Weekend Update 10/18/26

[up1950s]

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[nickelplate759]

Got the very first track in place on my layout. This is the crossover just outside the west entrance to East Wayne yard.



Feeders and 2 Tortoises (under the layout) in place.  The blue flag is masking tape to remind me to eventually trim the turnout actuating wire.  The lower right turnout will lead to industrial trackage.

[Sumner]

7 Turnouts & 2 Crossings Control Panel.....

Just another control panel.  I needed a .....

 

...... control panel to control the 7 turnouts shown above and the frogs on the two crossings. Images below should tell the story but ask if you have any questions.

 

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There are still quite a few control panels that need to be made.

More info and images on railwire here ...... ( https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=58208.msg848624#new ).

Sumner

[Jesse6669]

I was out of town half the week but got this prototype of my Z-scale Train Master sprayed with primer yesterday.  Each truck is powered by a Showcase Miniatures power truck.  Still needs some work but it's coming along.

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[Dave V]

The N scale PRR Juniata Division T-TRAK layout made its public debut yesterday at the Colorado Railroad Prototype Meet.







The layout behaved quite well considering I'd never really put it through rigorous paces. Trains ran continuously for about 7.5 hours.

This is also the first time I've ever displayed an incomplete layout...on two modules the track wasn't even fastened down. Folks apparently are more responsive to unfinished work than I would have thought.

[Chris333]

I was out of town half the week but got this prototype of my Z-scale Train Master sprayed with primer yesterday.  Each truck is powered by a Showcase Miniatures power truck.  Still needs some work but it's coming along.

I shortened the WB of a Showcase chassis (made by Toma) by printing a new chassis block. Would be very simple to print the block for 3 axles...

[davefoxx]

I gutted the electronics from an Atlas GP40 and an Athearn F7A and have got these two HO scale locomotives back into the active fleet with LokSound V5.0 decoders and LED lights.  The F7 will eventually get a Scale Sound Systems speaker.





More on The Carolina Sandhills Lines thread in the Layout Engineering forum.

DFF

[nkalanaga]

Dave V:  I'm not surprised.  Especially for a modular layout, it's interesting to see the finished product, and then see what went into making it.  In your case, with one side complete, and the other under construction, it's even better, as neither side distracts from the other.

[InterurbanModels]

Modeling can be tiring, can't it?
Then what's better than making a Interurban Sleeping Car. There is still some tweaking to do on this Intestate Public Service Sleeper. Printing the window frames in dark red, contrasting with the orange body, was a little bit challenging. The later Canadian version as of Pacific Great Eastern will follow.
The dark red Union Traction Motor car not really prototypical, but that's what I have on hand here and now.

[robert3985]

Started figuring out how to install the Tortoises for my Eliot/Devil's Slide Center Siding western entrance/exit. Have some clearance problems as well as assembly/disassembly clearance problems, but...now that my portable layout is pretty much set up permanently in my new residence, the assembly/disassembly inconveniences aren't such big problems as when I was regularly taking it to shows.  I like to build my turnout combinations as monolithically as I can on the bench, which makes for a lot fewer rail joinings thus less potential future joint problems...although I don't have many joint problems since I've had the layout set up permanently.  It'll be great fun to finally be able to run my trains in a big circle since it was only during shows and being coupled up with my show partner's (Gregg Cudworth) modules that either he or I were able to run trains of any length and not just back and forth.

Hopefully, this will be in and operational later this week...

Photo (1) - Fiddling with west end Emory/Devil's Slide Center Siding entrance/exit on my scenic transition module from Echo Canyon to Devil's Slide:


Also worked on finishing some Pecos River Brass cars I'm selling to a customer, but gotta make the UP decals for the hoppers since they're not available in N-scale.  The PRB UP 0-50-6 Tank Car is a sweet-looking model, and I decided I'd better shoot a thin coat of MicroScale Liquid Decal Film on the decal sheet before I tried using it as it was my one-and-only sheet and they are notorious for degrading after years in storage into unusable, brittle messes. 

The airbrushed Decal Film application worked excellently however (much to my relief) and using Tru-Color Paint for the first time on a brass model yielded the finest, non-detail hiding paint job I've ever done...and I've used Scalecoat in the past, which I thought was the best.  TCP also is ready to handle in about 30 minutes (I wait 45 before handling) and to apply a second coat if needed. 

Tru-Color Paint?  I highly recommend it...just don't follow the manufacturer's recommendations as far as thinning and air pressure are concerned.

The hoppers I did using Scalecoat II, and I'm also extremely happy with the results, but...the painting process is 24 hours longer for them since that's their curing time with Scalecoat II...

Photo (2) - PRB Hoppers and UP Tank Car on my drawing table:


I'll spend the rest of the weekend (about four more hours) working on some old Hallmark Geeps that I've restored, painted and am now finishing up.

All in all, a very good weekend!

Cheerio!
Bob Gilmore

EDITED - for grammar & clarity

[ednadolski]

My P87 setup at the CORPM  https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=61566.msg848712#msg848712





Cheers,
Ed

[PGE_Modeller]

Modeling can be tiring, can't it?
Then what's better than making a Interurban Sleeping Car. There is still some tweaking to do on this Intestate Public Service Sleeper. Printing the window frames in dark red, contrasting with the orange body, was a little bit challenging. The later Canadian version as of Pacific Great Eastern will follow.
The dark red Union Traction Motor car not really prototypical, but that's what I have on hand here and now.

Great to see this project moving forward.  Regarding car body colour for Pacific Great Eastern, the red used for either the PGE cars that came from the Oregon Electric or the ones that came from the Lehigh Valley would be good choices.
Cheers,
Greg

[up1950s]

I was out of town half the week but got this prototype of my Z-scale Train Master sprayed with primer yesterday.  Each truck is powered by a Showcase Miniatures power truck.  Still needs some work but it's coming along.

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That's Z ? Outstanding !

[jpwisc]

I got some mow equipment painted. Lots of work left to do still. I also got some large flatcar loads painted. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]
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[arbomambo]