Weekend Update 12/3/23

[up1950s]

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[Jim Starbuck]

I finished paint and details on this SW1 this week.





Jim

[wazzou]

Very nice. What’s the source for the spark arrester?

[Jim Starbuck]

Very nice. What’s the source for the spark arrester?

Thanks Bryan.
My very last resin copy of the long out of production Sunrise part. I still had to make the base plate from styrene.
Future projects will likely use the nice 3D printed ones available from CMR Products.

[mandealco]

Hi
I gave up the thought of using Kato overhead wire poles as the basis for my crossing gantries.  I've had them 3D printed to match the ones on NJ Route 10 in Whippany.  These look really good and just need painting.  They should probably get lights as well, but that's not going to happen.

Have a great weekend.
Cheers
Steve

[nkalanaga]

Steve:  There should be an electronics cabinet near your crossing.  Model it with the door open, and a maintainer sitting next to it, and you don't have to have working lights!

[mandealco]

Steve:  There should be an electronics cabinet near your crossing.  Model it with the door open, and a maintainer sitting next to it, and you don't have to have working lights!

Nice idea.  The cabinet is on the opposite side of the road.  All I'd need then is a conductor with a red flag.   I've been in the cab a couple of times crossing there, and it's not the lights that stops the traffic anyway, it's the large red immovable object in the middle of the crossing.

[spookshow]

Back in September a rogue bolt of lightning took out one of the 100' white pines next to my house -



Fast forward two months and I now discover that the lightning fried (among other things) the step down voltage controller I use for all my street lights (and hence, the lights themselves). Which means that I now get to tear out and replace all 29 of them! 



I tell ya, somebody up there doesn't like me 

-Mark

[peteski]

Back in September a rogue bolt of lightning took out one of the 100' white pines next to my house -

Fast forward two months and I now discover that the lightning fried (among other things) the step down voltage controller I use for all my street lights (and hence, the lights themselves). Which means that I now get to tear out and replace all 29 of them! 

I tell ya, somebody up there doesn't like me 

-Mark

Neah, you have permanent place up there for your locomotive encyclopedia and other info in your website.  Trust me.    I think you were actually spared much more severe damage. Think of what would have happens of the tree fell onto your house, or if the lightning caused a fire.

As for the lights, I would disconnect them all and then check each light. Hopefully only one or couple are shorted, and rest are still ok. That would save you some work and expense.

[mplsjct]

I finished paint and details on this SW1 this week.





Jim

Crazy cool!

Is that a Kato NW2 cab?, if it is the original Arnold cab, that’s a mighty impressive job removing and replacing the windows!

[Jim Starbuck]

Crazy cool!

Is that a Kato NW2 cab?, if it is the original Arnold cab, that’s a mighty impressive job removing and replacing the windows!

Thank you!
 
That’s the stock Arnold cab but instead of trying to get the glued in windows out I put a piece of Tamiya tape over them and trimmed around the glass with a new #11 blade. It worked well for the 3 windows on the rear in the orange and the rest with the clear flat top coat.

Jim

[tehachapifan]

Gorgeous SW1, Jim!!

[Jim Starbuck]

Gorgeous SW1, Jim!!

Thank you Russ!

[spookshow]

As for the lights, I would disconnect them all and then check each light. Hopefully only one or couple are shorted, and rest are still ok. That would save you some work and expense.

No such luck there since they're not wired up in sequence.

-Mark

[altohorn25]

Running some of my Santa Fe equipment on my layout this afternoon.

I just finished the ABA set of FM Erie Builts before I shot the video.

Passenger trains (in order on the video):  The Chief, The El Capitain, The Texas Chief, and The Super Chief.  Approximately 1954.

Variety of power by Atlas, Kato, Broadway Limited, Life Like, Con-Cor, Bachmann, Micro Trains, and a few brass imports.  Passenger equipment is by Micro Trains, Kato, Intermountain, Con-Cor, Union Station Products, Atlas, JnJ metal sides on American Limited core kits, and some brass imports.