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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #540 on: October 28, 2019, 07:15:23 PM »
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Holy Roco, Batman!

What the FA is going On!
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« Reply #541 on: October 28, 2019, 07:20:45 PM »
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“Hi!  You may remember Lee from such videos as ‘Switcher Madness.’  Coming soon in the same line: ‘FA-ing Madness.’”
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #542 on: October 28, 2019, 09:35:38 PM »
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“Hi!  You may remember Lee from such videos as ‘Switcher Madness.’  Coming soon in the same line: ‘FA-ing Madness.’”

Wouldn't that really be "FA-king madness"?   :D :trollface:
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #543 on: October 28, 2019, 09:42:19 PM »
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Quote from: davefoxx on October 28, 2019, 07:20:45 PM
“Hi!  You may remember Lee from such videos as ‘Switcher Madness.’  Coming soon in the same line: ‘FA-ing Madness.’”
Don't forget the spine-tingling suspense thriller 'The Hunt for Reading FA horn'.
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #544 on: October 28, 2019, 11:20:21 PM »
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Quote from: Point353 on October 28, 2019, 09:42:19 PM
Don't forget the spine-tingling suspense thriller 'The Hunt for Reading FA horn'.

I did try looking for it, because I figured as soon as he was out of earshot it would miraculously reappear in the engine tray.
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #545 on: October 29, 2019, 12:01:12 AM »
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I buy them by the gross.  It's ok!
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #546 on: October 30, 2019, 03:24:19 PM »
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Another dinosaur up from the tar pits...



This Rapido F from about 1968 was in the original haul that my cousin dropped off in December.  I tried to get it back on the road a while ago, bit got sidetracked with other projects.

Today I pulled it apart, found the short, cleaned it and put it back together.  It likes to run fast, but it's running.  Brass gear noise once again fills the air!

Now, the question is, do I hunt down a B&O shell, or a Rio Grande train?

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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #547 on: October 30, 2019, 03:49:34 PM »
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This Rapido F from about 1968 was in the original haul that my cousin dropped off in December.  I tried to get it back on the road a while ago, bit got sidetracked with other projects.
Today I pulled it apart, found the short, cleaned it and put it back together.  It likes to run fast, but it's running.  Brass gear noise once again fills the air!
Now, the question is, do I hunt down a B&O shell, or a Rio Grande train?
Hunt down a B&O shell - and try to find a matching dummy A-unit, as well.

Labelle 106 grease will help reduce the gear noise.

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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #548 on: November 01, 2019, 06:18:24 PM »
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You thought I was kidding about hiring spiders to run my catenary.

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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #549 on: November 04, 2019, 09:24:15 PM »
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More retro goodness in the mailbox today...

A genuine Atlas-Roco E7, and...

A pair of Lead Sled FA2s from Life Like.  The old hollow core door was buzzing this afternoon!



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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #550 on: November 06, 2019, 09:38:11 AM »
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Bridge piers are happening!


In keeping with our retro theme, they're constructed with some old Graham Farish modeling blocks.  Basically rectangular cubes, about 3/4" square x 1-3/4" wide.  They come packaged with some printed card stock that you can attach to make bridges and other small structures.
I got the set second hand when I won it as a prize for a modeling contest at my local.
I had submitted my K2 Pacific, and was the only train entry he had, so he cleared off a shelf of dusty boxes and old Atlas handbooks for my prize...
Finally putting It to good use!
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #551 on: November 06, 2019, 05:07:48 PM »
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Quote from: wm3798 on October 24, 2019, 11:52:39 PM

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

A good chunk of the existing M&O was built with his turnouts and track as well
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #552 on: November 06, 2019, 06:09:52 PM »
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I pulled out the box for the G-F stuff for those of you laboring under intense curiosity...




Looks like I might have pulled that out of my... collection. :ashat:



Anyways, with the piers properly set up, it was time to check clearances...  I'm going to have to bash the plate girder bridge pretty substantially, but it'll work fine.

Been testing it all afternoon!

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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #553 on: November 11, 2019, 11:08:11 PM »
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Buildings!


The old Magnuson Merchants Row... the one cast in dental impression resin... the father of DPM, and grandfather of Woodland Scenics...  painted and assembled over the course of several evenings.
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Re: Retro Tech Layout Project - N Scale Compact Layout
« Reply #554 on: November 14, 2019, 08:52:48 PM »
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