Weekend Update 12/6/20

[up1950s]

https://www.nwsw.info/?p=196

[NtheBasement]

Got my weigh scale working.

[PiperguyUMD]

I installed a tortoise with Barrett Hill Touch Toggles on the Owings Mills module. The total package per turnout is a bit pricey - +/- $18 for the tortoise, and $40 for all the Barrett Hill goodies, but MAN THEY ARE COOL! I'll post a few pics in the layout thread later. But in the meantime JFRTM and practice taking photos. I think I'll have some promising locations, especially once I figure out that focus stacking hocus pocus!

[thomasjmdavis]

https://www.nwsw.info/?p=196

The article is well worth the time to read.  Northwestern Steel and Wire had a fleet of ex-GTW steam (a good percentage of all the GTW 0-8-0s), all acquired around 1960 when GTW finally converted to diesel. Apparently purchased to be cut up for scrap, but a clever employee realized they were in better shape than the company's own locomotives. Their little railroad was operating steam long after it had completely disappeared from Class 1 roads. 

And if you happen to have 100 extra boxcars lying around with bad trucks, there is this from the Wikipedia article on the company:

In the years following the end of World War II, Northwestern Steel and Wire attracted workers from several states away, especially from the Southern states such as Texas and Oklahoma that were in the midst of a post-war recession. These workers were housed in 100 railroad box cars converted to homes and arranged in 4 rows of 25 each along the Rock River. The cars were all painted silver with paint left over from the war and the residents referred to the place as "Silver City". The rental charges were taken out of the employee's pay and there was a "Company Store" adjacent that could be used to buy groceries with company credit.

40 years ago, I was buying their nails in 50 lb boxes. 

[w neal]

Nice modeling Piperguy!

[LIRR]

[Dave V]

The San Juan Central's ex-D&RGW C-19 #347 brings a short mixed freight over Bridge 57B at Gallagher on the climb to Lizard Head Pass.



Later, the train crosses Bridge 45A at Ophir on its way to home rails out of Montrose, Colorado.



Shortly thereafter, RGS K-27 #455 brings a B&B (Bridge & Building, the RGS designation for MoW) train across the same bridge:



Goose #5 is seen clattering across the rock face at Windy Point:

[Jesse6669]

Some time ago I revised my T-scale covered hopper designs to allow PE end railings, and the first go-round wasn't successful.  Fast forward several months, and the new PE batch finally received fits properly.  I also did a set of ACFX decals for it that will be done with the next batch of decals.  I also have a 3-bay hopper with trough top hatches that I'm planning to decorate with the Conrail H-45 decals.
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I'm also designing an early British power plant (Fowey Power Plant) for a fellow T-scale modeler.  It will be a kit format not built-up (most likely) but only about 7cm long as it is, and that's full-size in T scale.  I hope to do some basic interior machinery as well.   The very basic outline is done but needs a bunch more detail, although in T it's not likely to get individual brick texture since the residual layering of 3D printing should suffice.

Finally, I'm scanning photos into CRHS archives (with the helpful advice of EdK).  I've barely touched the pile and it's gonna take a while at a rate of 4-slides per batch.. but since I recently found out I was exposed to CO-19 over Thanksgiving I now have more time for such made-for-quarantine activities.. 

[Mark5]

Some time ago I revised my T-scale covered hopper designs to allow PE end railings, and the first go-round wasn't successful.  Fast forward several months, and the new PE batch finally received fits properly.

The ends on that model shame many injection molded N scale covered hops!

but since I recently found out I was exposed to CO-19 over Thanksgiving I now have more time for such made-for-quarantine activities..

I hope you are asymptomatic at worst - hoping for the best!

Mark

[CRL]

This is a very effective & natural scene. You’ve set the buildings & structures into the landscape very well which gives a feeling of permanence... like it’s always been there. I really appreciate the effect achieved by not just plopping the building onto the layout like so many other modelers who make no effort to conceal the joint between the building base and the layout.

All the random crap in the weeds in the foreground is the icing on the cake.

Well done.

[mark dance]

Finished the oil/water separation pit...







...and with that the last of the small service facilities in the eastern end of Nelson yard.



Have a great weekend!

md

[peteski]

Some time ago I revised my T-scale covered hopper designs to allow PE end railings, and the first go-round wasn't successful.  Fast forward several months, and the new PE batch finally received fits properly.  I also did a set of ACFX decals for it that will be done with the next batch of decals.  I also have a 3-bay hopper with trough top hatches that I'm planning to decorate with the Conrail H-45 decals.

That is friggin' amazing, considering that the car probably fits on a quarter, and the coupler is probably the size of a pin head!!!  As I always say, it would be nice to see some size reference because the details on it make it look much larger than it really is.  You are micro-master Jesse!

[craigolio1]

Finished the oil/water separation pit...







...and with that the last of the small service facilities in the eastern end of Nelson yard.



Have a great weekend!

md

Very nice. What’s your source for the rectangular steel grating?

[jereising]

Progress continues on the Kern County Preventorium...





This is a lot of fun!

[davefoxx]

@jereising,

Very nice!  Your layout looks great, as always.  Don't I recall reading that you were taking the layout down?  Have plans changed or am I crazy?

DFF