To start things off
Here a Video of a string of reefers I bought last week at a sale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y6PU4zJkns
TerryinTexas
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http://conewriversubdivision.yolasite.com/
I replaced my unused an non prototypical turntable on the layout with a REAL chemical company here in Bettendorf that the Driline actually switched. I took hundreds of pictures of Barton Chemical Company so that I could model it as close as possible using selective compression. The lesson I learned? Just because you have a nice model railroad structure, doesn't mean you should use it.
95% of this was scratch built using styrene, brass, PVC pipe, and walls and doors from pikestuff and plastruct. I still have many many details to install yet, including chainlink fence purchased from BLMA.
Before:
After:
Driline, Nice work on the new old area. Looks great. I like the use of pvc pipe for the tanks. Was the building a bash of a couple pikestuff or is that just one building?
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
rs2mikeDriline, Nice work on the new old area. Looks great. I like the use of pvc pipe for the tanks. Was the building a bash of a couple pikestuff or is that just one building?
I purchased pikestuff styrene sheets and cut my own high peak building walls for two of the buildings. The other building is pikestuff pre-made walls that I cut to fit.
The new area looks good. Probably a better use of the space than the turntable. Does the rotary beacon on the switcher work?
A scratchbuilt laser cut engine house I built last week.
I posted this earlier in the week, and this kind of sparked a bit of debate over the semantics of what scratchbuilding is....
http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/171622.aspx
More detail about the project at the above link...
FastTracksA scratchbuilt laser cut engine house I built last week.
Nice engine house. But I always wondered how do they get the gandy dancer or track inspection car from the engine house to the tracks when they intersect like that? Do they lift them onto the main tracks?
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
Great video, Terry.
Driline, that scene really turned out great.
Fast tracks, nice shed.
WB K4s through the tunnels.
Another great start to the weekend!
Nothing on the layout, but I did a lot of work on my website. The link is the third one in my signature, "Tri State Rail"
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Have a great weekend!
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Scratchbuilt my eye! I saw your video. You dumped a bag full of wooden chips into your laser machine, pushed a button and wa la, DONE. Anybody can do that
Silver PilotThe new area looks good. Probably a better use of the space than the turntable. Does the rotary beacon on the switcher work?
Yes. It's a 1.5V 1.2mm bulb I connected to an NCE decoder. It works great.
I'd say the new area is OK. It needs a lot of detail work done yet. It's by no means great. But it will have to do until my skill sets improve.
DigitalGriffin FastTracksA scratchbuilt laser cut engine house I built last week. Nice engine house. But I always wondered how do they get the gandy dancer or track inspection car from the engine house to the tracks when they intersect like that? Do they lift them onto the main tracks?
They had removable wooden handels in each end of the speeders and were lifted and placed on the tracks
But seeing how this is an engine house I'm wondering how the Loco is supposed to get on the tracks
It's gonna take some really fancy track work
Nice job BTW on the Engine house !
If you go to the CNJ Bronx Terminal website the answer is in there somewhere...I accidently tripped over it the other day and can't remember where it was but it was amazing....portable tracks.
Driline 95% of this was scratch built using styrene, brass, PVC pipe, and walls and doors from pikestuff and plastruct. I still have many many details to install yet, including chainlink fence purchased from BLMA.
Driline, I'm curious:
What size PVC did you use for the vertical tanks? And what I really want to know is, what did you use for the "lids" to cap the PVC tanks. Obviously, they are not flat, like sheet styrene would be.
- Douglas
C&O Fan DigitalGriffin FastTracksA scratchbuilt laser cut engine house I built last week. Nice engine house. But I always wondered how do they get the gandy dancer or track inspection car from the engine house to the tracks when they intersect like that? Do they lift them onto the main tracks? They had removable wooden handels in each end of the speeders and were lifted and placed on the tracks But seeing how this is an engine house I'm wondering how the Loco is supposed to get on the tracks It's gonna take some really fancy track work Nice job BTW on the Engine house !
I asked a similar question on his original posting, and someone informed me that the protoype used removable tracks installed across the switch to get the locomotive in and out of the engine house. The descriptionof this is somewhere on FastTracks blog.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
DoughlessDriline 95% of this was scratch built using styrene, brass, PVC pipe, and walls and doors from pikestuff and plastruct. I still have many many details to install yet, including chainlink fence purchased from BLMA. Driline, I'm curious: What size PVC did you use for the vertical tanks? And what I really want to know is, what did you use for the "lids" to cap the PVC tanks. Obviously, they are not flat, like sheet styrene would be.
