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Ian MacMillan

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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2009, 07:38:11 PM »
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Got a chance to take another photo of some track work. While I am finishing the drywall in the basement I wanted to work on one of my PDE's Lee style and started working on the 8' section of Wilmot. This is the east end of the 2% grade and there are 2 former MEC GP38's stationed here as helpers. There once was a wye and a turntable here during the steam era. Now only the west leg of the wye remains, and pretty much only for MOW storage, while the turntable has long been filled in and a switch placed to allow the helpers to be housed in 2 stalls of the former wooden roundhouse.

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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2009, 08:52:15 PM »
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Little late in the wee to post for the weekend, but will post anyways. here is a small trestle i have been working on, 8" tall x 66" long.
 

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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #17 on: January 21, 2009, 08:59:17 PM »
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Ian -

I thought that you switched to HO Scale?
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #18 on: January 21, 2009, 10:11:33 PM »
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Quote from: wazzou on January 21, 2009, 08:59:17 PM
Ian -

I thought that you switched to HO Scale?

He did. But we got him back!
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #19 on: January 22, 2009, 01:32:07 AM »
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Well, it's still not trains, but it's all I got, and for us DC area feds it was yet another 4-day weekend so it's really only Monday.  Made a bit more progress gentrifying the man cave: lighting & ceiling tiles now cover ~1/4 of the cave, roughly a 12x12 area in this photo:



The main reason for the tile is to contain 80 years of dust in the rafters, but they also help to brighten the lighting, even if they are kind of office-cheesy.  Alas I had to leave the low hanging radiator supply lines exposed, but they do provide some decent heat to the basement, and the tiles help keep it there.  Soon it will be on to repainting walls & floor.... then finally benchwork.  :)
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #20 on: January 22, 2009, 07:47:18 AM »
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Man Cave ... got to love it. I wish I could have one, but the water table will not allow it. Were only eight feet above the table. It would just be an indoor swimming pool.

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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #21 on: January 22, 2009, 08:06:09 AM »
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I think the radiator lines give it a nice industrial touch!  I'm fortunate to have two man caves... (men cave?) one being the attic train room and the other the outbuilding garage/workshop.

If you're in the DC area, Gary, I could add you to the crew list to slip across the bay now and again to run on the WM... what say you?

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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #22 on: January 22, 2009, 09:44:07 AM »
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When I re-plumbed my house with copper about 25 years ago , I hung all the copper under the drywall ceiling with 2 inch or more wooden spacers lag bolted through to the floor joists above about 16 or 32 inches depending for added strength . Makes repairs if needed easy . Makes mods easy . Serves as hanger rods , and long thin stuff storage stowed perpendicularly . All pipes were spray painted white to help them blend in .
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #23 on: January 22, 2009, 10:40:33 AM »
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Quote from: Midniteflyer on January 21, 2009, 08:52:15 PM
Little late in the wee to post for the weekend, but will post anyways. here is a small trestle i have been working on, 8" tall x 66" long.
 



Thats a small trestle? :o Awesome work!
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #24 on: January 22, 2009, 11:57:49 AM »
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On that awesome trestle .
 What wood , paint , and glue ?
 Did you paint or stain ?
 Was it painted before gluing ?
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #25 on: January 22, 2009, 02:45:01 PM »
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One project gave me an idea for another concept:



My take at a stand in for N&W G-11 Coke cars (I bought two of the Trainworx kits). They are 5 feet too short and a bit too low but as close as I can get without bashing or scratching.

Mark
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #26 on: January 22, 2009, 02:48:43 PM »
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Midnite (Marc) is a extremely good n scaler who's work is very familiar to many fellow n scalers in the Denver area; but this project is his best by a long shot !!!!! That is going to be one heck of a module for his N scale club, that's for sure !!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #27 on: January 22, 2009, 04:22:52 PM »
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The trestle is all basswood. i stained the wood before assembly. On the bents every other cross brace has a .008 brass wire inserted for strength. was cemented with CA. For every 12" of trestle there is 10 feet of bracing.
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2009, 02:42:13 AM »
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If you're in the DC area, Gary, I could add you to the crew list to slip across the bay now and again to run on the WM... what say you?

Lee - sounds like a blast!  I'm a rank amateur at ops, but I could bring beer.  I'll check in over on the Lounge.  Hopefully some day/month/year I'll start hosting sessions too...  but any operator over 6'1" will be unceremoniously beheaded by those radiator lines.  :D
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Re: Weekend Update - 1-19-2009
« Reply #29 on: March 10, 2009, 08:17:20 AM »
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Quote from: NandW on January 22, 2009, 02:45:01 PM
One project gave me an idea for another concept:



My take at a stand in for N&W G-11 Coke cars (I bought two of the Trainworx kits). They are 5 feet too short and a bit too low but as close as I can get without bashing or scratching.

Mark

Trainworx just announced this:



1st time in a while that an announcement of an N&W release has pissed me off ... lol
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