Weekend Update 1/20/19

[draskouasshat]

My work has consisted of adding all wheel pickup, plug in wiring, and a new drawbar for my 2-10-4 that was originally owned by David Haines.
The tender wheels are atlas locomotive wheels in kato delrin axle tubes. The trucks use the original brass side frames mounted to a styrene frame.
So far, this has been a vast improvement in pick up!
Time to start on the test of the santa fe brass!

Drasko
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[basementcalling]

@jereising and @C855B had a brief discussion about signals over in Gary's Tehachapi, BC thread. 

Your cries did not go un-heard!  I did some proofing and think I came up with a decent result.
Admittedly, I know very little on signals.  But if we can have another one of those 'clinic' threads, I bet we can get something working. 

I started with a simple drawing intended to test print-ability.  The shield printed great!  Hoods survived enough to know they'll succeed with a slight thickening.
But most importantly, the interior is hollow!   All that's left would be proper combinations of hoods and what not. 


https://i.imgur.com/XMq3VBc.jpg

From there, I did two methods of illumination.  MicroLEDs and Fiber Optic.

Evidently Roxanne finally listened to Sting and took out the red light?

[garethashenden]

Evidently Roxanne finally listened to Sting and took out the red light?

Lol

[OldEastRR]

My continuing shopping of MTL PS-1s to reduce their height



MTL on left, Atlas PS-1 on right. The Pennsy car was already painted and decaled (yes I know it's not an X29!), I lowered it without messing up either. I'm getting to be pretty good; you can hardly see the seams. And the new reassembly allows me to use the doors unaltered (still slide open). The door guides are now correct size, the door always was. Need to file a little off the MTL bolster to lower it the last few inches. Also the MTL has pizza cutters so that adds some height when sitting on a table.
But that MTL roofwalk ...
Only have a couple more 40's, I might try this technique on the 50' PS-1s I have.

[garethashenden]

That boxcar looks good. Would you mind going into a bit more detail about how you do it? How much gets cut off and exactly where to cut, etc. I’ve got a bunch that need this if it’s straight forward.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

It has been quite a week here in Towson...

First I took @DeltaBravo 's advice and got some LED shop lights from Amazon. Installation was a snap with some double sided tape (damn these things are light) and a few wire nuts (I hard wired them). They took my basement from looking like Paddy's Pub to a grow house.

Here's a photo test.


Saturday saw "Cody's Foam Party" on my calendar. I was getting together with @CodyO to teach him my ways of scenery. In order to go from foam on the floor to finished product I threw together a TTRAK corner to demonstrate what happens AFTER spackle.

Here it is after the coat of spackle and before final sanding, and then after we added ground cover.





Now it just needs trees.

Thanks to our recent move all of my scenery stuff was still packed. It (and the Shep Squad) JUST fit in the Buick. Thank goodness it's a hatchback!



Here we're visualizing a scene using trash bags to establish the rough land shapes.



This scene is going to be beautiful when it's done.



Here's Cody preparing to slice off his finger.



Then Sunday rolled around and my family came to lunch to celebrate an upcoming birthday. My parents asked what I wanted and the answer was "The MA&PA Glen Arm station". So, while temperatures were going from 40 to 4 my dad and I drove the 10 minutes over to it to get some photos and measurements.



And last night, after they departed, I got a table up and realized I have almost an entire working layout!



So of course I had some fun.



What a week!

[mu26aeh]

Red rosin paper works great for shaping landforms as well.  Ken used it on his O scale layout for the terrain going up Jacks Mountain

[wm3798]

So @Ed Kapuscinski , will there a be a "what if the Northern Central AND the Port Road And the WM got wiped out in Agnes, leaving the M&P as the shortest route from Baltimore to Harrisburg" layout?  Will the stalwart Ma & Pa's 4-4-0 and 2-8-0 fleet be able the handle Trailvan service up through Long Green Valley?  Will the gas electric car make it into MARC colors to relieve the traffic on 95?  Will the well heeled residents of Roland Park complain as 100 car coal trains make their way through their back yards?
Will the Stewartstown finally be compelled to finish its extension to Fawn Grove to maintain a connection to the outside world?

Just curious how badly that Ma & Pa bug has bit you...

Lee

[mu26aeh]

A day off work resulted in a drive to the LHS and I came home with this HO scale GP15-1 decorated for NS 1452.


It will become LTEX 1452.



Don't worry, I'm not leaving the world of N scale.  I just got this for when I operate on HO layouts.

[Mark W]

I finished up the Telehandlers. 


https://i.imgur.com/fr5rdwL.jpg


And with time to spare I painted up some pallets and IBCs and began placing them out in the lot of the old freight house.


https://i.imgur.com/9hrPMkw.jpg



https://i.imgur.com/qkIxe2O.jpg

Now I can get rid of those bright and shining carts.  Or at least get them faded and rusty. 

[Ed Kapuscinski]

So @Ed Kapuscinski , will there a be a "what if the Northern Central AND the Port Road And the WM got wiped out in Agnes, leaving the M&P as the shortest route from Baltimore to Harrisburg" layout?  Will the stalwart Ma & Pa's 4-4-0 and 2-8-0 fleet be able the handle Trailvan service up through Long Green Valley?  Will the gas electric car make it into MARC colors to relieve the traffic on 95?  Will the well heeled residents of Roland Park complain as 100 car coal trains make their way through their back yards?
Will the Stewartstown finally be compelled to finish its extension to Fawn Grove to maintain a connection to the outside world?

Just curious how badly that Ma & Pa bug has bit you...

Lee

Haha, no, nothing that grandiose. Just a handful of single tracked TTRAK modules to scratch the itch. I've got a Bachmann 4-6-0 that's going to be made closer to #27. Might get a doodlebug too at some point. Maybe.

It's mostly an excuse to get some new freight cars though.

[Cajonpassfan]

My work has consisted of adding all wheel pickup, plug in wiring, and a new drawbar for my 2-10-4 that was originally owned by David Haines.
The tender wheels are atlas locomotive wheels in kato delrin axle tubes. The trucks use the original brass side frames mounted to a styrene frame.
So far, this has been a vast improvement in pick up!
Time to start on the test of the santa fe brass!

Drasko
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Adam,
a very clever solution for all-wheel tender pickups! Those tenders had 42" wheels, so the Atlas wheels are just about perfect. I don't own any of the big Texas types since they didn't run on Cajon in my era, but the 3776/2900 class Northerns certainly did, and they had the same eight-wheel truck tenders. Thanks for the idea!
I miss David...
Otto K.

[mighalpern]

still working on the bridge module, but found 5 fire barrel platforms in my stash box, while I still wait for the 6 I ordered to show up.  I painted those tiny barrels black and then a red strip just so they show up better



Almost done with this, need to place some deer  and then I think I'm done
I want to thank  again Rodney (Rodsup9000)  for making the bridge ties , which were an awesome time savings and they look great and work great

Miguel

[nickelplate759]

That bridge is magnificent, but I can't help thinking these insulators are a little over scale size 
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[cbroughton67]

I finished-up this AMB Laser Kit this weekend. Still need to add rigging to the hoist, and some freight and people to the loading dock and inside the open doors, but it's otherwise complete.


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