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TiogaTracks

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Re: Weekend Update 9/4/22
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2022, 07:14:47 PM »
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Great stuff again, everyone, you never fail to impress.  Lee, the classic Pacific and that Bachmann E-60 warm my heart!  I have both of those downstairs, but nowhere to run them right now.

I got some useful modeling done this week!  It’s been a week of working on structures, in pursuit of wiring the outdoor railroad for DCC.  By keeping auto-reverse modules outside, I greatly reduce the amount of wire I need to run, so I need two sheltered spaces to start.  Might as well make them look like they belong!



This really isn’t much.  Just a little JTT and Evergreen styrene, plus coats from 4 rattle cans.



The “foundation” is an outlet box, sealed up with hot glue, and with two clamped openings juuuust big enough for the old garden hose I’m using as conduit.



Ready for wiring!

I didn’t follow any prototype for the corrugated steel signal shed.  The next will be a small yard tower, essentially a compressed version of New York Central’s tower in Geneva, NY.  I’m saving that for a rainy day.  I also need to put a roof on this model of the Gaines, PA old train station in it’s worn down, blanked-out-windows 1970s look.  More of the story, and the steps I took to weather the steel shed, in the Layout Engineering thread.



-Steven
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Wellsville Addison & Galeton RR in 1:29
Still dabbling in N scale
Restoring a full size 1951 Brill bus

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Re: Weekend Update 9/4/22
« Reply #16 on: September 05, 2022, 01:26:42 PM »
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Looking to add to the hopper/gon fleet for C&D loads.  7K Greenville hoppers that will be beat up to show their age. 



With a quick coat of can primer.





N scale?  Who made them?
Thanks much,
Mairi Dulaney, RHCE
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http://jdulaney.com

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Re: Weekend Update 9/4/22
« Reply #17 on: September 05, 2022, 02:36:23 PM »
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Looks like he 3D printed it himself.
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Re: Weekend Update 9/4/22
« Reply #20 on: September 06, 2022, 10:00:55 AM »
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No modeling time for me, but I did record a very quick (albeit poor quality) cab ride video of my N scale Housatonic layout.  It is posted in my layout thread. 

https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=54066.msg750032#msg750032