Weekend Update 9/11/16

[davefoxx]

Staging!  Here's my new rolling reverse loop/staging cart connected to the layout, as well as my folding staging shelf deployed:



More on the Seaboard Central 2.0 thread in the Layout Engineering Forum.

DFF

[chuck geiger]

Jim the Caliente scene is huge. The Deere's are here. During football today going to work on tie downs
and blocks.

[bbussey]

The end grabs on the diners are a flippin' nightmare, but I'm hoping to paint the bodies and interiors next weekend.

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[Missaberoad]

The end grabs on the diners are a flippin' nightmare, but I'm hoping to paint the bodies and interiors next weekend.

You've done a beautiful job with them however! Excited to see the finished product...

[Jim Starbuck]

I've been milling frames and fitting some of my Life Like engines with hardwired decoders.
Here's a DL 109 with a Digitrax DZ126t.
I added a second LED to the original light board and drilled out the shell.
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[dmidkiff]

Working on a couple of GP35's for my N scale Arizona & California Railroad. The prototype has a few GP35's, but only one with Southern Pacific Heritage. I'm building two of these, both because I like the details present and it gives me a chance to practice the kitbashing and I can compare methods if I find a better way to to something the second time around. Even though these have SP heritage, most of the light package has been plated over, so I scratched those pieces with varying sizes of styrene.






Doug

[Dave V]

Added a retaining wall to the Rio Grande Southern and reproduced the iconic Lizard Head Pass station sign (now residing at the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden).  This is the highest point on the G scale RGS (due to underground utilities) so I figured it was apropos.

[nkalanaga]

Scott:  Thank you.  It could be "an era thing", or the design engineer just liked it that way. 

Some roads preferred ballasted decks, during the steam era, to lessen the fire danger, but if that was their reason, they ballasted the entire bridge.

[Bendtracker1]

Had a package waiting for me from Doug Midkiff Friday night!



Two E's, an F7a and F3b fresh out of the paint shop.
Working on getting them back together, chipped and programmed.

This is the first real project I've worked on since I got the Kitchen remodel finished two weeks ago.

Went from this

 
To this

[mplsjct]

This is the first real project I've worked on since I got the Kitchen remodel finished two weeks ago

You do know, that avocado green range was quite the style, back when the Rock was painting their equipment white and blue.

[Dave V]

With a Rico-bound train...

[Bendtracker1]

You do know, that avocado green range was quite the style, back when the Rock was painting their equipment white and blue.

@mplsjct
Yup, and now it's gone just like the Rock.

[mu26aeh]

Final preparations were made for next weekends open house.  I cleaned all the track and cleaned up from ballasting last two weeks.  First up was a base coat of grass/leaf litter (used tea leaves).

20160910_221351[1] by Adam Henry, on Flickr

Then started planting trees. And more trees.  Until I felt it looked good enough.  And that I ran out of said trees.  Once trees were planted, I put the buildings back in place that I'm using to represent Ag Com until I can scratchbuild or find something that better fits the location.

20160911_200438[1] by Adam Henry, on Flickr

Once buildings were up, management demanded crews redeliver the cars so the site can get back to business.  A UP Flag unit was sitting in the power tracks at Hagerstown, so the extra crew fired it up and brought the loaded grain cars up the line.  I was able to get to the crossing as it approached Granite.  Very fitting to see this engine on this day of remembrance.

20160911_200841[1] by Adam Henry, on Flickr

20160911_200859[1] by Adam Henry, on Flickr

The train stopped briefly to let the conductor off at the switch, so I was able to run thru the woods to get a catch in the trees.

20160911_201001[1] by Adam Henry, on Flickr

After crews spotted the cars, Ag Com personnel moved an extra car onto the tail track they use to re-position cars on the two tracks with a car puller.  When things quieted down, I caught a family of deer come out of the woods to graze near the waters edge.

20160911_202209[1] by Adam Henry, on Flickr

[craigolio1]

Working on a couple of GP35's for my N scale Arizona & California Railroad. The prototype has a few GP35's, but only one with Southern Pacific Heritage. I'm building two of these, both because I like the details present and it gives me a chance to practice the kitbashing and I can compare methods if I find a better way to to something the second time around. Even though these have SP heritage, most of the light package has been plated over, so I scratched those pieces with varying sizes of styrene.






Doug

Nice clean work. I'm looking forward to seeing lot of these.

Craig.

[conrail98]

Built out a staging/switch lead module instead of using the little cassette for the East River IT switching layout:



More in the layout construction thread,

Phil