Weekend Update 1/7/18

[trainforfun]

Waz,
Here is another view that shows the relation of the stringers to the end view. (Attachment Link)

Great idea and good work Mike !!!

[chicken45]

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[mu26aeh]

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Oh no !  Lionel has captured another one ! 

[BCRail_FSJ]

Couple of weeks off over the (New Zealand) summer holidays and got most benchwork completed.  It is all hollow core doors mounted on L-girders.  Even the backdrops are HCDs.  I made a drop down leaf for closet access in order to get planning permission.   The impressive amount of storage under this thing has been a huge help.  The whole thing is portable and modular.  I've learned my lesson from the previous layouts.

[jpwisc]

I finished up my newest addition. I added the finishing touches and gave it a light weathering.

[Brian M]

I actually have something worth posting to the weekend update, which feels like an accomplishment all on its own.  As I've been documenting on my layout build thread (https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=43622.0), I've been working on a 25 inch section of layout just to make some kind of progress while the basement is getting a leaking pipe fixed and new drywall.  Tonight I got down a coat of dirt brown paint and smoothed out the river base some.

[dougnelson]

Freezing my butt off in New York this weekend and I visited Red Caboose on W 45th St.  I have not been there in a few years, but I have been coming here for over 40 years.  I also visited when Red Caboose was upstairs across the street and Model Railroad Equipment Corporation ran the basement store where Red Caboose is now.  THIS PLACE IS IN A TIME WARP.

Nothing has changed in the last 40 years other that the aisles seem to get narrower over time.  The owner Steve (I think that is his name?) does not seem to have aged at all other than slightly thinner and grayer hair.  The 1970s and 80s N scale stock that was there then is still in the cases.  Note the layer of dust on the Minitrix K4 and the ConCor Hudsons.  I think that the CC Alton Limited set that I traded in at least 35 years ago is still there.  And is that the same cat that was there 40 years ago???

When you descend those stairs to the basement you are entering another time dimension with a direct link to childhood.

[Joetrain59]

Are the big as your thumb cockroaches still there?  I used to work in Midtown in the 1980's, and would ususally go to both shops, and the Wiz every payday!  Thanks for the flashback.
 Joe D

[Point353]

Freezing my butt off in New York this weekend and I visited Red Caboose on W 45th St.  I have not been there in a few years, but I have been coming here for over 40 years.  I also visited when Red Caboose was upstairs across the street and Model Railroad Equipment Corporation ran the basement store where Red Caboose is now.  THIS PLACE IS IN A TIME WARP.

Nothing has changed in the last 40 years other that the aisles seem to get narrower over time.  The owner Steve (I think that is his name?) does not seem to have aged at all other than slightly thinner and grayer hair.   And is that the same cat that was there 40 years ago???

When you descend those stairs to the basement you are entering another time dimension with a direct link to childhood.

The owner is Allan and the cat is, of course, Lionel.
When I was a child, the space was still occupied by Model Railroad Equipment Corp.
Under Carmen Webster's auspices, the place was kept relatively spotless.
Today, someone could probably earn a decent living standing by the entrance and selling bottles of hand sanitizer.

[Mike the Modeler]

Freezing my butt off in New York this weekend and I visited Red Caboose on W 45th St.  I have not been there in a few years, but I have been coming here for over 40 years.  I also visited when Red Caboose was upstairs across the street and Model Railroad Equipment Corporation ran the basement store where Red Caboose is now.  THIS PLACE IS IN A TIME WARP.

Nothing has changed in the last 40 years other that the aisles seem to get narrower over time.  The owner Steve (I think that is his name?) does not seem to have aged at all other than slightly thinner and grayer hair.  The 1970s and 80s N scale stock that was there then is still in the cases.  Note the layer of dust on the Minitrix K4 and the ConCor Hudsons.  I think that the CC Alton Limited set that I traded in at least 35 years ago is still there.  And is that the same cat that was there 40 years ago???

When you descend those stairs to the basement you are entering another time dimension with a direct link to childhood.

Remarkable. I was in that store in the mid 80's while in Manhattan on a two week work gig. I recall how much of what looked like "junk" was in the cases: loco parts, car parts, partially disassembled models, etc. piled haphazardly and many inches deep. All for sale.  And oh man the dust. I remember being in a back closet type space looking at some HO Westerfield kits and having to dodge rat droppings. It was all a bit startling, but exciting at the same time. One of the things I love about this hobby. 

[chicken45]

Been working on this for a few days. [ Guests cannot view attachments ]

[MK]

Freezing my butt off in New York this weekend and I visited Red Caboose on W 45th St.  I have not been there in a few years, but I have been coming here for over 40 years.  I also visited when Red Caboose was upstairs across the street and Model Railroad Equipment Corporation ran the basement store where Red Caboose is now.  THIS PLACE IS IN A TIME WARP.

Nothing has changed in the last 40 years other that the aisles seem to get narrower over time.  The owner Steve (I think that is his name?) does not seem to have aged at all other than slightly thinner and grayer hair.  The 1970s and 80s N scale stock that was there then is still in the cases.  Note the layer of dust on the Minitrix K4 and the ConCor Hudsons.  I think that the CC Alton Limited set that I traded in at least 35 years ago is still there.  And is that the same cat that was there 40 years ago???

When you descend those stairs to the basement you are entering another time dimension with a direct link to childhood.

O-M-G!!!!  I visited it a few times when I was growing up in NYC and was attending high school.  If it weren't for your pictures I thought for sure it has gone out of business by now, given how much rent escalates in Manhattan.  I'm glad they are still around.  Sure brings back a LOT of memories, and not just MRR, but growing up in the concrete jungle!

[craigolio1]

Shops like that are rare these days and a treasure trove,but it is too bad that it's not kept clean. Even the new stuff in the glass front case is covered in dust. Unless someone is after that one rare piece that's soooo hard to get, I just can't see someone getting excited about an out of the box "new" model covered in dust.

That said I'm sure I would find things in there to buy even if I had to wear gloves,so maybe I just disproved my own statement.

 Craig

[dougnelson]

The owner is Allan and the cat is, of course, Lionel.
When I was a child, the space was still occupied by Model Railroad Equipment Corp.
Under Carmen Webster's auspices, the place was kept relatively spotless.
Today, someone could probably earn a decent living standing by the entrance and selling bottles of hand sanitizer.

Ah, Allen, right.

[thomasjmdavis]

Shops like that are rare these days and a treasure trove,but it is too bad that it's not kept clean. Even the new stuff in the glass front case is covered in dust. Unless someone is after that one rare piece that's soooo hard to get, I just can't see someone getting excited about an out of the box "new" model covered in dust.

That said I'm sure I would find things in there to buy even if I had to wear gloves,so maybe I just disproved my own statement.

 Craig

It doesn't bother me if they don't dust the models, as long as they only time they raise prices is when they dust.