NS2591 wrote: I finally took some pictures of my layout today. So here they areThis is my coal mine I have yet to put in the trackage going up there as the weather has been bad and I can't get out the saw to cut the wood to get there
I finally took some pictures of my layout today. So here they are
This is my coal mine I have yet to put in the trackage going up there as the weather has been bad and I can't get out the saw to cut the wood to get there
From the far, far reaches of the wild, wild west I am: rtpoteet
CraigN wrote: oleirish wrote: What make is this locomotive proto type it is "N" scale, six wheel drive runs great,but needs an cab.On the bottom it says "MRC yugoslivia"Thanks for your help.Ilove my "N" scaleJIMI used to have an RSD-15 in Union Pacific that looks alot like this one. If I remember correctly, it was offered by Life-Like. Instead of universal joints, it used springs from the motor to the gear tower.Craig
oleirish wrote: What make is this locomotive proto type it is "N" scale, six wheel drive runs great,but needs an cab.On the bottom it says "MRC yugoslivia"Thanks for your help.Ilove my "N" scaleJIM
What make is this locomotive proto type it is "N" scale, six wheel drive runs great,but needs an cab.On the bottom it says "MRC yugoslivia"
Thanks for your help.
Ilove my "N" scale
JIM
Craig
NS2591,
Wow nice progress, I can't wait to see it finished!
Thanks for the help,that gives me an starting point,this engine is a real long one and has drive shafts insted of springs,It is allmost twice as long as my Kato RS-2or3 it is also an six wheel drive.But you my be right.
Army National Guard E3MOS 91BI have multiple scales nowZ, N, HO, O, and G.
oleirish wrote:What make is this locomotive proto type it is "N" scale, six wheel drive runs great,but needs an cab.On the bottom it says "MRC yugoslivia"Thanks for your help.Ilove my "N" scaleJIM
nscaler711 wrote: local short line here in columbia missouri it's called the COLT...COLumbia Terminal. It is 24 miles long. Stretches from Columbia to Centeralia MO. line was Built in 1865....the COLT didnt come out until 1980 something. i want to model this rail road and its two locos. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=215465http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=215537
local short line here in columbia missouri it's called the COLT...COLumbia Terminal. It is 24 miles long. Stretches from Columbia to Centeralia MO. line was Built in 1865....the COLT didnt come out until 1980 something. i want to model this rail road and its two locos.
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=215465
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=215537
Hey guys. I made the switch from HO to N about 10 months ago and cant see myself going back. N scale is great
Victor
Happy Railraoding.
Welcome to the club Garry. I think you will not be disappointed on your choice of N scale. Lots of good information on these forums and a great bunch of people here.
Jack
nscaler711 wrote: Pcarrell you could probably use a slow motion switch machine below the road and have clear fishing "wire" attached to both the switch machine and your wig-wag......im not exactly sure if that will work...... ill ask the guys over at Nscale.net if you want.. they may have ideas on how to do that
Pcarrell you could probably use a slow motion switch machine below the road and have clear fishing "wire" attached to both the switch machine and your wig-wag......im not exactly sure if that will work...... ill ask the guys over at Nscale.net if you want.. they may have ideas on how to do that
Not a bad idea. Not sure if it'll work on the push side though. BTW, I'm already a member on that forum too. I thought I'd ask here first. Thanks though!
This next one's entitled "Paint and the pain in the... well, you get the point."
My parents came down two weekends ago for my younger son's second birthday. My father, also a sometime-PRR fan, and I were discussing the lack of a standard building paint scheme for the Standard Railroad of the World. Officially, PRR structures were most often painted a light buff/tan with darker brown trim and red window sashes. However, this scheme as applied to Pennsy structures in real life seems to have spanned anywhere from two-tone gray to yellow and brown. PRRT&HS has published formulas for mixing your own paint using Floquil, but since switching to N scale I work primarily in styrene, so I thought Polyscale would be better.
