Weekend Update 1/14/24

[eja]

I built a log load out for my Algoma Central inspired layout.

IMG_5529 by Leon Richard, on Flickr

I love the idea of stacking the logs vertically in the end of the gons.  Super good modeling idea in my mind ...

[wazzou]

I love the idea of stacking the logs vertically in the end of the gons.  Super good modeling idea in my mind ...

Well, that’s the way it’s generally done.

[eja]

Well, that’s the way it’s generally done.

I live in Southern California.  Do not have the opportunity to see many logging cars

[nkalanaga]

The GN, NP, MILW, etc in the upper Midwest and Northwest loaded pulpwood that way, including the vertical log "bulkheads".  Most "saw logs" in the Northwest were longer, and loaded lengthwise. 

[altohorn25]

I received a new 3D printed coal tower for New Lisbon in the mail this past week from China. 

I cut it out of the supports, fixed a few things, and washed it this morning.  Waiting for it to dry so I can paint and weather it.

Thanks Mike Skibbe for finding this one; much better size compared to the Walthers kit I was going to use (that one was too big).

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[altohorn25]

I finished up the coal tower for now......needs more weathering.......

I took a few photos of it on one of my modules; the lighting is better than my layout room currently.....

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[Roger Holmes]

 Not sure how accurate they are, but if no one tells me, I'm blissful in my ignorance!
 

I've been a model railroader since I was 10.  The older I get (72), the more I agree with your statement.  I look at a lot of Milwaukee Road prototype material and incorporate some of it into my railroad but I have friends who are in modelling paralysis for fear of getting something wrong.  I have trains I can run and enjoy and they don't. YMMV

[eja]

I've been a model railroader since I was 10.  The older I get (72), the more I agree with your statement.  I look at a lot of Milwaukee Road prototype material and incorporate some of it into my railroad but I have friends who are in modelling paralysis for fear of getting something wrong. I have trains I can run and enjoy and they don't. YMMV

That is the point, isn't it?

[Jesse6669]

I finished up the basic scenery on the WP&Y Fraser, BC side; I may add some kind of company vehicle in the lot, although in modern times it was used for tour bus parking.  And maybe a moose or two, or a bear.   I need to do some test running to make sure the track power is still ok, it seems like about a year since anything ran on this.  Hopefully no broken feeds or joints.   


Also need to finish up a DL535E to run.  I tested my idea to provide lighting on this little guy, which basically puts a pre-wired 0201 LED inside a headlight housing, that is then painted black and pressed into the cab. It will get a resistor added to keep the brightness down as well.
   

[John]

I finished up the coal tower for now......needs more weathering.......

I took a few photos of it on one of my modules; the lighting is better than my layout room currently.....

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Nate -- that turned out very nice - Just out of curiosity, what did the China shop charge for that?   

[randgust]

My I1 is pretty much 'done' now, see the main thread for more photos, other than adding the coal load, when I get the sound decoder in the tender

Video of this running will be next.....



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[altohorn25]

Nate -- that turned out very nice - Just out of curiosity, what did the China shop charge for that?

$22.14 (that includes tax and free shipping.....only took about 2 weeks to get here, and that was over the holidays....).

https://www.ebay.com/itm/393544839472

[dnhouston]

I've been working on a BTS Elliot & Sons kit.  Still a long ways to go.

[BCR 570]

I finished up the basic scenery on the WP&Y Fraser, BC side;

Nicely done!


I spent some time today getting the layout back up and running after a lengthy hiatus.  To mark our first snow of the year this past week I ran my first plow extra after completing the snow plow and flanger models last year.  The plow kit was a gift from Puddington after I saw his CPR one on an older forum.

Plow Extra 574 crossing the Pine River (likely one of the last trains to do so before replacing the bridge):




and passing through Groundbirch after the climb up the helix:




Tim

[packers#1]

And so the scenery begins. Pink foam ziggurats filled in with lightweight spackling, and then some tinted sculptamold in areas where I’m hoping to have some exposed clay. It is rather shockingly orange, but at the same time, that’s how the clay looks around here, as you can see in the linked proto photo. Worst case, if it needs to get toned down I can add some washed or repaint it, but for an underlying color it should work well. And it’ll be covered by a lot of kudzu as well.



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