shryock121002)
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Posted by Bob grech on Sunday, July 18, 2010 10:43 PM

 One of the nicest "N" Scale layouts I've seen. Keep us posted as you progress.

Have Fun.... Bob.

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Posted by mfifer on Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:07 PM

Thanks Bowen and Bob , Glad to have you both tagging along and thanks so much for the kudo's !!

 

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by mfifer on Sunday, August 22, 2010 6:04 PM

Here are the pictures of the finished N Scale baseball field. Now I just need to fill in around it and have yet to decide with what.The main street will be at the front edge of the field.

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by Mntneer on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:40 PM

 I love the baseball field.  Great work! Smile

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Posted by mfifer on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:23 PM

Mntneer

 I love the baseball field.  Great work! Smile

Thanks , it was a lot of fun.

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by JCasey on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 1:21 AM

 Good job on the baseball field, looks good.

"Anyone who goes to bed the same day they got up is a quitter." Anonymous
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Posted by mfifer on Wednesday, August 25, 2010 6:30 AM

Thanks J glad you enjoyed it. I do need a score board , some advertising and a flag pole though.

Thanks , Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by mfifer on Saturday, November 27, 2010 9:45 PM

So far this weekend I got the southwest corner done on the work bench and placed on the layout . I need to blend it in and also got the preliminary road in place in front of it.

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by corsair7 on Monday, November 29, 2010 6:42 AM

It looks great, Mike. But how come you let three months go by since you posted the previous update? Are you getting lazy like me or just running out of steam?

Irv

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Posted by mfifer on Monday, November 29, 2010 7:56 PM

I was both and have been buying and selling motorcycles.

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by mfifer on Saturday, February 5, 2011 7:36 PM

Here is what I have been doing here while off work.
I decided the yard was way to much at the front of the layout so here is what I did and seems to work well and gives more scenery space as well as better scenery transition.

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by corsair7 on Sunday, February 6, 2011 7:23 AM

It sure gives you more room. But are you going to do any operations?

Irv

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Posted by mfifer on Sunday, February 6, 2011 12:16 PM

Thans Irv , I am going to do operations and this mod actually allows for the same yard movements and 2 additional sidings.

Thanks Irv , Stay Warm , Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 7, 2011 12:36 AM

Mike,

congrats on doing this. We tend to include too much track on our layouts and often dedicate too little space to scenery. If your operation is not hampered by this step, it is a good thing to trim the track down - just like real roads do.

 

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Posted by corsair7 on Monday, February 7, 2011 6:30 AM

mfifer

Thans Irv , I am going to do operations and this mod actually allows for the same yard movements and 2 additional sidings.

Thanks Irv , Stay Warm , Mike

After what I heard happening where you are I am probably warmer than you. But that isn't saying much since we still have December's snow around here. At least today should be as warm as it was yesterday (in the low 40s) so we should have some of the snw that turned into ice melting. I haven't been out of the house since Friday so I really don't know.

It's great weather for model railroading.

Irv

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Posted by mfifer on Monday, February 7, 2011 2:19 PM

Sir Madog

Mike,

congrats on doing this. We tend to include too much track on our layouts and often dedicate too little space to scenery. If your operation is not hampered by this step, it is a good thing to trim the track down - just like real roads do.

 

Thanks Irv , I had to look at the track for quite some time to realize my own rules !!!

 

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 7, 2011 5:47 PM

Hey Mike,

no one ever has called me Irv before! Meet you at dawn at the cemetery ...

 

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Posted by mfifer on Monday, February 7, 2011 7:03 PM

Sir Madog

Hey Mike,

no one ever has called me Irv before! Meet you at dawn at the cemetery ...

 

 

Wow I am really screwed up !!!!!!!!!!!

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by tony314 on Monday, February 7, 2011 7:11 PM

Looks good using premade track and roadbed ( I have some ez  track ). Very well done so far. Makes me want to use it on mine sometimes lol

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Posted by mfifer on Monday, February 7, 2011 9:13 PM

tony314

Looks good using premade track and roadbed ( I have some ez  track ). Very well done so far. Makes me want to use it on mine sometimes lol

You may want to try Kato as it has sooo mant pieces and variations.

Thanks , Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by mfifer on Monday, February 7, 2011 9:14 PM

Here is an area that I finally finished this weekend. It is a Walthers car shop that was bashed into 2 stalls and crane installed inside.
The crane outside is a new Monroe Models kit and Gold Medal Models fencing. The concrete is Styrene and scence is set on Kato UniTrack.

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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Posted by -E-C-Mills on Friday, February 25, 2011 8:17 PM

Looking good.  Great to watch the progress.  Hello from up north.

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Posted by mfifer on Friday, February 25, 2011 8:31 PM

Thanks so much and Greetings and Yah Tah Hea from here!

Mike

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon

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