Weekend Update 12/18/22

[randgust]

Erik, I'd be very interested in how this model comes out when done. These clones, and original Fowlers, are some of the more iconic but missing cars on our transition era rosters, and they went everywhere...
Forgive me if I missed this earlier, but did you do the 3D design yourself?
Watching closely,
Otto

Just a thought - but only if you're making a batch of these.   I've had the same issues with printing and that the 'wood siding' looks great on some orientation and your doors are the curse for finishing.    Suggestion - what if you printed the doors separately as a part with sideways orientation and let the grain work for you instead of against you?

[bigdawgks]

My club had an ops session on Saturday and it was the first time I ran my newly finished ex troop sleeper mail storage car.
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[Jesse6669]

While you've got CAD fired up, there's also this: "LOCOMOTIVE SPECIFICATIONS BOOKLET: GE C60-8E AC ELECTRIC FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE" https://crhscollection.omeka.net/items/show/9542     

Now that's cool.  I never heard about this one.  Was there a test unit produced?

Might fit on the 6-axle T-scale chassis...  but I want to do an H24-66 first.

[randgust]

StewRRFan:  having seen the former ARMCO works here in NE Kentucky, I like the size of your steel mill. 

Given that size, I wonder if anyone, now or in the past, has ever tried to disguise household plumbing as a similar industrial scene?  Many basements had, and probably still have, pipes on the walls, which can't very well be hidden, and blue paint doesn't hide them.

On a massive friends layout, one end was right under the major sewer drop line and horizontally into the basement wall.  The main line reverse loop went right under it with about 4" of clearance.   We did a fairly massive mountain scene up above eye level to hide it the best we can....

But the hook that bought redemption was the station name and the panel name.   I looked up real station names in the Official Guide.... THAT"S IT!  He was modelling B&O in the Cumberland area, so it became..... wait for it.....  "Falling Waters, WV".     

And no amount of Styrofoam or foam could hide the racket, so 'it's a feature'.....

I can't take full credit, I remember John Armstrong's famous station "Gasmeterzag" on his Canandaguia Southern O layout, where literally, it was the 'gas meter sag' where the mainline went under it.

[John]

My club had an ops session on Saturday and it was the first time I ran my newly finished ex troop sleeper mail storage car.
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@bigdawgks  Nice .. where is your club?

[Ed Kapuscinski]

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While you've got CAD fired up, there's also this: "LOCOMOTIVE SPECIFICATIONS BOOKLET: GE C60-8E AC ELECTRIC FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE" https://crhscollection.omeka.net/items/show/9542

Now that's cool.  I never heard about this one.  Was there a test unit produced?

Might fit on the 6-axle T-scale chassis...  but I want to do an H24-66 first.

No. I'm not even sure it was a legit proposal. I almost think it was a joke.
I didn't know what to make of it the first time I came across that (I discovered it while doing some archiving). It all just sounds so weird.

[bigdawgks]

@bigdawgks  Nice .. where is your club?

Orlando N-trak, FL.

[Sokramiketes]

Started painting a couple Lunde Studios kits. Great detail, just having to watch the fact that the front wall castings are narrower than the back walls. I can adapt, but it’s too bad since they machined the 45 degree corners so nice.

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[chuck geiger]

[StewRRFan]

N Kalanaga - Thanks.  Shot that at a low angle to hide furnace and such.  Here it is from either end. - Ross

[ednadolski]

My P:87 test layout is starting to take shape:  https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=55210.msg757757#msg757757




Ed

[Kentuckian]

N Kalanaga - Thanks.  Shot that at a low angle to hide furnace and such.  Here it is from either end. - Ross

Very Nice! Is that the HO Plastruct background kit?

[StewRRFan]

"Very Nice! Is that the HO Plastruct background kit?"

Thanks.  Yes, with a few of the other flats scratch built.  The Electric Furnace in the foreground is N Scale.

[TiogaTracks]

A big basement cleanup project brought me back to model railroading after a bit of a break… but the trains are smaller all of a sudden!

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I dusted off a near-finished project from when I was a teenager: a trolley layout in a laptop bag.  The track plan is just a folded-atop-itself dogbone, with one turnaround hidden underneath, plus a street scene stub-ended track and a 2-track carbarn.  It worked well for being stored for over a decade, and is now cleaned and working well.  Here’s the whole thing, displayed at a hobby store back in 2011:

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I also found this cast-pewter-on-Kato-mechanism single-truck “Birney” streetcar.  I got it off eBay ages ago, and strangely it came with no roof detail at all, not even trolley poles.  I fixed that lack of detail and adjusted the paint a little to model a Philadelphia Birney car.

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Oh, and the jukebox lights up, and has a hidden speaker under it!


-Steven

[nkalanaga]

StewRRFan:  You got the look of a steel mill.  Armco's was laid out differently, and had its own blast furnaces, but the size and colors were very similar.  Those things are HUGE!

And, yes, I remember "Gasmeterzag".  Coincidentally, a few months back, I managed to acquire a Canandaigua Southern Center Flow for my railroad, from N Scale Supply's preowned section.
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I'm not so sure that proposed electric is a joke.  In the 70s both GE and GM were making such proposals, although most never went anywhere.  GE even offered to help finance new E33s, as motor-generator units, for the Milwaukee.  MILW management was dead-set against anything electric, wanting to finish dieselizing, so they turned it down.