Looking great everyone, i don’t have any offerings yet[:P][bow][:P]
Here is a picture of some bicentennial engines I am working on this week.
Dan Pikulski
www.DansResinCasting.com
David and Aggro, outstanding weathering jobs. Likes like you can dig the rust right off the car.[^]
Everyone, awesome photos, especially Marty, Aggro, and David. Fantastic! Cant wait for more!
How BIG is tooooo big???[;)]
Here a pacific was just filled with water and its heading off to pick up its consist.
Fall is almost here and I beat you can’t wait for fall colors on your RR?[:I][;)]
WOW Marty, that looks awsome! What scale is it?
Looks like Z scale to me[:D][:D][:D]
My LHS has some new G scale loco’s in stock ( can’t remember what they are ) but they sure are nicely detailed. they are on my wish list.[:)][:)]
Ken.
Kevin
this is were price[B)] comes in. the tubs are around 43" inch tall.
I wanted a single row of 12" tubs BUT the price jump from 8" was over double. thus these are gas pipe with scrap wood. It has been moved to the new Bang’s Canyon Sud where more modern buildings will be built
Thats an Aristo mallet, so it gives you a “believable” WOOW factor.
i have more sidings to install and one will be a scrap iron company and the other a plastic pellet plant. Of which i am looking for photos to get an idea at what is do-able.
The more money you can save building your own the better.
In our scale it has to with stand being out side. Because winter shots just don’t cut it when buildis are gone.[^]
PS
Every RR is plain and lifeless at first, no matter what scale, is’t either dirt and rock, or wood and plaster.
Finally, after years of dreaming, I finally decided to dish out the money for a 10 pack of Deluxe Innovation’s RoadRailers! And here they are!
These things are awesome! I highly reccomend these to any of you N scalers out there![8D]
WOW! Every weekend I look forward to this thread. Every weekend, I am amazed. Every photo is great! Marty, that is the most fantastic G scale work I have ever seen. Wish I had lots of money and a larger yard…
I’ve been working on lighting for the layout this week. I went with bits and pieces of several people’s advise for this. I placed lights every 2’ or so as jfugate does on his. I decided to use low wattage compact fluorescents rather than incandescents. I have a combination of 7, 11, and 15 watt bulbs. 22 bulbs = 218 watts. If I had done this in 15w and 25w incandescents, it would be have been around 440w. Considerable savings in energy use and more light to boot. The only drawback is not being able to dim these type of CFs. I found the bulbs at a local “Dollar Store” for $1 each so the cost of the bulbs was $22. With the fixtures #14 wire electric boxes, clamps and the 1" x 4" boards to mount the lights on, the cost was still less than $100 for the entire project. I will be mounting facia in a few weeks to hide the lights. The lighting is much, much better than the old shop lights that were in the room. The CFs are 15,000 hour ave. life and have a color rating of 84 and are 2700K.
WOW!!!
Nice pics scott those roadrailers are awesome!!!
i want some in ho scale
Roadrailers looks good.
I know they make them in 1:29 but i’m not sure how they are saling. Not to many folks have RRs that can handle them.
Here in NE I personally have never seen one .
I have one but its sold to a friend because I just can’t get into them.
Out East I hear they are big??
Norfolk Southern has some RoadRailer trains. I’ve never personally seen one, but I love the concept. I’ve always like the more unusual rolling stock that you don’t really see much, or that is only used by a few railroads.
I’d like to see a nice long string of the G scale ones. They are impressive in N scale, they should be even more so in a garden railroad.[:D]
I’m thinking about spending another $115 on another 10 pack, just so I can get a longer train.[8D][;)]
Here’s a photo of a heavy transformer load being
delivered by Conrail to the town of Pine Run on my layout.
Dave
those low boy flats work great for having a viedo camera on board. Unless you have a tunnel.[;)]
My goodness there are some great photos this weekend…Lots of excellent work. I wasn’t going to post these, but Grande Man encouraged me into posting my first attempt at painting an undecorated loco. It is far from what I had hoped and I probably shouldn’t have started with a two-tone, but I did learn a lot and I guess that’s what counts. Two big mistakes were using regular masking tape that allowed some bleeding of colors and holding my air bru***oo far back on the first coat. This caused some specs in the finish by drying before it got on the model. (That sounds like I know what I am talking about, but it is a guess only. [:D] )
Well, here it is: My BLI SW-7 in the home road colors of the Blue Creek & Warrior Railways. (forgive the background. I will try my hand at the photography thing when I get over this, ha!)
REX
Rex
I think it came out fine, if you feel there are any flaws, well just dust and rust [:)]
BTW I visited your website, nice layout. I envy your space.
If you ever need to make a run-through, our engineers would be pleased to run that RoadRailer on out west [;)] Our regional offers bridge routes at great rates.
I have been thinking about getting some of those, do they track well? Any issues on turnouts?
They track great. They run nice and smooth. They are a little tight on my 12" radius EZ track, but other than that, I have no problems with them so far. I don’t have any turnouts to take them through…[:I] But I don’t think that they should be a problem.[tup]
Thanks David. I believe weathering will make it right. I also have a NYC GP-7 that I stripped and painted BC&W at the same time. I still have to decal and put back together. There sure is a lot more to model painting than I had thought. Practice! Practice! Practice!
Yes, I have been blessed with plenty of room for my layout. It is a joy not have space restrictions (only money [:D] )
REX [:)]