Weekend Update 10/14/2012

[Ian MacMillan]

The last brick has been laid...thank god! More in the Engineering thread.

[wcfn100]

I agree, Chris, and may do that to shorten the span enough that I can make an all-wood bridge.  Anyone got any pictures of timber trestles with skewed bents?

Thanks,
Dave

I don't you have to go to all wood, just not a deck girder. 

Low clearance bridges always remind me of the one in St Louis Park where I grew up.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=774862

And while not nearly extreme, it's also on a curve.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1657069

There is a deck girder over the road that runs along the tracks.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=2459034

And this is why deck girders aren't good for clearance.

http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=1171437

 

Jason

[Zox]

I don't you have to go to all wood, just not a deck girder.

The KB&S has a rather...unique...bridge setup at Iroquois Junction:



From left to right:

A deck girder bridge, with an intermediate support spanning over the roadway.

A series of wooden trestles.

An extremely skewed through girder over another track, with concrete piers, and deck girder sections to make up the skew on either side.

More wooden trestles.

To top it all off, it was originally designed to be double-tracked, so there are quite a few piers that are just standing around lamenting their lack of purpose in life.

It's actually covered in Google Street View:

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=donovan,+il&hl=en&ll=40.858478,-87.604777&spn=0.007547,0.007446&sll=39.095408,-76.859987&sspn=0.06195,0.059566&t=h&hnear=Donovan,+Iroquois,+Illinois&z=17&layer=c&cbll=40.8587,-87.604889&panoid=QPNZngF2RgOW27ScIfeauQ&cbp=12,322.43,,0,4.67

(My picture's shot from north of the bridge looking south; the Google link takes you to south of the bridge looking north, although you can of course change your position in Street View.)

[davidgray1974]

MC, what size static grass do you use on your scenes?  2mm or 5mm? And also, what colors do you mix together?

[M.C. Fujiwara]

MC, what size static grass do you use on your scenes?  2mm or 5mm? And also, what colors do you mix together?

Mix of WS 2mm and Heki 4mm.
For the Shoo-fly module, I used Heki "Autumn" and WS "Honey" towards the edges, as Free-moN standards call for more of a brown palate at the edges.
As I wanted the main scene to be Sonoma in the Spring, I used Heki "Summer" and WS "Light Green" and "Medium Green".
See the Shoofly construction thread for more info, including a bunch of great advice I got from other Asshats.

I'm going to take this opportunity to plug AMSI:
http://amsi.miniature.net/page2.html
No connection to me (other than they're another San Francisco Bay Area product), but they make amazing ground foam (fine, medium & coarse) that has color and texture well beyond the quality of WS.
Highly, highly recommended.

[wazzou]

I'm going to take this opportunity to plug AMSI:
http://amsi.miniature.net/page2.html
No connection to me (other than they're another San Francisco Bay Area product), but they make amazing ground foam (fine, medium & coarse) that has color and texture well beyond the quality of WS.
Highly, highly recommended.

I have a bunch of it and have used it for years.  The problem is they are more well known by architects (thus the name) and much, much less by scale modelers.  I wonder if the architectural modeling market satisfies there itch.

[thbguy]

I had a little more time this weekend to work on the C-liner.

My research is complete and I know all of the changes that I need to make. Yes, (good guesses) it is a Canadian National passenger C-liner (CPA-16-5 as CN 6703 circa 1956), based on the LL freight version (which is a beautiful model). Here are a couple of views showing "some" of the features of the prototype:


It still has a long way to go, but this weekend, I removed the dynamic brake and the forward fan on the right. I also created the two fill caps; one above and one embedded in the fuel tank and  filled in the windows behind the cab door:


Hopefully, I will have more time next weekend!

Great projects all around. Thanks for sharing.
It keeps me motivated.

Best regards,
Michael Livingston
Modelling N-scale southern Ontario roads

[ednadolski]

Started the base construction for the Tehachapi Shelf module:



More details here.

Thanks for looking!

Ed

[nkalanaga]

Dave:  I would disagree on the skewed bridge.  A deck girder span in the middle of a wood trestle isn't that unusual.  The piers are often nothing more than a double trestle bent, and small girder bridges are often moved and used elsewhere.  If your company is both old and cheap, the original trestle probably had a wood pony truss span.  Replacing it with a secondhand steel span from the "Big Road" would be prototypical, and it would be easier and cheaper to use it as-is than to rebuild it as a skew bridge.  You have room for the bridge and piers, so I'd leave it.

[James Costello]

I had a little more time this weekend to work on the C-liner.


Best regards,
Michael Livingston
Modelling N-scale southern Ontario roads

Looks good Michael - what are you using for a mechanism and trucks?

[eja]

Besides colour, moving the front door and a window, what else did you do  to the AMB kit ???

Wazzou,

Your are my muse this weekend ...  I have been looking for the ideal depot kit  (doesn't need to be completly prototypical) to use to recreate something that looks like this :



Your work on your depot may have provided me with an answer ... now, can I pull it off ??

[nkalanaga]

Interesting paint scheme on the Port Daniel station, but, oddly, I like it.

[hegstad1]

I had a little more time this weekend to work on the C-liner.


Best regards,
Michael Livingston
Modelling N-scale southern Ontario roads

Looking fantastic Michael!!  Can't wait to see more progress in person!

[up1950s]

The last brick has been laid...thank god! More in the Engineering thread.

I love the active construction look of this work in progress but the AAA is going to chastise the planers on that blind 90 degree turn , and the police will dub that as the " underpass of continued job security ".

[Bsklarski]

I love the active construction look of this work in progress but the AAA is going to chastise the planers on that blind 90 degree turn , and the police will dub that as the " underpass of continued job security ".

Reminds me of my RR, just outside of Palmer yard in Massachusetts. It narrows down to a one lane road. People always blow their horn when they go through to warn other drivers, but I do not see what good that does when you have windows closed and the radio up, ect lol.