Weekend Update 2/1/26

[up1950s]

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http://trainweb.org/robin/16-196-14

https://largescalecentral.com/t/strange-locomotives-post-your-favourite-in-2024-2025-2026-here/84513/95

[rodsup9000]

 Installed more sound decoders
 Atlas VO 1000's with ESU 58923 decoders and TCS KA-N1 Keep Alives (without milling the frame)
 9X16 speakers and 3D printed speaker enclouser's 

[Bob]

The Cherry Run WV scenery module (just a hunk of styrofoam) is coming along.  The house is based on a real one in Cherry Run - there are a bunch of sheds around the home so I modeled those, but there is no room for other structures.  It has been probably two years since I put a new scenery module in - I forgot how quickly you can burn through your pre-made trees and bushes!  There is still much to do, but it is starting to take shape.  Cherry Run is where 4 tracks come together.  There is the double track CSX mainline, then the low line which is a single track with a gentler grade that diverges from the main at Cumbo, just outside of Martinsburg, and then rejoins at Cherry Run along the Potomac.  Finally there is the single track Lurgan subdivision.  My plan is to finish this then work my way east to Cumbo (maybe 8 feet long), then get back to Harpers Ferry.
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[arx nakanishi]

Very cold weekend, but no snow, here in Osaka, Japan.
Let me share with you another cut from my N-scale Cisco, Utah diorama: D&RGW section tool house.


: Sep. 2014

It was built in 1947 in accordance with the Standard Plans. Fourteen miles of the D&RGW mainline from Milepost 494.00 east of Agate to 508.00 east of Whitehouse was the original Cisco Section. Cisco was a section headquarters until 1968, when it merged into Thompson; the tool house was a substitute for the section house. Unfortunately, it was demolished by 2021.


: D&RGW Standard Plans


: fixtures I made according to the Plans; bins, a rack for lining bars, a box for tamping picks, a rack for pick handles, and a workbench.







Videos with trains are embedded below.

Thanks for watching!

Hiroshi Nakanishi / Boxcar Red Collection
https://riogrande.blog.jp/

[Bob]

Hiroshi - that is very nicely done!

[PiperguyUMD]

Satisfying progress on the Potomac though! She'll pick out her little black dress this afternoon! Really frustrated with the Russian Decapod though. I think I'm just going to have to start over and rewire everything, I might get to that after painting the Potomac.

[Jesse6669]

This week I've mostly been working on the Zumbiel Packaging flat (3D printed).  I got the truck dock printed, and the main framework assembled and test fit. 


I also finished up my patch-job ex-Reading GP30 2179.  This took a bunch of fading, some AK Interactive "oiled earth" washes, the patch decals, some powders and I made/added the cab signal box, ACI tags, and new horns.  I tried to keep the weathering subtle.


Based on this experience I think I might do an ex-PRR/PC Conrail patch GP30 as well.

[OldEastRR]

Taking a stab at a New Haven heavyweight combine kitbash (MTL cars)



It was harder than a AHM PRR PB70 kitbash, as those donor cars were all Pennsy prototypes. Neither donors for the NH were NH prototypical.

[rickb773]

Timonium MD Train Show

Traffic and display volumes seemed lighter than the last time I got to this show, but it still took 2 1/2 hours to meander through 3 buildings of vendors and displays.

Very light on N Scale participation.

Tons of modules showcasing bridges (I'll try to show some of them tomorrow.)





Godzilla is still destroying train modules everywhere!



~15' of N Ncale bridge



A tribute module:




A little FREE-MO


Extremely large HO modular club layout run by computer:


And a complimentary full sized display while leaving:

[nkalanaga]

I'll bet that bridge module is a pain to transport.  Quite a bridge, though.  Do you know what the prototype is?

[BCR 570]

I finished the track detail painting in Chetwynd Yard today after a month of backbreaking work bent over and in between decks.

Last step - highlighting the tie clips with Rust:




Finished trackage in Chetwynd Yard:




This week I also received parts for the Ohio crane from Baldylox Designs and Tramfabriek:




This is a slightly different version of the crane from the one Jim has, without the rear weights.  This makes it a lot closer to the unit operated by the British Columbia Railway.

Lots of parts to be carefully de-sprued!




Tim

[jpwisc]

@BCR 570 I started that same crane conversion not to long ago. Here’s a couple pics of the mods to fit it all.
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[jpwisc]

I had my first all NPossible coupler ops session. They worked great. My layout only has 50 cars on it right now and 38 of them got handled during the session. They couple so smooth and the metal toothpick works great for uncoupling. I only had one coupler I had to adjust (I had it set a fuzz too far of center), but it was an easy fix.
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[BCR 570]

@BCR 570 I started that same crane conversion not to long ago. Here’s a couple pics of the mods to fit it all.

Hi Karl:

I would be interested in learning exactly how you have motorized it as you appear to have taken a different approach than Jim.  Do you have both trucks rotating?

Also, did we meet at the RPM meet in Portland last year?


Tim

[InterurbanModels]

I got my BLI Atlantic Coast Line E7a (stealth DC). The engine shares the same purple shade as the Life-Like ACL E8a, but LL seems to have the striping wrong, so running them back-to-back is a non-starter. Compared to my "Barbie" ACL color test coach, there is a purple color gap, but not as much as I suspected once the consist exposed to a hard white LED light close to sunlight. (I will work on it)

The BLI engine is astonishingly lightweight compared to the heavy LL, but it pulls a 9-car consist, so I give it a pass.