Great pics everyone!!!
underworld[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
Well, since my daughter was born a week ago, I’ve had some time to complete a few projects and I bought a new digital camera. Here’s what I’ve been up to:
I finished my speeder shed a while ago, but I finally found somewhere to put it…
I was able to finish the pulleys, cranks, and chain on my Tichy Train jib crane…
I was able to install “bow” and “stern” safety chains, drop steps, MU connections, sunshades, and snowplow on my Operation Lifesaver CNW SD40-2…
And of course, I can’t forget the new engineer…
Morning all, and great pics, I haven’t got any new ones to show but I have gotten to the train room a couple of days this week to put some miles on the train and it has been running great.
ezielinski, that is a good lookin engineer, Where did you get her, from Tichy trains, or some where elece? LOL Keep up the good work. Mike
This thread always helps to re-inspire me after some hiatus from RR work.
Great work as always. My other work has usurped all of my time the last couple of weeks and I am waiting on some TOs to complete mainline around my town of Smithville TX.
There have been several threads recently on industries/structures and how they fit into the overall plan. While I had these on my CAD plan, I decided to spend some time laying them out to see in 3D how the stuff stacks up so to speak. So, another aspect of RR modeling - city planning manager [:)]
Regards,
Hey, Eric!
You finally got your crane assembled and your chain threaded through and wound. Good for you! [:)][tup] You’re right. It was a bit of a challenge to put it together. I don’t know how I would have completed it successfully if I hadn’t had my needle-nose tweezers handy.
Tom
Hopefully a better shot of my scratchbuilt Milwaukee style turntable. Based on the one that used top be at Avery ID
Never mind the date I forgot to set my cameera properly.
If your modeling Post 1994 you need Ditchlights and a strobe, If you model Pre 1994 just the strobe is fine. I’ve got working strobes on my HO CNW Proto SD45s, My CNW GP18, and my CNW GP38-2. They’re great. No Ditchlights and no strobe aside thats a really good looking SD40-2. The only CNW SD40-2 I have is one of the old Kato Falcon Service units. I’d like to get some regular SD40-2s
I still need to add the beacon, MU hoses, and paint the brake wheel green. I’m not good enough at kitbashing yet to add the nose “gong” bell. I wanted to add the ditchlights, but the prototype photos I found didn’t show any (or I can’t see them to verify their placement).
Hi Guys.A Little more from me ,Just adding some detail
Carl.
My first scratch built car is complete - based on the Dolly Varden prototype, with a few alterations from the model I saw in garden railway scale.
Ian
Great stuff as usual guys![:D]
begle55 - I am using dial-up and have no problem posting digital photos. My ISP won’t allow too large a file so I always resize them to about 10" x 8" and 72 pixels per inch. The file usually comes out at a 100-150 kb and transmits quickly. Most monitors won’t display more than 72 pix/inch so you don’t loose much in the translation (depending on the algorithm involved).
tstage/tom - great signal! I’ve been toying with an idea for some of them too. Just lights, not moving parts. If it works out I’ll post pictures.
C&O fan - nice looking freight house and depot. I have a small space for a freight house too. Still looking for the right kit.
howmus - I can remember using those gravity pumps in small towns in Michigan in the 1960s. Today, OSHA would have a cow.
Alan_B - I like your tower model. I have one similar. Atlas kit. I lighted mine, white light on the ground floor, red light in the tower. I put a man up there too.
Nothing new from me at the moment. Maybe later today.
Keep up the good work guys. You are always inspiring.[:D]
hey
can you post instuctions on how to make a ball signal?
that would help me very much. i think it is great work and if it is ok with you i wold like to make one. what scale is it for i may have over looked that part. thanks very much
-bighead
also if anyone has any planes on makeing a coal mine for HO could you pass em’ on? thanks! :]
-bighead
Bighead,
Yes, I’m working on that right now. I have a schematic of the ball signal drawn up in Word, but I still need to tweak the design slightly. The ball shroud and pulley positions need to come down and out a smidgeon, respectively. Now that I have things written down, fabrication should go both smoother, more quickly, and look better. (I was pretty much figuring it out as I went so I didn’t get too bummed about “mistakes”.) The ball signal prototype (and my layout) is in HO.
Bighead, give me a couple of weeks. In the meantime, drop me a reminder and your e-mail address and I can e-mail the schematic to you when I get it done. I’ll eventually post a “How-to” tutorial on my web site for easy access.
Tom
Operations:
Three special Sunday excursion trains meet at the Fish Camp wye for a special tri-tip BBQ.
Structures:
Leaving no one at the usually busy logging company supply warehouse at Yosemite Forks … (a recent build of a Campbell kit …)
Keep up the good work guys.
Some fantastic modeling and photos here today![:D]
The first photo is a meeting of NYC GP7 #5809 and NYC F7A #1663 at the Rt. 82 crossing in Berea. I’ve been working on the perspective of the road into the backdrop. Not sure I have it right yet, but it is certainly better than blue sky.
The second is an improbable meet between UP 4-6-6-4 #5985 and NYC GP7 #5809 near the Redwing Milling Company on the BRVRR layout. The 4-6-6-4 belongs to my grandson and was re-numbered from #3964. Zachary wanted the ‘Famous Engine’ but I couldn’t find one. This is the best I could do.
I love this thread! You guys are inspiring![:D][:D]
“Mrs. Ridge surely got a bee in her bonnet this time,” said Jason McNeil, foreman of the Rock Ridge Mine.
“We were promised, ladies,” said Mrs. Ridge standing at the church podium and addressing the miners wives, “when we moved here, that we would have all the amenities that we had in Philadelphia. Yet still, we have to go up and down these step just to get from one building to the next.”
“Furthermore, it is just plain degrading to walk through the mud in the middle of the night and ruin our clothing, just to use the little house.”
In the end, the menfolk, under the pressure of abstinence, relented. They hired SpaceMouse, general contractor, to build, using the highest quality popsicle sticks, a level catwalk, joining the buildings and in the back a walkway giving the ladies dry access to the outhouses.
The problem: Uneven porches.
Looks like everyone is having a productive weekend.
Where are your horses and cowboys tonight, SpaceMouse? I really like the horses at the hitching rail that you suggested. However, they take many coats of paint. I am working on a few buckskins, a palomino and a bay. I could not get them completed this weekend. I did get some vegetation on the layout.
Sue
P.S Yes, I need some weathering on the herefords.
Sue,
Rusty, the horse you saw pulling the train, took 10 hours to paint.
The diesel shop is nearly complete. Now I need to connect the track, wire up the lights and finish the landscaping around the otuside.
