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Posted by Packers#1 on Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:03 PM

I'm ba-ack!. School starts in around 2 weeks here Angry [:(!]

And before you ask, yes, I did see a shark at the beach. It was a 3-4 ft. shovel head shark (member of the hammerhead variety). It stayed within 20 ft. of the shore mostly, and even got to within a yard or 2 of me. That was awesome.

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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, August 4, 2008 3:38 PM
Its a River in Eastern Mass...

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 4, 2008 3:13 PM
Yeah...Cool [8D] Where is Aberjona?Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Monday, August 4, 2008 2:49 PM
Looks nice! Will look better with MNER's latest out shopping...MNER has been bought from NEAT by Aberjona LEasin(ALEX)...

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Posted by WCfan on Monday, August 4, 2008 2:39 PM
My favorite clip is at 2:20 train 402. Over all a very good video.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, August 4, 2008 1:48 PM

I got my best clips up, (finally.) Here it is!

*Drum Roll*

WRS - Best of 2008!

Enjoy!

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 9:27 PM

 super cheif n wrote:
anyone else not have time to do that much model railroading with school and stuff?

Sure do. I always get more done during the summer's rainy days...

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Posted by Packer on Sunday, August 3, 2008 9:07 PM

I'm glad I graduated. But now I have to go to college near the end of August. Then I have worked at my job for a year (means a raise, more train money)

I'm serisouly thinking of quiting college an working for the CSX around here. I think I'll see if I have an insane or biased instructors this semester.

As for me working on my trains, I usually don't do much unless I think it needs it. Right now I'm working on the following:

2 GP30s, Superdetailed; airline hose and rerail frogs fell of on seperate units

U28B with sound needs a horn,  The non sound has just gotten programed with speed match with the sound one, just need a horn.

GP35, needs a motor, driveshafts, and worm gears. (that or me to modify a P2k GP30 chassis I have). A guy at the MR club has some left over from his older athearn units

SD9s, new decoders and LED, just needs some programming and paint the insides of the shell black (LED shines trough, even the black part of the shell), the old lightboard wouldn't allow me to use LEDs. I also found out NCE is really good.

The FTs I have are all good, but the GP9s are away and need to have the back ends straightened out. (the shell and maybe the frame are bent down in the rear of the units, same is happening to my GP30s)

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.

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Posted by WCfan on Sunday, August 3, 2008 9:03 PM

 super cheif n wrote:
well mine starts the last week in Auguest, but i have band this whole month and 1 week is 9-4, another 9-9, and the last i think is 9-12.

Ugh, Band Camp Starts for me...tommrow...and I haven't totally memorized the songs completely...looks like I'll have to guess...Tongue [:P]

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 3, 2008 7:31 PM

I have a fair amount of time, it's just that I lack motivation to work on the layout mostly. I occasionally try to run it, then I get depressed when it runs poorly and I go and do something else...

The backdrops on my layout are 1/8" masonite, painted blue and fastined to the plywood base with small (1" by 1") L braces with small bolts/nuts holding the pair of L braces (one on each side of the backdrop board) together with the backdrop sandwiched in between.

Each backdrop board is blended together with aluminum tape. I would recommend using something else, like drywall putty or something instead, as the joints between the boards aren't very smoot, there are a lot of wrinkles on each joint...

The clouds are made with stencils and an airbrush. I use New London stencils, using a technique I learned in a clinic by the makers of the stencils at the Springfield, MA train show.

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Posted by super cheif n on Sunday, August 3, 2008 7:16 PM
well mine starts the last week in Auguest, but i have band this whole month and 1 week is 9-4, another 9-9, and the last i think is 9-12.
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Posted by Guilford Guy on Sunday, August 3, 2008 7:13 PM

School doesn't begin for another month over here...

I'm paiting WRS' GP9 at the moment...

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Posted by super cheif n on Sunday, August 3, 2008 6:39 PM
anyone else not have time to do that much model railroading with school and stuff?
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Posted by WCfan on Sunday, August 3, 2008 6:14 PM
Well I got the artical, and now I need to order a ton more parts, and chop the rest of my GP38-2 off. Smile [:)]
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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 5:20 PM
So what did you use for the backdrop Ty?

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 3, 2008 3:20 PM

Sawyer; visited your blog as well as downloaded the RTS software. I'll play around with it when I have time.

Jordan; I had two of those videos a while ago; both from a while ago though. Here's the one I didn't delete. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZoMLGPMykw

I also have a playlist of two videos following Train 41T; the New Poland Turn, which runs across the whole layout except the staging yards. This is the most up-to-date video; but there have been a bunch of changes since I filmed it. 

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F770B58ABB40831A

I'm going to film a version of the tour without all the camera shaking in the current version; this time I'll make sure to ge tthe staging yard; I filmed it but the camera lost it...

 

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 3:13 PM

 Good thinking. I could actually think and reflect on the work I do!

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 3, 2008 1:21 PM

 Railfan Alex wrote:
Looking good! I should think of creating a blog...

Do it. You can get all your thoughts down and get the world's input on it.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 1:17 PM
Looking good! I should think of creating a blog...

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 3, 2008 12:41 PM
Thanks Alex. right now, I've got 3 posts, I'll be adding a 4th now.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 12:27 PM
Looks good!

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 3, 2008 12:11 PM

finally created a decent blog:

www.sbpackernut.tk

Please vist.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 12:08 PM

And I would like to know what you used for the backdrop. It looks really good!

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Posted by WCfan on Sunday, August 3, 2008 12:01 PM
Man I really wish I had a layout that size. Makes me want to work on my 4x8, but I can't do a whole lot on there. I think it's be cool if you did little clips at each spot, maybe like a chase, where you chase on of your train through each spot/town on your layout. Or have 2 or 3 trains that you chase, but you don't film one train at each town, maybe every other town, and piece the clips together that way.
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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:51 AM
Oh, now I see the overhead pictures! I didn't realize there was another page lol...

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:45 AM

Hey tyler, see what you can do w/ this software:

http://www.atlasrr.com/righttrack.htm

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:43 AM

It's roughly 12' by 22', and I used to have a track plan...excpet the dimensions are wacko and I've rearranged some stuff since then. I'll try to draw up an updated plan this week.

EDIT: Yeah, the camera work was pretty bad in this one... I was in a hurry. And Alex; if you go to my WRS blog in my sig, I've got a lot more info as well as some overhead photos in the older posts.

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Posted by Packers#1 on Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:42 AM
Great job tyler. I gotta say though, i like the other one better cause you swing the camera like you're in a helicopter, and the music was not bad on the other one. well, anyways, enjoyed the new one man, you've made some progress.

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Posted by Railfan Alex on Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:39 AM

Wow Tyler! I didn't realize how large the layout was!

What are the dimentions? And do you have a track plan?

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 3, 2008 11:29 AM

Yeah, the other one got deleted a while ago. I got the new tour up. I may revamp the old one to remove that horrific music...Whistling [:-^]

Here's the new one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3cHjx3Qr6U

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