Weekend Update 1/27/13

[Lemosteam]

Agree on that former SP unit!  Nice hodgepodge!

Davidgray, I can only hope my layout comes out 1/10 as good as yours.  Amazing.

Built a shared rail/traffic through truss girder bridge with 8" x 8" wood decking for the LIRR IS.  Still needs stain and paint:

[flight2000]

Thanks guys.  I appreciate the feedback and have another one in the making, but it'll have the panels just before the exhaust stack repaired and painted primer gray.  http://www.rrpicturearchives.net/showPicture.aspx?id=315857

Ridgeline, just a heads up that the next one is 9617...   

Brian

[LIRR]

Davegray, very nice work on the rocks...coal mine scene looks perfect

[rochsub]

I managed to move forward with my Cisco bridge project.  Some key parts arrived this past week and I was able to finish the bents and assemble one half of the structure.  The other half is ready to put together as well.  Overall, the bridge will be 25" long (+20" of approach girder bridges) and I plan to have it  about 12-15" above the river below.



Most of the girder lacing will go on after I mount the cross braces.  Here is a bit more detailed view, sorry the white styrene does not photograph well.

Bridge building is so much fun!  Great progress.  Looking forward to seeing on the layout.

Daryl

[rochsub]

Short trip with my oldest son to "German Rails" in Bremen, Germany (sorry, but we had only cell phone cams with us):





that's all for this weekend..have a nice week together...

Very nice layout.  I like the overall realistic look.  Impressive.

Daryl

[johnhale]

Spent my weekend working on my new oNeTrak modules. there are three total, one 45 left, one 45 right, and a four foot straight.

[davefoxx]

I had oral surgery done this morning at the periodontist, so I took the whole day off from work and extended the weekend.  Since I wasn't feeling too bad because the pain medication hadn't worn off yet and the wife and kids were at work and school, I thought I would head down to the train room.  I decided to begin tackling a highway bridge that I needed to cross over the railroad tracks.

I started with a Rix modern highway overpass kit that I bought a week ago.  All was going well, and I even skewed the bridge to fit over the curving railroad tracks below. The bridge looked great when finished, and it's really surprising how sturdy it is when glued together.  However, I then took it to the layout to only learn that I had skewed it completely backwards, and the bridge was now rendered useless for my purposes.  It then occurred to me that when I was laying out the girders to figure the angle of the skew, I had the bridge upside down to make marks on the bottom of the road surface.  In my drug-induced state, I neglected to flip it right-side up before marking the girders, and the entire bridge was built backwards.  Modeling day is now over.   Thirty dollars down the tubes. 

Maybe I should just go back to bed.

DFF

[Hornwrecker]

Been playing around with my new camera, seeing how it does at macro.

ESM X58B, in my freshly ballasted yard.


Seeing how it looks when posted here.  Not too bad for a $149 camera - Olympus SP-620UZ.   (Some color change and detail loss, due to jpeg compression.)

[C855B]

Update to my update... new Bachmann Consolidated arrived today for my UP 2-8-0 project. What an incredible little jewel. I was so turned off by N steam from the early days that since then it was mostly "Steam? Harumph!", 'cause about all I could see were the one-foot-wide driver flanges. Talk about a game changer.

Detail quality is amazing. It almost makes me want to backdate my modeling period twenty years. (I said "almost"! )

[Hyperion]

No pictures, but finally got time (amazing how much free time gets created when the SSD your OS is on gets kaput) to start work on my Briggs M420.  I cleaned up all the parts so next weekend I can work on the frame mods and trucks.

I gotta say, I really wish I could buy all my locomotives like this.  Yeah, since you've got to buy a 'donor' mechanism the price is a little high (like $150 all-in) but the casting is great, the resin is probably the best I've ever worked with, you get a ton of options, you get every aftermarket part you can think of, and the kit is complete right down to the little bits of wire you need once you get rid of the crappy pickup strips.

I'm gonna play around with a new LokSound decoder this weekend.  If that works as well as I hope that it does, I'll be putting sound in the M420 too.  If I'm gonna have an Alco on the layout, I might as well get the distinctive sound too.

[Skeebo]

Spent most of Sunday, (1 hour prior to the Pro-bowl, to 1/2 hour after) painting my 100 SP G-100 ore gons for the Kaiser ore drag, and that was just the exterior. Today, I'll paint the interiors.

[RWCJr]

Twinkes still being baked here.

[CodyO]

I had oral surgery done this morning at the periodontist, so I took the whole day off from work and extended the weekend.  Since I wasn't feeling too bad because the pain medication hadn't worn off yet and the wife and kids were at work and school, I thought I would head down to the train room.  I decided to begin tackling a highway bridge that I needed to cross over the railroad tracks.

I started with a Rix modern highway overpass kit that I bought a week ago.  All was going well, and I even skewed the bridge to fit over the curving railroad tracks below. The bridge looked great when finished, and it's really surprising how sturdy it is when glued together.  However, I then took it to the layout to only learn that I had skewed it completely backwards, and the bridge was now rendered useless for my purposes.  It then occurred to me that when I was laying out the girders to figure the angle of the skew, I had the bridge upside down to make marks on the bottom of the road surface.  In my drug-induced state, I neglected to flip it right-side up before marking the girders, and the entire bridge was built backwards.  Modeling day is now over.   Thirty dollars down the tubes. 

Maybe I should just go back to bed.

DFF

Almost did the same thing when I was skewing my bridge but was working in the layout room(thats where my work bench is)
but double checked my angle before I started cutting and bam I needed to flip it over so dont worry you dont have to be in a drug induced state to almost mess this up!

[superturbine]

Twinkes still being baked here.

Awesome looking ATSF prototype round house.  You should post pics of the real 1:1 for comparison.

Great work Robert,

Jason Smith

[superchief]

Robert, Great looking roundhouse walls!!!!!!!!! , are you modeling the one in Slaton, Tx???? if not which one? Awesome work!!! Gordon