Weekend Update 10/9/16

[tom mann]

@chicken45 's Queen Mary:

[chicken45]

@chicken45 's Queen Mary:

Hey @tom mann ! Tell @Lemosteam your thoughts on that load!

[SecretWeapon]

I'm gonna bust your balls on the photo quality, but only because I want a better look at what appears to be an awesome train.   

LOL!!!! Someday I'll figure out how to use that stupid camera.

[milw156]

Made some more progress on one of the newer Modutrak modules, Forest Glen where the Chicago Milwaukee mainline descends to grade level and crosses the north branch of the Chicago river 11 miles out of Union Station. Google earth view

looking north towards the Edgebrook commuter stop and the Chicago city limits

An abreviated Rainbow Builder running Eastbound on the wrong main

Amtrak 505 crossing the Chicago river (during a drought!) from a spot I rail fanned the Empire Builder and North Coast Hiawatha  from 40 years ago

Hope to have at least basic ground cover down by the Naperville RPM meet in 2 weeks, and then some trees and water maybe by Trainfest in a months time. Nothing like deadlines!
Rick

[nkalanaga]

Chuck:  Now it looks like the Wenatchee area.  A lot of people don't realize how dry even the east side of the Cascades is, much less the Columbia Basin east of the river.

[Bendtracker1]

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Wow, that makes a huge difference Chuck!!

[railnerd]

China Basin Ferry Slip got a few more piers tonight:

[tom mann]

@Lemosteam @chicken45

The load is very well modeled.  I am surprised that there are no visible raster lines from the Shapeways process.

[Cajonpassfan]

Made some more progress on one of the newer Modutrak modules, Forest Glen where the Chicago Milwaukee mainline descends to grade level and crosses the north branch of the Chicago river 11 miles out of Union Station. Google earth view
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Hope to have at least basic ground cover down by the Naperville RPM meet in 2 weeks, and then some trees and water maybe by Trainfest in a months time. Nothing like deadlines!
Rick

Rick, I love well done proto-based scenes! Keep the pics coming!
Otto K.

[chuck geiger]

Thanks Allen, gotta watch doing this stuff as you get older, cut out two sections of the backdrop from color copy and
was cleaning up the cut out scraps and threw out the ones I cut out - Wadded up and tossed. OUCH.

[VonRyan]

This week's project was wrapping up major mods to the club's long-in-the-tooth N-Trak yard modules, getting them ready for a show this weekend:



What I was fixing was a leg system that took too much time in setup. Note to future module constructors: "No tools!" is a worthy objective, but when the solution contains the phrase "wing nuts", find another way. Setting up the old legs required handling forty - that's right, count 'em - forty wing nuts. Both off and then back on, for setup and teardown.    The new legs fit in sockets, as shown in the module on the left, and are held in by neodymium magnets. It takes seconds. Ahh, much better.

The club I belong to uses 3/4" aluminum conduit for legs with one end threaded to fit pipe flanges mounted on 1x4 boards under each module. The bottoms of the legs have two long nuts hammered into them with the bottom nut riveted to the conduit. For feet 95% of our legs have long bolts that have a 2" disk welded to the head, and the majority of those disk have thick felt or rubber pads glued to them.

We have a standardized length for the legs, so they are interchangeable with all our modules, save for a few modules that have special length legs.

[CBQ Fan]

A couple quick hitter projects:

[cjm413]

I want that double plug door Big Sky Blue boxcar, in N scale of course.

Cannon offers a laser kit in HO, don't know the likelihood of having it scaled down to N for use with an Exactrail overhanging diagonal panel roof, ESM Keystone underframe, etc.

http://www.pbase.com/dh30973/cannon4005

[DeltaBravo]

I did a little weathering this weekend. Some before and after.

[mstl 246]

Thanks Allen, gotta watch doing this stuff as you get older, cut out two sections of the backdrop from color copy and
was cleaning up the cut out scraps and threw out the ones I cut out - Wadded up and tossed. OUCH.

Nice job with the background Chuck, really like the sense of distance it gives. Seen a few attempts that the perspective seems off and draws attention to itself. Not getting that with your background.

Nat