Jersey City Industrial Railroad Micro-Layout

[Catt]

Well woman,what are you waiting for?????????

[pwnj]

Dooo eeeeeeet!!!! 

[DKS]

'Tis the season.

[Philip H]

Oh snap! DKS may just have taken the Internet away from Dave Vollmer! Well played sir.

We are not worthy!

[pwnj]

YES YES YES!!!!!!!

[Chris333]

Only thing similar to the slushy look I've seen is this mini layout made to look like it's raining:
http://www.carendt.com/scrapbook/page87/index.html


I like the idea, but a layout without greenery is like corn flakes without the milk.

There is the one guy who is on Model Railroad Hobbyest, Allagash Railway in HO. He models large snow piles with white florist Styrofoam.
http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/pop_printer_friendly.asp?TOPIC_ID=24750

[chicken45]

Man, things like this are double edged for me. Inspirational/demotivational 

[Catt]

I enjoy looking at modeled winter scenes and have infact thought of doing one.But I think I will leave that up to the other folks who actually like the white stuff to model it.

[pwnj]

Mike (mikelhh) over on TrainBoard did an excellent job of modeling a dingy melting winter scene in New England, and I don't think he's even ever been there (he's in Brisbane, Australia). 

http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?135163-Building-my-run-down-Bakery-Line-H0&highlight=bakery

Of course, he's modeling in HO, but I like how decently yucky it came out.

[DKS]

Mike (mikelhh) over on TrainBoard did an excellent job of modeling a dingy melting winter scene in New England, and I don't think he's even ever been there (he's in Brisbane, Australia). 

http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?135163-Building-my-run-down-Bakery-Line-H0&highlight=bakery

Of course, he's modeling in HO, but I like how decently yucky it came out.

Ah yes, I remember him from his model photo contest contribution on TB. Exceptional, inspirational work. I'd love to replicate the bad track, but in N scale that's asking for a lot of trouble.

[pwnj]

Ah yes, I remember him from his model photo contest contribution on TB. Exceptional, inspirational work. I'd love to replicate the bad track, but in N scale that's asking for a lot of trouble.

Yeah, his lousy track is fantastically awful (awfully fantastic?).  I'm actually going to give that a go.  The challenge of doing a great job at terrible track is too tantalizing. 

[Catt]

Somewhere around 15 years ago there was a new plastics plant built just east of Michigan City,IND.The siding was made up entirely of cropped rail.It was a lot of fun watching CSX push a string of plastics hoppers down this siding with the cars bobbing and weaving and looking like they would tip ay any given moment.

I would certainly be interested in seeing how someone would do this track in N scale.

[pwnj]

I would certainly be interested in seeing how someone would do this track in N scale.

I think the hardest part is going to be getting dips to work.  Gotta see if I can work a deal to get some code 55 track first...

[davefoxx]

I think the hardest part is going to be getting dips to work.  Gotta see if I can work a deal to get some code 55 track first...

Just giving the rails a whack with a hammer every thirty-nine scale feet ought to do it.   

[DKS]

I've spun off the JCIR into its own website so it doesn't get lost with all the White River stuff--

http://www.jerseycityindustrial.net/