Weekend Update 10/6/19

[BCRail_FSJ]

RS-3s now completed in 2 tone green.   Tedious masking process paid off with nice crisp lines.    Decals and weathering are the next steps.  Road numbers will be 565 and 571 which were both seen at Fort St John in the late 1970s

[Day One]

Hey Railwire!
I've been on a train hiatus for several years, but I finally found a few reasons to get back into some hobby time again.

I joined the anycubic photon owners club so that I can make my own detail parts. My first finished 3d print project from that wasn't train related but, it was a run up to the train related parts





Second, I found these AK Weathering Pencils online recently and they seemed to be entirely sold out from their first production run. I put a set on back order and expected to wait a long time to have the order fulfilled. To my surprise, they showed up after just 3 weeks.

I have more than a few cars I'd like to weather and these pencils looked like an interesting approach to getting underway on the backlog. I pulled a few random cars out of storage and decided to see how they worked.
It's been about 7 yrs since I last weathered anything, and this is a new technique that I'm learning, so I didn't have high expectations for the first attempts. That said...I'm fairly happy with how they're coming along. I'm going to make some changes and combine some other weathering techniques into the process to get what I'm after.

[spookshow]

Interesting. I thought the only kind of field irrigators were those ones that run in a big circle. Out west that's the only kind I see.

I've seen both kinds (lateral motion and center pivot) here in Minnesota (with the size/shape of the field determining the implementation). And since I've devoted a lot of space to row crops (corn and soybeans) on my layout, I figured that an irrigation system for the soybeans would add a bit of visual interest to what was otherwise turning out to be a boring "sea of green".

-Mark

[wcfn100]

Mark-
Not only that, it is an ex-CR&P Budd coach behind it.
I don't have a good excuse for knowing this stuff....but it did come in handy for my second career!!
Charlie Vlk

As I recall the cars were new on the Loius and later sold to the RI.  Not really ex-RI cars.

Jason

Jason

[propmeup1]

My PRR MOW train. It's not perfect but it will do.  I used the Bachmann 2-8-0 with sound and a 3D shell to make an H-10.   Working my Reading MOW, in Reading they called it the "relief train" and not MOW.

[propmeup1]

PRR MOW

[alhoop]

Very nice Mark!


Not being a farmer, one thing I'm curious about on that soybean field:  how do they water the tapered end of the field. It doesn't appear that the rolling sprinkler contraption will be able to travel on the tapered section.

Lock the left side and apply power internal/external to the right side and move the system until it is parallel to the tracks, would not require much movement of the right hand side - don't want to water the tracks.
AL

PS To answer any skeptics, they do cross rows on the diagonal - click on this link:
https://cadmanpower.com/irrigation/reinke.html
then click on video llink and look at about the 1:20 time.
Just the end section could also be used independently to get that corner.

[MK]

So yesterday I went to Atlas' HQ (yes, THE manufacturer) for their first ever Warehouse sale.  They opened up their warehouse to the public (you do have to register ahead of time to get in) to sell all the excess inventory (and some pre-production samples) at reasonable prices.  I got there around half an hour before the event and I was #40. 

Half of the N inventory had no trucks so you have to provide your own but the prices were cheaper factoring that in.  The other half were ready to run.

I've seen cheaper at train shows but here you don't have to hunt for them and there were some hidden gems that you would be hard to find at a train show.  And to boot Atlas provided free hots dogs (via Randy The Hot Dog Guy) and drinks.

I had to keep muttering "Need vs. Want...Need vs. Want...Need vs. Want" the entire time I was there.  I could have EASILY bought 10x since there were some really nice rolling stock there, especially the cabeeses.  Many were holding empty boxes, throwing in items like walking up and down the aisles of a supermarket. 

[BCR 570]

RS-3s now completed in 2 tone green.   Tedious masking process paid off with nice crisp lines.    Decals and weathering are the next steps.  Road numbers will be 565 and 571 which were both seen at Fort St John in the late 1970s

Very nice.  Looks like you have decided to complete both as BCR units . . .

Looking forward to getting mine back with decoders installed in a few weeks.


Tim

[nkalanaga]

AlHoop:  That would work, and be prototypical.  But if that's how they do it, there should be tire tracks across the rows.  I've seen those a lot of time in the center-pivot fields.  Most of the farmers still plant in straight rows, and the wheels leave circular tracks across the rows.  That would be another detail that could be added.  Farm-country viewers would recognize them, and city folks might ask questions, and learn a little more about the industrial side of farming.

[rslaserkits]

working on a new kit with drawing by Mark Dance. This is the sand house in  Nelson BC
Hope to do directions this week and price. Should be in the 25-30 dollar range.
 Will have one change the tall smoke stack is not included, after a better photo was found
it is a power pole behind the shed.
 Let me know if you want on the waiting list
thanks
rich

[BOK]

Nice work, Mark. The fields look like what I can see in the fields here and elevator/fertz. buildings looks like what i used to switch a few years ago.

Thanks, for sharing.

Barry

[PiperguyUMD]

A train show find landed a Life-Like BL-2 with the split frame mechanism in WM fireball paint for only $40! Drop in a decoder, add couplers, change a number, paint some handrails and I have the whole class roster!

[brill27mcb]

I know some people here are interested in trolley and traction modeling, and others in N scale history.  Recently I found on my computer a document that I had started some time ago. I've spent the last few days converting it to a webpage and polishing it up. It's a brief chronological history of N-gauge trolley and tram modeling.

It's the first link here:
http://www.trainweb.org/n-trolleys/

Rich K.

[johnb]

I know some people here are interested in trolley and traction modeling, and others in N scale history.  Recently I found on my computer a document that I had started some time ago. I've spent the last few days converting it to a webpage and polishing it up. It's a brief chronological history of N-gauge trolley and tram modeling.

It's the first link here:
http://www.trainweb.org/n-trolleys/

Rich K.

nice, but your years are off for the Bachmann and Model power units, and Bruce Smith was from Casa Grande, AZ, I have been in his workroom.