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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #45 on: December 24, 2012, 12:45:10 AM »
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Mark:  What are you hauling in the ore cars?  On my Montana BN, it's lead/zinc ore, and the NP used to ship zinc concentrate through Pasco in "iron ore" cars.
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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #46 on: December 24, 2012, 01:03:40 AM »
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Mark:  What are you hauling in the ore cars?  On my Montana BN, it's lead/zinc ore, and the NP used to ship zinc concentrate through Pasco in "iron ore" cars.

Yep...Lead/Zinc to Tadanac smelter.

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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #47 on: December 24, 2012, 01:28:00 AM »
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Sounds like I'm not the only one to repurpose ore cars!  The BN hauled concentrate from Alaska to the Cominco smelter in Trail in woodchip cars.  As they could only carry a foot or so in the bottom of the car, I always wondered why they didn't use ore cars.  The chip cars had to be rotary or end dumped as well, while ore cars would be a lot easier to unload.
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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #48 on: December 24, 2012, 06:15:53 AM »
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In case anyone would be interested in modeling some of Conrail's business cars sides are available from Laser Horizons that can be applied to the MT Plan 3959 sleeper - lounge observation car.  See the LH page at the N-scale Varnish website...
http://n-scalevarnish.info/LH.htm

Thanks for the link.  I hadn't seen that website before, but will be checking it out in the near future.

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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #49 on: December 24, 2012, 12:36:34 PM »
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Chris, are you interested in a return on your investment on the 2x4 N?

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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #50 on: December 24, 2012, 01:11:26 PM »
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Visible progress on the layout building. Major exterior phase about done:



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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #51 on: December 24, 2012, 02:52:13 PM »
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Chip cars in ore service:  Ljudice may have answered the question on the Deluxe Innovations December thread:

"Interesting -  I think I read the backhaul from Trail was woodchips, btw..."
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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #52 on: December 24, 2012, 03:02:24 PM »
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Ed,
Hope my trackwork didn't cause that.

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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #53 on: December 24, 2012, 03:28:32 PM »
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Lol Martin, I seriously doubt it.

It definitely does make for a great setting though!

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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #54 on: December 24, 2012, 10:30:28 PM »
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Good to see the old GP30 getting some run time, Ed.







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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #55 on: December 27, 2012, 11:38:22 AM »
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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #56 on: December 27, 2012, 12:03:00 PM »
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Santa dropped off a "previously owned" I1s for the Allegheny Eastern

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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #57 on: December 27, 2012, 12:35:16 PM »
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Nice stuff everyone...

Chris and Ian, the only downside I've found to the grout is that it tends to be brittle, particularly in thin areas and I've had some issues with it crumbling a bit here and there, particularly on portable modules that get banged around and/or flex a little bit. I think this also has something to do with the surface underneath being too smooth as well and giving little bite for the grout. I'm going to have to touch it up, so I've been giving some thought on how to approach it.

Upside is that when they stuff does crumble, the thinner stuff makes very, very nice looking flag stones (at least in the dirty white/light grey color I used).

-jamie

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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #58 on: December 27, 2012, 03:47:33 PM »
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Nice stuff everyone...

Chris and Ian, the only downside I've found to the grout is that it tends to be brittle, particularly in thin areas and I've had some issues with it crumbling a bit here and there, particularly on portable modules that get banged around and/or flex a little bit. I think this also has something to do with the surface underneath being too smooth as well and giving little bite for the grout. I'm going to have to touch it up, so I've been giving some thought on how to approach it.

Upside is that when they stuff does crumble, the thinner stuff makes very, very nice looking flag stones (at least in the dirty white/light grey color I used).

-jamie

Interesting observation. I have yet to have an issue with it cracking or crumbling on the two portable layouts that I have built. I did try a while back just wetting the grout to use its own bonding agent to get it to harden and found that to be very brittle. With the wetting it with alcohol and then the matte medium I find it to be hard as a rock and very stable. I can even punch a hole in it with an awl to plant trees and not get it to crack or break apart near it.  On the Simonds IT I am using it mostly at about 1/8" thick, but there are some areas that are much thinner than that.
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Re: Weekend Update 12/23/12
« Reply #59 on: December 28, 2012, 11:12:46 AM »
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A little late to the party, but I too ran trains at the B&O and took these photos of my New Haven local freight running through our oNeTrak layout.





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