HO somewhere in Appalachia.....

[LIRR]

The cobweb train……I have a few feet of hidden track between staging yard and the main, trains often appeared with cobwebs on the nose and pilot. I run this car at the front of a train at beginning of an op session

[Ed Kapuscinski]

I love it.

I have a spider situation too and have a squirt bottle of peppermint oil.

Have you tried it?

[davefoxx]

The cobweb train……I have a few feet of hidden track between staging yard and the main, trains often appeared with cobwebs on the nose and pilot. I run this car at the front of a train at beginning of an op session

That’s hilarious!  Do you run that sticky side out or that doesn’t matter?

DFF

[LIRR]

yes, sticky side out....

[LIRR]

Still working on scenery near the team track…..

[LIRR]

Scenery at Guenther is nearly finished. I have clutter, vehicles and details to add so let’s call it substantially complete.

Next is Wiegand. This is where I started to layout about 5 years ago. The 3 turnouts are the first track laid-down.

I half-finished the long building, it’s A.E. Monard packaging. Kraft paper in, finished corrugated boxes out. I built the coal trestle for Sunrise Coal. Pink mock-up in the foreground is to be a small distillery. Grain in to the unloading shed in boxcars, empty wooden barrels in at the loading dock in boxcars.

This area hasn’t changed much in 5 years.

[LIRR]

The track through the wall to the left goes to a staging yard in the woodshop. There wasn’t a realistic way to hide a train-size hole on the wall, so I enlarged it and will come up with some kind of shadow box solution….TBD.

Two tracks to the left of the cardboard silos are stub-end interchange tracks into closet under basement stairs. My previous N scale layout looped around in this closet to get to staging yard. Doesn’t work in HO. Same story….no good way to treat the wall opening scenically, so I enlarged this opening also. It gives the scene some depth. Coal dealer will help block the view, silos are a stand-in, probably won’t be the final configuration.  Triangle is due to basement stairs.

Stay tuned.

[packers#1]

I’m looking forward to seeing what you come up with scenery wise there, it looks like it’ll be a fun area to work on! You can also ship paper scraps out from the packaging plant; when I was at PCA, some of our corrugate plants received paper and shipped out scrap, and some only shipped their scrap out in boxcars and got all their paper by truck. We didn’t have a corrugator, so we only shipped out scrap paper in trailers and got our sheets in trailers as well.

[LIRR]

A trio of F units with a coal drag pass the team track at Guenther…

[LIRR]

Nothing new lately, I’ve been working on some rewiring….

Did come across a good photo I haven’t posted yet….

[LIRR]

Haven’t posted in awhile……

Picked up a 4-pack of Athearn wood chip hoppers. Very nice models, wire grab irons. Thought of expanding wood chip service but of course these have been discontinued by Athearn. Who knows how long these have been on the shelf at the LHS.



Wood chip load was lame, so I made new ones…..

[Bendtracker1]

Wood chip load was lame, so I made new ones…..

I agree, even the Bluford loads in the N scale versions are lame.
I may have to follow your lead?

[LIRR]

Out with the camera….caught the Smackwater turn switching at Guenther….

The usual pair of RS3s pull cars from Hohmann Hardwoods….

[LIRR]

Rethinking the hole-in-the-wall-to-staging at Wiegand. Original plan was a shadow box behind the larger opening to give the scene some depth. The reality is it’s impossible to work back there. It a corner behind the furnace. I need to duck under the roadbed to get to the corner where i can stand up. But the space isn’t large enough for me to even turn around.

So plan B is reduce the opening and hide it as best I can…..

[LIRR]

I need lumber stacks for Victor's Coal & Lumber's shed (on tab-34). This is the first one. Wood is from a sailing-ship model I never built. It's .025" thick, just a bit oversize for an HO 2 x whatever. It's .200 wide, about 17" HO scale....it'll suffice as the ends of the stacks will barely be visible/noticeable. Building the stack takes about a minute using a small vise. The strapping is from the Walther's telegraph pole kit, it's about .003 diameter. That took some time to fuss with. I need to come up with a better/faster way to apply this as I need about 2-dozen stacks.