Weekend Update 4/23/17

[chuck geiger]

Tuft time:

[StewRRFan]

Finally started some landscaping.  Apple orchard in.  Also, took possession of the latest update.  Stewartstown #10.  GE44.

[MichaelWinicki]

Finally started some landscaping.  Apple orchard in.  Also, took possession of the latest update.  Stewartstown #10.  GE44.

I think the orchard looks terrific!

Are you going to ballast the track?

[StewRRFan]

Thanks.  I go back and forth on ballasting.  I probably will at certain locations.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Also, details about the #10. I happen to know someone who models the connecting line...

[MichaelWinicki]

Thanks.  I go back and forth on ballasting.  I probably will at certain locations.

Why not ballast it?

Look how John Sing transformed his layout with ballast and track painting...

http://www.trainboard.com/highball/index.php?media/albums/john-sings-n-scale-unitrack-santa-fe-peavine-line.322/

You're adding some powerful scenic elements– Why not go the next step and complete the scene?

[SAH]

Last weekend I got up to the Lehigh Valley to do some railfanning and investigate a number of "Big Mike Approved" spots.


http://railfanning.kapuscinski.net/2017/04/april-2017-trip-to-the-lehigh-valley/

Now that's my kind of railfan trip!!!!!  Forget about the trains.  Let's eat!

[peteski]

Now that's my kind of railfan trip!!!!!  Forget about the trains.  Let's eat!

Eh, I like Ed's rail-fanning idea better: Watch trains *AND* eat!  Best of both worlds.   

[GhengisKong]

I am in the process of making a master for an E6/E7 fuel tank to fit on the Kato E8 chassis and cast a few for projects down the line. These will go on Southern Pacific 6000A,B,C in their as delivered Golden State colors.

[Dave Schneider]

I got a couple of hours in on my new HO Beer Line "Snake Track" branch. Got some cork laid and getting ready to lay some track.

Best wishes, Dave

[craigolio1]

For anyone that likes graphs, I did some speaker testing in the N Scale Royal Hudson build thread.  It may prove useful for other locos as well.





https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=40377.msg523048#msg523048

Craig

[dougnelson]

Completed the C-Liners and added some weathering.  Project also involved eye surgery to improve the windshield appearance, added Trainphone antenna and Micro Trains True Scale couplers.

[skytop35]

A soon to be new sleeper for my Pioneer Limited

[Philip H]

Moving is finally DONE! Much unboxing and organizing to do. But it's all here somewhere - even Elkins. Now to start the stopwatch to first train

[StewRRFan]

"Also, details about the #10. I happen to know someone who models the connecting line..."

Bachmann GE44T (PRR - sorry).  Jeff Gowers repaint and decal.