Weekend Update 6/6/21

[TimF]

Thumbs up on the vaccine.  And that’s one beautifully weathered and detailed U-Boat.  I’d have never guessed it was N except for the couplers. It beats my Large-scale PC U25b by a long shot!  Guess it’s time I try weathering mine...

-Steven

Hmm, another one will eventually come too...

[davefoxx]

Seeing your PC GP30 in the 2200-series reminded me of this photo, taken in December 2018 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, of our children aboard No. 2233 in Conrail paint.



Good times!

DFF

[chuck geiger]

That new wood smell - Heading to new house for the weekend. Stop at HOME DEPOT with shopping list
and working in train room/office/studio all weekend. Adding cleats to the top of the shelf brackets, using
1x4 cleats and front stringer. Getting Masonite for backdrop and fascia. I have a track plan and what will be
modeled, after extensive planning - Messing up and redoing was the planning. https://www.facebook.com/sanjacintodisctrict
*spelled weird by FB

[davefoxx]

That new wood smell - Heading to new house for the weekend. Stop at HOME DEPOT with shopping list
and working in train room/office/studio all weekend. Adding cleats to the top of the shelf brackets, using
1x4 cleats and front stringer. Getting Masonite for backdrop and fascia. I have a track plan and what will be
modeled, after extensive planning - Messing up and redoing was the planning. https://www.facebook.com/sanjacintodisctrict
*spelled weird by FB

I worked at a lumber yard in high school.  I love that freshly cut, new lumber smell.  Keep us posted on your progress.

DFF

[chuck geiger]

Foxy always!

[wazzou]

That new wood smell - Heading to new house for the weekend. Stop at HOME DEPOT with shopping list
and working in train room/office/studio all weekend. Adding cleats to the top of the shelf brackets, using
1x4 cleats and front stringer. Getting Masonite for backdrop and fascia. I have a track plan and what will be
modeled, after extensive planning - Messing up and redoing was the planning. https://www.facebook.com/sanjacintodisctrict
*spelled weird by FB

@chuck geiger , if I can offer one suggestion, it would be to make that transition to the west turnout in Hemet a little sooner so that the transition isn't so sharp.

Looking forward to your progress.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

How did you do the PRR antenna bumps?

[jjb62556]

I drive by a small grove of pines with my tractor to the kid's house once a week..Love the smell of the pines!

[TimF]

Seeing your PC GP30 in the 2200-series reminded me of this photo, taken in December 2018 at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, of our children aboard No. 2233 in Conrail paint.



Good times!

DFF

I have to wait until August, then 2233 will arrive on my shelf, custom painted & decaled...
Stay safe & healthy

THF

[chuck geiger]

@chuck geiger , if I can offer one suggestion, it would be to make that transition to the west turnout in Hemet a little sooner so that the transition isn't so sharp.

Looking forward to your progress.

Will do....

[chuck geiger]

@chuck geiger , if I can offer one suggestion, it would be to make that transition to the west turnout in Hemet a little sooner so that the transition isn't so sharp.

Looking forward to your progress.

Better - There are some future sidings coming, like at Ellis, according to CLIC abandoned siding, gonna make a sugar beet siding, with portable loader....Those cool SP cars. Ellis or Romoland
is just East of Perris on the straight section. BTW first time I have ever used Any Rail.

[draskouasshat]

Are you gentlemen forgetting @draskouasshat 's 3463, made with a cut down brass boiler, frame from a Model Power mogul and drivers from Fox Valley's Milwaukee Road Atlantic?
https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=44902.msg579927#msg579927

I've been thinking about trying to bash an old Con Cor Hudson into a 3450 rather than a 3461.  It looks much closer dimensionally.  And the Con Cor drivers are about 77"- pretty close when you allow for oversized flanges to the 79" of the prototype.  Given the number of projects I have, I'll be lucky to get started in this decade.

Yup, there's absolutely no mech for those drivers to fit in ! As you can see,  that's incorrect and the drivers fit in a model power 2-6-0 mogul mechanism.

Drasko
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[RRRover]

Back in the '80s I used to live in Riverside and was active at the museum in Perris. Until the mid-1990s the old Winchester depot sat forlorn in a farmer's field about a mile east of the former location. Good luck on the project. Backgrounds will be tricky since most of the area is flat (except for a few rises east of Perris, and the hill in Perris).

Rrrover

 

Better - There are some future sidings coming, like at Ellis, according to CLIC abandoned siding, gonna make a sugar beet siding, with portable loader....Those cool SP cars. Ellis or Romoland
is just East of Perris on the straight section. BTW first time I have ever used Any Rail.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Heads up. Not sure if it'll make a difference, but you've got a bit of an S curve through the switch here that might be a problem.

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[CRL]

Heads up. Not sure if it'll make a difference, but you've got a bit of an S curve through the switch here that might be a problem.

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This is a rather common mistake I see a lot of modelers make when they put a switch with the diverting route going in the direction opposite that of the preceding curve. However, you also see the prototype do the same thing except there’s usually a sufficient amount of straight track between the curve and the switch. The best way for a modeler to arrange the track is to use a switch with the diverging route acting as a continuation of the curve. This makes the diverging route the mainline and the straight route becomes the siding. The trains will transit this arrangement much easier and smoother, plus it gains a few valuable inches of space.

The track plan shown actually has 2 of these “S” curves.