N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[wazzou]

I seem to recall my grandparents referring to the couch as a davenport.  🤷🏻‍♂️

[nkalanaga]

Wazzou:  That's what Mom always called ours.  She grew up in Wenatchee, WA, and I in Pasco, so it may be a regional thing.

My father was from Kentucky, and didn't usually call it anything.  He didn't even like to sit on it.  He left it for the pets and us.

[glakedylan]

"Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark."

we all called it by this name. i guess we meant it in the generic sense



sincerely
Gary

[peteski]

"Davenport was the name of a series of sofas made by the Massachusetts furniture manufacturer A. H. Davenport and Company, now defunct. Due to the popularity of the furniture at the time, the name davenport became a genericized trademark."
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Ah, so they made sofas and small switching locos?  Cool! 

[jpec]

The super-deluxe model switcher came with a couch in the cab...a Davenport in a Davenport...for the man who worked for the quit.
Jeff

Ah, so they made sofas and small switching locos?  Cool! 

[jpec]

I believe the current standards for being considered a model railroader are:
A) how many hot glue burns you've suffered.
B) how many times you've glued your fingers together with ACC.
C) If you own at least 8 sets of precision screwdrivers and the same one is missing from each of them.

Jeff

[quote author=wm3798 link=topic=46293.msg666443#msg666443 date=159037908
I'm wondering if you can really consider yourself a model Railroader if you've never built a wood trestle...
Lee
[/quote]

[wm3798]

I'm glad you've enjoyed talking among yourselves.  It's important to continue to socialize in these trying times!
Meanwhile, back to actual model railroading...

I have a short tunnel on the mine branch, which is really just the inner loop on the upper level.  Thinking I was being helpful, I installed a Trix re-railer in the middle of it, in hopes that any equipment that might stray from the rails on the tight corners of the old 7-3/4" radius  Trix track would be righted on this short straightaway.  In the end, it turned out to be more of a problem than a solution.



Unlike the more familiar Atlas re-railer, this has a slightly raised diamond in the middle, which is supposed to catch the flange of a derailed car and guide it back.  But what it does is create a hump that catches the underside of some of my smaller switchers, such as the mighty Davenport, causing a stall mid-tunnel.  So I pulled it up, and trimmed an Atlas re-railer to length, and and solved the ground clearance problem.  This nagging repair finally completed, it cleared the way for a little more scenery work.  First, I mudded in around the tunnel portal to fix it in place.



Next, needing to still access the tunnel from above, I layered on a bit of plastic wrap, then mudded in the rest of the area around the portal.  This gave me the necessary separation to be able to pull the top of the mountain off when something goes wrong.  I used tinted Sculptamold, and pressed in some plaster rock castings, which I also pre-tint.



Once that all set up, I got out my big bag of trees, some survivors from the old WM layout, some of more recent vintage, and some plastic Chinese mass produced trees, and jumbled them into the hillside.  A slight variety of colors and textures helps no single tree stand out, but keeps it from looking like a blob of puff balls or ground foam.



Turned out as nicely as expected... and it works!



Next work on the portal at the other end.
Lee

[wm3798]

Getting ready for July Fourth!

[MK]

Wow, look at the thickness of those hand rails!     We've come a long way baby!

[wm3798]

I'd have to check, but this might have been the first N scale model offered with yellow safety paint factory applied on the handrails at the ladders.  Iconic model from the 70s of an iconic 70s event.
I replaced the dead bulbs with LEDs, so now it has directional lighting too!

[Point353]

Iconic model from the 70s of an iconic 70s event.

Back in the day, I bought one those locos - along with the SCL version - to haul a set of the original KD/MTL state cars.

[wm3798]

One more bit of scenery added today...  A little more of that wonderfully phosphorescent green Noch grass paper...

[wm3798]

Finished fine-tuning the tunnel portals at Paw Paw. Had to make sure there was plenty of clearance for pantographs and high cubes and auto racks.

[nickelplate759]

Finished fine-tuning the tunnel portals at Paw Paw. Had to make sure there was plenty of clearance for pantographs and high cubes and auto racks.
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Don't forget a Roco or Arnold or Bachmann wrecking crane!

Too bad no one sold ever marketed the ducking giraffe car in N scale!

[nscalbitz]

Ah, so they made sofas and ....

Not unknown in the British colonies, so not uniquely ummercun...