Great work all, loved the water - that will be one of my next challenges. I spent the weekend touching up scenery and starting on forestation. One thing about taking photos - they mercilessly show up where more work needs to be done.
Any way this is the UTS (Ulladulla Tabourie Shortline) What some of you were thinking applies to my photography and scenery building skills.
Overall viw of peninsula portion.
Scratchbuilt Howe Truss trestle
Bachman 2-8-0 descends 3% grade.
Transition join - Shina code 70 to Peco code 75 Railheads match perfectly.
Enjoy your Sunday all. Bed and work for us down under!
How long did it take you to line up your tools like that? [:D]
I would ballast AFTER you get some scenery in. Others do it opposite though. Its just that it looks like most railroads lay ballast on top of grass & weeds and such. So if you do it opposite you need to be carefull on how it all plays out.
Well, this weekend I got the backdrop painted blue, and started laying track. Still a long way to go, but it is moving in the right direction, albeit slowly, slowly:
Westwards view from the Poly Tech Pipe Co spur near the eastern end of Airlake industrial park.
The industrial park running track disappears westwards to the left between Twin City Brick Co (the low blue modern warehouse on the left) and Menasha Publishing (center rear). In the left rear you can see Crown Cork and Seal (red brick building).
To the east, the running track curves down towards the lower right hand corner of image, with the track to the unloading rack at ChemCorp branching off to the left (top center/right).
Track plan (image above is the one labelled A in track plan below):
It’s been 4 weeks since I’ve done anything on my layout - work, work, work and more work - at work. So, thanks to all of you, I have a bit of the juices flowing again.
This morning finally put the fire escape on the Taylor City hall annex.
Here is my next project that I have been working on this week. It’s a Athearn Blue Box BNSF H1 Dash-9 that I had for a long time and couldn’t part with it for these new RTRs. I’ve added working ditchlights and a whole mess of other things. I even purchased new railings from Athearn and cut up the window piece and inserted them into the window openings (would have worked if I would have used the right kind of glue. Oh well, it just looks like the windows are getting fogged up). The unit still isn’t finish and I’m sorry because I don’t like posting something that isn’t finish.
The other unit is a Kato AC4400 that I too have been working on. All it needs is some Kadees and the upper nose grab irons to be painted the right color.
LOL, I was waiting for this one! If and when I do get the Turkey pen and shed up and running (aka: built) and find something that will look anything like domestic turkeys to use, I will have to at least put up a corn crib. That shouldn’t be too difficult to scratch build…[:D]
You bring out a great point, but when you have no layout and the club that you were once attending has now had to move once again but not have a place to go, All I have is this computer desk that I use to work on my fleet and talk to you guys. Some day they will be finished and pulling a long stack train up the Mullan Pass of my future dream layout. In the mean time a shelf is better than a box.
Photo time! These photos feature all three of my N scale kitbashed PRR steam locos and several of my recently kitbashed PRR/TTX F30d TOFC cars.
Action on the Pennsy Middle Division in August 1956:
The first shot of the day (above) catches an M1 4-8-2 in charge of a string of empty hoppers running westbound, eventually bound for the mines north of Cresson. On the eastbound track is a local pulled by H10sb #8756.
We catch up to M1 #6811 again at Jack’s Run (below):
Waiting a few minutes we’re rewarded by the arrival of TT2, the eastbound TrucTrain behind a matched set of GP9s (PRR class EFS17m).
TT2, normally a hotshot, must have been held up somewhere along the line, because we were able to make it eastward to Lewisport in time to see her blasting through town.
TT2 clears LEW Interlocking as a PRR class L1s 2-8-2 running cabin light gets a clear signal to run westbound through LEW.
Dave: Spectacular photos! Have you condsidered submitting to MR? I’m sure they’d accept it, as the work is outstanding, and it might make people stop complaining about “no small layouts”[8D][bow]
