Spring Break Photo Fun(Weekend Photo Fun) 3/20/08 to 3/31/08

[gear-jammer]

Great composition, Chuck. 

Sue

[cudaken]

 To think I wanted to post PIC of what I got done in the last week here?

 I started a new posting and hope that is OK.

 JK, stop and think before you post. I respect most of your comments but you are rather rash with the keyboard. In the Mopar I am a expert! Yet, I have never left comments that made a new person or the board mad like you seem to do. I will add I have over 10,000 posting on Mopar sites.

 If I want hear a fight (so to speak) I tell my wife how much the PCM Biy Boy and Y6-b cost!

                              Cuda Ken

[pike-62]

Been workin' on a D&H RS-3m for the last couple of months and it's finally ready for paint: Nose, #board/headlight housing, DB box are my own resin castings.

 That engine is looking pretty nice. Glad to see someone else doing these. Here are some pics from one I did a while ago and one I am working on.

 

Keep up the great work and be sure to post some shots of the finished paint job.

Dan Pikulski

www.DansResinCasting.com

 

[New Haven I-5]

 Everyone calm down. All this talking is from Photo Fun. Let's all go back ON TOPIC & enjoy SBFP.

[Anonymous]

 Everyone calm down. All this talking is from Photo Fun. Let's all go back ON TOPIC & enjoy SBFP.

Everyone! New Haven has a point. There has been some odd talking one the forums. Come'on! Lets enjoy Model Trains! Isn't that why we go on here? Right!?

[Guilford Guy]

 Everyone calm down. All this talking is from Photo Fun. Let's all go back ON TOPIC & enjoy SBFP.

Everyone! New Haven has a point. There has been some odd talking one the forums. Come'on! Lets enjoy Model Trains! Isn't that why we go on here? Right!?

Pathetic, you have to reply to yourself! 

[Driline]

 Everyone calm down. All this talking is from Photo Fun. Let's all go back ON TOPIC & enjoy SBFP.

Everyone! New Haven has a point. There has been some odd talking one the forums. Come'on! Lets enjoy Model Trains! Isn't that why we go on here? Right!?

Pathetic, you have to reply to yourself! 

Gee, I don't know what you're talking about. New Haven I-5 and Lamoille Valley are so right.

AHHHH! The voices in my head

[twhite]

If Lamoille Valley is New Haven's Alter Ego, at least they're BOTH talking some sense.

Tom

[SteamFreak]

No model photos this week yet, but I did make another video, this time scraped together from clips I took when visiting relatives in New Jersey. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BlnvsCRp4 

So where were the bunny ears on that M&E Alco?

[shayfan84325]

I've been working on this turntable for a couple of weeks.  The pit is from scratch and the turntable is from a wood kit.  Had to do a lot of engineering to keep everything on center.  Worked out great.  I/m using 5mm unit bearings for carrier wheels.  BTW, it's HO:

[SteamFreak]

Nice turntable, Shayfan! How do you plan to motorize and index it?

Love the brass.

[selector]

Phil, very nicely done!  Your collection of brass is quite nice, too.

[RedSkin]

Well its been quite awhile since I got a chance to do any real work on my layout.  I finially got all of the track down and the switched stands put in.....  gonna start working on finishing up the wiring getting the panel finished and get started on some scenery.

This is what I've been doing this weekend.

Brad

[shayfan84325]

Nice turntable, Shayfan! How do you plan to motorize and index it?

Love the brass.

Thanks.  I have a 100/1 worm/worm-gear gearbox that I'll connect to a hand crank.  Indexing will be by eyeball.  I know, it seems low-tech, but I like to have a lot of hands on involvement with my layout (and I don't know enough about electronics to make it index accurately every time).

All three of those brass locos run even better than they look, I've installed coreless motors with planetary inline gearboxes.  The mogul has a top speed of about 18 smph, and that little shay tops out at 12.  The Forney is a little faster, but all three will creep along at less than 1 smph (like watching the minute hand on a clock).  Makes for very realistic operation.  I have no end of good things to say about coreless motors.  BTW, I run DC with a solid state throttle.

[wm3798]

I had posted a lot of the early stages of my layout's construction over on the Atlas board back in 2003/2004 when this was current events. I recently moved all the images to a new Picasa album. So, without further adieu, here's everything you wanted to know about the beginnings of my layout, but were afraid to ask...  This represents about 6-8 months of work.

Early Construction Slide Show

More to follow!
Lee

[Hoople]

Here's a meet of 5 Southern Pacific SD7's, just snapped on my layout about 30 minutes ago.