Some years ago I settled on a Polyscale paint scheme that looked pretty close (aged concrete and D&RGW building brown). I wanted to use straight-from-the-bottle colors rather than custom mixes to ensure consistency from structure to structure. Well, Polyscale then changed the formulas on the paints I was using, so in the middle of a project, I had to find a new scheme since the new formulas (formulae?) for the old colors didn't quite work anymore. The new colors were too light.
Eventually I had settled upon earth and roof brown as my colors. A bit dark, but not objectionable. Over time though, the more color photographs I see of PRR structures, the more I've been thinking that the earth color was too dark. My dad agreed. Here's the current scheme on LEW Interlocking (tower and speeder shed) on my layout:
So yesterday I bought a jar of the new Polyscale D&RGW "building cream." Testing it on an unused interlocking tower showed promise. So, I grabbed a Walthers watchman's shanty and painted it with the new cream color. Wow... Way too light. Now what? I eventually found that mixing roughly 1/3 D&RGW building cream with 2/3 earth gave me a great color. But, once I applied it to the speeder shed, the paint was too thick. So, I had to strip the paint and start again. These are those darned pre-assembled buildings, and in N scale a watchman's shanty is smaller than the last knuckle on your thumb. Plus I needed to keep the sashes red. Pain in the...
Well, when all was done the new paint job on the shack looked closer to ideal, but it was hassle enough I doubt I'll re-paint the rest of my structures. Besides, it's actually prototypical for some variation on the PRR... whatever mix of "Structure Color Light" as available at the time of repaint is what was used. I'll save my new-found "Structure Color Light" for the next PRR building I build. I'm thinking about building the GC Laser kit fir J Tower... Since that's wood, I'll seal it with Dullcote before I apply Polyscale paint.
Here's the J Tower at Strasburg, PA, and the Strasburg Rail Road's version of the PRR paint scheme:
Modeling the Rio Grande Southern First District circa 1938-1946 in HOn3.
nscaler711 wrote: by odd ball i meant the number ill have to explain myself thanks by the way also could i just add another exauhst* stack.ALSO RT did u used to work on a railroad sounds like u know ur stuff*dictionary not handy at the moment
by odd ball i meant the number ill have to explain myself thanks by the way also could i just add another exauhst* stack.
ALSO RT did u used to work on a railroad sounds like u know ur stuff
*dictionary not handy at the moment
Ah, yes, the mark of the beast... So clearly this train was headed to the battlefield at Armageddon?
nscaler711 wrote: by odd ball i meant the number ill have to explain myself thanks by the way also could i just add another exauhst* stack.ALSO RT did u used to work on a railroad sounds like u know ur stuff *dictionary not handy at the moment
Zandoz wrote: Questions for the assembled masses. If I try using 9.75" radius curves on industrial spurs...50s vintage small town grain elevator, coal dealer, and freight ststion...is it going to end up being one of those to quote Bugs Bunny "If I dood it I'll probably hate myself in the morning" things?Also, does anyone happen to know the length of the Atlas stone arch bridges?
Questions for the assembled masses. If I try using 9.75" radius curves on industrial spurs...50s vintage small town grain elevator, coal dealer, and freight ststion...is it going to end up being one of those to quote Bugs Bunny "If I dood it I'll probably hate myself in the morning" things?
Also, does anyone happen to know the length of the Atlas stone arch bridges?
nscaler711 wrote: Hey check this odd ball loco from KCShttp://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C8094%5CKCS%20666.jpg
Hey check this odd ball loco from KCS
http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/pictures%5C8094%5CKCS%20666.jpg
Reality...an interesting concept with no successful applications, that should always be accompanied by a "Do not try this at home" warning.
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.
"Oooh...ahhhh...that's how this all starts...but then there's running...and screaming..."
It looks like an SD40-2, If your pointing out the number, Both Elgin Joliet & Eastern and CSX have engines numbered 666. Although CSX did a great one, Its a Lightning Bolt 666 lightning Bold. http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=562025
Here is EJ&E 666 http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=409512
I was on a live steam page and saw this loco. Was there ever a loco made like this one?
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w1/n0ssy/HN2006_001.jpg
Dewayne
is there any way to up grade my proto 1000 sw8 to an sw1200? also how can i put a decoder in one