Weekend Update 8/3/14

[jereising]

Impressive indeed, Jim.   Can I persuade you to post a video or two?   
What is your minimum curvature?  I think as trains get longer that becomes a dominant constraint.   Metal wheels are a must-have too.  Over the same track, I found that going from plastic to metal wheels increased the effective capacity of my locos from 8-10 cars per loco to 10-12 cars.  On longer trains, all these factors add up.
Ed

Thanks, Ed!

There are some videos up on YouTube but none as yet with the DP.  I need to get that headlight working first.  Family stuff keeps getting in the way

Ruling curve is 22" in an S curve at CP Canyon where the mains exit staging.  Before DP, and before I weighted about the first 15 cars, I would get occasional stringlining there.   The metal wheels also keep the track cleaner, and with DP you can't afford a dead spot.  Period.

A day or two ago I had a decouple and that pusher was moving about 65 cars!  Not very fast, but they were moving.

[Wardie]

Very Nicely done!

Wow...Nice!!!


I worked on some "home road" cars , the 50 foot cars started as undec shells, I built styrene floors and added BLMA trucks and MT Z scale couplers, and I used decals and paint I already had on hand, so these ended up costing me about 12 bucks each, not too bad!..They still need some brakewheels.....The 40 footers are the new Atlas PS-1s, I chopped the ladders and swapped out the trucks for BLMA ASFs to be closer to the protos....and tried out adding some real wood tack boards, and weathered everything up.......Thanks for looking!

[jmlaboda]

What... no Lackawanna wood cupola???  A lot of those beauties was sold to a variety of different roads with a lot of them being sold to shortlines...

[Iain]

With all my N scale stuff packed up at my dad's house and three hours away, I needed something to work on.  I've always had an interest in the Maine 2 footers, so, I did something about that itch in HOn30:


First is a SR&RL combine RPO/Baggage




Neither one is quite finished yet.  I also have a start on a flat car, but it's not far enough along to post any photos of yet.

[coldriver]

...Caught a set of F7s on Fish Creek Viaduct.  Still a-lot to be done.  Especially the backdrop.

That's really a spectacular scene!  Well done! 

[JanesCustomTrain]

Stumbled upon some Heki HO scale poplars on sale and realized they look a lot like tall northern aspens.    Mixed in with some Heki conifers trimmed down in diameter, the forest really came to life on the diorama. 







and on the prototype front..   this old beater was still chugging along at CN's Sarcee yard in Calgary this week

Wow, how cool is that ? Great work.

Jane

[JanesCustomTrain]

...Caught a set of F7s on Fish Creek Viaduct.  Still a-lot to be done.  Especially the backdrop.

Very nice scenery, well done you.

Jane

[JanesCustomTrain]

Wow...Nice!!!


I worked on some "home road" cars , the 50 foot cars started as undec shells, I built styrene floors and added BLMA trucks and MT Z scale couplers, and I used decals and paint I already had on hand, so these ended up costing me about 12 bucks each, not too bad!..They still need some brakewheels.....The 40 footers are the new Atlas PS-1s, I chopped the ladders and swapped out the trucks for BLMA ASFs to be closer to the protos....and tried out adding some real wood tack boards, and weathered everything up.......Thanks for looking!

Love the weathering, great job.

Jane

[conrail98]

With the help of my oldest daughter, I got 16' of benchtop down today:





Phil

[bbussey]

What... no Lackawanna wood cupola???  A lot of those beauties was sold to a variety of different roads with a lot of them being sold to shortlines...

Probably not.  Lots of other railroads to represent before revisiting DL&W for a third caboose prototype.

[sizemore]

Nothing fancy this week. Installed a decoder, and picked up some Oxford metal cars. They are not "out of scale" as many believe in comparing VW Beetles, they are pretty close. Yes they are "bigger" but given the detail, and put in scenes with other items that are "large" like Athearn buses for instance they scale well.

The S.

[nuno81291]

finalized the track plan for my 1.5x8 industrial switching layout module. Thinking of going from a paper mill to a brewery to do better justice to the industry in the size space. Freelanced but it should be fun for ops

[wazzou]

Did what I always do this time of year in the Pacific NW...boated on the Puget Sound, pulled my kids on the tube and enjoyed the outdoors.

[chuck geiger]

Cool loads in Casper: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2R1EcUIKlUM/U-AC97wjRSI/AAAAAAAAFaQ/tB5lVtsTDxw/s1600/IMG_5027.JPG
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[Mark W]

Finished up the last of 22 Free-moN modules this weekend.  All are now operational!  We're looking to have our first complete set-up in two weeks.  And I'm sure even more modules will be thought up! Staging yard being one already in the design phase.

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