Weekend Update 11/10/19

[ednadolski]

... I wanted to "see it" to make sure I can life with the radii.

Why so tight?  Looks like you could uncoil that, at least to some degree.

Ed

[altohorn25]

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

Shapeways - bought it last week.

[wm3798]

And another project.   Downtown Paw Paw is taking shape thanks to an ancient Magnuson Merchants Row kit obtained from the DKS vintage collection.




It will look good across the tracks from the depot!
Lee

[Dave V]

A late breaking addition for me.  I just finished her this evening:

[dem34]

Nothing crazy, decided to see what I could do with stuff I had laying around and kept up my pursuit of getting better at structure building. About a year and a half ago I botched the assembly of a DPM warehouse kit and abandoned it. I recently got a mini saw and tried to see what I could do with 2 half destroyed walls.











Needs a hell of a lot of putty cleanup before I even think of painting but I think it came together pretty well considering It was basically trash in a corner this morning.

[tehachapifan]

Dave V., really like what you're doing there! Outstanding modeling on every level!

[up1950s]

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

~Ian

Neither me .
Years ago we went to plastic to save the oxygen producing trees .
Now we are going to save the beaches and water thingys by killing more trees .
We slaughtered our own forests and now we wave a naughty finger at South  America for doing what we did .
Humans are the only environmental destructive things on this planet , and the only ones that need to wear clothes to live .

This has been brought to you by the letters I and U .

[Cajonpassfan]

More of the fabulous Cedar River trail, and a visit to the Northwest Railway Museum in Snoqualmie. Didn’t know there was one, until I ran into some nice (and not so nice, run down) equipment. Even some single window coaches🙀
OttoK.

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[Cajonpassfan]

Oh yea, the single window coach....

[daniel_leavitt2000]

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.
(Attachment Link) This is looking east towards the B&O yards along the river, the C&O is crossing the B&O leading up to their bridge over the Ohio.  The recessed area still exists today as part of the CIND (G&W) and is called the "Ditch Track".  It was originally a canal.   -Jesse

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What are you using tor the handrails?

[C855B]

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

I have, and it was decades ago. This is nothing new. Before the bottled water craze took over, "ration"-type potable water was available in small cartons like that by the case, intended for situations when fresh water was unavailable. It was sold in the industrial B2B marketplace.

Railroads in the West were users, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific in my direct experience. There was a period circa 1980 when you would find the ROW over Tehachapi littered with empty water cartons.

[diezmon]

Busy trying to get the last of the leaves raked up, before the arctic winter comes. I did have time to add DCC to another Life-Like SW

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[NtheBasement]

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

Last I heard they made the package un-recyclable by lining it with foil.  Is it foil or waxed?

[narrowminded]

Busy trying to get the last of the leaves raked up, before the arctic winter comes. I did have time to add DCC to another Life-Like SW

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Who makes that decoder?  I'll have some of these to do... some day.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

BURRRRRP!

He barely touched the katsup! 

We were asking them if he needed to finish it as part of the challenge. They let it slide. Which was a shame, because I was DEFINITELY looking forward to him doing a ketchup shooter.

Why so tight?  Looks like you could uncoil that, at least to some degree.

Ed

It just about fits around the back side.

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