Weekend Update 7/26/15

[Chris333]

I just looked at the decal sheet. The thick leg should be on the right... only one is wrong 

[Kisatchie]

I just looked at the decal sheet. The thick leg should be on the right... only one is wrong 

Hmm... ohhh, one is
reversed, not upside
down...

[unittrain]

Working on a curve module that will contain a large junkyard.
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[Roger Holmes]

A new I love the 1950s video:

Dougnelson-- Love the "new" video.  My Aero-Train is a shelf queen.  Runs fine on DC but I can't get it to run on DCC even after a trip back to Con-Cor and trying multiple types of decoders.  Happy to see yours running so smoothly at 10 seconds to the quarter mile!

[chuck geiger]

The Rix Ripoff continues. Painting and sizing bridge girders. Railings up on one side, sidewalks in,
need to scribe sidewalks.

[davefoxx]

Chuck,

I'm looking forward to seeing your Rix Ripoff come together.  This is as far as mine has gotten, because I need to purchase a Chopper II and some styrene strips to put the concrete curbing and ornate railings together.



I found great picture online at the North Carolina Department of Transportation website of the railings that I'm trying to replicate:



DFF

[Chris333]

Ohh! almost forgot a made a quick vid of the HOn30 layout. Cued up a youtube video on my phone for sound:

[chuck geiger]

Chuck,

I'm looking forward to seeing your Rix Ripoff come together.  This is as far as mine has gotten, because I need to purchase a Chopper II and some styrene strips to put the concrete curbing and ornate railings together.



I found great picture online at the North Carolina Department of Transportation website of the railings that I'm trying to replicate:



DFF - Plastruct's architectural line might have your railings. http://www.plastruct.com/picat/STRCTURAL_SHAPES_FTGS.pdf

DFF

[pjm20]

The lastest "visitors" to the NBER's shops in Coleville, just outside of Bellefonte, PA:



Some MoW equipment parked on the end of the spur:

[chicken45]

FINALLY. I never want to do this again. So. Much. Filing. If this were any other car, I'd have given up. Ladies and gentlemen, HRH, The Queen Mary, the FD2. 120 scale feet. nearly 10 inches. Done.
I'm going to toot my horn here because no man should have to file this much in their lifetime. This has come a long way.




Trucks are from Shapeways.




You have no idea how much filing and reshaping I had to do to make it look like this.




Sorry Ed!


The biggest issues I had were with these curved transition pieces. I grounded these down.


Because of the reshaping, I had to remove this lip off the bottom...


And rebuild with strip styrene.


JB Weld was used extensively.


There was no detail in the deck. I scribed these lines in with a caliper.




The only thing I haven't done yet is figure out how to do those rounded mounting slots in the sides of the deck.

[Skeebo]

     As Saturday train day at my place consisted mostly of hooking up CAT V cable, I later got an urge to run big power. So out came my UP doubles. U50C #5025/GP30/U50C/SD24B leading a merchandise freight passes a DD35A/DD35/GP9B hauling a cement train out of Victorville.

     Another heavy merchandise crosses the deep canyon powered by C855A/C855B/GP30B.

     Later a priority pig train with the standard DDA40X/SD40-2M/DDA40X on the head pass a lesser rack train with a new GP40X spliced between the big DDA40Xs. These brutes are the only reason I also model the UP.

[Roger Holmes]

I finally got the time to take some quick cell phone photos of a work in progress and several recently completed projects

As I mentioned in the Joining Atlas Code 55 to Code 80 thread that I started a few days ago, I am finally finishing the N Scale Architect Excel Feed kit that I started long ago.  The structures were all done 2 1/2 years ago and sat on the layout in the spot I had chosen but had no track and no final configuration.  I took them to the workbench and attached them to thin plywood.  In these photos the overhead piping is only about half done and a lot of cleanup will be done before adding the scene to the layout.

The gray grain elevator is a Quality Craft kit that I finished in 1972 and which had been in the area that the new scene will occupy.  My story is that this was the original structure and it grew over time into the Excel complex.  The old grain elevator had black construction paper roofing that has faded to purple.  It will get a new wooden shingle roof before the scene is done.









Here's where the new scene will go.




I recently painted an Atlas caboose to be pulled by my new Chicago and Illinois Midland SD9's.  The decals were Microscale purchased "new" from Walthers  They disintegrated and took two coats of Micro-Scale film to preserve.  I'm sure this set doesn't fly off the shelf.  Unfortunately the stripe was laid down in several pieces.  I should have photographed the other side which turned out better.



The next project is a Bachmann resin cast movie theater building flat.  I need a full building so I built the new sides.  I can't find my box of rooftop details (see messy workbench photos above) but when I find it I will add some interest to the roof.  Second photo show its tentative location.  I have been stockpiling buildings for a new town.






Finally, many months ago I showed the church that I built out of what was supposed to be the top floors of the CMR Fyfe Building.  Here's the church in its tentative location with its stained glass illuminated.



And here's the Fyfle Building without its "church-like" upper stories.  I built a new cornice and reconfigured the rooftop mechanical building which was supposed to be screened by the "church" walls.

[mu26aeh]

Tonight, I cut in/replaced more Atlas turnouts with Peco's on the CSX Hanover Sub-Subdivision.  I got the MMID interchange, Suburban Propane, and a yet to be named printing facility installed with track and cork.  I also started the trackwork coming off the mainline into several switching opportunities in Hanover.  I will post photos tomorrow in the build thread after I get the Hanover work done and hoping to get Porters installed too.

[mark dance]

not much modeling this week...mostly getting the layout ready for a big operating event in September and a warm up session next week.

I did get a couple of shots of "Mike's favorites" bypassing over the Barr creek bridge though!  Thx Mike!





Have a great weekend!

md

[nkalanaga]

Chris333:  If three are reversed, and one is "correct", the easiest thing to do is redefine "correct", then change the odd one.   It's still an "M", and nothing says your shop has to use the same font as other railroads.