Re: Weekend Update 12/28/25

[up1950s]

https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/7786

https://www.duranelectronica.com/en/blog/manzanillo-railroad-tunnel-colima-mexico

https://www.voanews.com/a/in-mexico-s-yucatan-peninsula-a-hidden-underground-world-is-under-threat-by-the-maya-train/7640160.html

https://app.advcollective.com/new_mexico/Hiking/the-historic-charm-of-mexican-canyon-railroad-trestle

https://visitamazingplaces.ca/amazing/listings/canadas-first-railway-tunnel/

https://www.interbering.com/

[Scottl]

I started work on a modern oil tanker.  I would like a modest fleet of these so I thought I would try my hand at a 3D printed version.  We'll see what emerges from the goo overnight, but it looks good on the screen 

[Iain]

[ Guests cannot view attachments ]

Started working on a Piedmont and Northern box car.

[arx nakanishi]

Happy holidays, everyone here! Let me share with you another cut from my N-scale Cisco, Utah diorama.

This is the Cisco Mercantile at Cisco, Utah. The history of the building goes back to 1926, soon after the store Pace brothers purchased from the McBride brothers burnt to the ground on New Year's Eve of 1925. Just a hundred years ago! William Richard "Bill"(1889 ｰ 1971) and Mattie Gertrude Holder(1888 ｰ 1961) Cowger succeeded the business in 1944 and added the motel. The post office was brought in in 1967, but it went out of business in 1971. The facilities were burnt to the ground in 1979.

I measured the burnt concrete block left at the site and drew plans to make the structure.

Thanks for watching every time!

Hiroshi Nakanishi/Boxcar Red Collection
https://riogrande.blog.jp/

[John]

outstanding work as always @arx nakanishi

[Sumner]

Finally time to install turnouts and track on the upper level starting at the sawmill. Designed a .....

 

.... new servo mount based on the one I normally use. The normal one is installed from below using a couple tools you can print than allows a single person to install the servo in a couple minutes and have it dead center on where it needs to be to throw the throwbar. The problem on this part of the upper level is that the staging yard is 10 inches below the upper level so not much room to operate in placing a servo.

This mount is secured with a single screw and is easy to install from the side vs. having to be under it. I might use some of these on the lower level also it they work out well. I'll have install pictures soon and will probably put the print files up also. I printed the part of the mount that the servo attaches to with the resin printer using Siraya Tech Build resin. It is being tapped for 2-56 machine screws that hold the servo and the limit switches. The other parts that the single screw goes in were printed with a resin printer and a filament printer. That part also has 4 holes that are tapped and are used to connect the two parts together with 4-40 machine screws.

One or two limit switches can be attached to the mounts. Most of these will get one and it will be used for the frog polarity. Two will get 2 limit switches, one for frog polarity and the other to change the crossing's frogs polarity.

 

The first track going down for the upper level above.

 

Handlaying your track gives you many more options vs. most of the commercial track one can buy. Three 3-way turnouts will be used in this area to increase track lengths in different areas.

Sumner

[jpwisc]

I already posted the 2016 RPM cars I wrapped up over in that thread… but I knocked out a bunch of rolling stock this week.
[ Guests cannot view attachments ]
I also finished a crane tender car for my WC White Pine layout
[ Guests cannot view attachments ]
Prototype photo for reference:
[ Guests cannot view attachments ]
And some mow flats for a friend
[ Guests cannot view attachments ]
[ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[nickelplate759]

Cut and installed the underlayment for the layout, and added second layer of mud on backdrop.   Progress is slow, but still progress!





This will get a layer of 1" foam on top.  The squared hole is where the turntable will go.

[Dave V]

I've finally gotten around to painting some of the 3-D printed structures I purchased for my T-TRAK Pennsy project. It's difficult both because the details aren't rendered perfectly clean and the relief is very shallow. I imagine they'll look much better when I add window glazing, shades, curtains, and other details. But it's starting to look like a Pennsylvania town:



I've also been plugging along at painting a very nice 3-D print of HUNT tower (Huntingdon, PA) that @John printed for me. This thing, LOL... I've about gone blind trying to paint it but it's almost there! It also needs window glazing, shades, and signs:



...and I'll probably spend another few hours touch-up painting, LOL.

Lastly, one of my favorite cars that I used to have on the original Pennsy Juniata Division was an Intermountain 1937 AAR boxcar lettered as a PRR X37:



But sadly I sold it, and I've been tryong to find one again for the last year or so. Finally...eBay came through for me:

[BCR 570]

I completed track painting at Septimus this week.

Painting the rails:






Painting the tie retention clips:






I reached the end of track north of Septimus on Christmas Eve:




I have also been figuring out how to install the linear motors for my Civil Turnout and Crossover:






Wishing everyone all the best for 2026,

Tim

[Bart1701]

My new Bachmann Amtrak Siemens Venture cars! Yes, the interiors are very brightly lit. When you run them as a consist with Bachmann's SC44 Charger, they look OK (but still bright).

Bart

[chuck geiger]

[basementcalling]

(Attachment Link)

Started working on a Piedmont and Northern box car.

Calling @peteski for a siding groove size check. 

[mu26aeh]

Vandals grouped up and hit both sides of a bean hopper sitting in Lincoln Yard overnight.





Done freehand using Jelly Roll gel pens using prototype photos for reference

https://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=5898455
https://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=6374824

[peteski]

Calling @peteski for a siding groove size check. 

It is difficult to tell from that photo - I would need to see it in person.  So for now I'll give it: