More on the DeWitt Clinton adapter...
The component parts.
Cutting down the drawbar a bit.
Yes, that's a GG-1 pulling a stagecoach on flanged wheels. Who says surrealism is dead? 
Road Supervisor Norma Bates Kitteh gets into the act...
Next, to the paint shop!
Mitch
Mitch, where did you get the stage coach car? Man I love it!
I got the two girders glued together and I'll let them sit over night. Then I started trying the paints for the bricks. I first did right out of the bottle. The one piece of brick with the bottles on either side to show which color is which. Just to see how it would look I took some white latex paint and mixed it in the with some stone grey and got this on the second piece of wall. Also I applied some to the portal to see how it would look. I think I am going to go with the mix............Pics...................Paul
Paul, I like the mix too!
mike g. posted:Mitch, where did you get the stage coach car? Man I love it!
http://www.lionel.com/products...ssenger-set-6-11164/ (coach loaned to me by John D.'s dad)
The adapter car is so that a regular Lionel loco (in this case Joe's postwar Navy Yard Vulcan diesel switcher) can pull the stagecoaches when the Dewitt Clinton loco is in the shop for repairs.
Mitch
Paul, I agree with Mark! The mixed looks great!
Mitch thanks for the information!
Thaddeus, Your yard is going to look good when finished; functional too!
Lee, Great sign! My dad always told us kids, when visiting always follow the host and hostess's rules!
I was just at a local Forum member's house a couple weeks ago. They just moved in, brand new house. The first thing he said after hello was, please take your shoes off. I don't blame them; brand new carpet throughout the upstairs, but some kind of hard flooring downstairs in a wonderful, clean slate train room and workshop! Since I have a bad foot, on my next visit I will bring my inside shoes and wear them downstairs; I saw my host does the same thing.
THADDEUS, nice freight yard. This morning I painted black inside the tunnel portals. Then I mixed paint to get my color. But I did not have enough grey to mix with the white so I got a bit different shade but I will wait till it dries to see how it come out. Next project is to cut the girder to fit in place. Maybe I can get to that later.......Pics.......Paul
The wall is looking really good there Paul! Nice work
Son: Your tunnel is looking GREAT !! nice work..Dad..
had an all Santa Fe lunch.....
Sure like that ES44AC I think it is! Everything looks wonderful for a lunch time break!
Thanks for the compliments guys. Paul, that section is really starting to come alive and looks pretty cool.
paul 2 posted:THADDEUS, nice freight yard. This morning I painted black inside the tunnel portals. Then I mixed paint to get my color. But I did not have enough grey to mix with the white so I got a bit different shade but I will wait till it dries to see how it come out. Next project is to cut the girder to fit in place. Maybe I can get to that later.......Pics.......Paul
You Da Man! The corner looks great Paul. Can't wait to see the finished product with a couple of trains going into the tunnel.
Nice forced perspective on the close up of the tunnel portal. Either that's a really small step ladder or your portal got much bigger 
Bob
p51 posted:Got the final stuff ready for the Saturday op session, this sign is for the hardwood floor my wife protects more ferociously than many women look after kids...
As our front door is metal, it'll go up with magnets.
LOL Lee- I grew up with wood floors. Mom's rule was no shoes in the house- PERIOD!
PS- those slip on shoe protectors are a good alternative to removing your shoes.
cabinet Bob posted:Son: Your tunnel is looking GREAT !! nice work..Dad..
I agree with Bob! Looking good Paul!
cabinet Bob posted:Son: Your tunnel is looking GREAT !! nice work..Dad..
WOW Paul, you must have sent dad some cookies! I can see your on his good side again!LOL
Today was "Bent" Friday. Finally assembled all the bents onto the deck. Its now in the shop all the cross-members to be attached. Outside radius is 72" and wide enough for a double main.
Bruce, You really did a nice job! It looks great!!
built a small shed out of cardstock and placed it along the main behind the enginhouse.....
Bruce, real nice bridge. GANDYDANCER1950, the shed added to the scene. This evening with just a little bit of time I cut the girder to length and worked on the road crossing for the three tracks. No more work till Sunday afternoon. Saturday I'll be at the TCA show in Parma selling some things. And Sunday there is a train show in Medina Ohio that I want to catch so no work till maybe Sunday afternoon. Pics..................Paul
That's a nice looking shed for the Cuyahoga Valley!!!
Paul, Have a good time at Parma and Medina!!
Train World had these WbB scale 44 tonners on sale for $170. Had to have one in Pennsy livery 
!
