You better have some track immersed in dirt. That's one thing that just seems natural on lightly used lines.
Here's something that should be returning home in a few hours...
Alex
Well, Alex, I will certainly know who to send my cars to for painting. Thats an amazing job! Yes, I have been planning to have the track above N scale roadbed using dirt as ballast, and then the HO scale roadbeded track will be WS gray ballast.
~G4
19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.
John, it does look like you had fun, congrats man!
GG, what can I say but as per usual, great work!
Well, yesterday was a dark day for ANRR execs. The line was officially abandoned. Those with weak stomachs, look away now (sorry for the shakiness, took it with my cell phone and didn't have a tripod or anything to put the camera on to keep it steady)
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
Wow, looks like you guys are making real progress!
John, layout is really coming along!
Sawyer, not sure if you'd call that progress or regress, but either way, it's a step forward (or is it a step backwards?)
If I have time next weekend, there may be a possibility of completing benchwork. But it's too far off to gauge my chances.
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Hey Guys,
Sorry busy weekend. Homecoing was last night, best one yet, i don't think I was not with a girl the whole night.
Everyone, everything is looking good, and sawyer, there is a bridge/shortline here in az that that is called the apache railway. It connects with the BNSF, bad news is that it is all alco railroad but other then that, would be a fun project.
Going to bed, long weekend, wish there wasn't school tomorrow!
Bear Down!
Surprise, surprise, those Model Railcasters just cant keep me out of their show notes. My second article is in. Tell me what you think.
Joe, think of it as a jump up to the next level
Taylor, you lucky son of a gun. This friday is the homecoming game; I'll probably go chill in the student section again
Our game and dance are this Saturday. Game, mostly just go to hang with friends. Dance, going, but don't even know why I'm dropping the 25 bucks. Most, if not all, girls in my grade (well, school, actually) are either slutty, ugly, or wierd (or some combination of the three...).
I'm hoping to get the Atlas NS 3010 for Christmas. There's two on ebay for a pretty good price, so hopefully I can convince my parents to take the deal. And yes, it does actually fit into my operating plan! It's not one of those things that I don't need but want anyway. Without the 3010, the H-02 wouldn't be able to deliver cars to the yard (unless they could move themselves...)
Joe, I don't think we have a dance (at least I nvr hear of one). Most of the girls in my grade I just dnt click with anyways, for any number of reasons. I'm pretty much just saying "forget it" at this point. I'm going to the game to cheer my head off and lose my voice though lol. Hope you get the 3010 man! My GP50 project is also needed for my operating scheme. I need a 4-axle loco to run the NS interchange cars. until I get that built though my GP35 (with new patchout decals that I'm getting from a friend) will deliver the interchange cars.
Another project...
These will likely become WRS sand cars. Now to hunt down some Athearn 2 bays so I can make my own. Oh, and if you don't know what that is, that is the beginning of operating hoppers...
Joe, dude good luck with the ebay thing and dude, the sophmores, whoo they are hot and somewhat slutty. But it will do, gets you ready fr college anyway.
And Sawyer, sweet go get in a fight with the other stands jk, I dont think anyone would want to and you don't have a dance? Thats the highlight of homecoming. And ya, this was probably the best homecmoing yet. And I didn't even get to keep partying afterwards like most of my friends.
Well got to go.
I hate physics labs. I give up (only because I still have tomorrow night).
Taylor, I'm just taking it easy and trying to wait for the right one. I've had chances but didn't take them because I knew it wouldn't work.And of course, just as I thought I had the right one, she changed. Cause it makes sense to go back to your boyfriend who has cheated on you on more than one occasion, right? Of course it does...But the right one will come eventually...
Dude, my physics teacher is stupid, I hvaen't done my homework once and still get credit for it and ya know how you feel dude. This girl I liked was hot, played me and then went back to her ex after he broke up with his girlfriend. Ya we don't talk no more. And its ok, don't feel bad, my semi-friend got arrested for driving 117 on a 65 freeway and ya, he is so stupid. And his date ditched him on homecoming so don't feel too bad.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the trains have left the building!
Guilford Guy Ladies and Gentlemen, the trains have left the building!
