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simon1966 wrote: SpaceMouse wrote: Art,Nice stuff as always.Simon, I had that gas station but I traded it if for some rolling stock I don't need. Seems to me it was a different name on the box though. Was there ever another name for thact company? I'm sure it's the same kit. Chip, it says POLA made it Western Germany on the bottom. I think it is one of those kits that has been released by more than one company. I painted mine, replaced all the details with JL Innovative stuff and added a lot of posters and signs.
SpaceMouse wrote: Art,Nice stuff as always.Simon, I had that gas station but I traded it if for some rolling stock I don't need. Seems to me it was a different name on the box though. Was there ever another name for thact company? I'm sure it's the same kit.
Art,
Nice stuff as always.
Simon,
I had that gas station but I traded it if for some rolling stock I don't need. Seems to me it was a different name on the box though. Was there ever another name for thact company? I'm sure it's the same kit.
Chip, it says POLA made it Western Germany on the bottom. I think it is one of those kits that has been released by more than one company. I painted mine, replaced all the details with JL Innovative stuff and added a lot of posters and signs.
I guess it wasn't the same then. Mine was a craftsman kit. I'm pretty sure now it was made by Timberline.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Well, you quiz-show contestants got it right. Those are indeed JL Innovative gas pumps, along with the oil can rack. I mounted them on a styrene riser to get them above the pavement level.
The retaining wall is a hydrocal casting. I used Dave Frary's "Cut Stone Wall" mold from http://www.mrscenery.com/. The actual casting is about 3 inches tall and 8 inches wide, but I put a bunch of them together for this wall. It's double-sided and brackets the track coming up out of the subway. This is a view looking right down the track, a month or so ago before some of the scenery. The gas station would be just to the right of this photo.
This scene is one of the long-term goals I've had when building my layout. It's loosely modelled on Boston's MBTA, where the trolley tracks come out of the tunnels outside of Kenmore Square and transition to surface lines. The multi-story buildings on one side add "depth" to this man-made canyon.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Wow, you guys are awesome! I guess I'll try my hand at scratchbuilding once I have put the Danby Sawmill together. It'll give me a better sense of how to do it.
A couple of you expressed an interest in my trackplan. I have quickly hand-drawn (sorry, it's all I can do) a basic schematic to show you the general idea. It is not to scale, although reasonably close. One thing that is not shown properly is the dotted track behind the station and water tower, etc. That runs under the slope behind the station and towers, but the tracks are actually about 11" away, and not as close as my diagram shows.
And Tom, yes that is the Trix Mike. I love that engine. I just have to learn how to massage the CV settings...reading the manual will help, of course.
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Terry, nice looking scratch-build. What did you make it out of? Is it based on a particular building?
Yes Simon The Proto type is in Thurmond WVA
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Here's the model
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Great pics everyone and off to an early start as well. ART I am enjoying your pics as you post them, I really do like the way the shop turned out, especially the metal doors, how did you do that?
Maybe I'll get some pics up this weekend. Mike
Compared to you guys, this isn't that much, but in the last two weeks I've managed to reclaim the last three buildings in downtown Rock Ridge. Here are the before and afters.
Good going folks.
Art, that gas station scene with the guys working on the car in the vacant lot next door is great. Thanks for posting the closeup shots.
Crandell, let me also echo the sentiments of the Tom, Chip and Harry (there was no Harry, but there should be one) the yard and service area are really well done. The scenery and the back drop really work well together.
Tom, I think you are right, those do look just like JL Innovative pumps. Since I have not done anything yet this weekend, here is an old shot with more of their stuff.
Misterbeasley, I am curious about your retaining walls, are they commercial castings or did you make them from molds?
Been adding detail to my town scene. Not up to Bob's standards but working towards them. Also trying to learn the new camera. This weeks stuff.
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Nice building Mr Beasley Where did you get those ol gas pumps ?
Looks like JL Innovative Design.
Tom
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Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
Great Work Crandell I think Tom is right we'd all like to see your track plan
I installed the Scratch Built Post Office/ Commissary I built last week
selector wrote: Okay, here it is. The drop-off is at the far end of this bridge span. The close end, with the hinges below it, is visible at the close end of the deck girder span...you can just see a gap at the end of the ballast.
Okay, here it is. The drop-off is at the far end of this bridge span. The close end, with the hinges below it, is visible at the close end of the deck girder span...you can just see a gap at the end of the ballast.
I think I like the idea of the drop off better. It would have kept those insolent trains in check, just knowing what could happen.
Crandell,
Is that your new Mike on the girder bridge?
Also, do you have a drawing or picture of your track plan. I think folks would enjoy seeing it.
tstage wrote: Wow! Very nice work, Crandell! I really like the whole track design in the servicing and depot areas - especially the curved lead going off the layout. Will that be the track for your "permanently retiring" locomotives?... Tom
Wow! Very nice work, Crandell! I really like the whole track design in the servicing and depot areas - especially the curved lead going off the layout. Will that be the track for your "permanently retiring" locomotives?...
Probably just the suicidal ones.
SpaceMouse wrote: I think I'd super glue that turnout. Crandell, That double slip is impressive.
I think I'd super glue that turnout.
That double slip is impressive.
Thanks, Chip. The first didn't turn out so well, and I had help getting the points set by another fellow...the guy who does my decoder work. He has all the tools and material, and is really a techno/tinkerer who has one of those grand layouts 10 years old and still needing another 20 to be completed...a lot of bare wood showing. I had no means of screwing the tiny points to the PCB throwbar, so he did that for me. Fine work, too.
Ha! You funny guy, you.
I will try to post a photo showing how that drop-dead "lead" fits into the grand scheme of things. The cool part of it all is that it is entered through my double curved scratchbuilt wye turnout that has the points set in such a way that an approaching loco will derail since the points lie centered, and are not sprung against one of the stock rails. Derailed loco is a safe one 16" from the drop-off. At least, that is the plan...
Thanks for your kindness in your comments, Tom. Nice to know it's all turning out well enough.
-Crandell
A busy time at the Hardspot station. The D&RGW passenger train just left (caboose can be seen in the background tunnel), the daily ore car train to Arock is leaving, and passengers are waiting for the daily passenger train to Arock to arrive from the yard.
tstage wrote: Wow! Very nice work, Crandell! I really like the whole track design in the servicing and depot areas - especially the curved lead going off the layout. Will that be the track for your "permanently retired" locomotives?... Tom
Wow! Very nice work, Crandell! I really like the whole track design in the servicing and depot areas - especially the curved lead going off the layout. Will that be the track for your "permanently retired" locomotives?...
Crandell, don't think of the car as oversized. Think of it as "forced perspective."
Nice work, BTW.
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Wow, nice work on the double-slip!
I've been finishing up some scenery. This old building appeared in a yard sale box-o-trains my Mom found for me 40 years ago. Still a bit of work to do. The pavement in front is the original color of Durham's Water Putty, but right now it's real cold out so I don't want to paint in the layout room until I can vent the room thoroughly while I'm working.
Here's the view from behind the shop. I've got some more junk to put out in the junkyard, but I just finished up the turf and I was letting it dry.
Hi, everyone. I guess I'll start off with our weekly fun thread.
What follows are three images of recent work. I hope you like them, and can forgive the horribly oversized automobiles.
In the middle ground, at centre, is the handlaid double-slip. I am happy to report that all my locomotives, even the PRR Duplex, have negotiated it. Not perfectly, but quite close.