I’m going to take the huge liberty of starting this weekend’s WPF thread. I hope Bear isn’t offended.
Here is a video of a Grandt Line box cab with a BullAnt drive. The motor does not have a flywheel. Instead it has a Power Pack keep alive circuit from Loksound. It is using a Loksound Select Micro decoder. The box cab isn’t finished yet but I wanted to show the incredible performance that the Power Pack provides:
I am using an NCE Powercab set at 128 speed steps.
Dave
P.S. I have just posted this on another thread as well. I want to ask if I am offending anyone by posting the same material in two different threads. Am I banging my own drum too hard?
Bang away Dave. Can’t have enough of the really Good Stuff!!![tup]
Of course I’m not offended, however as it’s the Queens Birthday on Monday, I was prepared to share our three day weekend, even if there was a serious falling out and parting of the ways around events that kicked off in 1776. [swg]
So as painting ferry railings is TEDIUM, with a Capital T, and as it is Queens Birthday Weekend, my offering is what every train mad youngster, from the late 40s to the early 60s from the UK and the British Commonwealth, would have given his eye teeth for, Hornby Dublo three rail, from the Easter Sh
Good morning forumers and nice video and pictures Dave and Bear.
I have been doing some work but nothing finished again this week, have been cleaning up a bit trying to find a one of a kind sill step from a kit that went flying off into the eather. So I can now find more than one square foot of the workbench to work on. and the pile of kits around my chair has shrunk dramatically as they are now on shelves.
I did acquire a new locomotive and took a few pictures at the Strongsville Ohio Club Layout.
My new Athearn Erie-Lackawanna SDP45 in Bi-Centennial Colors, after the Conrail takeover these engines worked the ore trains out of Cleveland, OH. I have it paired with an NW SD45 as the engines were financed for the EL by the NW and came as all NW engines with dual controls.
BVRR, I love the RISS truck on the overpass. My Dad’s cousin started driving for RISS in the late 70’s. I went for a few rides with him. In the truck driver world, there is always comments about company carriers. Today’s favorite target is SWIFT (Sure Wish I Finished Training) and CRST. I remember when Jim was driving for RISS, you would always hear someone on the CB comment “Piss on RISS.”
I have been working on scenery on the layout. This is my first time using sculptamold and I very happy with it. I’m not going back to plaster. I’m shooting for a look in the foot hills of the Rocky Mountains (not quite in the mountains).
Lot of good stuff going on Guy’s…now that I’m finally feeling somewhat better from the flu, I can get back to building.
P&Slocal…Like Riss? Have a couple more pic’s, 50’s era when Riss was still union Teamster’s, My childhood friend’s dad drove for them in the late 40’s early 50’s when we went to school together.
Nice job with the Sculptamold, Renegade. The stuff really is the bee’s knees.
My 40+ years old enginehouse rehabbed well. Looks presentable.
With the doors closed on their new hinges.
From the rear.
The floor
Of course, some lights.
And I finished the basic construction of the new Tefft engine terminal when the needed turnout arrived. Like the enginehouse, there will be more work, details, vegetation, etc, but for now substantially complete.
While it’s not recommended, you can do this if you need to. It’s mostly hidden behind a small forest, but the #4 turnout for the enginehouse lead can be spliced into a 24" R curve and work well. The resulting effective min R drops to around 22", but seems to work fine.
Dave, Thanks for the Weekend Picture Fun and as Rod sings, “Every Picture tells a story don’t it?”
Even with great admiration for the Magliozzi Brothers and Disney still can’t bring myself to dust up and rust this nice little RTR Brekina model. If it were the van instead of the pick-up, well…
Great stuff this week. Well, in between the little one’s bottles, diaper changes and nap times, I manged to instal a set of traction tired drivers in my Kato?GHQ L1 mike.
This week I finished the Railway Express Agency buildng for Boothbay Railway Village. It is a Walthers kit with a Miller EL sign on the roof. Next fall after the museum closes, I will open some of he freight doors and add interior details.
It actually a small electric forklift and it came from one of our “spare parts” boxes at Boothbay RR Village. They were loose in a box of similar stuff, so I do not know where they came from. I searched forklift in walthers, but did not find anything that looked similar. Probably something like Kibri or Herpa