This is why we can't have nice things.
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I can fix that!
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Guilford Guy Another project... These will likely become WRS sand cars. Now to hunt down some Athearn 2 bays so I can make my own. Oh, and if you don't know what that is, that is the beginning of operating hoppers...
Alex, is that the ol late parents Im up and Im doing train work by light so I have something of trains in my life because I cant do any train work during the day since homework took up all my trick?Yea, I do that too. Um... Maybe I had too much and perhaps Im abusing the s. See if you can decipher it.
Well, I personally dont like Chemistry. We have two days to do a big assignment each week. I conclusively proved that there is only 3 hours in those two days with other classes to do the 7 hour assignment.
Good Job joe,
Well they have now returned! I have still got almost no where on my merchants rows, to busy lately but oh well, have plenty of time. Well have homework to do. (They have offically left again!)
Well, it ain't trains, but it is what I spent money on. I have new Packers gear! and how does it relate to trains (just thought of this): I'll be running trains in this (and I'll probably still have the hat on when I'm working).
Also made a video showcasing my operations, but the whiteboard didn't really show and it's kindof boring. I'll see about setting up a new one using my trains and some string to represent the trackplan.
The trains are still around over here...here's some photos of 'da new powah! (it's all from the same shoot, so a lot of it is repetitive!)
Coming under Shaker Hill Road, Enfield, into West Canaan, NH.
Passing through West Canaan.
And a completely unrelated shot of the crew of LECD boarding in Lebanon Yard.
Hawt hawt hawt, though we need to repaint the handrail on 1500... And um, that footage from Sunday also needs to go to the interwebs.
Tyler, that paint scheme looks SWEET on those GP15s! Alex did a great job on them.
I'll hopefully begin painting the CSRY U-boats once my b-day comes (I'm planning on asking for another U23B, the paint, and a testor's decal system (for what I need, which is just "Carolina & Southern" in black letters, it will do fine) as well as the pinstriping tape). I'll probably ask for a pair of F45s for Christmas, and maybe an SD60 or SD35, not sure which. and if the F45s are gone, then it falls to SD60s and SD35s, and if THEY'RE gone, then it may end up being whatever is $60 (then more than likely I'll be running my dream locos, ALCO C628s). Well, those are preliminary plans for right now. Layout work will probably begin,as I've mentioned, next spring.
Hey everyone,
Sawyer, horrible, horrible, horrible hat and shirt, like worst spent money every! JK Go Cardinals! now if they could just find a QB!
Tyler, Nice pixs, thought they were all nice and not repetitive.
Here's the video from Sunday of the new GP15s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQZZbHru-hk
1:18- "KERTHUDDDDD..."
Oooooooh, very nice!
On Friday I got the other sheet of plywood and the foam, but have yet to do anything with it. Maybe I can find time to have my dad cut it tomorrrow.
I now feel supremely stupid. During class, I accidently bumped the layout and spilled almost an entire bottle of CA Accelerator on the layout. I Hurriedly pushed the cars off the wet track, dried the locomotive, and ran to the bathroom to get some TP. (At EPGY, we call this little figure "Headdesk" so *headdesk, headdesk, headdesk*)
John, that had to be a pain in the rear. glad to hear that you acted quickly. what's the damage?
Some wet and stinky plaster.
(In reference to the update video) Sawyer! The Horror! Nice video though. What is it with you and dioramas? How many do you have now, 3? Anyway, good job! Looks like things are moving along nicely. Post some pictures of the diorama as you work on it!
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Well, today, I had an awesome time with my dad working on the layout. I found that, against what I thought, my expensive Micro Engineering turnouts dont carry electricity beyond the frog, so I have now ripped up a ton of track and am attaching the feeder wires to the underside of the track the same way that David Popp showed on one of the videos before my subscription ran out. And whats amazing about it: IT WORKS!!!!! WOHOO!!!!!! I will attach a feeder to every piece of track on the layout, except one or two so I can flip the switch and remove power from the spur to deactivate the sound system.
In other news, I have lost the cord that connects my camera to my computer... This means that my weekly blog is fast becoming a bimonthly (if not monthly) blog...