Took it out of the box tonight, lubed it up, put it on the track, turned on the power and away she went. Runs great!! Looks great!!
Mark Boyce posted:Bruce, You really did a nice job! It looks great!!
I agree. Amazing work!
A giant shark just wasn't enough, so I did some work on "The Gaveyard Shift" to have something to pull behind Jaws...a "big" double feature 
Had to work in the wood load; another skeleton loggers car.
Trains; Gooood !
I'm thinking about hooking his neck bolts to a pick up roller
Because it would take a really big pairs of shoes?
More on the DeWitt Clinton adapter:
Filed down the drawbar and truck for a better fit.
Clamped and glued.
Since anything worth doing is worth overdoing, I filled in the hollow upper coupler with some sheet styrene from a "For Sale" sign:
ProTip:
Baking enamel on die-cast metal: Good idea.
Baking enamel on styrene truck: Bad idea.
At least the enamel came out nice...
Having been sort of forced by necessity to go back to the drawing board, I decided to upgrade things with a metal MTH truck and a brass drawbar:
A couple of wooden Lionel barrels stuck in place with mounting tape temporarily.
(to be continued)
Mitch
Took some more photos. I mean you’ve only seen a few hundred.
Bruce, that looks great, may I ask where you learned to do that?
Gandy, nice looking addition to the layout!
Paul, next thing we know you will be running autos up and down your road! Looks good!
Mitch, its coming along, keep up the good work.
Ted, with the work you do, just keep the pictures coming, you have a wonderful layout there!
mike g. posted:Bruce, that looks great, may I ask where you learned to do that?
Gandy, nice looking addition to the layout!
Paul, next thing we know you will be running autos up and down your road! Looks good!
Mitch, its coming along, keep up the good work.
Ted, with the work you do, just keep the pictures coming, you have a wonderful layout there!
Thanks Mike, you’re starting to bump Mark B for that nice guy title...
No Ted, it is everyone else on here that is nice for sharing what they do, so people like me can learn! Thank you all!
mike g. posted:Bruce, that looks great, may I ask where you learned to do that?
Gandy, nice looking addition to the layout!
Paul, next thing we know you will be running autos up and down your road! Looks good!
Mitch, its coming along, keep up the good work.
Ted, with the work you do, just keep the pictures coming, you have a wonderful layout there!
Thanks mike g. This is my first attempt at a trestle and of course it had to be curved! As for learning: I read every article I could find on the forum with "trestle" in it, I watched every youtube video I could find and then searched the internet for anything else related. As a side note I hand milled and stained every stick of oak. I ended up with 700 feet of 1/4 x 1/4 oak sticks and have used almost all of it.
Bruce
Wow Bruce, that's alot of cutting. I won't be building anything for a while now. At the hospital cause I ran my thumb threw the table saw
Waiting to get it fixed! Lol stupid me!
Thank you Bruce!
mike g. posted:Wow Bruce, that's alot of cutting. I won't be building anything for a while now. At the hospital cause I ran my thumb threw the table saw
Waiting to get it fixed! Lol stupid me!
WHAT...oh no !!!! I feel so sorry for you..get well soon..
mike g. posted:Wow Bruce, that's alot of cutting. I won't be building anything for a while now. At the hospital cause I ran my thumb threw the table saw
Waiting to get it fixed! Lol stupid me!
I have almost done that several times. I hope it is not serious and you have a quick recovery. I am having major gum surgery on Tuesday, so I probably won't be in the shop for awhile also.
Oh dear, Mike! Hope your thumb is feeling better soon!
Here's the thrilling conclusion of the DeWitt Clinton build...
At first, I was going to put wooden railings on, but they would have been either too delicate or too thick, so I opted to bend a pair from steel music wire.
First coat: Krylon "Gloss Bright Idea". The drawbar was brushpainted with Testor's Flat Black.
The deck was masked and painted with Krylon "Satin Brown Boots".
For Walleyworld rattlecan, it's not a bad match for the factory colors!
Mounting holes for Lionel wood barrels.
Barrels and railings installed.
Final assembly!
Since the intended motive power is a postwar Lionel Vulcan switcher, I dusted off the Giraffe Express's "Junior" for the inaugural run of the completed product:
A complete success, running flawlessly in forward and reverse!
Mitch
Great job Mitch! Just 4 stiches.
mike g. posted:Great job Mitch! Just 4 stitches.
Ah, good. Be more careful with saws! I still have a scar on my right index finger from my Boy Scout days...
Mitch
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