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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Oops, it's the 27th, not the 20th. You're carrying this Daylight Savings thing a bit too far. Set your clock back an hour, not a week.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
MisterBeasley wrote:Oops, it's the 27th, not the 20th. You're carrying this Daylight Savings thing a bit too far. Set your clock back an hour, not a week.
I knew that... MB, thanks for catching that. Otherwise, I'd have to wait a whole week for a response...
Tom
No grade crossings here.
MOW Shay #7 looks up at the mountain top that grew up this past week. It will continue to the wall at the far right in the next two weeks (from the mine to the right).
Since the cows refused to jump into the cars i had to build a ramp
still looking for my stain marking pen
TerryinTexas
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Perhaps I should wait untill I progress further, but it took two days to get to this point. Removed my wye bridges and double checked, cleaned, polished and maas the track that will be covered up on the lower level.
This pic is a mock up to get a few ideas on the tunnel portal at the end of my bridge. Its located on a short shelf as it is between my helix and a 90 degree swing up.
This is the start of tunnel 31 at the west end of the keddie wye. If you ever visited here its on a very busy two lane highway ,limited parking, and ya better look and quickley haul your tush to get to the keddie viewing area, a one foot path behing the gardrail, with the constant wind from passing vichecles. ( have to find a guy holding a camera..LOL). I added a lot of super to the curves to make the traffic look faster, designed it so I can add or remove the super at any time, even if the scenery is done.
Being the shelf is narrow, and I have to keep the bottom area open account of a turnout, I decided to view the area as if in person. So now my visitors will have to look over the guard rail and down to the tunnel. GADDS WHAT WE DO TO HAVE FUNNNN...well we will se how this fiesco progresses over the next few weeks...LOL ...John
I weathered some freight cars this week
Jon
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No railroad work here for two weeks. It came time for the kids to have seperate bedrooms for their alternating weekend visits, so I had to play a little chess (with large pieces). It went something like this:
1. Unpack tools from pick-up truck, store in kid's room.
2. Move 800 pound recorder rack to truck.
3. Pack 3 18 gallon storage bins with camping gear from new bedroom.
4. Obtain and transport 16 concrete blocks and two sheets 3/4"x 48" x 96" through house to crawlspace for shelving.
5. Move 150 gallons of bottled water from MBR to crawl.
6. Move 250 lb treadmill to MBR area vacated by bottled water.
7. Move 3 18 gallon bins from new BR to spot vacated by treadmill.
8. Pack 6 more 18 gallon bins, transport to MBR.
9. Rearrange remaining camping gear and shelves to minimize shelf use.
10. Move tools from old BR to MBR.
11. Transport recorder rack to final home.
12. Move old shelving and assorted junk to truck.
13. Move lower bunk bed to new BR, fabricate footboard and two legs from materials on hand. (This happened at 0300 Friday AM, I'm sure the neighbors appreciated the sawing and drilling)
14. Assemble bedding and blankets, consolidate available shelving area, reinforce remaining bunkbed.
15. Test MBR bed 2 hours.
16. Pick up kids.
17. Medicate flu, now in advanced stage of "greenage".
18. Four hours advanced MBR bed testing.
19. And here we are.
Better luck on the layout next week. If all goes well this weekend, the kids will supervise the division of toys and transport of same (without squabbling or malingering), while I maneuver my son's desk and PC into the space vacated by my daughter's lower bunk bed, allowing work to commence on the planned layout expansion from 4' x 10' to 5' x 14', currently limited by access needs to my son's desk.
One 4' x 4' piece of plywood, some 1x4, 30 pieces flextrack, 20 turnouts, one MRC 220 and one MRC 280, a little elbow grease, and we will have staging room for all the trains, old time, diesel, and military, on the layout, permanently, with space to run 3 to 6 trains on the mains, while switching at 3 locations.
We picked up the core of a 1930's era ATSF passenger train at the show last visit, and with the planned 24" radius curves on the new (flat) sections, we're now in the market for one or two fair sized steamers, probably BLI, maybe as big as the 2-10-2's. I think I know where to pick up the some more passenger cars to match, (out of production now), maybe then I can post some pics.
