Weekend Update 3/12/23

[StewRRFan]

This has been sitting on the bench for a few months.  John designed this and Bob kindly printed the tower for me. 

I wanted to create the feel of a non longer in service but too big/expensive to tear down coaling tower. A few pictures from the web and a bunch of parts from the spare box and here we have....







I need to figure out a plan to weather the concrete out and some rust around the steel.

[GhengisKong]

This has been sitting on the bench for a few months.  John designed this and Bob kindly printed the tower for me. 

I wanted to create the feel of a non longer in service but too big/expensive to tear down coaling tower. A few pictures from the web and a bunch of parts from the spare box and here we have....





I need to figure out a plan to weather the concrete out and some rust around the steel.

The plywood cover for the doorway is a nice touch!

[bbussey]

My printer is back in operation and producing favorable results again. The first print effort after repair were two pieces of RBB&B circus equipment, dining tent wagon #5 and big top pole wagon #43. The dining wagon is perfect, and the pole wagon needs some additional build support on the frame over the wheels to eliminate some minor distortion.

The next effort was the latest attempt of the O&W caboose body. Perfect print results with no anomalies, but some minor design issues remain. The lanterns snap off easily and need some beefing up of the mounts. The clearance for the 0201 LEDs is really tight, so I need to expand the opening from the interior, or square it off. And the roofwalk supports are a little shallow. But these are the best results I’ve gotten in a while. All the wood slat and lantern relief is crisp.

[chuck geiger]

More testing of the environment.
 

[Pomperaugrr]

I had a great day touring the Grafton & Upton locomotive shop this morning.  I am seriously impressed with the skill, dedication and professionalism of the shop team at the G&U.  In addition to other big projects, they are doing significant repair work on two of the Housatonic RR's locomotives.  I will do more of a write up with photos, but here are a couple of teaser shots of the HRRC GP35 #3604 in the shop today.  (Posted with permission)
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[CNR5529]

Its been a little while since I was able to do anything productive hobby wise, as I have been extremely busy with work for the the last 4 months. That said, today was a a great day! I headed over to @craigolio1's place to help him get the final bits of wiring and a few other tasks done on a series of FreemoN modules he has been working on, so they can be operational for our club's first public show in 3 years (the Doubleheaders Layout tour in Kitchener, in a few weeks). Now 12 feet of Lake Cowichan module will be able to join along with his Rutherford Creek module. We managed to get trains running by the end of the afternoon, which was a big win! Next up the group will torture test the module set at the show before Craig proceeds with any scenery work.

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[Ted Thorson]

That railbus is extraordinary. 

[craigolio1]

Its been a little while since I was able to do anything productive hobby wise, as I have been extremely busy with work for the the last 4 months. That said, today was a a great day! I headed over to @craigolio1's place to help him get the final bits of wiring and a few other tasks done on a series of FreemoN modules he has been working on, so they can be operational for our club's first public show in 3 years (the Doubleheaders Layout tour in Kitchener, in a few weeks). Now 12 feet of Lake Cowichan module will be able to join along with his Rutherford Creek module. We managed to get trains running by the end of the afternoon, which was a big win! Next up the group will torture test the module set at the show before Craig proceeds with any scenery work.

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It was a great time! We crushed it today!! 

Craig

[nkalanaga]

StewRRfan:  The NS (N&W) has one at Prichard, WV, between Kenova and Williamson.  Just as you said, to big and expensive to tear down, and the mainline goes under it, so there it stands, a home for the pigeons.

I've sometimes wondered why they don't rent it out as a cellphone tower.

[John]

This has been sitting on the bench for a few months.  John designed this and Bob kindly printed the tower for me. 

I wanted to create the feel of a non longer in service but too big/expensive to tear down coaling tower. A few pictures from the web and a bunch of parts from the spare box and here we have....



I need to figure out a plan to weather the concrete out and some rust around the steel.

Oh wow .. that was beta model V-0.1 -- you did a good job with adding details .. as far as weathering .. the model of the Renovo PA tower is probably a good example of how these weather ..  aged concrete and some weather powders ..

[John]

And for a useless piece of trivia, I want to let you know that as someone who learned English as an adult I can say that puns are one of the hardest things to learn.  I still don't get some of them, but this one was easy.     

Pete - you do OK with English - half the people in the US seem to be 1st generation from somewhere else these days and that's not a bad thing, provided they did it the correct way.  It's always easier to learn a language when young -

[peteski]

Pete - you do OK with English - half the people in the US seem to be 1st generation from somewhere else these days and that's not a bad thing, provided they did it the correct way.  It's always easier to learn a language when young -

Thanks John.
Yes, I think I'm doing okay (sometimes maybe even better than some native English speakers), but like I mentioned for a fun fact, not coming into the language and culture at birth, puns were some of the more difficult things to grasp.  But I'm sure even some native English speakers have problems understanding or appreciating some puns.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Awesome! It looks so good.

It needs one of these in it!

https://www.miniprints.com/product/ed-k/

[bigdawgks]

After a long intermission I have finally completed my REA B74b horse car.
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[davefoxx]

Video test to demonstrate the Gyra Lights that I installed in the light fixture over the cab on this Seaboard Air Line SDP35.  I had to cut up the clear headlights/numberboards light tube to control the lights independently and without light leaking into the cab.  I remapped the decoder, so that the regular (upper) Gyra Light is lit when the locomotive is moving forward.  When the engine is stopped or in reverse, the red (lower) Gyra Light is on.

The plan is to apply some clear orange paint to tone down the “blueish” tint of the regular Gyra Light.  I might even apply a fourth coat of clear red paint to the red Gyra Light.

DFF