So heres the most recent pics:
More at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ns3010/sets/72157610592694393/
O, n btw. Bigblue, i like ur graphic of the ALP-64 w/ Comet Vs
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Great video and nice layout! ill have to post new pics soon.
That's a great video, Ty! Very nice layout.
Thanks! The layout is roughly 12' by 22' and is kidney shaped. I have an old obsolete trackplan somewhere, someday I'll try to draw up a new one.
Tyler, nice layout! Nice detail. JW, how big is it?
So when i asked my mom if i could order something from walthers, she told me that thed rather have me save my money and get it for me for christmas. Sure, i dont get it for an extra 2 weeks, but i save $50!
Got some more scenery done, ill post pics soon.
Today I made a new layout video, following WRS Train 404 over the layout from White River Junction, VT to West Formanek, NH. I didn't get any shots of the new yard, because there's no scenery there. This video is all finished areas, with nothing in the frame except for the layout. Here's a link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXyBlWnXAu4
Enjoy!
i havent been to a train show in oooh, id have to say like, 10 years. for the last yr. and a 1/2 ive finally been planning to go to one but i never went. there was one this weekend, and when i found out about it, i was promised that i could FINALLY go. but of course, they had to move our hockey game to last night. being away for the weekend, the train show was on the way home. its about an hour away from home, and we had to leave early for the game, so i ended up not going again...
but i might be ordering something from walthers tonite, so maybe ill get that soon
I won a Lamoille Valley Boxcar, with added weight, and A-Line stirrups on ebay for $4.99... Of course I don't get it for another 27 days... I can't wait to kill it with my airbrush! yayzzz!
Alex
I started a tiny area of scenery on my layout and it looks good. I also came down the shore and found $100 in my drawer. Im prob. goin to buy a factory for my layout and save the rest. :)
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Thanks for the comments!
It thinks its more of the fact that i took the pics w/ my phone than the lighting...
TrainManTy It looks more like Rock Island maroon than WC maroon... I don't think a yard lead is all that necessary on a shortline, especially a branch. How many trains are going to be running past? If it's less than 5 a day then the yard crew doesn't need a lead, although each situation is different.
It looks more like Rock Island maroon than WC maroon... I don't think a yard lead is all that necessary on a shortline, especially a branch. How many trains are going to be running past? If it's less than 5 a day then the yard crew doesn't need a lead, although each situation is different.
Actually, there are "none" going down that way, but there will be one train (the daily way frieght) that will use the main and A/D track there to turn (it will act like the passing siding at the end of the line, lol). there's about three trains though: morning frieght from Aiken yard, wayfrieght that leaves about 1, and an evening frieght out to the Aiken yard.
This branch's power will probably be a GP7 (there's a nice one at M.B. Klien for $50), GP35, and a U23B. I'm probably still going to ebay my GP30, and I'm saving the GP9 and H-15-44 for Aiken Branch #1 (which I think I can get the go-ahead to build when this layout gets mostly done). Then I also have an excuse to get a GP38, lol.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
NS, the scenery looks good as well as I can see it. Maybe if you took the diarama outside then the photos would come out better...
WCfan Yea I like the WC maroon. I think Floquil might of changed the pigment a little bit. Did your Maroon kind of have a pinkish purplish color when it was applied in very light coats, or if you got any in your fingers. In your pictures it seems more of a brownish, compare to mine, which has a redish tint. Maybe it's just my eyes.
Yea I like the WC maroon. I think Floquil might of changed the pigment a little bit. Did your Maroon kind of have a pinkish purplish color when it was applied in very light coats, or if you got any in your fingers. In your pictures it seems more of a brownish, compare to mine, which has a redish tint. Maybe it's just my eyes.
In one pic I have, it looks completely purple, but that was just the flash. I think it's brown, maybe a little dark though.
ns3010, great scenery!
Ok, so I finished my history project last night and I think it came out pretty good. (considering that ive never even attempted scenery before) Here are the pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ns3010/sets/72157610243993040/
Id like to know what you think.
