Well not much happening up here on the CVS. I’ve been too busy with school and other activities to work on my own railroad. I am looking forward to visiting the local club later this month and getting to run my trains on their modular layout, but more on that later[:)]. Some business from the other tread:
John: Welcome to the TAMR. And Happy Birthday too.
Alex: Can’t wait to see that SOO Geep, your friend is lucky[:D].
everyone else: great work, I’ve seen your progress over on WPF.
In response to the question “Who here likes trains?” HMMMMM…?? oh yes, ME.
The only new thing around here is my youth club has started working with a local museum to build an N scale model of the our neighboring town, Clayton, in the 1940’s. This model centers around the railyard that existed back then. I’ll hopefully have some more info, and maybe pictures soon, along with my thoughts on N scale[:-,].
Sawyer, yeah, I saw them! And I must say, it looks amazing!
And I heard this joke about cupcakes, and I can never look at them the same way again. It’s very disturbing… I don’t think I can ever eat a cupcake without puking again… [xx(] lol
And in N scale, a cupcake would be 0.01875" in diameter. If not smaller…
Haven’t been here in like 2 years. For those who may(or may not) remember me, I’m an N scale moderler…and after sitting around for 2 years doing nothing I pulled out my trains and have plan on finally finishing that module that I have been “working” on for years now.
Jamie, HO has bigger cupcakes. We also have cookies, which are way better. Well, Birthday today. I got paint brushed, a whole Xacto set, and a bunch of back issues of MRM. Yes, I saw the sore thumb/April fools. And I am in Florida. From school, I went to TAA in Salt Lake and HSC in Minneapolis. Algebra was supposed to be held at 30,000 feet in the air, but the in flight wifi was canceled. For my b-day, I will go to this awesome MR exhibit.
I don’t find it that bad, but I don’t like the fact they eliminated the “more videos from this user” bar, and instead you are stuck with a long line of related videos, which are for the most part unrelated to the video…
I have a question for you: What code track would be most realistic for a yard, and where would you buy it (best price)?
Our club met last night and, with our 1:160 blueprint/ trackplan which is 4’ x 10’, and decided we need 81’ of track (which is 27 pieces of 3’ flex). We decided on Nickel-Silver Atlas track, but we don’t know what code to use. Also if you know anywhere that sells this at a good price please share[:)].
I have a meeting to go to tonight (not train related[sigh]) so I can’t spend too much time here. I’ll upload the trackplan in a couple of days and explain what’s going on in more detail. This project is moving at a MUCH faster pace than I’m used to.
I’ve used both Atlas code 80 track and code 55. code 55 is what I’m currently using and is the most realistic. However, code 80 doesn’t look terribly out of scale if painted right and also older equipment will not run on code 55 (in fact, I do believe Micro-trains cars still won’t unless they have new low-profile wheelsets) because they have “cookie-cutter” wheels, which have HUGE flanges. however, most everything today has the rp-25 wheelsets for code 55. As to track prices, you’ll have to do some shopping around. I bought some second-hand switches from one guy and then traded two locos I wouldn’t be using to another guy who decided to go with code 80 and got almost all the other code 55 I needed. modeltrainstuff.com is probably a good place to begin your hunt though.
Uh, Youtube never changed. Unless it’s like the last Facebook change where everyone was like “OMG!!! IT’S DIFFERENT!!!” and mine didn’t change until a week later…
So I actually did something! I painted my SW1500 into the genset green and blue! It needs a little touch up, and I won’t have decals for a while, since I can’t print them in white.
I’ll have photos later.
Good luck getting Atlas Code 55 flex. The molds broke and I’m not sure when the containers will get here, not to mention Ian has bought every piece of flex from every conceivable vendor. [:P]
