Weekend Update 3/8/26

[arx nakanishi]

As I see it, even if you just compiled (into a single thread) all that info/photos/videos from your Weekend Update posts it would be worth your effort. If you still have some additional information about your modeling techniques and prototype research, adding that info would make it even better.   So yes, I would like to see you create a new thread with all that information to be easily viewed all together.

Roger! I got it. But please give me a little time to check with my English teacher, ChatGPT...

[peteski]

Roger! I got it. But please give me a little time to check with my English teacher, ChatGPT...

 

EDIT: also seeing that you host your photos external to this website it would be nice if you could upload your photos to the Railwire for your new Cisco thread.  We have all seen photo hosting sites come and go or change their rules, which makes them disappear from posts here. Hosting them locally here guarantees that they will be viewable for as long as this forum is online.

If you decide to do it, instructions for creating photo albums and uploading/organizing photos are in https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=42854.0 . I recommend using the Photo Album functionality instead of attaching them directly to posts. Only photos (no videos) can be uploaded to the Railwire, but that is what majority of yours are.

[garethashenden]

Adding on to what Peteski said, the Weekend Update threads are great in the moment, but they’re a nightmare to refer back to. They are great to inspire us to keep doing things and to show off what we’re doing, but for any single topic it can be hard to follow the story. What I do, and many others, is post the pictures and a brief description in the Weekend Update, and a more detailed write up in the layout thread. That way you show the group what you’re doing and also have a place to refer back to in the future.

[davefoxx]

Just in case there’s not enough Penn Central in this thread.



DFF

[garethashenden]

Just in case there’s not enough Penn Central in this thread.

DFF

It’s not very realistic. I don’t see a spec of rust, and my understanding is that all those Penn Central engines had the rust installed at the factory.

[signalmaintainer]

It’s not very realistic. I don’t see a spec of rust, and my understanding is that all those Penn Central engines had the rust installed at the factory.

Sheesh, give him a moment just to enjoy the new model. WTF, over?

[bman]

Spent part of last Saturday looking at a possible new club location 4 blocks south of our current location. Then spent the rest of the day at our present location going through boxes of stuff that has been given to the club over the last 25 years. We may or may not be moving there's been a lease sent over for our review by the new owner of the building. Either way that stuff needed went through, sorted out, and the junk tossed. I did find time to finished these 2 up for our club home road. I think I'll go down early tomorrow before our meeting so they can at lease run around the layout once in case we don't stay and we start taking down the layout.

[JMaurer1]

Well, it looks like I am going to have to re-think my basement space allocation plans for a layout....

(BTW... now I know why it is called speed cloth...)



Ed

I see you already have the 'grass' installed...now you just need to glue down some track and start running trains!

[peteski]

I see you already have the 'grass' installed...now you just need to glue down some track and start running trains!

And some bluegrass background music would be perfect for that setting. 

[Dave V]

Just in case there’s not enough Penn Central in this thread.



DFF

You know what you have to do to that now... Frankly, I think every Penn central locomotive needs to come with a smoke unit.

[C855B]

You know what you have to do to that now... Frankly, I think every Penn central locomotive needs to come with a smoke unit.

Depends on the era. I would guess a GP30 would be old enough to smoke. Probably two packs a day.

[davefoxx]

Depends on the era. I would guess a GP30 would be old enough to smoke. Probably two packs a day.

It would only be about nine or ten years old in the era that I’m running, i.e., 1972-73.  Of course, deferred maintenance in the early 1970s probably took its toll

DFF

[rickb773]

Everytime I drag my almost 80-year-old body under my new layout to do some wiring a phrase keeps ringing through my head:
"DCC is easy just hook up 2 wires and you're done!"







I'm less than halfway done, and I already have (21) 7 pole terminal connectors installed.
Let's see: those 2 wires go to a four-position circuit breaker card that go to 4 sections each with at least 4 blocks and each block contains multiple feeds. (To Infinity and beyond!)

Wiring was made somewhat easier when I stored all the removed wire from my old layout by color and by length.
This is what remains halfway through:



Back to that song in my head: "Just connect 2 wires and you're done!"

[chuck geiger]

Let me share with you another cut from my N-scale Cisco, Utah diorama: the overall.

I've introduced every structure along the US 50 within Cisco Townsite from east to west. My diorama measures about 12 feet long and 3 feet wide, and is divided into four sections. However, the space is limited to two of the four, considering the wrap-around tracks. Thus, the length of a train is limited to about 40 fifty-footers.





I used two LED floodlights to take photos and movies. I also used a full-color tape light to arrange the daytime, dusk, and night.



Next time, I'll introduce the freight equipment I kitbashed and painted, which appeared in the previous pics/movies.
Thanks for watching.

/>pretty cool stuff on Cisco.

[Sumner]

Roger! I got it. But please give me a little time to check with my English teacher, ChatGPT...

While you are doing that some pictures of Cisco I took the other day coming back from a quick trip over to Grand Junction and back.  Store was closed and looks like no one is actually living there at the moment.  Don't know what happened with two of the pictures but included them as they help to show how bleak Cisco is.

Sumner