Weekend Update 3/24/19

[wm3798]

Traffic in Cumberland will soon be able to cross Wills Creek.

[Iain]

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Started working on a pair of A&EC F2As

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Finally ready to paint my ESM low side gons.


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And, spent today making gaskets for a 1:1 scale steam engine (of the marine type). 

[bbussey]

Now that the EP-3 mechanism is done, I'm pushing forward on the body detail.  Added the pantograph connection cable and insulators this weekend, along with two pipe assemblies.

[CNR5529]

These have been finished for a little while now, but I just updated the detailing thread...



https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=41411.msg612971#msg612971

[lv4142003]

Iain, looking forward to the completion of the 2 A&EC F2's.

[nuno81291]

After a major layout tear down and building benchwork in my spare time I decided to dust off my little diorama/programming track and get to some scenery. Decided to do a what if on a summer theme scenery as I have been generally leaning toward winter and early spring for the last few years. Still have some little details to add like strewn about ties, maybe a mileage marker etc. also have to do the resin pour on the water area but may detail this a bit more first

[CNR5529]

This weekend was the Doubleheaders home layout tour in the Kitchener, Cambridge, Guelph area. The N Scale Roadshow and Southern Ontario Freemo Association (SOFA) set up N and HO layouts in the main registration hall. My newly finished CPR F units were pressed into service hauling the Dominion around the layout. Yey! 

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A number of us have been enviously watching all the FreemoN-y goodness going on across the continent for a while now. Over the last 2-3 years we have been slowly building up modules here and there to try and jump start FreemoN in the area, while combining these modules with our regular Ntrak layout as a branch line (we raised our layout to 50" years ago to make this easier). A few weeks ago, we were invited by the organizers of the Copetown RPM and Fine Scale show to be the feature layout at next year's show in February 2020, with the caveat that we display only FreemoN modules. Well that's exactly the kick in the pants we needed to get to work. Fast forward 3-4 weeks and we had 3 new modules show up for testing at the Doubleheaders event!

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@Big Train has been working on the landforms on his Ntrak-FreemoN transition module, dubbed Kerdi Jct. due to his use of kerdi board as a base.

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New club member Rick and I were discussing module ideas while also watching a cornfield meet in progress... Our hybrid layout allows us to keep lots of action on the racetrack, and simultaniously allows operators to slow the pace down switching out cars along the FreemoN branch. As we build more passing tracks and staging yards, I suspect the branch will also become a hotbed of activity. We quickly developed an operating plan where trains were assembled and put into holding patterns on the Ntrak side until the branchline cleared up. Then an operator would run switching ops out and back on the branch. It was great fun.

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Of course, you still get your regular trainshow shenanigans when operators don't pay attention doing laps...

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This show usually has the highest attendance early in the day, when people pick up their tour maps. After that, it is a perfect day to get work done on modules. We got some modules wired up with final wiring, got switch machines adjusted and connected, and even got cork, track and butt joints installed on a brand new module, all while running trains all day. Now that we have a deadline to build a collection of FreemoN modules, and we have some really interesting modules in the works by some really talented modelers, I think it is finally time for an official FreemoNtario layout build thread! Stay tuned...

[diezmon]

Cut, glue, fill, sand, repeat
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[Mark W]

Had a great time with the layout set up for the Free-mo Weekend at Spring Creek Model Trains!


Caught a short fuselage train heading west as a Dry Bulk Tanker ducks under the bridges at West O Street.


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


https://i.imgur.com/Y4rLMCn.jpg


A little down the way, I spotted a couple other railfans out in their bright orange beetle.


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


It's always a beautiful spring day when meadowlarks are out in force!


https://i.imgur.com/Gh4YgSw.jpg

[JMaurer1]

I don't know if that trailer is going to clear the RR underpass...ladder looks a little close.

[MK]

I think it's just perspective distortion from the photograph.

[C855B]

Nothing an X-Acto wouldn't fix.   

[Mark W]

The tractor & trailer is 12'8, bridge clearance is 13'10. 

One of these days we'll get the bridge painted and clearance signs put up.   

[carlso]

Very nice Mark, thanks for sharing the pictures. You sure were not kidding me about painting the 3 red lights behind the top rung of the ladder.  Way cool, my friend, you have set the photon world ablaze. That tractor is nice, your print?

carl

[OldEastRR]

Helping jdcolombo build a prototype NKP passenger consist by kitbashing Rowa cars into the "City of" lounge cars. Ready to be assembled:





There are already stock model 10-6 sleepers and coaches available for the NKP prototypes. But only two of these cars were ever made so no chance anybody will mass-produce them.