Maybe i can start some scenery so my layout wont be styrofoam forever...
Thanks
Change the color on your monitor until it looks the same, then you have nothing to worry about!
I just bought a bunch of details for my C424. I got two pilots, Alco side mount bell, K3 horn, CP ditch lights, and Alco lift rings.
So now I'm all set. Just need to save up for Tsunami to throw in there!
WCfan Eh, who needs yard leads? The yard in Wausau doesn't have an offical lead....
Eh, who needs yard leads? The yard in Wausau doesn't have an offical lead....
Amen man.
Hey, you know you like that WC maroon, lol. It's EL yellow, not WC yellow w/ it though, lol.
Here's what I've been up to so far this week:
This is the plan. And yes, there is no seperate yard lead. Yes, there is one. Since the yard begins the line, and there's a seperate switch just past it to either the branchline or the Aiken yard, I'e decided I can cut out a seperate yard lead and use that main instead (and this way I can use my right hand switches, thus not having to buy any, lol). I'll just pretend that that factory isn there when I'm switching the yard. also, the A/D and main will serve as the turn-around at the "end" of the line too. There's also three other industries between the fireworks factory and the end of the line, "off-stage". I've also swapped the RIP/servcing area and engine house on the plan so that i can add a forest between the yard and the industries/town easier, lol.
And here's the engine house. Still have to add downspouts and roof vents, but it's pretty much done, lol. Was a learning experience, first pikestuff kit I've ever built, looked difficult, but is really easy, lol:
Here's a bird's eye view of it:
this is the RIP area. I painted my GP9 for the AAT, but will still get a new shell and all, because the cab will not seat properly on the body. BTW, that track leading off the layout edge will be the track to the Aiken yard, lol:
Here's where the feed dealer will be (siding w/ the CSX boxcar). You can see the small town in the distance, and the fireworks factory.
Plastic toy co. in the foreground, Cracker Distribution in the background:
Here's the town. It will get a few more stores, and I'll replace eric's emporium:
Looking down Main Street. Stores on one side, fireworks factory on the other, garage/gas station at the end, across the srossing street down there that will run the layout's length, lol:
Hopefuly going to glue the foam down today, then secure the track, adding what roadbed I have left, lol.
That explains it then, Tyler. I agree that speed-matching is a pain,
I spent a total of 12 hours on my U28Bs and got nowhere (one with a DH163L0, the other with QSI sound They ran fine nose to tail, but back to back was another problem [yes, they were going the same way]). I spent 6 hours with my zepher, and got nowhere. Took it to the MR club to see what could be done with them. After 3 people tried for an hour or so each using DT400Rs, and spending 5 hours on a friend's decoderpro software with the 2 of them, I about gave up. Then the friend with decoderpor tried and got it in 10 minutes.
Maybe it's just a GE thing. Wonder what happens when my Alcos get running (whenever I get them decoders [TCS A4Xs] from 4nscale.com, it's been almost 3 months. They said they were supposed to come on the weekend, hopefully that right this time). I'm still stripping the shells (4 weeks)
Vincent
Wants: 1. high-quality, sound equipped, SD40-2s, C636s, C30-7s, and F-units in BN. As for ones that don't cost an arm and a leg, that's out of the question....
2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.
Well, one has an Atlas Duel-mode decoder, and the other has a TCS T1...
Soldering is pretty easy, as long as the surfaces are clean. Unless the solder is a flux-core solder (it'll say on the roll) then you will need to apply flux to clean the surfaces before soldering. Otherwise it won't stick and you'll have loose connections.
Well, Digitrax got my busted UT4R, so hopefully it'll be here soon. Probably would have been better off driving there, since it only takes an hour and a half at the most, then waiting 3 days for the USPS to get it shipped 65 miles.
