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IT's TEAM TRACK TUESDAY!!!  Share photos of what's being loaded/unloaded on your railroads' team track.  Team tracks are a vital part of day to day real railroad operations.   A variety of freight and passenger train head end cars unload on team tracks. Regularly creating new scenes on our model railroads help us develop our creativity muscle and keeps our layouts fresh.  

This week on the Free State Junction Railroad Patsburg, Md. team track a B&O GP9 has just spotted an 8 axle well car with a load of beams ( still wrapped in heavy plastic ) from U.S. Steel.  The team track foreman and crew are waiting for the special flatbed tractor trailer that will haul these huge beams to a new hydro electric dam project being built several miles away.  Not in the photo is the B&O BIG Hook which will move the beams off the well car and onto the special trailer.  Click on photos at bottom for story line captions.

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  • GP9 spotted the well car 15 minutes ago
  • Steel beams still wrapped in heavy plastic protection
  • The boss just pulled up in his pickup: "Where is the tractor & trailer??"  Those*%^@ guys are late again!!
  • Nothing to do but wait.
  • The boss decided to leave and leave his crew to guard the beams
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Wow Patrick, that's going to need a lot of heavy lifting!  This week I also have a "metal" theme...

With the crane outfitted with an electromagnet, scrap metal can now be loaded/unload on the team track...

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Loading this stuff sure makes a mess. The crew is going to spend quite a bit of time cleaning up this stuff...

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Mark Diff posted:

Wow Patrick, that's going to need a lot of heavy lifting!  This week I also have a "metal" theme...

With the crane outfitted with an electromagnet, scrap metal can now be loaded/unload on the team track...

ABCDEF

Loading this stuff sure makes a mess. The crew is going to spend quite a bit of time cleaning up this stuff...

GI

Mark - Fabulous scenes!!!  I love the scrap metal!!  What did you make it from?

Great detail and story telling!!!   

this is how we make the moonshine.....err, ah scrap metal. First locate some confetti:

J 

It has a nice jagged, pieces, shards, scraps or whatever. The problem is it comes in a myriad of colors and even patterns imprinted upon the scraps. These need to be hidden or covered up as much as possible. At first my intention was to simply paint over the pieces with a diluted wash of craft paint. So I poured some confetti into plastic solo cups and added different "rust" or "rust like" colored paint and diluted it some with water. I stirred each cup to coat all of the confetti and poured each out onto some window screen placed into a disposable aluminum pan to dry out.

here are the paints I used:

KBurnt sienna; Brown Iron oxide; Rusted pipe and....

LRaw umber; Traditional burnt umber; burnt orange

Well, this didn't work out very well. The diluted paint didn't cover the confetti thoroughly or convincingly enough. So after it dried I tried something new, something I knew would stick to the confetti. And that turned out to be Pastel chalks. Pastel chalks alone won't stick to the slippery plastic confetti shards without some sort of binder or glue. So hair spray to the rescue....

MN

To get this to work, I needed to scrape the chalks with an extacto knife to create a powder. So using various shades of brown, orange, red, and yellow, I scraped enough powder to coat all the pieces of scrap. You simply spray a small even coat of hairspray onto the confetti and sprinkle the "rust" powder all over. While its still wet, stir or toss (like a salad) the confetti and continue to sprinkle on the powder until you get the amount of coverage that looks good to you.  I had to repeat this process 2 to 3 times to get it where I felt it needed to be. Even then a few pieces will have a shiny side or edge. I think that helps to add to the look of scrap.

OSome of what was left over...

after I set up and took the pictures for this weeks Team Track Tuesday. Note that some of the pieces after hair spraying them will stick together. They easily come apart with a little picking and handling. Rub some together between your fingers to loosen and pry them apart.

I hope this was helpful for creating scrap loads or a scrap yard for your railroad.

 

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Mark Diff posted:

this is how we make the moonshine.....err, ah scrap metal. First locate some confetti:

J 

It has a nice jagged, pieces, shards, scraps or whatever. The problem is it comes in a myriad of colors and even patterns imprinted upon the scraps. These need to be hidden or covered up as much as possible. At first my intention was to simply paint over the pieces with a diluted wash of craft paint. So I poured some confetti into plastic solo cups and added different "rust" or "rust like" colored paint and diluted it some with water. I stirred each cup to coat all of the confetti and poured each out onto some window screen placed into a disposable aluminum pan to dry out.

here are the paints I used:

KBurnt sienna; Brown Iron oxide; Rusted pipe and....

LRaw umber; Traditional burnt umber; burnt orange

Well, this didn't work out very well. The diluted paint didn't cover the confetti thoroughly or convincingly enough. So after it dried I tried something new, something I knew would stick to the confetti. And that turned out to be Pastel chalks. Pastel chalks alone won't stick to the slippery plastic confetti shards without some sort of binder or glue. So hair spray to the rescue....

MN

To get this to work, I needed to scrape the chalks with an extacto knife to create a powder. So using various shades of brown, orange, red, and yellow, I scraped enough powder to coat all the pieces of scrap. You simply spray a small even coat of hairspray onto the confetti and sprinkle the "rust" powder all over. While its still wet, stir or toss (like a salad) the confetti and continue to sprinkle on the powder until you get the amount of coverage that looks good to you.  I had to repeat this process 2 to 3 times to get it where I felt it needed to be. Even then a few pieces will have a shiny side or edge. I think that helps to add to the look of scrap.

OSome of what was left over...

after I set up and took the pictures for this weeks Team Track Tuesday. Note that some of the pieces after hair spraying them will stick together. They easily come apart with a little picking and handling. Rub some together between your fingers to loosen and pry them apart.

I hope this was helpful for creating scrap loads or a scrap yard for your railroad.

 

Mark - thanks so much for sharing your wonderful step by step method ( with photos )  for making scrap!  I've been wanting to make some scrap loads for some of my gons.  I think I'll give it a go.  Thanks again and see ya next week on the Team Track.

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