Hey......is that True-Scale roadbed I see?
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
rdgk1se3019 Hey......is that True-Scale roadbed I see?
Dennis, you referring to this
We use 1/4" clear pine roadbed that we mill, whether it is handlaid or Walther's/ Shinahara code 83.
Starts like this http://www.ssmrc.org/newconstruction.aspx Works quite great for us, allows to spike flextrack or to glue/ hand lay ties. We also mill the wider "plates" for turnouts.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
mlehman I found a good deal on a dump truck for the CCCP Quarry at Dove Creek. It's an Ertl John Deere #35249 and appears to be pretty darn close to HO scale, all for less than $5 at the local farm store.
I found a good deal on a dump truck for the CCCP Quarry at Dove Creek. It's an Ertl John Deere #35249 and appears to be pretty darn close to HO scale, all for less than $5 at the local farm store.
Just FYI, the Ertl construction line is 1:50 scale. So it's a little large for HO. But then it is construction equipment, so you would expect it to be large.
I like your night shots, I have done a few of my own in the past. It really helps hide the lack of a proper backgound.
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!
Stebby,
Awesome night shot!
The #35249 is one of the Collect n Play series. The scale of these is all over the place from what I saw at the store and in the catalog. The Deere Dumper is on page 26:
http://www.toytractortimes.com/files/10XOL-2010JohnDeereCatalog.pdf
The model is right at 35' in HO. The length of the smaller articulated dump trucks (ADT) Deere makes, the 250D and 300D, is about 32' and the bigger (370E and up) are 35'. The model resembles the smaller version a little better and the driver's door scales just shy of 6' so you can take your pick of which it represents.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL