Weekend Update 11/29/20

[up1950s]

https://www.steamlocomotive.com/roundhouse/

[DiggerDownUnder]

You Yanks always seem to manage to surprise me with what your railways still have left standing hideen or in plain view. Down here we just pull them up and destroy all reference to them.

[davefoxx]

I dropped my locomotive in the dirt. 



DFF

[haasmarc]

Not trains per se but I finished up this tool organizer for the workbench.  It holds my knives, tweezers, pin vises, files, pliers and micro screwdrivers all in easy reach.




My desk hasn't been this clean in a long time.

[dem34]

Not trains per se but I finished up this tool organizer for the workbench.  It holds my knives, tweezers, pin vises, files, pliers and micro screwdrivers all in easy reach.


My desk hasn't been this clean in a long time.

All that work will be gone in a week. 



Tree a night eventually got the scenic divider populated, at least to the point my Phone Camera doesn't like it.   Also did some work on the MT DDOX set I got all the way back in February.

[mark dance]

Beautiful weathering job on that patched unit Dave!

My current project is another small addition to nelson yard...an oil/water separation pit.  I am about 1/2 way done...

The proto (Scott Calvert photo)



and the model WIP







Have a great weekend!

md

[Joetrain59]

Aye, Richie, LIRR still has one!
  Joe D

[rickb773]

Hmmm, my wife’s away caring for her 92 year old mother and
.     I have 4 old PECO turnouts lying around and
.          I could use more yard storage and
.               there is 14” left before the file cabinet open drawers and the light switches

But if I only frame the 14” and extend the 5/8” plywood over the file cabinet drawers I can get 26”.

Do I dare?

Dumb question!
Four more spurs ((22) 40’ cars).
Although it is my file cabinet, I am still shocked she hasn’t realized how tight it is to get to the light switches yet!

(I still need to finish wiring, add a backdrop flat and build up the edges to keep the cars off the floor.)

[chuck geiger]

Foggy Saturday morning in Ponderosa, AZ

[Steveruger45]

You could move the light switch up a few inches, assuming you comfortable doing that.  Or maybe those wireless control light switch replacements would work but they might be a bit pricey for 4 gangs.  Or leave a cut out in the baseboard extension to access the light switches.

[Kusi]

It holds my knives, tweezers, pin vises, files, pliers and micro screwdrivers all in easy reach.

This looks really great. Can you tell me how you created it. You just gave me an idea how I could do it. 

[davefoxx]

Beautiful weathering job on that patched unit Dave!

Thank you, @mark dance.  Coming from you and the beautiful modeling that you do, that means a lot to me!

DFF

[eja]

Installed ITLA wooden decks on two MT bulkhead flat cars.

These are really nice decks just as they come from ITLA.  I added more grime with a solution of India ink and water and some Bragdon Powders for a little more colour variation.

The folks at ITLA are really nice.  The refunded part of the shipping cost when they realized these could be sent in a No. 10 envelope. Canada post did there part too and the envelope arrived promptly.

[jpwisc]

I finished up repainting a Pointe St. Charles caboose into WC livery. Hopefully I’ll get it weathered tomorrow.
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[haasmarc]

This looks really great. Can you tell me how you created it. You just gave me an idea how I could do it. 

Thanks.  The pliers holders are various sizes of schedule 40 PVC to handle 3 different handle thicknesses.  The knives section is made from the smaller 1/2 inch tan pvc pipe and fittings.  I used an end cap and drilled a hole in the middle so I could screw it down to the plywood.  Then a short piece of pipe followed by a 45 degree angle and then another piece of pipe.  The pipes below the knives hold my pin vises and it just so happens that the pin vises are stopped by the shoulder of the 45 degree pieces and therefore I can have a needle or drill bit in them and it doesn't touch anything which is nice because I like to leave various bits in them while I'm working a project.

Sorry, couldn't get the cell phone to focus on the drill bit.