Has anyone seen this yet? I noticed the MR home page has the Jan issue listed as "current", and I am looking forward to seeing a shelf project layout. Any guesses as to the size of the track plan?
Jim
Not yet, I would imagine that the mag will be in the mailbox by sometime the first week of Dec, probably Weds the 5th.
Though this is just a stab in the dark, it may come the 1st, or not until the 10th... who knows?
-Dan
Builder of Bowser steam! Railimages Site
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale
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I just got it in the mail today.
The shelf layout is 11' 3" along one leg, and 8' 4" along the other. The shelf width varies between about 8" and 20", if I'm reading this plan right.
Robert Beaty
The Laughing Hippie
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Arjay1969 wrote: I just got it in the mail today. The shelf layout is 11' 3" along one leg, and 8' 4" along the other. The shelf width varies between about 8" and 20", if I'm reading this plan right.
The 01/08 issue arrived in my mail box today (11/29/07), now I know what I'm doing after dinner tonight.
As I sat down for breakfast this morning I was wondering where my Jan. issue is to. Hopefully it will be here by Saturday.
- Luke
Modeling the Southern Pacific in the 1960's-1980's
Mine came today.
Enjoy
Paul
mine used to come the last tueday of the month,
(jan issue on 11-27)
but the last two issues were two weeks late,
last couple of months, it hasn't been arriving until the second tuesday of the next month.
(jan issue on 12-11)
I just got mine today.
November 29th
Arjay1969 wrote:The shelf layout is 11' 3" along one leg, and 8' 4" along the other. The shelf width varies between about 8" and 20", if I'm reading this plan right.
The scale of the track plan drawing is 1/4" = 1'-0" (the grid lines are 24" square). That works out to a 17' x 22'-6" L-shaped layout (plus a 16-foot long staging shelf attached to the 17-foot leg). The width varies between 15" and 3'-6".
The project layout represents a fictional Wisconsin & Southern branchline, with an interchange that connects to the Kalmbach staff's main layout (the connection is via a drawbridge that passes over the aisleway to the mian Milwaukee , Racine & Troy layout...that's what the track leading away from the shelf off into the middle of the room is for). You can see how both layouts fit together on the track plan that was published in last month's (Decemebr 2007) issue of MR...it's in the article about how the Kalmbachers set up a commuter rail operation.
I love the ethanol plant that they built on the shelf layout. It is the perfect industry to model for any midwest modeler.
Does anybody have any idea what kit they used to make the Troy Junction depot on the first page of the article? It appears to be a C&NW prototype.
Phil
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
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steemtrayn wrote:Somebody should dump a bucket of cold water on those misbehaving marker lights on page 15.
Woof! Woof!
On a different piece of content, the hoops and hullabaloo about operating Tortoises from multiple locations makes me glad I use twin-coil machines! I need those contacts for my 'hot' frogs, and for track circuit routing (analog DC, MZL system.) IIRC, there was an earlier thread that claimed that unpowered Tortoises wouldn't move...
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Is yo mind in the gutter?
Boy oh boy....that image just don't look the same anymore....
Now if they could have a gestation period of only a day, just think of how many you could get in a few weeks time. But how do you tell the male from the female?