CSX Hanover Subdivision 3.0

[samusi01]

@mu26aeh

You could also consider Iowa Scaled Engineering 24' bins (matches the measurement off Google Earth), with their extension rings, and a scratch built base... slightly cheaper but not by much. 3d printed as well which may explain the price point. You could also poke around and see what @spookshow did for his similar bins.

Sam

[wm3798]

Meh.  Get a couple of scraps of 2" PVC pipe, scribe them in a lathe, and build up the structure with strip styrene.  It'll cost you about $12,  $25 if you detail it with brass ladders etc.
Lee

[mu26aeh]

I never thought about the lathe approach.  My dad has one 🤔

[John]

We might be able to modify these ..






I have it drawn up for 24x48

[wm3798]

I never thought about the lathe approach.  My dad has one 🤔

I was thinking it would be fairly easy to use a fine tooth razor saw to scribe the corrugation into it.  You'd just have to clamp it so you can hold the blade parallel to the tube and apply pressure evenly so the whole blade contacts it from top to bottom.  Should take about 20 seconds each.

If you get good at it, I'll take a few!

Lee

[mu26aeh]

@John , Using Google Earth, I get 30' diameter and 70' tall.  Got a minute ? 

[spookshow]

@mu26aeh
You could also poke around and see what @spookshow did for his similar bins.

PVC, Campbell's corrugated aluminum foil, and various bits of strip styrene -



The tops and bottoms are resin castings I made using a Rix top and an Imex bottom -



-Mark

P.S. My apologies if you can't see the pictures. My website is not https and some browsers don't like that.

[Pomperaugrr]

Spookshow, that is a very interesting solution!  They look great.

[mu26aeh]

In no obvious order, a lot of different avenues of work was done in the basement this weekend.  My dad does flooring installation and almost always has some extra material leftover, especially with laminate flooring to account for waste etc, or gets deals on the end of a run on a color he orders.  The carpet was a free remnant from Lowes after they couldn't find the item in their system, they said lucky day, it's yours.  About 25% of the basement now has something on the floor.



I pulled up all the tracks where I spliced the yard back together and spread some glue, put them back in place.  Also removed the crossover to the inner most track that I'm using for LPG transload.  The idea there is it's actually a fair distance behind Lincoln, so I'm going to make crews at least run all the way to the east end of the yard, and reverse back to swap cars out.



I relocated all the electronics into a castaway cabinet from my dad (he also does custom cabinetry, can't remember what was wrong with this one).  I need to get a CPU style fan for ventilation


Lastly, while cleaning off the car storage cabinet (large flat surface attracts various tools, cars, buildings, whatever you seem to be holding at one point or another) so I could attach some benchwork framing to the walls, I moved mocked up buildings to the back corner of the yard and an idea popped into my head.  I could reconfigure some of these outside mains to represent various sidings of the Lehigh facility on the east end of the yard.  Since most of this version of Lincoln yard is "close enough", I figure why can't Lehigh be close enough as well.  These buildings are just set there in "get out of the way " fashion, with no intention of actual placement.

[Specter3]

One of the great things about planning in 1:1 is when you see these opportunities that would not exist in any other form of planning. Not that it totally makes this the best way to do it, but it is one of the advantages.

[mu26aeh]

Little bit of ballasting today, a few ties every night

[davefoxx]

Little bit of ballasting today, a few ties every night

This makes me laugh.

DFF

[mu26aeh]

Thats the goal @davefoxx

[davefoxx]

Thats the goal @davefoxx

Victory!

[mu26aeh]

Even layouts go thru the aging process.  Getting older, turning grey