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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2021, 08:02:11 PM »
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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2021, 08:21:35 PM »
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Progress on three buildings.

Three Daves General Store/Phil's Barber Shop:



Spano's Service Station:



Josh's House:



All the details: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=49183.msg713364#msg713364

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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2021, 08:42:24 PM »
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Want to get into making my own Locomotives and Rolling Stock. So as practice I Clipped this out of the latest copy of MRC, digitized it, and hopefully tomorrow will see if I can get this printed.


-Al

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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2021, 08:46:14 PM »
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Finally starting to get close to being done with the HO scale Ragg's [sic] to Riches RGS/D&RGW Ridgway depot kit.  Still needs tower roof shingles and flashing, chimneys, door stoops, signs, decorative ridgepole trim, and platform details (plus probably some other crap I'm forgetting).  So.  Many.  Shingles.  This is definitely the most ambitious structure project I've ever attempted.






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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2021, 09:10:13 PM »
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Still running the layout as if it’s 1987.  Seen here is a northbound CSXT freight on the S-Line in eastern North Carolina.  This was a typical CSXT consist at that time, i.e., a dog’s breakfast.



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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2021, 10:59:45 PM »
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Still running the layout as if it’s 1987.  Seen here is a northbound CSXT freight on the S-Line in eastern North Carolina.  This was a typical CSXT consist at that time, i.e., a dog’s breakfast.



DFF

A clean scene. Those older schemed units definitely need some weathering to make it look like 1987.
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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2021, 02:26:36 AM »
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Been away from the workbench for a while due to purchase of a new apartment and subsequent sorting and packing.

I finished decaling my three HSC woodchip cars:




I also received some samples of the new Briggs Models for NSC gondola fixed ends and the PGE chip car conversions, so got to work removing ends from the first of my Prairie Shadows gondolas:




We saw several pandemic restrictions lifted last week, including small gatherings at home, so my friend Michael Batten and I scheduled some op sessions for this month.  Tonight five of us brought Michael's Esquimalt & Nanaimo layout back to life.  Train 51 picked up my two boxcars from Top Shelf Feeds in Duncan, where they have been marooned since last year, and took them north to Wellcox for the ferry ride back to the mainland and return to my layout:






It was great to see some friends and run trains again.  I will host an op session in two weeks.


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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2021, 01:02:21 PM »
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Tim, what is this new apartment of which you speak?  How are you going to move the layout!!?? Sounds like many hands will be needed!

Dave

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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2021, 05:18:16 PM »
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The last couple of weeks
I’ve been working on painting a Kato P42 and Rapido LRC into VIA’s Canada 150 paint scheme. Paint work is all done. Decals should go on tomorrow night.

Craig.




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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2021, 05:57:17 PM »
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Nice work Craig.  Good luck with all the decals!

It’s also paint and decals weekend for me.  Penn Central 5260 is slowly coming together.  It had been an Aristo B&O RS3 I’d had since I was a kid.

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Hopefully tonight or tomorrow morning I can put the WowSound decoder in, wire everything up, and return that catchy ALCO clatter to a town that has gone too long without it!

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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2021, 09:21:04 PM »
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Tim, what is this new apartment of which you speak?  How are you going to move the layout!!?? Sounds like many hands will be needed!

Dave

Next building over, second bedroom, 200 additional square feet, healthier strata.

Layout was designed to be dismantled and removed.  Three friends have volunteered to help.


Tim
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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2021, 03:15:00 PM »
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I want 5 or 6 of these:


To get them I'm starting with a Centralia Shops UP CA-3 for parts.  Tasks include:
  Extending the porch about a foot on each end
  Fabricating the end hardware
  Reduce the cupola height by about a foot and modify the cupola windows size and placement
  Create a master from which I'll cast the shells I need
  Lengthen the roof parts for each side of the cupola and create a master to cast flat parts
  Fabricate the hand grabs and such
  Make improvements to the fit of the original parts as I go

So far so good.

Steve


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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2021, 03:46:08 PM »
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Next building over, second bedroom, 200 additional square feet, healthier strata.

Layout was designed to be dismantled and removed.  Three friends have volunteered to help.


Tim
If you need a fourth, I can probably be available!

Dave

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Re: Weekend Update 6/13/21
« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2021, 09:37:42 PM »
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I finished cosmetic work on PC 5260 already, but wiring will take longer.  I just dry-fit the pieces for these photos.

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I made this detail part to approximate a piece of NH or NYC-style cab signal hardware in my reference photo.  And scratched another Sinclair antenna from styrene.

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Re-bending every single handrail was slow, but worth it.  It feels like I went from a toy train shaped like an RS3 to a proper model!

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Now to get her running!

-Steven
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Wellsville Addison & Galeton RR in 1:29
Still dabbling in N scale
Restoring a full size 1951 Brill bus