Heat? what heat! hey, mugginess is South Carolina's middle name, what surprised me was how cold the winter was here. What a winter to start playing rugby hehe.
I think today I'll scratchbuild another structure to break up the routine of scenery work. I've carved the foam for the most part, but I think I'll be going with plaster-soaked paper towels to make the hills much better
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
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Hey guys hope everyone is good here. I've been enjoying the summer so far, no modeling done really, except I've been progressing on modules for my club layout. I'll take some photos of where I'm at. Progress has been slow, because it's just too hot and muggy to work at the club. Seems like the entire world is being hit with this stupid heatwave.
I am heading to the club early in the morning to try and get work done before the heat. Tomorrow it's gonna be just as bad. 95F, 108F with humidity... Wish me luck!
Alex
John and Joe, thanks!
John, yeouch about those teeth man. I had mine taken out the Monday before I turned 13; my birthday was on that Thursday, which was Thanksgiving. I didn't have any pain until after Thanksgiving......hey, it was a small price to pay for eating wings while the Packers beat the Lions and then eating turkey and cake.
EDIT: John, I just thought of something i wanted to ask: what happened to everything you had in supplies for your previous layout?
Wow, Sawyer! I can't even keep track of what you're doing anymore, but it looks good!
John, that sucks about the teeth. I have to get mine out sometime soon (probably fallish?)And yay ice cream! Since I work across the street from an ice cream place, we all went there after work the other day- I got paid, and spent the money an hour later...
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
Tyler, sounds good.
Well, the hills have been roughed in, and I've already put in the sidewalks, but you can only see the hills in this pic (sorry for the quality, taken with a cell phone)
All I've done recently is added an unloading grate for woodchips at Agrawal Paper Co in Enfield, reset my rolling stock fleet's car cars and waybills (that took a long time!) and finally made a woodchip load for the hopper in captive service between Delery Wood Products and Agrawal Paper. It's only going 8 feet or so (if the crew of LE-2 is paying attention, otherwise it'll get brought back to Lebanon Yard and have to get delivered the next day!), but it does happen. Delery is also now receiving double-door boxcars full of other building materials, not just lumber and pulpwood, as inspired by this month's Model Railroader.
thanks John.
Joe, I haven't done anything on the layout worthy of pictures, though I have begun rebuilding the town. I have to wait for the glue to dry, then I can get started on the scenery
Uhh..... Where is everybody? BUMP!
I ordered a Walthers heavyweight ($50, on sale for $15) and a two pack of Gold Line Airslide hoppers ($40, on sale for $30).
I'm finally starting to build a sizeable fleet! A whole 3 centerbeams, 2 covered hoppers, boxcar, and tank car!
Even though I have nothing to do with them...
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And still PATIENTLY (ok, that was a lie...) waiting for the Atlas Gensets... They STILL haven't shipped!
TrainManTy FlashwaveTyler: Who did the white-letter decals for the White River Southern? I have a few projects that could stand a decent print job. The City of Madison, the side stripes for the AFT toolcar #1A, Cross Key's Tavern, what else did I have on my list? I believe Alex got them from Dan Pikulski as custom decals printed on an Alps printer. He sent Dan a MS Word document with the lettering and logos on it plus (I think) $20-$40 and got back half a sheet of decals. Here's the website you're looking for: http://dansresincasting.com/
FlashwaveTyler: Who did the white-letter decals for the White River Southern? I have a few projects that could stand a decent print job. The City of Madison, the side stripes for the AFT toolcar #1A, Cross Key's Tavern, what else did I have on my list?
I believe Alex got them from Dan Pikulski as custom decals printed on an Alps printer. He sent Dan a MS Word document with the lettering and logos on it plus (I think) $20-$40 and got back half a sheet of decals. Here's the website you're looking for: http://dansresincasting.com/
That's right, you guys all work together. Silly me. Cool, I'll add Dan to my pricing list so far, but he's the only one who hasn't asked for a 20 sheet run yet.
-Morgan
just a quick scenery pciture from me, took it with my cell phone last night.
Hmm, so HO&N is gonna loan out the 4-8-2+2-8-0 so we can drag this puppy off of page 4.
So, since I have not the place for a layout, I'm spending time building websites for layouts, and working on trains. At least for the next four months, I have my paintbooth. Dreamweaver sure is fun, but it's changed a bit from when I used it to the new CS5 version, and definately a relearn coming off of Frontpage.