:-)
jeffers_mz wrote: No railroad work here for two weeks. It came time for the kids to have seperate bedrooms for their alternating weekend visits, so I had to play a little chess (with large pieces). It went something like this: 1. Unpack tools from pick-up truck, store in kid's room. 2. Move 800 pound recorder rack to truck. 3. Pack 3 18 gallon storage bins with camping gear from new bedroom. 4. Obtain and transport 16 concrete blocks and two sheets 3/4"x 48" x 96" through house to crawlspace for shelving. 5. Move 150 gallons of bottled water from MBR to crawl. 6. Move 250 lb treadmill to MBR area vacated by bottled water. 7. Move 3 18 gallon bins from new BR to spot vacated by treadmill. 8. Pack 6 more 18 gallon bins, transport to MBR. 9. Rearrange remaining camping gear and shelves to minimize shelf use. 10. Move tools from old BR to MBR. 11. Transport recorder rack to final home. 12. Move old shelving and assorted junk to truck. 13. Move lower bunk bed to new BR, fabricate footboard and two legs from materials on hand. (This happened at 0300 Friday AM, I'm sure the neighbors appreciated the sawing and drilling) 14. Assemble bedding and blankets, consolidate available shelving area, reinforce remaining bunkbed. 15. Test MBR bed 2 hours. 16. Pick up kids. 17. Medicate flu, now in advanced stage of "greenage". 18. Four hours advanced MBR bed testing. 19. And here we are. Better luck on the layout next week. If all goes well this weekend, the kids will supervise the division of toys and transport of same (without squabbling or malingering), while I maneuver my son's desk and PC into the space vacated by my daughter's lower bunk bed, allowing work to commence on the planned layout expansion from 4' x 10' to 5' x 14', currently limited by access needs to my son's desk. One 4' x 4' piece of plywood, some 1x4, 30 pieces flextrack, 20 turnouts, one MRC 220 and one MRC 280, a little elbow grease, and we will have staging room for all the trains, old time, diesel, and military, on the layout, permanently, with space to run 3 to 6 trains on the mains, while switching at 3 locations. We picked up the core of a 1930's era ATSF passenger train at the show last visit, and with the planned 24" radius curves on the new (flat) sections, we're now in the market for one or two fair sized steamers, probably BLI, maybe as big as the 2-10-2's. I think I know where to pick up the some more passenger cars to match, (out of production now), maybe then I can post some pics. :-)
Gee i got tired just reading that
Thanks.
I used acrylic paint diluted with tap water for the washes and drybrushed acrylic for the dust thrown up from the track.
This is what they did with barrels of toxic waste back in the 1960's:
Here's my new pride and joy, I use a cheap autofocuses camera can't wait to get a good camera.
Just got a new camera so this is a test.
I got to Visit Jim Lemmond's Cedartap RR today on the Houston Layout Tour
More photos can be seen in this album
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2100191635&idx=0
mikesmowers wrote: Green & Yellow,,,, Looks like it should say ''John Deere" All joking aside the locs is very nice, I like the detail. Did you do it yourself? Mike
No, these are new Athearn Geneses F3.
tomkat-13 wrote: Just got a new camera so this is a test.
What kind of camera did you get?
I am 19 and recently got an airbrush for my birthday so I painted and decaled some Athearn reefers in the UP white schemes. For my first attempt at airbrushing and decaling I was pleased with my efforts. I am planning on putting a light weathering coat on them eventually.
Been working on this SP Daylight Alco PA-1. Have to put it down now. Waiting for a bright white LED and some more decals to finish it.
First and second paint - Engine Black on the roof and SP Daylight red.
Fireman Earl Spivey and Engineer William Robert Wadsworth check out there new cab.
this is where i'm stopped in my tracks....need more decals to complete the striping.
chuck
As always, nice work everyone.
While waiting to complete the rest of my benchwork due to plan changes, I've put my hand to the models I've been accumulating. I've started on the Walthers Interstate Fuel & Oil. The tanks are now assembled and hope to get them painted today. MisterBeasely, I believe I saw a detail picture from you in WFP last weekend - nice and would love to see the rest of it ?
Plan changes: After a month of vacation I managed to complete track work on my lower level. It was (note past tense) a staging level but I had made the mistake in starting to scenic it. Then got carried away with more and more scenery and started to plan just a few structures.
Long story short, we placed the first module of the upper deck in place and it was too low and too deep for viewing and reach - . We even tried to raise it. So, the lower level will become the main and only level. Gave up the helix (why am I not sad) but did have to add a lift out which will be modeled after the bridge crossing the Colorado river in La Grange Tx. Was able to add a TT and RH in Smithville and this weeked, BINGO - met someone who worked on the Katy (now an engineer on UP) in Smithville who has the plans for all the track layout and the RR back when the Katy was there.
So, mistake on my part has led to a vast improvement.
Evolve or perish.
Regards,
James, Brisbane Australia
Modelling AT&SF in the 90s