Weekend Update 11/10/19

[davefoxx]

I'll take Pennsy or B&O color position lights any day of the week. 

DFF

[nkalanaga]

DFF:  That's one of the problems with searchlight signals, even on the prototype.  With any other type, the indication can be read from the position of the light, or arm, or ball, or whatever.  The searchlight signal has only one way to display the indication.

[wm3798]

Another quick project ...


...for a friend that's a HOer.  Snagged a preweathered hopper out of the 'bay, and stenciled it with some ancient dry transfers I had in the drawer.  The lettering dates to about 1989.  I was glad it worked at all, but eventually it worked. 
Patched out the Nickel Plate markings.  Just have to conjure up the LRV reporting marks.

[jereising]

-Mark

Whoa!  Been very impressed with Mark's work for some time, but seeing this panorama is a mind blower.  You've gotta REALLY look close...super advertisement for N Scale!  Not to mention pure modeling.  No shake the box here.

[Bob]

Yes that is an amazingly cool shot!  Some really great photos on Weekend Update this week!

[tehachapifan]

Whoa!  Been very impressed with Mark's work for some time, but seeing this panorama is a mind blower.  You've gotta REALLY look close...super advertisement for N Scale!  Not to mention pure modeling.  No shake the box here.

Agreed! I seriously had to look for quite a while before I finally determined this wasn't an aerial photo of a real town! Amazing modeling!

[Cajonpassfan]

Well, I haven’t been doing much modeling; traveling a lot. This week in Washington, exploring the Cedar River trail, the old Milwaukee Road alignment over the Cascades. Wet but beautiful...
Otto K.
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[Jesse6669]

More T-scale design work and finished some new rolling stock. 

The C40-8W has 3 cab options for different roads/headlight configurations.  High headlight like CR/NS, low headlight and numberboards a la CSX, and low headlight/high numberboards as BNSF or CN.  The test print is on it's way (SW) and I have some great CN decals from Circus City Decals.  (Handrails will be made as well but the artwork isn't off to the etcher, this week hopefully.)

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The Bethgon, I think, came out well.  Those are CMR decals.  The revised couplers are on this; They are articulated and are un-coupleable by using a "poker" where you push down on the drawbar and it causes the knuckle to spread.  They also have a decent looking air hose which really doesn't do anything functionally.  Since they're of 3D printed material they aren't really the strongest, but I've gotten used to the nature of the material.  And they can be swapped out easily enough if a drawbar gets pulled.

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Here's the Bethlehem RTTX flatcar and a Chessie 45' van.  I've since actually improved the 45 van a bit from this early design.  Those decals are a home made job and are about as small as I want to get about 1mm high).  Painted a white strip on the sill and applied decal over to get the white lettering.

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Finally, I wanted to share a little piece of history..  70 years ago the Army Corps of Engineers planned a floodwall system for the Ohio River near Cincinnati and the engineers made a scale model of the area in 1941.  The wall was completed in 1948.  Yesterday, while visiting a City of Cincinnati wastewater facility, I came upon the model (under glass) tucked away in a dark corner of the Shop/Administration building.  The tracks appear to be one-dimensional map drawings, but all the structures are built up, including some fantastic bridge and crane models.   This must've taken weeks of effort to build, and seems like the scale is about 1:600. 

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This is "Cincinnati Junction" and if you look closely you'll see the B&O tower behind the floodwall at the curve.
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[Philip H]

Finally got to meet @arbomambo and see his work up close at the inaugural Gulf Coast MRR Museum show today:

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[altohorn25]

Working on some more flats for my Royal American Shows carnival train.  I need to finish the trucks of course as well as finish decaling the wagons.

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[Frisco Larry]

altohorn25
Where did you get the AC Mack truck?.  I am in desperate need of seven of them.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Took some time to lay out some cork for West Cressona. It's not glued down yet because I wanted to "see it" to make sure I can life with the radii.











I also got to see a legend in action. Our own @GonzoCRFan took on the three cheesesteak challenge at Ravage Deli (http://ravagedeli.com/).

[peteski]

I also got to see a legend in action. Our own @GonzoCRFan took on the three cheesesteak challenge at Ravage Deli (http://ravagedeli.com/).

BURRRRRP!

He barely touched the katsup! 

[learmoia]

Wait.. BOXED water??.. Never seen that before..

~Ian

[John]

https://boxedwaterisbetter.com/pages/why-boxed-is-better