Weekend Update 7/7/13

[up1950s]

[rickb773]

Boy, that is a scene that begs to be modeled!

[pjm20]

No modeling again, but I was able to get out to Renovo, PA:

A shot of the coaling tower and some PRR equipment:


Renovo shops:


Another shot of the coaling tower:

[DKS]

Managed to make some headway on the Rearden plant main building--







Also re-built the sawtooth extension. Still not completely satisfied, but I like it better than before.

[peteski]

Managed to make some headway on the Rearden plant main building--

Also re-built the sawtooth extension. Still not completely satisfied, but I like it better than before.

Wick'd cool (both structures)!

[One of One-Sixty]

Went to Philly this week for its Welcome America celebration as well as meet with fellow alumni about filing an injunction to stop the Board of Trustees from turning Girard College into a Day School and cutting back the grades from 12th to 8th.

I did get some rail fanning in as well as took pics of areas I want to try to incorporate into PRR Liberty City including the Packer Ave Marine Terminal Pier 96 and 84. 

[basementcalling]

I couldn't resist putting down a few trains on top of the trackplan printout. Still a good bit of carpentry work to do this weekend, but a couple sections of the new layout will be ready for roadbed and track soon.

Thanks to the USPS, i drove down to the post office downtown to inquire why their website said my package of ME code 55 concrete tie flex was delivered on Monday, even though I got no mail at all this week. Funny how they found the package that was delivered on Monday to my house IN the back of the postal building. Despite the delay, track laying can still begin with only a minor delay.

Here, a CP/UP powered autorack special drifts downgrade as the helpers in the distance have cut off after a tough climb to Summit Siding on my Idaho Belt. In playing with the rolling stock, I found a couple neat ideas for photo angles if the summit upper deck is set up with no backdrop. Just not sure I want operators to be able to see trains from either peninsula.




At the future sight on a large paper mill, the mill job waits to head back home with empty tank cars as an SD70 storms into town. A few cars wouldn't fit at spots today so they were left on the mill storage tracks. The CP boxcar is on a paper loading track that will run into the warehouse building. The recycling department has a few loose screws to tighten up before deliveries can start. The red line is the edge of the benchwork.



The first hidden 1 loop helix mocks up nicely. One task on the to do list this weekend is to cut the supports to go ahead and mount this subroadbed in place and get some track down in here before I get carried away and put the upper deck down on top of this area.



Hopefully more to come from a weekend with nothing but trains on the agenda. Hoping a stray yard goat will come mow my grass.

[rogergperkins]

I am using Kato Unitrack, i.e. the single and double track versions.  This is a photo of a rework that I did in preparation for a future layout.
The double track will run across the middle of a 4'x16' portion of the layout; this passenger yard will be on one side a freight yard on the other.
Plan to have engine service area of turntable, etc. which are elements of the current layout.

[mu26aeh]

Got my decoder installed for my Kato P42 Amtrak set I got a few weeks ago.  Runs very nice, albeit thru my paper mill industrial area.  Really need to get trackwork redone on the main layout so it can stretch its legs

[DKS]

Slight change in direction for one building--





Full story in the layout engineering thread: https://www.therailwire.net/forum/index.php?topic=27762.msg326603#msg326603

[Ian MacMillan]

Wick'd cool (both structures)!

+1 on this.

Still no more train stuff. We have everything all packed up and are ready to move out of our rental and into the new house, but that is still 3 weeks away. I'm off to Alaska in 4 days and can't wait.

[peteski]

I still have to say "Wick'd cool", even after the change!  I liked the somewhat whimsical look of the previous building, but I can also see why DKS decided to eliminate it.  However, I'm glad that he still left one of the stone structure there. I think that it really fits.  I guess maybe because in the back of my mind I recall seeing just this combination of buildings somewhere in my travels (probably in New England).  But it will be just my luck if couple of weeks from now, DKS ejects the stone building from his layout! 

[DKS]

I still have to say "Wick'd cool", even after the change!  I liked the somewhat whimsical look of the previous building, but I can also see why DKS decided to eliminate it.

"Whimsical" was the right word to use, and one of the main reasons it got nixed.

But it will be just my luck if couple of weeks from now, DKS ejects the stone building from his layout!

I can pretty much assure folks the stone building ain't goin' nowhere.

[Alaska Railroader]

I'm off to Alaska in 4 days and can't wait.

Enjoy Alaska Ian. It was my home for 30+ years and was hard to leave. I have 2 of my grown kids there plus other family and a lifetime of friends. Plus the best railroad is there 

[davefoxx]

Enjoy Alaska Ian. It was my home for 30+ years and was hard to leave. I have 2 of my grown kids there plus other family and a lifetime of friends. Plus the best railroad is there 

Conrail's in Alaska?!