Great stuff again this weekend, as usual.
I haven't had much to post here in quite a while. Did add a couple of cabooses to the fleet this week
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mononguy63 Great stuff again this weekend, as usual. I haven't had much to post here in quite a while. Did add a couple of cabooses to the fleet this week Jim
Great picture quality
What kind of camera
UncBob What kind of camera
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I completed 3 more cars this week. All are factory paints with weathering, added matal wheels and Kadee couplers:
Hopper MEC 2669 - Accurail
Hopper CO 71513 - Bachmann
Hopper BO 532000 - old Athearn
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
EDIT For got to link the picture
Hamltnblue Heartland Division CB&Q: Very nice work, everybody! Here is a little scene I put together while in a creative mood. Nice scene. Just a note. For minor truck trappings they usually don't use tow trucks. They simply let half the air out of the tires and back out.
Heartland Division CB&Q: Very nice work, everybody! Here is a little scene I put together while in a creative mood.
Very nice work, everybody!
Here is a little scene I put together while in a creative mood.
Nice scene.
Just a note. For minor truck trappings they usually don't use tow trucks. They simply let half the air out of the tires and back out.
While on vacation once going thru Columbus Ga. on old hwy 80. We came on the same scene where a semi truck had high centered on a railroad over pass in downtown. Hwy 80 dipped down under the RR and came back up on the other side. The spot is still there to this day. While the cops stood there scratching their heads as how to get the truck unstuck, a kid sitting on the over pass hollered down at the cops saying "Let the air out of the tires you flatfoot". This was about 1969 or '70 and I was 10 or 11 years old at the time. I still think of that day whenever I drive under it.
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Gary, I love the semi under the bridge scene. I grew up in Canandaigua, NY and the NYC had a bridge that was rammed by a semi at least once a year. I managed to see several of the wrecks. Usually the truck came out second best. The smart drivers were the ones that knew enough to let a lot of air out of the tires. there was a gas station just a few hundred feet down 5 & 20 where they could top them off. Last fall we had a Flatbed trailer hauling a huge oversized Harvester hit an old RR bridge in Flint, NY. he manged to drop the bridge onto the harvester.... Not much left of the harvester, but it destroyed the beautiful old bridge. It was a part of the Ontario Pathways Trails.
OK, I can now show the rest of the train I put in here yesterday. The train was eneterd in today's Model Contest at our division meet. This was put together by me for several reasons. 1. I needed another "Name" train for the layout anyway. 2. It is named after the Newsletter for my NMRA Division (Lakeshores Division). We have just this year got the old Newsletter going again. The car #s are significant. Given the info I just gave you, can you figure out the car #s??? Here is the first coach in the consist:
Second Coach:
and the 3rd.:
73
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WM3798,
Excellent work! Did you splice two Bachmann loco shops together? Looks like it's going to be an impressive facility for servicing a locomotive fleet. Looking forward to seeing its completion.
wm3798 Engine terminal is gradually taking shape... Fun with LEDs on the car shops! Lee
Engine terminal is gradually taking shape...
Fun with LEDs on the car shops!
Lee
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jeffrey-wimberly UncBob: What kind of camera Probably a Sony DSC HX1.
UncBob: What kind of camera
By golly, I think you're correct! I had to check because I didnt know myself. This kid's got talent!
I saw a truck stuck under a bridge on Storrow Drive in Boston. A cop came by and asked the truck driver;
Are you stuck? The truck driver said! NO I AM JUST DELIVERING A BRIDGE>
Sam
Some great photos this weekend.... being an ole Hoosier boy, I especially liked MononGuys "caboose shot"!
Bob
howmus The car #s are significant. Given the info I just gave you, can you figure out the car #s??? Here is the first coach in the consist:
The car #s are significant. Given the info I just gave you, can you figure out the car #s??? Here is the first coach in the consist:
Birth years.
John
mononguy63 jeffrey-wimberly: UncBob: What kind of camera Probably a Sony DSC HX1. By golly, I think you're correct! I had to check because I didnt know myself. This kid's got talent!
jeffrey-wimberly: UncBob: What kind of camera Probably a Sony DSC HX1.
Or else he looked at the EXIF information stored in the picture...
jwhitten howmus: The car #s are significant. Given the info I just gave you, can you figure out the car #s??? Here is the first coach in the consist: Birth years. John
howmus: The car #s are significant. Given the info I just gave you, can you figure out the car #s??? Here is the first coach in the consist:
Ah..... Kinda. But Birth of what? Not a person BTW. The first car I figure several here should be able to figure out, the others are more, ah, should I say local.....
howmus jwhitten: howmus: The car #s are significant. Given the info I just gave you, can you figure out the car #s??? Here is the first coach in the consist: Birth years. John Ah..... Kinda. But Birth of what? Not a person BTW. The first car I figure several here should be able to figure out, the others are more, ah, should I say local..... 73
jwhitten: howmus: The car #s are significant. Given the info I just gave you, can you figure out the car #s??? Here is the first coach in the consist: Birth years. John
1935 - First NMRA Convention
1947 - NMRA Niagra Frontier Region Founded
1962 - NMRA Montreal Convention in Niagara Frontier Region
(?? Best guess)
jwhitten 1935 - First NMRA Convention 1947 - NMRA Niagra Frontier Region Founded 1962 - NMRA Montreal Convention in Niagara Frontier Region (?? Best guess) John
John, very good! You basically got 2 out of the 3. 1962 was the first official meeting of the Lakeshores Division of the NFR, NMRA. I found the minutes of that meeting in the files handed down to me when I became the Superintendent. March 4, 1962. Still have several members active who were at that original meeting. The number on the Baggage Car (earlier post) is the year I joined the NMRA.
Oh, and the I don't know if there was an actual convention, but Al Kalmbach and several others formed the NMRA in 1935.
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Some great stuff here again this week. Thanks guys.
Grampy - Great photo!! Absolutely breathtaking!
Here is one from the BRVRR:
Santa Fe FP45 #5941 leads its brother #5945 around the General Industries curve on the BRVRR layout at the head of my version of the El Capitan. Both locos are Athearn BB kits with custom lights and Soundtraxx decoders.
Keep up the good work guys. This is always the best thread of the week.
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After unpacking and putting away all the Division stuff today. I decided to do a bit of tweaking to the Rivarossi Coaches and Baggage car. They were derailing constantly, comming uncoupled every time the loco hiccuped anywhere on the layout and i didn't like the look of the distance between the cars. This, for instance:
So I pulled off the el cheapo whisker type couplers that come with the cars and tried to figure out which Kadee couplers might work on them..... Got out the bunch of #5s I have (I use a lot of them) and they, of course where considerably shorter. On the other hand the distance between the cars would look right. So I put on a #5 and couldn't get the bracket that goes under the coupler pocket to not scrape on the coupler.... I was taking the #5 back off and figured tomorrow would be a run to the LHS when... The light bulb went on. The little bracket would fit just fine if I turned it around and put it on backward. So the cars are now no longer uncoupling every 10 feet, and are derailing much less often as well (still have to do some tweaking. One problem on one car was a truck was too tight....). Now they look like this:
I installed the A/D tracks for Ridgeley Yard this weekend. As hoped for, they'll hold a 20+ car train, and up to 25 cars if you cut off the power ahead of the switch. Perfect!Lee
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