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Super late to the show this time. But, My "weekends" don't always line up with Saturday and Sunday. aaaaanyways.....First big project, Reworking the mountain line on my N trak module. First time out, clear back before COVID crap took hold, we found it was odd that for all the tracks to line up, the module had to be laid back at a 10 degree or so angle, and even then, the outer main was high, inner was aligned, and branch was low, with the Mountain line being aligned. 2nd show was our Christmas show at the Wa. State History Museum, and we had the same issue. Fast forward to the Puyallup show last month, and the same issues came up, along with the discovery that the mountain line was about 1/4" too far back. I grabbed our official club alignment template from x600, and went to work. Yup. Mt line is 1/2" too high. So, apart it comes!! (Attachment Link) (Attachment Link) I've cut down the risers to the right height, so that is right now. But I have some other work to do before reconstructing the mt line. my siding that comes out the back is going to get realigned. Its gonna extend towards the end of the module. and come out the backdrop at 45 degrees. I'm doing this to make it possible to have a staging track that can clamp to the back of the adjacent module. Some of us in the club like to do small opperations on the branch line, and this will allow for more options. Not to mention making changing power easier if someone has a long session, and wants to rotate out power.another series of projects I have been working on came up after acquiring some stuff from the estate of one of our members. I have been tinkering with a GHQ Z8 kit, and some other small projects. Did some speed matching of some locomotives. But the cool project is this: (Attachment Link) I picked up 2 Kato EF57 locos from the estate. One was already decorated for Milwaukee road. So it got a decoder, and went into the fleet. (FYI, TCS CN-GP works in these EF57, Some minor milling isn't required, but does make things easier, and cleaner) The 2nd EF57 was a project that our departed member was working on. the shell was 2 F unit shells joined back to back, with some electric details added to the top. I had planned on finishing this project, but I discovered the shell that was on it, was cracked in several places, and didn't fit well. Then I remembered an article from an old issue of N scale Magazine (July/Aug 1992). This article was on scratchbuilding a Milwaukee Rd Little joe looking locomotive the author called "Go Joe." I dug out my old copy of the magazine and read though the article again. Then I bought some old FM shells, GG1 Pantographs from Kato, and scavenged some parts from the kitbashed shells. Above is where I am at now. I see some things I want to change now that I have looked at it for a few days. I have not been able to do train stuff in a while, so this has been a nice few weeks.
...Also, the New Haven 14-4 Point series (as well as the Beach and State series) were P-S cars. All NH fluted equipment was built by P-S....
I think you meant non-powered, ordinary passenger equipment. There were oddballs like the Roger Williams (Budd) and the John Quincy Adams (ACF?).(not often I get to correct @bbussey on NH matters!)
I spy a motorcycle - tell us about it I can't quite make out the model. Oh yes your modelling is great!!
It's a 2006 Suzuki Boulevard C50. I bought it for myself when I got out of the army, But I don't really ride it anymore. My back can't really take more than an hour in the seat at a time anymore. Add to that that no one around here looks out for motorcycles. of the last 4 times I went out for a ride, twice I almost got hit, once got forced off the road, and once I got forced into on coming traffic.I'd like to get out and ride, I just can't really, I'm actually looking at selling it.
Riding bicycles against traffic is a huge mistake:
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