i custom built these think they turned out okay i forgfot to put in the tower holds liquids too it has a pillbottle tank gravity feed gravity shut off
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Just finishing up this depot that I built from the ground up out of cardstock and stuff lying around the house.
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Top picture is a highway bridge that I scratchbuilt from styrene based on plans I received from the state DOT historian at the time. (The bigger beams were made by laminating smaller beams together.) I ended up narrowing it a little from the actual plans as I either misfigured a width dimension or my road is narrower that a prototype road. When I showed a picture of the bridge to a high school classmate who is the head of the regional office, he told me that it looks very much like the prototype. (The Highway department was tearing them out as the prototypes were 50+ years old.)
The bottom picture shows a track bridge based on a Northern Pacific prototype. (My protolanced road is based on the NP.) It is also built from styrene. These plans were sent to me by one of my NP modeler friends.)
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that mountain and station scene is just beautiful is that a hotwheels size model t i have one but the top is missing a flea market find but still also do u use the boxcars with sliding doors and know if i can buy replacement doors somewheres
thats awesome i wish i still had it my great grandpa used to have blueprints years ago for the design of horshoe lake airport well it was a small ultralight feild he flew out of for years with his buddys more like a clubhouse then a airport but if i had those plans id do what you did make the airport and just enjoy thinking about my great grandpa and the times he took me up
thank you those are good memories of my grandpa
that is neat yours clones their prototype how neat perhaps some day youll be the man making their prototypes for them that would be neat being paid to build model prototypes all day thatd be a cool job indeed.
ironically enough we both have the same mayflower truck on our lines i have an allied trailer as well with the trailer supports still on it and doors
As to doing the models, I’m pretty sure they have enough people for that.
The Mayflower semi and trailer was something I ended up ordering for detail. Wanting the full trailer started with me getting another trailer as part of a collection I was given about 5 and half years ago. It works for the area and era I model.
These are older photos as the layout has changed since these were taken. There are two more sections that go around the corner. The bridges haven’t changed however.
Thats cool hey ill tell u keep your eye on resale shops and flea markets you might not have to custom order i get vintage cars and stuff all the time from our local flea market. its worth it that truck only cost me 1$ at our flea market guy said 50 cents for the cab 50 for the trailer and i was sold cause of my childhood memorys of seeing that truck
these were all flea market buys and great deals the two dummy trollys were 20 at the highest and the ajax were 5$ tank was 2 the rest 25-50 cents. sometimes the flea market pays off the trollies are in ho scale too best part so they fit perfect on the tracks
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I found it through eBay, actually. As I don’t have an LHS, I have to get my hobby supplies (mostly) via the Internet. (I can get super glue and hobby knives and regular blades in town. Otherwise, I have to order it.)
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Here are two trestles constructed from 1/4" x 2-1/2" pine lattice, ripped on a small table saw, and glued with Elmers in a jig 20 years ago. They have held up really well.
well its like i recommend look up on your phone one day “flea market” “bin stores” “resale shops” trust me its not all just antique furniture in those shops
goodwill and savers too sometimes have older cars
Here’s a couple pics of Lucky Silver Mine, Shaft No. 1, on the edge of Mamaros, atop Roarke Mountain. The mine complex is kitbashed, with a little bit of scratch-built, but the reworking was fairly extensive, so perhaps it fit in with the spirit of this thread.
The lift in the tall lift house in the back brings loaded 18" gauge ore cars above ground, where they are collected by Big Joe, who operates Little Joe, the 18" gauge gas-motored loco. He pulls them across the ore bridge to the tipple house, where they dump into bins through doors in the floor, You can see his little train on the tail trestle that allows him to empty all the cars before taking them back to the lift house for them to go down again. The best ore is fed out of the tipple into 30" gauge ore cars on the tracks on the far side, where they will be hauled down the ridge to the ore bins outside of Notch. The ore will then be dumped into standard gauge ore cars for the trip to the mill. Any junk ore goes down the chute to the front side of the tipple where it is loaded one hand cart at a time into the chat wagon to be used for fill, street work, and ballast for the Silver Dollar Line.
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I have to say again, Becky: beautiful work on a truly scratch-built depot!
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Yep, I agree. Great looking structure.
Rich
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