Weekend Update - 2/28/2010

[Philip H]

Looks like ground up Smurfs . . . .

[sirenwerks]

Looks like ground up Smurfs . . . .

Finally, a good use for Smurfs.

[diezmon]

What is your road paved with?

I didn't have any smurf available, so I used plaster tinted with black dye.  

yeah, I know.. the color is off. My high quality point-n-shoot digital.  



happy now, friggin' nitpickers??   ;D :

[Hiroe]

Gary, excellent CP unit. Rock on.

Some more CV pics. Night shots, anyone?
  

    


The wires got some paint on them:
  

  

  

I even built the Section Break over the crossover:
    

Yard tracks wired beneath the bridges:
    


Remember folks, we're open next Saturday! (March 6th) 9am to 4pm. 2 rail O scale items from local dealers and modelers are available for sale. The club layout will be open at 10am with an operating session. Grace Church, 7 E. Maple Ave, Merchantville, NJ 08109. Admission to dealers $5 (spouse and children free), Layout tour free.


Thanks!
--Drew

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Very nice CAT! I am jelous, want to wire up South station for me?  ;D

I just finished my write-up on building GP10 quickly:
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?p=672894#post672894

[up1950s]

Hiroe , holy cow , that is some intricate cat system . Best I've seen in N Scale .

[wazzou]

It's O Scale.

[up1950s]

O scale , hell , he could have used an arc welder like the real deal . ???

[Bob Bufkin]

O scale , hell , he could have used an arc welder like the real deal . ???

Now that's funny!

[ednadolski]

It's O Scale.

What was that earlier comment about "nitpickers"?

[GaryHinshaw]

The small mirror is an auxiliary one that faces forward, allowing the engineer to see someone standing on the front bottom step of a wide cab without craning your neck out the window. The two reflective surfaces face each other in such a way so that by looking forward into the large main mirror, you see the reflection of the bottom step in the smaller one. Hope that explanation makes sense. They swivel out of the way when not needed.

Now, why there's one on the fireman's side on the CP engine, I don't know. On BNSF engines they're only on the engineer's side.

Pete

Thanks for the info Pete, that makes perfect sense.  The mirror on the fireman's side of my model is an error - the proto CP units don't have them, as I discovered last night...  it's coming off!  [I blame Craig because he supplies the same number of full size and folding mirrors on his detail fret...]  I'm also looking forward to adding those custom made handrails that Ed vowed to whip up for me.   

Fantastic cat work Hiroe!

[Hiroe]

While this stuff might be O, i've *also* done working compound cat in N.

[UP1996]

Hiroe , holy cow , that is some intricate cat system . Best I've seen in N Scale .

Ditto. Awesome detail.

I made some more trees.

[UP1996]

What is your road paved with?

I didn't have any smurf available, so I used plaster tinted with black dye.  

yeah, I know.. the color is off. My high quality point-n-shoot digital.  



happy now, friggin' nitpickers??   ;D :

Your Smurf road (LOL) looks great. May I ask what you used for forms?

[diezmon]

What is your road paved with?

I didn't have any smurf available, so I used plaster tinted with black dye.  

yeah, I know.. the color is off. My high quality point-n-shoot digital.  


happy now, friggin' nitpickers??   ;D :

Your Smurf road (LOL) looks great. May I ask what you used for forms?

I just pinned down some square styrene rod I had lying around. After the plaster hardened a bit, I removed the forms and worked in the slope with  the back end of a tweezers.