Weekend Update 7/7/24

[garethashenden]

I've installed the coal trestle I built a few months ago.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Just noticed got an Allagash thing going on.

I dig it. Who's static grass are you using?

[flight2000]

Some more progress on the retail area.  Added the parking lot, which is tiny compared to most Lowes parking lots.  Also painted the lawn mowers finally.  I'm happy with it for now, but will continue to tweak it more in the future. 

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Also added some details to the back of the gas station.

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The last addition this week was the traffic light.  If it bugs me enough, I'll go back and modify it before I install the lighting circuit as Walthers made the neck way to long (which is why it's so far back from the road). 

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Finally, my NS fleet is getting some more color added to it.   

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Cheers,
Brian

[John]

Love the Lowes -- don't forget the veterans parking

[brokemoto]

As these things actually do not run poorly, any more, I did a minor dress up of them.  I added glazing but it is difficult to see it except in the front of the cab.  The bells came from  parts boxes, from shells or commercial detail parts.   The air tanks were fashioned from sanded/filed  sprues plus copper wire windings from fried B-mann decoders.  The clunky stock hand railings were replaced with some either from the parts box or from this lot of IM stuff that this lady was selling in FeePay.   The lot was interesting  mostly for the FT shells, but included were some railings and other parts  for some mystery IM freight cars.   The railings were better than the clunky stock B-mann railings on the locomotives.. The stock horns remained in place as they are only minimally clunky if clunky at all.

[pdx1955]

Completed the O hi-rail NP log train. The cars were built following photos in an NP Color Guide book using junk box postwar Lionel cars.

[nkalanaga]

Flight2000:  Or. leave the traffic light the way it is, and say it was built that way on purpose.  As truck trailers got longer, too many drivers ended up cutting the corner, knocking the poles down, and demolishing the hedges.  This way, the pole isn't likely to get hit.

Pasco, Washington, in the 1970s, had a similar case with a power pole.  On Lewis Street, the main east-west street, at Oregon Street, the main north-south east of the BN tracks, there was a power pole right on the edge of the road.  Literally, in the curb, not the sidewalk, or the gas station lot.  Every couple months, some impaired driver would hit it, and black out much of downtown, as that was one of the main feeder lines.

I was working nights at the only all-night restaurant in town, so saw quite a few of these blackouts.  The power would come back on, an hour and 20 minutes later.  Every time.  Why so dependable?  The local power company had a replacement pole, ready to install, at their maintenance yard.  Our night manager would call them, they'd grab the pole, pull the old stub out, and stick the new pole in.  Transfer the wires, reset the breakers, and we'd be back in business.

Sometime after 1978, when we moved, the city rebuilt the intersection, and moved the pole well back, into the gas station's lot.

[eja]

Pasco, Washington, in the 1970s, had a similar case with a power pole.  On Lewis Street, the main east-west street, at Oregon Street, the main north-south east of the BN tracks, there was a power pole right on the edge of the road.  Literally, in the curb, not the sidewalk, or the gas station lot.  Every couple months, some impaired driver would hit it, and black out much of downtown, as that was one of the main feeder lines.

I was working nights at the only all-night restaurant in town, so saw quite a few of these blackouts.  The power would come back on, an hour and 20 minutes later.  Every time.  Why so dependable?  The local power company had a replacement pole, ready to install, at their maintenance yard.  Our night manager would call them, they'd grab the pole, pull the old stub out, and stick the new pole in.  Transfer the wires, reset the breakers, and we'd be back in business.

Sometime after 1978, when we moved, the city rebuilt the intersection, and moved the pole well back, into the gas station's lot.

That is an amazing story    .. .  thanks for sharing!

Ed

[flight2000]

Flight2000:  Or. leave the traffic light the way it is, and say it was built that way on purpose.  As truck trailers got longer, too many drivers ended up cutting the corner, knocking the poles down, and demolishing the hedges.  This way, the pole isn't likely to get hit.

That's a great point, thank you!  This is why I love this board, the feedback and suggestions are always outstanding...

Cheers,
Brian

[chuck geiger]

I dig it. Who's static grass are you using?

Scenic Express, I have been using it for a while now. All 4 and 7 mm. It will be air-brushed with buff and earth Tamiya paint
and add a few tufts I've tried to do the "Boomer" drop of matte medium then push in a few needles of static
grass. Thanks, Ed you inspired this.

[chuck geiger]

Scenic Express, I have been using it for a while now. All 4 and 7 mm. It will be air-brushed with buff and earth Tamiya paint (it's Golden, Late Summer, and Green Summer sparingly on Green Summer). and add a few tufts I've tried to do the "Boomer" drop of matte medium then push in a few needles of static grass. Thanks, Ed you inspired this.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

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[spr1955]

River Bridge is moving along, next is the river..... Trees are super trees and ridge is going to get more work as the scenery behind it is going to change. Hope to have the bridge installed later this week but heading to DC for the week with my daughter may mess things up, welcome summer.....

[nkalanaga]

Ed:  You're welcome! 

One of my "side hobbies" is trying to explain scenes that don't look quite right in a logical fashion.  One can find almost anything somewhere, but how did it get that way?

[Cajonpassfan]

N Scale Magazine renewal notice....?
Just received a renewal notice in the mail today...not that I'd receive any issues in ages...
Anyone know what going on since Kirk had passed? Odd....
Otto