Weekend Update - 6 April 2008

[Iain]

I started working on my N scale model of Norfolk Southern's transfer ferry John W. Garrett last weekend.  I have basically finished the hull (which is now red) and completed some work on the paddle wheels.

[Alcuin]

I've been in the process of shrinking the New River Mine down to size:


After that much kitbashing, a new name was called for:

[railspike55]

Ed,

Thanks for posting your Dad's modules pics.  I have for a while tryed to come up with a replacement module to add to mine.  I took the red line up an 2.5% maybe 3.5% grade and in to
the mountains. I also took the yellow line and tied it to the senek route. This formed a double track main.

Running newer locos has given me headacks because of loss of tracktion.  I have wanted to sorta keep it at waterlevel so to speak. 

I like what he did.  Question what rad is the loop? 24" would be my guess.

I have removed most the trees and stuff for referbing this and well just thinking about replace with new module instead.  This is the old one...

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Ron
I'm not sure the exact radius, but I know the modules are actually 30" deep as opposed to 24". I think they may be 11"rad at the ends, but I'm not sure about the sweeps.

They USED to have a 9" s curve in them, but the latest rebuild has straightened that out a little bit now. They're actually designed so that they can be used apart as end loops, or together as a straight module. They also used to have 3 tracks straight through, but don't any longer.

Here are some pics I had from a while back - this first one is a good overview of the area


And this one gives you a good view of the s curve area.

[cv_acr]

I spent most of Saturday running at the train club; we were open for public tours and a couple hundred people came through to visit.

[railspike55]

Thanks for the pics again.
They look good.  Except for thee mains going through the middle. No wonder ya want to change
them. 

For home layouts I have prefered one or two track mains as proto. When connected to the real
ntrak mod it convertes to two main and sideings.

But do like the way the the red line re enters yellow or blue. I will have to draw some plans to see what I can do with this. 

Thanks for sharing.   My first time showing my first attemp on an end module and while fun to run I never felt it was good to publish an a forum. All rock work was hand carved plaster so its
a heavy one.

Ron

[Chris333]

I would have been painting my 0-8-0, but ran out of re-rail frogs for the tender. Waiting for a Miniatures by Eric box to show...

[kiwi_al]

And some Western road shots to rev up the NE multitudes  ;D ;D

[kiwi_al]

MNCR sort of

[SirTainly]

Nice work there Alister.

[soo]

   Howdy all,,, This weekend I spent much time deciding on to build a new layout,,, or just add on to what I have already.

 What I have is roughly a 14 x 7 swicthing layout, which is made up of old parts from the last layout. You can see where the switching layout stopped and where I started new.






 I have no trackplan,, so I really have no clue what this is going to look like.LOL. In this area I thought about a river/bluff scene. Or maybe a hillside,,, with a road/highway below the track grade.

 This is also the first time I am using any sort of subroadbed,,,usually I just slap the track down and awayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I go.

It is hard to see in the curve, there is a wide piece of plywood,, that is an idea for a small one siding industry,,, co-op,,cement????

 Well there ya have it,,, that took about 6.5 hours for me to do,, I could have kept on,,,,,but the evil eye I was receiving made me stop.lol

 I know something is wrong with my 20D the pics come out too dark,, the first pic was taken by a fuji finepix s3000. I guess the canon needs to go to the shop.
  Adios Wyatt

[chuck geiger]

Cleaning out the room, new workbench (5' on sale at Home Depot for 58.00) a cool hobby workbench. Watched Joe Fugate DVD's, amazing stuff except for his how to on gate or door locks for switch controls.

[asciibaron]

no model action here, but i did get to man handle 10,000 or so girls on Friday.  i installed my package...of bees into their hive.

-Steve

[lashedup]

Sheesh Steve, how the hell am I supposed to follow that up?

Finally got around to installing Unimate short shank couplers in my Super Chief ABBA consist (one of those sitting on my workbench forever projects):



I also installed one "half" American Limited diaphragm between each unit:



Now all I need to do is install the grabs and other cab detail and get that z-scale coupler on the front!

Also took a couple fun shots...



Overall shot:

[Norm P]

Your scenery looks awesome.