Tyler: Who did the white-letter decals for the White River Southern? I have a few projects that could stand a decent print job. The City of Madison, the side stripes for the AFT toolcar #1A, Cross Key's Tavern, what else did I have on my list?
EDIT: Oh, yeah. HO&N needs her business fleet, as well as a few Hoppers.
IVRW: (John?) Like the benchwork, looks solid. Not as portable as I'd like, but it looks to do its job nicely. Before dad passed away, we built 2x4 mods out of 1x4 boards, just a wooden domino frame and a pair of legs Real light, and yet still pretty sturdy. In addition to the other stuff that we claimed, very little, I intercpeted one of them and the unnassembled wood parts for 3 more, as well as my old 4H module before the state takes the house. There's still three others, but I ran out of drill juice before I even got the legs off of one.
Soooo... on the model railroading front-
I'm dissatisfied with a 4x8. It's better than nothing, but broader curves and controlled train length due to the runaround makes things a bit more difficult. Luckily I won't be running anything longer than a 57ft reefer, but right now I'm wishing I had a shelf layout. Right now my budget is -$200 as I owe money to friends due to a relationship FUBAR back in January, and the fact that I no longer get an allowance, and did not get anything monetary from my parents for my birthday. Anyways, since I have benchwork already, my next task is to purchase C55 and C70 ME flex track and C70 Shinohara switches and start in on track laying. I've decided to hold off on P87 wheelsets and frogs until after the scenery is finished, just because of the large cost associated with retrofitting all the turnouts, engines, and rolling stock.
On a happier note, I'm on a job hunt which should help with Model Railroad funding, and repaying the masses that I owe money to.
I got my module stands up the other day. I opened the Mod-U-Rail boxes up to find 2 things: 1) They have very highly detailed instructions not just for putting the module together, but also on scenery and such. They include all the materials to build that module except: a foam friendly glue, a hot wire cutter, newspaper, tape, and track. They come with: various grades of turf, ballast, roadbed, risers, plaster cloth, scenic cement, hob-e-tac, trees, and foam profile boards. So far, I highly recommend them. Ill keep you updated on that though. 2) The square modules come in 2 halves, so that you aren't carrying the worlds largest package. The instructions note that they must be glued together with foam tack glue. I do not have foam tack glue. Back To the Hobby Shop! I also forgot rail joiners for the flextrack. I cant believe I was so stupid to forget them. Ah well. Ill be back with pics soon.
Alex,
consider yourself lucky, you could be off much worse. Legal age for driving in Germany is 18 and driving school is mandatory, with a minimum of 20 hours at about $ 80 each. If you add all the fees, you are easily in the range of $ 2,000 for your driver´s license, which you get with a 1-year probation period. The slightest offense puts you back to "Start all over".
I was lucky to be able to get my license in the US, while staying there as an exchange student. I had to pay $ 5 to get it transcribed into a German license, but that was 35 years ago.
I actually favor an even more rigid training. Can you imagine 45 million cars on the road in a state of the size of less than Texas - and no speed limit on most motorways? You need all the training you can get to survive that.
Btw, due to the more rigid driver´s education, the number of fatal accidents has been cut down by nearly 80 % over the last 15 years. Most of those still too many accidents can be attributed to young and inexperienced drivers, who attempt to defy the laws of physics.
I have to do 12 hours of driving courses, but I don't have any time restrictions. Just no alcohol, and I only have 4 demerit points instead of the standard 15. To give you an idea, not doing a full stop at a stop sign is 3 demerits...
GG!
John, no, I'm not getting lumber.I'm getting $350 for my six driving hours! Yay for stupid NJ driving laws- 6 required hours of instructed driving and red rape stickers and not being able to drive after 11 when you have your permit or probational license- NOT!Hard to believe how one woman thinks that just because her daughter was killed, that means anyone under 21 is reckless and irresponsible. And how she can sue the state and punish everyone else... rediculous...
Railfan AlexGreenville, SC I guess? Not Greenville, KS. There's an interesting show on Discovery Channel about the rebuilding of Greenville, KS after the town was destroyed by a tornado.
Greenville, SC I guess? Not Greenville, KS.
There's an interesting show on Discovery Channel about the rebuilding of Greenville, KS after the town was destroyed by a tornado.
lol, yeah, Greenville SC