Weekend Update 9/18/22

[tehachapifan]

Just….WOW!

Thanks, Jim!

Russ

What did you use for paint? Still Poly Scale?

My Polly Scale SP Grey is gone, so I used Modelflex SP Lark Dark Grey but still had some Polly Scale Scarlet left. Gloss coating is Model Master (water-based), so this paint job was a bit of a mixed bag! So far, they all seem to be playing well together.

[mu26aeh]

Weekend trip to Altoona, caught this monster leaving westbound after crews added the DP unit midtrain at Works, and tacked on the ACU helpers.  Someone had mentioned about 13000 feet in length.

[altohorn25]

Running some "modern" power on the layout today:  Milwaukee Road SD40-2's (Kato) pulling a mixed freight on the LaCrosse Division:

[tehachapifan]

Long over due project complete.
VO-1000's ready for service.

Made a modification. Added some details




Thanks,
Wolf

VO’s look great!

[SP-Wolf]

VO’s look great!

Thank you, so very much!!

As does your SW1500 -

Best regards,
Wolf

[brokemoto]

Of Dad's 1938 Lionel, these are the two pieces that appear to be in the best shape, the derrick and the caboose.  I have posted his Flying Yankee on another topic on this forum.


Dad talked about the derrick the most.  According to him, there were three different types that year.  He said that his was the best one.  The knob on the chassis will turn the derrick.  For some time, he had string on the boom and a hook.  I remember that you could raise and lower the boom and pull the hook up and down at one point.  It does appear that there are some pieces missing.  There are two handrailings missing, as well.  Note the peculiar couplers on the derrick.  They are compatible with the usual couplers for that era (which you can see on the caboose)













Here is the caboose.  Cage like endrailings must have been around in the 1930s, at least on some steel cabooses.  This thing does not appear ever to have had a smokejack.

[chuck geiger]

The future train room at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. Buffed it, cleaned it, one coat of polyurethane drying. Will go back and add a second today, Refinishing all the floors before I move in, because if I don't it won't happen.

Winner! Great room, I hope this gets to that point.

[btrain]

Had a great time at the Altoona N Scale weekend showing my doughnut layout. It was great fun to meet and hang out with many of the fine folks here! More photos over on the layout build thread.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

It was the Altoona N Scale weekend. I don't even know where to begin.

Maybe with the "Altoona Hotel Style Pizza"?

It was good. Is it destined to be one of the world's great pizza styles? No. But if you're in a place, try the thing from that place.



Maybe my parents and I making up 25% of the one TTRAK layout.





Could've been taking my dad to see HSC, Gallitzin, and Cresson for the first time "for real".



Or getting to meet @bman, see his kick a$$ layout and run some trains on it?







Run some trains through my mom's TTRAK modules?



See some great stuff from other 







Or maybe sneak into the Freemo N layout and get a taste for what it's like up high?





Visit the world renowned NYS&A?





Or maybe even time my trip home so perfectly that I drove past the Everett 4 minutes prior to departure?



No. It was really that I got to spend a weekend devoted to the hobby I love surrounded by friends and family doing the same thing.

Thank you @TimTheTrainMan for all the hard work making it happen. I can't wait for next year.

Here are 100+ photos from the weekend if anyone wants to see more: https://conrail1285.com/the-2022-altoona-n-scale-weekend/

[cec209]

Great to see you and your layout again Brian. Great and unique layout and I liked the operating signals.
Charlie.

[JMaurer1]

Just got to give the NPC (the narrow gauge part of the NWP) some props for making it the picture of the week. NWP is the only railroad that I know of that had narrow gauge, standard gauge, and third rail electric (for a possible total of FOUR rails) all at the same time.

[woodchip]

 
 

I also received my second batch of Rapido Trains Procor tank cars and my Prairie Shadows CN cylindrical hoppers this week, so lots of wheel swapping ahead of me.

Tim
 
   I thought the Rapido wheel sets were decent, what are you going to use to replace them?

                                    Cheers from the Okanagan
                                            Hugh M

[peteski]

   I thought the Rapido wheel sets were decent, what are you going to use to replace them?

You might want to check https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=51853.msg748210#msg748210 and other earlier posts in that thread.

[wm3798]

With grateful thanks to @btrain , I added this Atlas by Samhongsa USRA 2-8-8-2 to my fleet of decrepit steamers.  It was pretty rough, and didn't do very well on the TTrak layout at N Scale Weekend, mostly because the DC loop was on the inside track, making the return loops a snug 9.75" radius.  But the price was right (I believe Brian said something to the effect of "get that thing out of my sight")

Afterall, it had been lettered by a Junior high dropout using press type lettering.


Alas, I brought it home to the stray locomotive rescue to see what it could do.  I was pleased to see it work it's way around the more generous turns of the Retro Rig, so I set about to give it a good scrubbing.


As @spookshow points out, it was not one of Atlas' finer moments, but it seems perfectly content to run loops around my silly little railroad.

In all likelihood this will be another candidate for the Laurel Valley steam fleet, if I ever get around to getting the decals made.
Lee

[btrain]

With grateful thanks to @btrain , I added this Atlas by Samhongsa USRA 2-8-8-2 to my fleet of decrepit steamers.  It was pretty rough, and didn't do very well on the TTrak layout at N Scale Weekend, mostly because the DC loop was on the inside track, making the return loops a snug 9.75" radius.  But the price was right (I believe Brian said something to the effect of "get that thing out of my sight")

In all likelihood this will be another candidate for the Laurel Valley steam fleet, if I ever get around to getting the decals made.
Lee

Haha, someone gave it to me with a box of N scale odds and ends. Being that I model the flatlands, I have no use for it and I’m glad to see it cleaned up and put to good use on the retro layout.