A few recent weathering projects.
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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
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.
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.
Mark
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)
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:
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!
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!
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.
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.
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).
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 !
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?
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
- Douglas
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.
TerryinTexas
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Silver PilotThe new area looks good. Probably a better use of the space than the turntable. Does the rotary beacon on the switcher work?
The 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.
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
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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Great video, Terry.
Driline, that scene really turned out great.
Fast tracks, nice shed.
WB K4s through the tunnels.
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
Modeling C&O transition era and steel industries There's Nothing Like Big Steam!
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...
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?
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?
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.
alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)
After:
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