Tyler, of you used the same decoders in those U23Bs, they should run well together. However, I had my GP9s do that on me before I put the chassis from a sound one under the faster of the 2, now they run well together. That's where that PRR Geep came from. I'm hoping my SD9s will work out okay, since one has a new motor and sound decoder (I'll post pics of install later), and the other has about another ounce and a half of weight added.
Sawyer, soldering isn't really that hard when you get the hang of it. Just make the surfaces are clean and get the tips of the wire and the iron with a little bit of solder before you actually solder
I was in the WRJ yard office today while visiting the maintenance facility, and picked up this order...
White River Southern RailroadWhite River Junction Subdivision
November 26, 2008
Effective immedietely, no railcars are to be pushed Westbound over WRJ Yard East Switch A/D 1 any faster than a walk. This does not apply to pulling railcars over the switch or pushing Eastbound.
Translation: The east A/D 1 switch needs to have the points filed down, as some cars "pick the point" on it. And I don't have a needle file, or it would be done already... Actually, the whole east yard lead up to CP New Poland has a 10 MPH speed restriction, because of the nearby maintanance facility (There's only about 10 feet between the rail on the maintanance facility and the rail of the yard lead), track problems (I need to figure out what's going on and fix it) and it makes the mainline run longer.
TrainManTy Aww, Jordan, now I have to hurry up and get 1402 patched so I can own the first WIN locomotive!
Aww, Jordan, now I have to hurry up and get 1402 patched so I can own the first WIN locomotive!
Well, first I need to find a SD40-2 or SD40 to paint...
Friday I get to find out what's wrong with my ankle...
TrainManTy Ahh...The good old days where your railroad story/roster changes twice a month...
Ahh...The good old days where your railroad story/roster changes twice a month...
hardy-har-har. this time, it changes because I have a GP35 and U23B that can run on a layout, and my 4x8 is pretty much the only layout my parents will let me build, so I had to make it more interesting, lol. And it is a shortline, lol. Well, right now, I need not be concerned w/ the whole road, just what affects the branch.
It also doesn't help that this will be a slow build, but i have all the track i need (except for the yard, but that'll be easy to get, just straight sections, lol). You know how I get when i sit on a project, as you've seen. But i tihnk I can stick w/ this (it helps that I can keep moving in a forward direction and hopefully get trains running by Sunday if I A) get the foam down, B) get wire, and C) get my dad to teach me to solder.
And my roster/story has changed 5 or 6 times this month, lol.
I finally got my Digitrax Zephyr back from being repaired, and I ran some trains today...
1701 can crawl slow enough on clean track (I cleaned the whole layout with a rag soaked with rubbing alcohol) to pull out the slack in individual cars... I replaced the front coupler with a Kadee with a longer shank so the plow doesn't get in the way of the cut bar, as nothing was coupling to it, and it works great.
I can't get 2306 and 3243 to match speeds, I'll have to work on that sometime (already spend a good 45 minutes on that tonight and tried everything from speed steps to resetting the decoder...) but they do run smooth alone!
I also have a few new projects...now that the track is (mostly) clean, I can start to work on derailing issues and a couple bad joints that need soldering...
Amazingly, my GP9 can be painted. I have a base coat of maroon down, just going to paint the yellow on like I did on the GP35, we'll see how it turns out. I will still be getting a new shell and such for the GP9, but this way, I'll have two locos painted in AAT colors, lol.
Also changing up quite a bit of the AAT history on the branch line thing and loco roster, trying to make it more interesting. also moved the startup date to march 31, 1992. Also varying up the roster quite a bit, no more SD70ACes. Road locos now are two SD40s and 4 SD35s. There are going to be three U23Bs rostered now, and all sorts of other changes. Got bored in English 1, lol. Also changing up industries on branches because it looks like my 4x8 layout will now become my ONLY layout, lol.
Well, I know I'm getting 1 F45 with sound/DCC for christmas.
I also managed to save up money to get myself anohter. Just have to wait from the place I'm getting them from to get them. (Should be tommorow, also my sis's B-day)
Mike! Got any photos of your layout?