Weekend Update 12/3/23

[Lemosteam]

More work on the large industry after completing the mortar work, installing the windows, and adding a false entry for LIRR IS material delivery.  I still have to add the fire escape ladders and platforms.



Here is its spot on the layout:



I also lit the building’s entry, and added a faint background light to the warehouse track entry opening.

[chuck geiger]

After a trip to Fresno from Yuma and a chance to see the real high desert near Mojave, where Las Piedras lives in a fantasy world, I was able to match the scenery.

[dem34]

Delivered the Layout for the Model Railroad shop in Piscataway NJ.
So now have time to work on my own projects for a bit.

Still a lot to go, Acrylic Screens/Fascia to keep fingers and dust off. Little details to make it lively but overall enough to keep the shoppers happy.

[chuck geiger]

Delivered the Layout for the Model Railroad shop in Piscataway NJ.
So now have time to work on my own projects for a bit.

Still a lot to go, Acrylic Screens/Fascia to keep fingers and dust off. Little details to make it lively but overall enough to keep the shoppers happy.

Nice build...

[Cajonpassfan]

A very nice collection, Nate! What kind of sound in the 90?ESU?
Otto

[wm3798]

Started another Hi Rail project.


But not for me.

It's for Rigby.

Lee

[bbussey]

Playing with my new DLP printer and returning to projects I had difficulty printing in the past. This particular print will complete a lonnnnnnnnng-term project. For years I’ve envisioned these payloads on these flatcars. The flatcars were finished two decades ago. I had never crafted the transformer to my satisfaction, until now. Not via scratchbuilding, or digitized and printed through Shapeways, or printed on my own. The transformer is based on the Walthers HO model but N scale size. The stacked radiators are framed and the payload components will be arranged via an October 1990 article in MR. This is just a payload placement test. The two PC flatcars I’ve shown numerous times.

[chessie system fan]

What's this? Only the first non-virtual modeling I've done in ages.



More info here:  https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=56906.0

[nkalanaga]

Mark:  Lighting shouldn't draw too much current, so maybe buy a quality power strip with a built-in surge protector?  Plug the lighting power supply(s) into that, and they should be safe from future lightning, or other outside power problems.

We lost a tape drive at my bank data processing job, one of those big reel-to-reel, half-inch tape, drives, like in old movies, to a power surge.  Some gravel truck driver forgot to lower his bed, and took out the power, phone, and TV cables across the street outside.  The surge melted the electronics in the drive!  It isn't always lightning...

[spookshow]

Mark:  Lighting shouldn't draw too much current, so maybe buy a quality power strip with a built-in surge protector?  Plug the lighting power supply(s) into that, and they should be safe from future lightning, or other outside power problems.

You'd think so, but the power supply was plugged into a power strip with a circuit breaker, which was in turn plugged into another power strip with a circuit breaker, which was plugged into a GFCI outlet. The outlet fried, one of the power strips fried and two power supplies fried. The only good news is that the bulbs connected to that second power supply didn't also fry. Those are all on and inside of buildings and would've been a nightmare to replace 

-Mark

[spookshow]

Speaking of electricity, I finally finished up this electrical substation project that's been gathering dust on my workbench for a while -





It's mostly science fiction, although some of it (the non-Woodland Scenics parts) are loosely based on this prototype -





-Mark

[MK]

You'd think so, but the power supply was plugged into a power strip with a circuit breaker, which was in turn plugged into another power strip with a circuit breaker, which was plugged into a GFCI outlet. The outlet fried, one of the power strips fried and two power supplies fried. The only good news is that the bulbs connected to that second power supply didn't also fry. Those are all on and inside of buildings and would've been a nightmare to replace 

-Mark

Mark, you need power strips with surge suppressors, not circuit breakers.  GFI outlet won't protect you from surges either.

Get a good brand/quality surge suppressor strip.  The MOVs inside will sacrifice themselves to save your equipment.

[spookshow]

Mark, you need power strips with surge suppressors, not circuit breakers. 

Oh, I thought the terms were interchangeable. They do have "surge protectors", or at least so say the stickers.

-Mark

[altohorn25]

A very nice collection, Nate! What kind of sound in the 90?ESU?
Otto

No sound in the Erie Builts......just the sound of the wheel flanges bumping on the Atlas Code 55 track spike heads once in a while..... 

[John]

I've been working on a Western Maryland Railroad  Glyndon Station for my layout .. this is still a work in progress - so none of the smaller details are drawn yet ..

https://maps.app.goo.gl/fWXADdH8F3sMXH899

The general design is "close enough" and I've locked it down .. the station measures 20x60 not counting the bump outs.

The brick wall I measured at approximately 10 feet .. There is a second floor under the combination roof ..

I'm having some trouble trying to get the roof right .. I deducted the lower portion is around 22.5 deg slope, and the upper portion seems to be around 30 .. I have no information on the height .. the ridge line is around 40 feet ..  with the end of the roof approx 36 feet and the length approx 76 feet .. rafters are 24" on center .. based on pictures ..  I'm just not smart enough yet to figure it out with the information I have .. will have to try to get some drawings