N Scale Hi Rail - Retro Hollow Core Door Layout

[wm3798]

NASA has confirmed that the strange pale blue planet may in fact support life, as some portions of it appear to have soils of some sort.


And last night I confess, I got pretty plastered.



As a result, this morning's modeling efforts have been a little rocky.

[MK]

What a difference brown makes! 

[wm3798]

Art in the dark.

[wm3798]

After a discussion about new gears for a Bachmann steamer in the 3D printing forum, I thought I'd post this over here.

I have updated and modestly improved a little 0-4-0 switcher with some added weight and an all wheel pick up tender.  This is one of the locomotives I picked up after an all call for junk box rescue projects, and was offered up by @narrowminded .



To get the tender pickups to work, I soldered some bits from the junk box to the loco pick ups, then ran them down either side of the drawbar post.  Bent out a bit to create a little spring action, this maintains contact really well.



Lee

[davefoxx]

Hard to believe that my HO scale rails are only 0.003" taller than your N scale rails. 

[dem34]

Hard to believe that my HO scale rails are only 0.003" taller than your N scale rails. 

Its Vintage so the designers had to build the rail to HSR spec. 

[Point353]

Hard to believe that my HO scale rails are only 0.003" taller than your N scale rails. 

Your HO scale rails will look better once you finish applying ballast. 

[Dave V]

Hard to believe that my HO scale rails are only 0.003" taller than your N scale rails. 

Meanwhile my HO scale rails are 0.010" shorter than what I as using in N, LOL.  And they're still 3-4 times too heavy for the RGS!  They had 57 lb on most of the first district but down along the Dolores River there were sections of 40 pound rail.  And even some 30 pound iron in the Rico roundhouse at the end of operations.

But I digress...  Code 80 and N scale go together like... 

[davefoxx]

Your HO scale rails will look better once you finish applying ballast. 

Touché.   

[wm3798]

I have to say, that I've had some challenges using the old track...  I mean, I had to walk past a pile of slightly used C55 track, including dozens of turnouts, and get this... all of it PAID FOR, to get to the workbench to build this thing.

But right now, I'm sitting here watching a @Lemosteam modified Trix K-4 hauling a short PRR passenger consist, a Rivarossi B&O Mike with a fast freight, a Trix 0-6-0 on the local, and a Bachmann 0-4-0 with a coal drag happily gurgling around the layout while I'm doing some work.  And they've been running for hours.

While y'all are applying your calipers to your rails, I'm JFRTM!


(That's the view from my desk...)

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Lee, if it helps, I know some folks who might be looking for some new old stock code 55 track...

[wm3798]

No... I'm going to hold onto it for the next little bit.  There might be a cabin with a basement somewhere in the mists of the future...

I love the way it looks, and I love the way Jerry Britton paid for most of it!!

Lee

[Point353]

I love the way it looks, and I love the way Jerry Britton paid for most of it!!

Didn't he dump it and change scales because it was so unreliable?

[wm3798]

There were a lot of reasons for his switch.  If he still noses around these pages perhaps he will expand on that.  There were some parts of his design that demanded bulletproof track work, and some of the early QC issues Atlas had made that difficult. 
I was careful to prep everything when I installed it, and had very few issues with it.  Most of the yard I built used track he sent me, and it's now pushing 10 years old, and is likely headed to its third installation.

Lee

[Ed Kapuscinski]

There were a lot of reasons for his switch.  If he still noses around these pages perhaps he will expand on that.  There were some parts of his design that demanded bulletproof track work, and some of the early QC issues Atlas had made that difficult. 
I was careful to prep everything when I installed it, and had very few issues with it.  Most of the yard I built used track he sent me, and it's now pushing 10 years old, and is likely headed to its third installation.

Lee

Yep, and with one easily fixed exception functioned pretty flawlessly.