*Image removed for Dialup users*

Brian

 

Man, those are some purdy geeps!

[SteamFreak]

Thanks.  I have a 100/1 worm/worm-gear gearbox that I'll connect to a hand crank.  Indexing will be by eyeball.  I know, it seems low-tech, but I like to have a lot of hands on involvement with my layout (and I don't know enough about electronics to make it index accurately every time).

All three of those brass locos run even better than they look, I've installed coreless motors with planetary inline gearboxes.  The mogul has a top speed of about 18 smph, and that little shay tops out at 12.  The Forney is a little faster, but all three will creep along at less than 1 smph (like watching the minute hand on a clock).  Makes for very realistic operation.  I have no end of good things to say about coreless motors.  BTW, I run DC with a solid state throttle.

Good old-fashioned elbow grease is definitely appropriate to the era you're modelling.

Clockwork speed reduction is a beautiful thing.

[selector]

Lee, I enjoyed your slide show.  I really like your layout, and I also particularly like your brick structures.  One image made the large red one look enormous.  I enjoyed, also, when you got around to adding ground foam and provided a higher overview...it looked very nice, indeed, very natural and believable.

-Crandell

[wm3798]

Thank you.  One of the things I'm going to try to do is create a slide show showing a series of images from a similar angle that present the progress from start to finish.  Right now I'm wading through about a thousand photos!

Lee 

[zgardner18]

Lead SD70MAC leaving Flatonia

chuck

Chuck has my vote for the best photo of the Easter Weekend!

[selector]

I hope my feelings about your images will lend you some impetus.   Keep looking!!!

-Crandell

[jecorbett]

I've been working on this turntable for a couple of weeks.  The pit is from scratch and the turntable is from a wood kit.  Had to do a lot of engineering to keep everything on center.  Worked out great.  I/m using 5mm unit bearings for carrier wheels.  BTW, it's HO:

Nice job. I recently purchased a TT bridge kit and will also need to build a pit. The instructions suggested a method but I am curious about your method. Also, you mentioned centering it. Were you refering to locating the pivot point and what method did you use. Also, could you describe how you built and centered the pit rail.

[shayfan84325]

I've been working on this turntable for a couple of weeks.  The pit is from scratch and the turntable is from a wood kit.  Had to do a lot of engineering to keep everything on center.  Worked out great.  I/m using 5mm unit bearings for carrier wheels.  BTW, it's HO:

Nice job. I recently purchased a TT bridge kit and will also need to build a pit. The instructions suggested a method but I am curious about your method. Also, you mentioned centering it. Were you refering to locating the pivot point and what method did you use. Also, could you describe how you built and centered the pit rail.

Thanks for the complement.  I made the pit out of a couple of layers of MDF (medium density fiberboard).  I cut them to about 12" square (same size/shape).  I cut a hole about 8 1/2 inches in diameter in one and glued it on center onto the other.  I drilled the center hole in the other (this MUST be perpendicular, so a drill press is required).  I made a circle cutting jig for a laminate trimmer (small router) and used it with a straight cutting bit to cut the 9" final diameter in the top layer.  I set the bit just deep enough to cut about 1/32 into the bottom, that gave me a ridge to set the ring rail ties against.

To do the ring rail I made a jig to space and position the ties so they are really radial and glued them in place.  I also made a drilling jig to drill spike holes on a perfect circle (you have to pre-drill the spike holes because they won't drive into MDF). I drilled the holes and curled the rail so it would fit into the pit (don't kink it).  Then I spiked it down and soldered the ends to each other.  It was actually easier than I expected.  I used code 55 rail with code 70 spikes.

Other notes:

All of the jigs pivot from the center hole.  I lined it with a brass tube to keep it from wearing and getting out of round.  Becaise everything is based off of the hole it all ended up on center.

Getting the pivot dead center in the bridge was another challenge.  I measured VERY carefully.  I used my dial caliper a lot in this project.

In terms of the structure, the center pivot keeps the bridge on center, but all of the weight resides on the carrier wheels (on the ends).  The 5mm unit bearings I used for carrier wheels work like a charm.  Let me know if you want the source for these tiny little bearings.

My kit included fishing line for the guy wires, I used upholstery thread instead (looks and acts more like cable).  You can buy upholstery thread at a fabric store (I love the looks I get when I go into a fabric store).

Good luck!  Feel free to PM or post more questions.

[railroadnut675]

so what!!

Uhh, its called rules.

Children visit this forum, it has nothing to do with "sensitive".

 

It doesn't matter, I've heard worse at the pumps