John, good idea. I'll leave it alone though; it'll only take me about 30 seconds and a vacuum to clean it up.
speaking of the WPFs, just check them out for pics of the North Branch scenery.
Tyler, suh-weet paper mill! I love using leftover Pikestuff kit parts; I jacked the walls of the single-stall enginehouse I have for the warehouse wall for the insulation contractor; the door edgings were used for King Furniture.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Sawyer, I saw your photos in the past few WPFs, and I thing I have an Idea for you. I noticed just recently that you have excess ground foam on your streets. On my layout, I ballast before I do scenery, and my scenery method involves paint, so to protect my ballast, I lay down paper towels just over the edge of the ballast, and then I wet the edges for a tight seal. This way, I only scenic where I want to, and no extra ends up anywhere else. Also, when the scenery is done, all I have to do is to wrap up the towels and throw them in the trash, as easy as 1/87.1 scale pie.
I also got something for you guys which might just save my DCC system. My hobby shop guru said whenever you call up a locomotive's address, it fills up a slot. Every few years, the slots have to be emptied and reset in order to call up another locomotive. Is shorting out a characteristic of full slots? If so, then how might I reset the slots, as poor grandpa forgot to include the manual. Joe! Forever kudos to you for reviving the thread.
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
I have NOT been slacking! I rewired my entire layout with 14 gauge bus wire, built and then burnt a barn, had a train wreck with no wheels off the tracks, spent three hours today building cookie-cutter benchwork into my existing layout for the Mascoma River, and have started working on my paper mill! But I didn't take any photos of any of that until today.
Okay, first things first. Photos of wires are boring so I didn't take any. But here's my barn, built from an article in Model Railroader. That signal behind it that's missing the signal part will be built into my reversing section circuit and hopefully stop idiots like me from running onto it while set the wrong way.
I used a lighter and a spray bottle (filled with water) to perform a series of controlled burns to the building. It was built on a piece of cardboard and was on the driveway...I'm not about to set fires indoors!
I was running a train to test my new wiring today and had a train wreck with no derailments...the truck screw dropped out and the truck came off.
Time for the Mascoma River Crossing! Track is just laid in place and I hope to order the bridges this week.
Riverbed will be built with plaster cloth...this isn't an underground river.
Layout:
Prototype (but with train tracks and another bridge next to it!):
And finally, it's PAPAH MILL TIME! Foam foundation, Walthers Cornerstone Modulars walls. That corrugated metal structure is scratchbuilt from scraps leftover from my Pikestuff enginehouse and sheet styrene.
Sorry for killing your dial-up folks...and if I crashed Joe's computer again!
Uh, dunno why, but I have a feeling we're in need of a bump. Maybe the fact that we're on Page 8?
You guys are slacking!
I haven't been here cause of lax every day. Add massive computer problems to that, and I think you guys can understand my absence...
My Model Railroad: Tri State RailMy Photos on Flickr: FlickrMy Videos on Youtube: YoutubeMy Photos on RRPA: RR Picture Archives
Not actually on the layout, but of a scene on the railroad nonetheless - the summit of the Mascoma Lake Grade, currently my avatar. Custom plate from hand-drawn artwork based off a photograph.
SD, very nice scenery and nice ore train.
well, the North Branch roads are pretty much poured and I'll hopefully have scenery going in the next few weeks hopefully.
No photos to post yet, but I finished my burned-out-barn project (just need to plant trees!) and have started installing the new 14 gauge bus wire which should fix the power problems I had during my last operating session. The main bus wire is in so I just need to cut the feeders off the old 18 gauge bus and solder them to the new one.
I've also started repairing an old cast-metal searchlight signal that I'm going to wire up to protect the reversing sections from idiots like myself who run trains onto it without checking which way it is set. In theory, it protects the rarely-used diamond for an old branch (the continuous run connection) and is required by a legal technicality. It will be constantly RED unless the lift bridge is down, the reversing segment is set to LAYOUT, and the request switch is set to REQUEST in which case it will turn GREEN. The request switch will keep it from showing a green block while there's a train approaching from staging behind the signal. Shutting off the request switch or flipping the reversing segment to STAGING will put it back to RED as the train is past the signal.
Very nice scenery SD.
Also better than my first scenery, which literally was nothing but ground foam.Well, first scenery if you don't count the lake. Which was the best looking (read: only complete) part of the layout.