The PVC pipe is 1 1/4" cut to a scale 32' tall. I scribed 8' width with an xacto knife. The lids are made of .010 styrene sheet. I took a compass and cut them slightly larger than the tube. You then cut a "triangle" about 1/4" wide at the outer circumference and to the center of the lid. Now grab either side of the lid and pull it together to form a "raised" cone and use scotch tape to hold it in place. Then I glued some strip styrene to seal the triangle together. I looked to see how plastruct made their tanks and simply copied their design. (Which is the highest form of flattery).
Ah! 'tis the weekend again.... And a very good start to it as well, I might add!
I have been spending most of the week waiting on materials to materialize so I can continue a few projects that are underway, so in the meantime I decided to dirty up one of the heavy movers of the fleet, one of my USRA 2-6-6-2s. Here she is before:
and just after:
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Driline I replaced my unused an non prototypical turntable on the layout with a REAL chemical company here in Bettendorf that the Driline actually switched. I took hundreds of pictures of Barton Chemical Company so that I could model it as close as possible using selective compression. The lesson I learned? Just because you have a nice model railroad structure, doesn't mean you should use it. Before:
What happens to your yard office? Also a prototype scene, as I remember. I hope you plan to reinstall it somwhere else on the layout.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Driline I replaced my unused an non prototypical turntable ...
I replaced my unused an non prototypical turntable ...
Too bad your railroad isn't located in mountain snow country so you could have used it for turning the snow plows, flangers, ditchers, and such.
(Scene at contemporary Dunsmuir, CA)
Mark
SP flanger no. 7324 has just exited the paint shop in early anticipation of the 1950/1951 snow season. Meanwhile, Elliot Clay Craft Pottery's structure is under construction.
stebbycentralWhat happens to your yard office? Also a prototype scene, as I remember. I hope you plan to reinstall it somwhere else on the layout.
Unfortunately I don't have any room for it elsewhere on the layout, so for now it resides in a metal drawer. Someday when I either move or expand the layout, I plan to model the Bettendorf yard in a big way, so it will come back.
Great work by everyone this week! I don't have any photo, but I'll recycle one I posted last week (I posted Sunday night last week)
I have two videos. I finished up planting the weeds between the two lines, now to continue on that role. should be a few weeks long project.
First video is railfanning. I don't have enough cars to fully simulate all the trains but I did the best I could with what I have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eActbQGP2os
Next up is an update video. there isn't much but there's been several requests so here it is:
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
A few recent weathering projects.
Dr. Frankendiesel aka Scott Running BearSpace Mouse for president!15 year veteran fire fighterCollector of Apple //e'sRunning Bear EnterprisesHistory Channel Club life member.beatus homo qui invenit sapientiam
Just me, back again....
The loco I showed being weathered earlier has been put back in service. Here she is blasting through the lower tunnel at Hopewell Junction:
I am actually taking photos to use for a Model Photography clinic I am presenting the 1st. of May for my local division of the NMRA. The photo above was shot just using layout lighting with a Canon Digital Rebel Sxi, EFS 17-85mm lens, f/20, ISO 200, exposed for 5.2 seconds. Headlight was turned on for about 1 second during the exposure. The blue in the tunnel is the painted wall behind the layout. So Photoshop quickly removed the offending color:
I took this one with everything the same, except it was shot at f/32 and the headlight was left on for the entire 12 second exposure time resulting in the flare:
Finally I decided to play around with adding smoke to the scene. Not sure I like it so I will do more work with a different smoke addition later.......
I will be using several of the photos to illustrate what can be done and how it affects the photo.
[edit] one last shot taken with my 100mm fixed lens, f32, 32 second exposure. Camera had to backed away about 2 foot to get the shot. The medium telephoto/macro lens even stopped way down is fragile when it come to depth of field........ Enjoy!
Just got back from a 2,030 mile southwest road trip. Grand Canyon, Bryce, and Durango were the main destinations. Along with the many other activities we also did the Grand Canyon Train and the Durango and Silverton. I was in heaven!
San Dimas Southern slideshow
Excellent! Thanks!!!
I've been working on a couple of things... first the new roundhouse for Ridgeley Yard... it's a composite of the Hagerstown, MD roundhouse and Maryland Jct. It will surround a Walther's turntable I have.
I've also been playing around with my architectural program to plan some other buildings for the layout...
Here's the station for Elkins, WV
and here's a brewery I'm planning for Cumberland...
Have a pleasant Easter and/or Passover!
Lee
Route of the Alpha Jets www.wmrywesternlines.net
A good start guys!
Lee, I can't compete with that roundhouse! I can only fit this 2 stall Walthers kit in the space I have. I had to chop off the corner for the backdrop too!
Another kit I have been working on recently
Regards,
Nige.
Amtrak at Springsteen.
Happy Easter from the Vollmer family!
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.