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You guys down under allowed out of the house now?
Never happen. Other than the East Coast and the West Coast, the U.S. is not populated enough and is too far between destinations, as compared to Europe, making high speed trains a boondoggle. I love trains, but that is a waste. Also, I read a great article decades ago that explained how the increasing the top end speed really wasn’t the solution. It was all of the slow speed moves as you came through certain towns and yards or approached/departed stations that were the real time killers.DFF
I bet! Gorgeous, and so evocative of the coal-fired steam era! That's quite a project. Keep the pics coming!Otto
How do you plan on doing the chutes? 3D printing? and are you planning on doing the cable system for the cars with the wheels along the incline? I've thought about doing this plan and got about halfway through designing the NP's Duluth tower via laser cut material but haven't gotten around to finishing it.
This thing is kind of ruling my life right now. It's a fun project though.
A few weeks ago I got started on my U33B's.This week I finished the first of the five U33B's.It still needs couplers and the front headlights installed, but the weathering is complete.The weathering was all done with Pan Pastels. The oil and fuel leaks and all the grills were darkened with Tamiya Black Panel Liner.I sealed it with several light misted coats of my dulling agent. Had I covered it with a single heavy coat, most of the powders would have faded away.Pan Pastels do not fade as bad pastel chalks, but they do fade, especially the lighter colors.I had to go back and reapply the pans on the trucks and fuel tanks a couple of times.
Allen: You ROCK!Otto
What’s your starting point for the engines - are they Atlas B23-7’s ?Nice work by the way, love Rock Island stuff
On the road so limited to whatever can be done on a computer. I've been wandering through the Northern Pacific's Vista-Dome document collection and making vector versions of various items in there for later projects. One just completed this morning: Pig Palace artwork.
Just running trains this week. Cleaning track, looking for bad wheelsets, couplers, wobbly or underweight cars, trackwork issues. Bad switches, bad engines; electrical problems. Found many but taking them on one at a time. Slow going, but still fun to run and get a sense of what the railroad could be when it runs flawlessly...and some day (soon?) it will. More on my ATSF LA Division thread..Otto K.