Weekend Update 8/20/17

[mu26aeh]

Continuing our push on the O scale layout for the Mainline Open House.  It's only 4 weeks away.







Damn those WM purists.  @wm3798 what have been your whereabouts in the last 24-48 hours ?

[jmlaboda]

Something to keep in mind... around your era (which is a little later than mine) most parking lots in smaller towns were gravel, not asphalt, with many remaining that way well into the 70s.

[up1950s]

Towards the end of the Skytop parlor cars on the Hiawatha, they suffered the indignity of sometimes having Flexi-Vans added behind them between Chicago and Milwaukee. Such is the case here. Imagine having paid the extra fare for a seat in the Skytop and having to stare at that. (Ask Charlie Vlk about that one!)

Not a fact I would have guessed they would have done , but knowing it , and modeling it makes for such a more interesting passenger train . I wonder if they or other roads repeated this . 

[Rich_S]

Not a fact I would have guessed they would have done , but knowing it , and modeling it makes for such a more interesting passenger train . I wonder if they or other roads repeated this .

Amtrak was running roadrailers behind some of their passenger trains.

[Missaberoad]

Great Northern would put tail end express cars on it's trains aswell (mostly the Western Star).

[jnevis]

Not train related but spent the day working on a 1/600 scale (3mm) S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) and 2K12 Kub (SA-6 Gainful) sites.  Still needs a little work.  Next is an SA-4 battery and some 15mm (1/100) ZSU23-4s and SA-8s.

[wazzou]

Not train related but spent the day working on a 1/600 scale (3mm) S-75 Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) and 2K12 Kub (SA-6 Gainful) sites.  Still needs a little work.  Next is an SA-4 battery and some 15mm (1/100) ZSU23-4s and SA-8s.

Come again?

[jnevis]

Building models of surface to air missile sites for use as visual aids and eventually as an Electronic Warfare museum display.
North Vietnamese SA-2 layout

SA-6 Radar and Fire unit

[peteski]

Building models of surface to air missile sites for use as visual aids and eventually as an Electronic Warfare museum display.
North Vietnamese SA-2 layout

SA-6 Radar and Fire unit

If this is part of your job, sounds like a fun job!

[OldEastRR]

Something to keep in mind... around your era (which is a little later than mine) most parking lots in smaller towns were gravel, not asphalt, with many remaining that way well into the 70s.

Good point .... this is a mock-up only, site is very unfinished. Going with your idea tho leaving the tops of the ex-buildings foundation's as edging to the gravel lot would also look pretty neat. Guess the winner is #3!!

[craigolio1]

No, the fluting goes around the front end only.

Doug

Awesome. Thanks!

[alhoop]

Building models of surface to air missile sites for use as visual aids and eventually as an Electronic Warfare museum display.
North Vietnamese SA-2 layout

Gonna have a F4G Wild Weasel hovering in the vicinity?
With a HARM homing in?
Al

[garethashenden]

I've been fitting True Scale Couplers to everything in sight. I'll get more pictures tomorrow, but here's an ESM well car I did.

[peteski]

I've been fitting True Scale Couplers to everything in sight. I'll get more pictures tomorrow, but here's an ESM well car I did.

Really?!  Even on your British trains?   

[Spades]

Building models of surface to air missile sites for use as visual aids and eventually as an Electronic Warfare museum display.
North Vietnamese SA-2 layout

SA-6 Radar and Fire unit

inevis
I  believer they now call it electronic defense. Where is this museum?

Oddly enough I was cleaning out some of my fathers stuff this weekend. He worked for ATI in the early 70's found a bunch of stuff with wild weasel marking.