Weekend Update 5/8/16

[Hamaker]

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[crrcoal]

Very cool!! I hope you start a thread on the build in the Layout Engineering section. Looking forward to following this build!

In the true spirit of model railroading, I have completely waffled from my last project(s), only to return to my favorite, the Burlington Northern in the Twin Cities, Autumn '91.

To get things rolling for things to come someday, and to provide quick and dirty operations, a mock up of a nearly absolute minimalist corn syrup transload facility, à la Lance Mindheim, MRP 2010:



There are few to no corn syrup transfer facilities that I know of here in Minnesota, since everything is within trucking range from the production plants. I'm willing to concede a bit of prototype fidelity on an 8 1/2" x 26" (plus cassette) module for maximum operations, plus corn syrup tankers are pretty neat

Benchwork commences tomorrow, nothing special, 1x2's with 1/4" MDF top, and a thin layer of cork. ME code 55 everything, going to have another go at soldering feeders, last time didn't go well 

[jagged ben]

I love those Pennsy engines, you guys are lucky (and I feel a bit jealous....)

But now something from the left coast...
I decided to tackle the Summit (that would be California) Wye. Why you ask?
Well because it was the turning point for helpers from both San Bernardino and Victorville during the steam and transition eras and an important part of the Cajon Pass operations scheme. The Wye section is removable as it sits over a walkaround operator isle with a 56" duckunder, where the very thin fascia is. I made it as thin as possible to maximize the clearance underneath. We'll see how nimble my operators are...some not so much

Anyhow, the pics below illustrate my cardboard "cut-and-fill" technique that I find very useful and lightweight: just 1x3 frames with 1/2" plywood trackboards, cardboard cut and fill segments, cardboard strip webbing and "specialist bandage" and plaster/sculptamold overlays.
Pics below, including a construction one way back when...

Regards, Otto K.
Edit: dang the pics are out of sequence and I'm not smart enough to fix it...

Looks very nice Otto.  I love a well done recognizable scene.

[Scottl]

I agree, that scene looks really great Otto.  I like the perspective that is possible laid out that way- lots of good viewing angles.

I've been working on my Skoonka scene for what feels like months and I'm nearly done.  Just in time to pack winter gear and head north.  I'll get back to this in June at some stage and hopefully add some colour to things.



Some other experiments in my Layout Engineering thread  https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=27858.msg474306#msg474306 

[bnsfdash8]

A little more progress on 1633.

[nkalanaga]

Chuck:  Looks good!  And the pictures are showing today, so Google must have gotten their site straightened out.

That's the way I remember Wenatchee.  Not the exact buildings, but from the tracks one really can't see the town, just walls.  We were in town for Mom's HS reunion in 1983, and I walked from the north end (Lee's Motel?) to downtown, along the tracks.  To the east, the river and hills were visible, but to the west, much of the way, very little of the town could be seen. 

[chuck geiger]

This area has been three different towns and it seems to change like a Chameleon. Going to start working
the buildings and foundations into the ground. Next: To find away to model apple bins. I have darkened
the ballast with Pavement (Wally World 50 cent bottle of acrylic paint) with water and alcohol. Ballast here
is old GN/BN dark gray.

[Hamaker]

Chuck:  I too can now see the photos.  Looking great !

[peteski]

Oh, the humanity!

Eh, just a bunch of blow-horns!  Nothing to see here, move along. . . 

[mmagliaro]

Just about finished my HOn30 Forney



This is my first ever shiny (well semi gloss) steamer.

Chris, that looks great!  I have lost track of this project.  Is it a kit? 
(How did you make the the trailing truck, particularly the sideframes?)

[Chris333]

No kit. Started as a Minitrains F&C loco.
https://www.eltallerdelmodelista.com/images/locomotora-de-vapor-americana-fc-minitrains-1001-1.jpg
The cab is 3D printed. The tank is the rear of the F&C tender. Boiler is brass. The rear trucks is a Kato FEF front tender trucks with 3D printed sideframes. The center bolster is styrene:


https://www.shapeways.com/product/X3CQ54ZWA/hon30-truck-sr-rl-swing-motion-type-x20?optionId=57736335

[milw12]

Very cool!! I hope you start a thread on the build in the Layout Engineering section. Looking forward to following this build!

Thanks for the kind words! I'll see what I can do about a thread, it'd be nice to have a place to go into more detail about my thoughts and ramblings.

Now for the very mundane, I built the 'bench work' today, if you can call a 9 x 25 1/2 module that 



As always, thanks for looking.

[nkalanaga]

I missed the fruit company sign the first time!  As for the apple bins, I can't help you there, but it shouldn't be hard to find and measure one.  They might be a good item for 3D printing.  There wouldn't be a lot material in each one, and there'd probably be a few others willing to buy them.  Anyone needing one will need a bunch.

[Philip H]

As noted elsewhere https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=39035.msg475053#msg475053 this was the annual Conrail historical Society's Rail B Q weekend.  General goonery began Fridaynight as Ed K hosted some informal running on his York, PA layout:





Josh S. showed off some of his Pennsy handiwork:



And there was much Big Blue to be had:



Saturday morning Ron Smith hosted a few of us on his Erie Lakawanna/Bath and Hammondsport layout - which is a really nicely executed mix of mainline and switching in a small townhouse bedroom:







then it was off to Newport, PA, where we discovered that 3 trombones can indeed replicate a Leslie 3 chime airhorn:



Lots of NS action cam eby as well:





So while I may not have bult anything, it was a great railroady weekend none the less.

[Blazeman]

At least you had sunshine at Newport. Further east, clouds didn't break until about 6.

With the guys blowing their 'bones, some may think it's also the Newport Jazz Festival.