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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #45 on: January 14, 2015, 09:20:36 PM »
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Love the bridge. What was your source of beams for the deck truss and towers?
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #46 on: January 14, 2015, 10:19:45 PM »
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Very nice job on the bridge.  Looking forward to seeing the scenery take shape around it.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #47 on: January 14, 2015, 11:13:35 PM »
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Looking Great!
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #48 on: January 14, 2015, 11:26:25 PM »
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 Thanks, it is comments like these that keep me going.

Pete, I used Micro Engineering tall steel trestle kits 
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Rodney

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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #49 on: January 14, 2015, 11:50:09 PM »
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looking GREAT Rodney, keep up the good work and the progress photos. Ran the locomotive at Portola and railfaned the canyon, it really is a neat area!!!! Gordon
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #50 on: January 15, 2015, 10:14:17 AM »
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Looks fabulous-- what did you use for the deck truss portion of the trestle?
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #51 on: January 15, 2015, 11:57:12 AM »
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Quote from: pedro on January 15, 2015, 10:14:17 AM
Looks fabulous-- what did you use for the deck truss portion of the trestle?

 It came from a Atlas HO bridge.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #52 on: January 15, 2015, 12:00:56 PM »
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Quote from: superchief on January 14, 2015, 11:50:09 PM
Ran the locomotive at Portola 

 Thanks Gordon
 Yea, I did that too the last time we was out there 6 or 7 years ago. The people there are so great and informative.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #53 on: January 15, 2015, 11:51:12 PM »
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I was trying to mount a Tortoise on the turnout at wye, and I couldn't get it lined up so it would work the way I wanted. So I drew up some mounts and printed them. Here what I came up with so I have adjustments both ways. These will be my standard mount for all Tortoise's now.









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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #54 on: January 16, 2015, 12:26:28 AM »
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Those are nice. I could use a tortoise mount like that.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #55 on: January 16, 2015, 12:51:04 AM »
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Very interesting. At 12 screws per mount, that's going to chew through screws pretty fast.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #56 on: January 16, 2015, 01:39:37 AM »
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Quote from: eric220 on January 16, 2015, 12:51:04 AM
Very interesting. At 12 screws per mount, that's going to chew through screws pretty fast.
Yes they will. I use the 4 supplied with the Tortoise and that helps. I just ordered 500, so it will last for awhile.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #57 on: January 16, 2015, 04:23:24 AM »
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Just a thought, you could put a hole in the middle of the plates and cut down of the amount of material and build time. Especially with all those screws, you probably wouldn't lose much structurally.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #58 on: January 16, 2015, 08:00:34 AM »
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Eric, thanks for the idea. I will do that.
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Re: Feather River Canyon in N-scale
« Reply #59 on: January 16, 2015, 02:16:02 PM »
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That mount is ingenious.

If you want to make a small fortune in the model railroad industry, you could start with those (and a large fortune).
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