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Weekend Update 5/11/25
« on: May 09, 2025, 07:26:05 PM »
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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2025, 08:30:21 PM »
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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2025, 08:32:59 PM »
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Plate steel is heavy, but still needs some securement.  I ordered some 1/32" chartpak tape to simulate steel banding.


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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2025, 09:15:28 PM »
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Made a barrier gate from .035 rod.



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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2025, 09:27:26 PM »
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I spent the day trackplanning!  A friend is beginning a new CofG HO layout and I worked on the yard (in the only space long enough at the moment). I will start a layout thread at some point.  It's been an adjustment doing something HO-sized, but it's been fun.  The turnouts are Peco Unifrog #6s.

The yard will be against the wall (the wall will be on the right) and all turnouts have to be in reach.



I redrew the tracks on my computer since the pencil lines don't show well. The outer track is the main line. The inner is the yard lead. The right yard is the receiving yard and the left is the departure yard.  The right inner flex track is a MOW/RIP track (probably).  The left flex track will go to the engine terminal (to be figured out--any ideas? The only requirement is no turntable).  And there needs to be a caboose track in there too. The two inner yard tracks are runaround tracks so that the mains don't get fouled.  The receiving yard will likely be an inch higher than the departure yard (so the curve at the bottom will have a slight grade to it.

That long, thin white thing is my flexible ruler for drawing splines (hence the profusion of canned goods).  It is 8 feet long.  The brown paper is 30" wide (I think?). The thin lines show the max 4 foot width.

The bottom outer diameter track is 22" (so the inner yard lead will be 20").  At the top from right to left, the track radii are 34", 32", 30", and "unknown because I haven't drawn it for real yet, but maybe 26-27?"


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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2025, 09:36:38 PM »
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Nn3 OR&W 24' flatcar built by the Youngstown Car & Mfg. Co. Truss rods are .005" monofilament line.  :scared:
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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2025, 05:24:14 PM »
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I've been working on some of @samusi01 flat cars and preparing them for Ohio N Scale weekend next week.







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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2025, 07:43:21 PM »
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Prepping for the next T-Trak module I plan to build--a double-crossover interlocking with operating PRR position light signals--I needed a tower. The ubiquitous Tichy (formerly Dimi Trains) tower is actually a Pennsy tower (OTTS interlocking at Warren, PA) but far too small for anything on the Middle Division. It'll have to do as a stand-in for now. It still needs PRR signage... JACKS. And, of course, it won't be here on these modules, but on the straight JACKS Interlocking module.

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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2025, 09:04:38 PM »
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Onto Stage 2 of the Ashuelot Branch. Laid out the trackplan for Winchester and made a river. More in the layout thread.

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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2025, 09:45:47 PM »
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Nice. The stuff you used for your river looks very similar to the stuff I have on my leg since Monday  :o :D
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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2025, 10:49:59 PM »
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I took a break from the workbench to check out the new UP paint job.
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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2025, 12:31:51 AM »
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Olivani:  I hope your leg heals soon.
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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #12 on: May 11, 2025, 04:19:08 AM »
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Quote from: nkalanaga on May 11, 2025, 12:31:51 AM
Olivani:  I hope your leg heals soon.

Thank you.
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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #13 on: May 11, 2025, 08:53:42 AM »
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Been a fairly busy week and worked on some different projects on and off the layout.

Finished the foam work by.....



.... the coal mine and ....



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........ got most of it painted.  Finished the ....



..... the foam work around past the coal mine to the other side of the layout.  Redesigned and ....



........ test printed some logs for the sawmill.  Redesigned a .....





.... a section of a trestle that is going in and extended it from 40 to 50 scale feet long along and abutments for both ends of the trestle.  Worked on ...



.... trying to figure out how the trestle supports were going to work with the terrain that is currently being created.  Installed....



.... two short sections of track at the coal mine in an area that won't be easy to get to soon. 

More info and pictures on all of the above on my layout build ( HERE ) and ( HERE ).  Lots of things to do in the area I'm working on now.

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Re: Weekend Update 5/11/25
« Reply #14 on: May 11, 2025, 03:00:38 PM »
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I didn’t know if I should put this here or in the Get off you butt thread since this was started in 2018.

SDL39 #584 was built by shortening an Atlas GP38 shell and sill. The trucks are Atlas overlaid with epoxy castings of the Briggs 3d prints.
It has a 7x16 coreless motor with homemade brass flywheels. The decoder is a LokSound 5 Nano with an Iowa Scaled Engineering powerkeeper.


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