Man , everybody seems to be pretty industrious lately! Here is what I finished Last week.
Mike
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” -- John Lennon
Right now, I am doing research on modeling the Illinois Central's operations at Fulton, KY centered on the late 40's and early 50's...
Back then, Fruit Growers Express shipped bananas arriving at the port of New Orleans north by train in ice reefers (before the advent of mechanical refrigeration and trucking). The midpoint in their journey was Fulton, KY, where they received fresh ice and were then divided up, with some going north to Chicago and some going east to markets there.
According to a book I checked out at a local library, the era mentioned seems to be at the height of traffic -- in 1947, over 53,000+ cars of bananas left New Orleans that year!
Fulton at the time had an enormous amount of rail traffic, boasting a huge yard with a turntable and roundhouse, a sizable passenger and freight depot, and two ice plants for servicing the reefers.
I'm thinking on first making the layout virtual by using Trainz Railroad Simulator with the notion that one day I'll actually put it to benchwork...
Keith
Living at Fulton KY
I just finished upgrading an old Mantua 4-6-2 Pacific, that I had acquired in the mid '60s.
The trucks aren't prototypical for the vanderbuilt tender. I'm not a rivit counter, so I don't care. They look presentable, AND I have a locomotive that can creep along at a snail's pace smoothly without the herky-jerky movement it had before. By the way, I used a technique to improve electrical pickup by using KaDee #5 coupler centering springs as wipers I read about in another thread on this forum. I gotta thank you folks for the guidance and inspiration to get this done.
Now if I can only figure out why my headlight only flashes on momentarily when I turn track power on, yet is otherwise off under all other conditions...
In my head: I am kit-bashing an N scale Mother Hubbard loco out of an old bachman chassis and starting to build my dream layout in a finished train room.
In reality: Feeding horses, cows, and other critters, continuing to work on our new house, trying to figure out how to pay for a concrete slab in the future train room, and planning a little HO table layout under glass for my wife.
As my mother(RIP) use to say, "No rest for the wicked". -Rob
CanadianShield wrote: CPRAIL, What scale do you model in? Canadian Shield
CPRAIL,
What scale do you model in?
Canadian Shield
HO scale. Why are you asking?
BTW Hoople, go with the S1.
B&o Bob K. very nice layout. If I just lived closer.
Its hovering around 100 here and I haven't done much on my RR, but I did install some tunnel portals and make plans to add a siding near the yard for a Sunkist(maybe) plant. Have much to do around the house before I head towards the layout but I will be experimenting with colors for grass and soil. I may have to take a trip to obtain the real thing as the dirt in my area is too dark.
I am also working on a schedule again and hope to have something soon.
I also have a few buildings under construction but it has been too hot to paint. Combo engine house car shop, grain elevator, and a few odd city buildings.
mfifer, I like the color choices on the corner building.
John
Lynn
Present Layout progress
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/p/290127/3372174.aspx#3372174
A: trying to get the wife to clean out the basement for my layout space so that: B: I can get the basement mitigated for radon (major issue here in Ohio and my level was 38.7(anything greater than 10 requires immediate attention) so that: C: I can start my benchwork. For any of you following my prior posts on this subject, this is beginning year two of this saga
Jim
Hmmm,
Ordering flex and sectional track (Model Power Flex, Atlas Sectional, Peco Turnouts) and saving paychecks for Life Like 2-8-8-2 Mallet.
I plan to build the benchwork for my layout by the end of this month and have track down by early August.
Cheese
Nick! :)
Working on two structures. Well, finishing one and getting ready to start another. Finishing up the 'Bailey Savings and Loan' from Walthers. A near perfect arcitectural match to the real 'First National Bank' it's modeling. Getting ready to start a no longer in production Bachmann Spectrum series stucture, the 'Variety Store' or Woolworth's as it will be on my layout.
Deciding on a paint scheme for my 4-4-0, with will become Smoky Mountain Central #1 "Davy Crockett".
Dave Loman
My site: The Rusty Spike
"It's a penny for your thoughts, but you have to put your 2 cents in.... hey, someone's making a penny!"
Backdrop
and terraforming !
Regards,
Tom
The bulk of my layout track is laid, and the feeder wires are soldered to the track. I'm currently finishing up the Tortoise mounting, and will then move to wiring the switch machines (promptingg the construction of the control panels) and then running and connecting the DCC bus wires to the track feeders.
Photos, track plan and what not can be found here:
UP in SE Oregon
Still painting windows and doors.
GUB
Wulfblat wrote: The bulk of my layout track is laid, and the feeder wires are soldered to the track. I'm currently finishing up the Tortoise mounting, and will then move to wiring the switch machines (promptingg the construction of the control panels) and then running and connecting the DCC bus wires to the track feeders.Photos, track plan and what not can be found here:UP in SE Oregon
I checked out your site and pictures... nice layout! One thing though: Whats with the flatscreen tv & Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs under the layout? ;)
Oh trust me, there is absolutely nothing wrong with having Sarah M Gellar displayed on the screen! She's not all that hard to look at... just keep the TV on mute, the dialog in buffy is Horrid :)
..then again, that might detract from getting anything done on the layout :/
claymore1977 wrote: ..then again, that might detract from getting anything done on the layout :/
AND?
Finished breaking in the 4-4-0 from Roundhouse.
There are other projects pending, but are on hold at this time.
Just spent 2 weeks building the benchwork... Now working on laying track and roadbed and wiring as I go. So far about 40 feet of staging down and 5 switches.... only another 35 or so switches to go and another 200 feet of track to go...
Working on several projects:
1. Just finished a kitbash of my design using the learning kits of Walthers modulars. Will post pic soon for wpf.
2. Working on a Perkins freight building using Walthers modulars, base on pictures of said building.
3. A kitbash project that was feature in RMC Feb 1973 issue, that Vollmer must have done a design change to the kit involve, so I'm redesigning the layout for kitbashing.
travon wrote: Working on several projects:1. Just finished a kitbash of my design using the learning kits of Walthers modulars. Will post pic soon for wpf.
Why do you call them "learning kits"? Just wondering.