Thanks Tyler. Ive done some patches here lately to get rid of the white spots from the plaster cloth. Now all i have to do is get scenery everywhere else on the layout.
Welcome back! Your scenery looks good for your first -- a lot better than mine at least! That's a nice ore train.
Hello everyone its been a LONG TIME since i've posted here much less had a picture to show. There have been alot of things going on but im back now. I have been working on the layout actually have some scenery and for me thats a first! Here is a pic of my BN ore train climbing the hill.
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What DCC system do you have, John?
Page 5...better fix that!
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I went downstairs last night and shot some night footage in West Canaan. It took me a while decide which angles to include...I will upload the other one I really liked someday! Here, a really REALLY long WJCD passes through West Canaan, then intermodal hotshot NAWJ rolls slowly through town. This is my first video produced with Cyberlink PowerDirector 8, which I really like so far except for the crashing. I need to get a less-really-slow graphics card...
Well, it isn't a sound-dubbed railfan video, but I had to trim pretty much every clip to make the video fit under 10 minutes. Original was 13 minutes long, but there's was a lot of dead space where I was just working (although I tried to cut some out). so without further ado here's the premier of the video tutorial series A Crazy Guy and His Trains on the model railroader forums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQhzHFFB04A
N-JOY!
Alex
Railfan AlexLike I said, no problem!
Like I said, no problem!
Awesome. hopefully I'll be able to make a sound-dubbed video before the end of spring break!
Random question, particularly geared towards GG...
Does anyone have a Kato SD40-2 shell they'd want to swap for a SD38-2 shell?
Or even better, if you have a project or protoype for an SD38-2 let me know, I have one and I have no clue what to do with it.
Railfan AlexSo can we change this thread over to a seasonal thread, or are there too many people in disagreement? Last call for anyone who wants to speak up!
Already done. See the "Spring 2010" title.
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So can we change this thread over to a seasonal thread, or are there too many people in disagreement? Last call for anyone who wants to speak up!
thanks Tyler, downloaded that.
(Railfan)Alex mind if I download a couple of your videos for dubbing. there will of course be a link to your channel and mention in the credits of the video.
TrainManTy ns3010Just curious, do you guys mean taking the audio from Youtube? Cause if you do, how do you download it? AFAIK, there's no way to... http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/ -------------------- Our plans changed so I didn't actually get to see the train. I did go to the Whippany Railroad Museum several hours before the train was to run and took a bunch of photos there. I'll post those in Teen Railfan Place once I finish processing them.
ns3010Just curious, do you guys mean taking the audio from Youtube? Cause if you do, how do you download it? AFAIK, there's no way to...
http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
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Our plans changed so I didn't actually get to see the train. I did go to the Whippany Railroad Museum several hours before the train was to run and took a bunch of photos there. I'll post those in Teen Railfan Place once I finish processing them.
Or if you can manage to find IE 6.0 or older, you can just go into the Temporary Internet Files and copy the video (sometimes in .flv format or un-named flash file) and convert it from there into an AVI or WMV or whatever you need.
I have been very busy recently.
I have led my BAS Troop in the RR Merit Badge, http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/p/172034/1888474.aspx#1888474. The photo is of me in the cab of a GP 38-2.
And I have done some new Scenery
Well, when that day comes, feel free to use them. By then, there'll probably be more videos too...
Just curious, do you guys mean taking the audio from Youtube? Cause if you do, how do you download it? AFAIK, there's no way to...
Railfan AlexFeel free to use audio from my personal videos, obviously not the ones that I have already used sound from someone else.
Feel free to use audio from my personal videos, obviously not the ones that I have already used sound from someone else.
Thanks Alex! Joe, yeah, don't know of any freight locos with a HEP generator. I'll be installign commuter service someday though.
Tyler, the History page doesn't have page breaks either, and no one's complained (for lack of a better word) about that. Now that you didn't just have a 3 hour car ride, maybe go back again and see.And post a trip report and photos (that is, if there are any) from the Easter Train. And I see it was 18 and 5664- I'm not the only one that 3010 seems to elude!
Sorry Sawyer, I don't have much audio- and all of it has HEP engines in it anyway, so it'd sound weird in your videos.
I've never tried anything with sound dubbing, but I should try sometime...
Nice F7's Jamie
And sorry John, but it seems you've been outvoted-- seasonal it is. I'll go change that now
Tyler, I got some friends that could probably help me out.
Jamie, thanks man! I'm trying to figure out what to write about next; might compare model trains to video games