Weekend Update 8/8/2010

[DKS]

Another week has flown by. Who's gotten what done?

I'm wrapping up this Z scale hotel. It may look like a stock kit, but it's actually a mirror image, so it can face an opposite corner. All of the walls were broken apart, new first-floor doors and windows grafted on from another kit, working signs added, etc.
 


Full story on the build is here: http://jamesriverbranch.net/project_16.htm

[up1950s]

More changes , more details pending on UP (OWR&N) 4924 . If you think it looks bad now , just wait for the many errors to come .


 

[SkipGear]

Richie,
 You have a nice transformation going on there.

[Puddington]

Looking good Richie; but I'm confused...exactly what kind of trailer is that.........? ;D

Work on the GHQ CN 8 hatch reefers is slowly coming along - nice kits.

Ironically; I was feeling somewhat "UP 1950-ish" this week so I ran some TOFC; until four flats took the plunge..... some TLC and we got everything back to normal...sort of....



...it helps to have the hitches in correctly.....otherwise.....sigh 

[mark dance]

I managed to finish the ground cover and ballasting at Cascade - the foot of Eastbound pushers ops - and messed around with single-handed pusher operations (see Youtube link if you are interested).

md
http://www.youtube.com/user/markdance63

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[up1950s]

Richie,
 You have a nice transformation going on there.

Thanks Tony  , Craig from NTrak contacted me for its inclusion in their mag , and because of that I am adding more details than  I had originally planned . If nothing else it will make others work appear better than perfect .

[sizemore]

Since I gave myself a staycation between the old job and new I pummeled a huge task in BYR's ACME Labs over a period of two days.... The motive power manager of the WM and BYR decided it was time to add "updated electronics" to 26 locomotives on the combined roster.



The S.

[up1950s]

Puddington wrote " Ironically; I was feeling somewhat "UP 1950-ish" this week so I ran some TOFC; until four flats took the plunge..... some TLC and we got everything back to normal...sort of.... "

Bummer , thats one of the good things about not having a layout , no half twist double gainers into the big flat hard thing .

[up1950s]

Another week has flown by. Who's gotten what done?

I'm wrapping up this Z scale hotel. It may look like a stock kit, but it's actually a mirror image, so it can face an opposite corner. All of the walls were broken apart, new first-floor doors and windows grafted on from another kit, working signs added, etc.
 


Full story on the build is here: http://jamesriverbranch.net/project_16.htm

Nothing you do is easy , and it always comes out so crisp in detail and finish .

[BCRail_FSJ]

Not too much new here.  Just returned from a week in Prince George, BC photographing trains while trying to avoid black bears and forest fires. 

[DKS]

Nothing you do is easy

Ain't that the truth!

and it always comes out so crisp in detail and finish .

Thank you. I try my best to give Z a boost.

[BCR 570]

This week I built two test sections to examine the feasability of scratchbuilding a PGE-BCR 7100-7105 series twin trailer flatcar.  The top section is one end to work out the coupler and truck mounting requirements; the bottom sectiton is a slice out of the full depth centre sill.








I also did some more work on the helix occupancy detection circuit.


Tim

[BCR 570]

Not too much new here.  Just returned from a week in Prince George, BC photographing trains while trying to avoid black bears and forest fires.

What - no photos of your -2s running on Chris' layout?


Tim

[ryourstone]

Life-Like PA1 with Microscale decals... This is a 4-image Helicon composite plus a proto background and headlight.

[BCRail_FSJ]

Tim..

No model shots unfortunately, but I did get to tour the N scale Chetwynd Sub.  Here are a few random prototype / wildlife shots.