What did you do on your layout today?

We are getting this ambitious bridge project underway  

Alan, As everyone seeing your Church Work, The Interior, I really like your pictures. I like Churches as The Lord has provided us a Fun Hobby.  Thank you for posting. Happy Thanksgiving.  I spent today opening up a few engines for testing.

Erik C Lindgren posted:

 

We are getting this ambitious bridge project underway  

Hey Erik!

I sure enjoy your videos on youTube!

leapinlarry posted:

Alan, As everyone seeing your Church Work, The Interior, I really like your pictures. I like Churches as The Lord has provided us a Fun Hobby.  Thank you for posting. Happy Thanksgiving.  I spent today opening up a few engines for testing.

Thanks Larry! If I can make people think about God in a "small way," so much the better.

Erik: Love those old bridges. At one time there were a bunch around here but time has taken its toll. There is still one across the NS main near Leetsdale, Pa. but closed to traffic.

Yes Eric, I love your bridge work, so real looking...Thanks for Sharing your talent with us.....and Alan, We must Keep Jesus in Our Hearts and Minds and Your Church interior's isles can Lead Us to The Altar....Amen, and Amen.....

leapinlarry posted:

I like Churches as The Lord has provided us a Fun Hobby.  Thank you for posting. Happy Thanksgiving.

I agree with you on that Larry!  Happy Thanksgiving.  I am certainly thankful for so much!

keyrouteken posted:

I have about another 4 1/2-feet to go to complete my elevated trolley line.  Bought some more trolleys at a recent show--  Hey Mitch:  We're up to TWENTY trolleys now !!    Can't get enough of them !!

Hooray! 

Mitch

Planted some trees

Matt Makens posted:

Planted some trees

 

Planted some trees? I have never been there but almost looks like enough to fill central Park! I have to say the trees look great though! Nice Looking layout also!

Thanks Mike, its like 90 trees. They are beautiful trees however a bit too uniform in shape so creative planting is required. And I need to fill in the emptiness underneath but the fall foliage canopy is what I was after. Ill have and arch bridge coming thru them connecting to the coal dumper on the other side. The coal dumper may go but I'm not sure yet. I havent worked on the layout much this year with buying the house and stuff so now I can get into it.

Like the trees Matt very nice addition. 

Thanks boys glad you like the bridge project. That's John Johnson he is a retired civil engineer and off to the next phase of building in the framing. 

Well after a few weeks of not working on the layout thinking where to go next with it. thinking this section I don't like and this section I don't like and so on I did like the 2 levels but didn't like the wires hanging from the upper level and only being able to run one train at a time on the main level and one on the lower level by the time I was finished well let just say not much was left of my layout.  so now  I have a question I have a lot of fastrack with ballast glued on since it's just white glue can you wash the track in the tub and dry it after to get the ballast off ?? I did do a piece in the sink and it all came off easy. died the piece and have it set aside so tomorrow I can see if it rusts at all I don't think t would but never know.

I like the scenery on this page. The autumn colors on the trees are great. Excellent layout detailing.

I spent time finishing my thirteenth box of Preiser 65602 Unpainted 24 Seated People for my Lionel SP, UP, and Pennsy 21" passenger cars.  With 312 seated people finished, I only have 14 boxes or 336 left to paint.  The Preiser 65602 set makes the equivalent of $155.00 of people if purchased separately in the five Preiser pre-painted packages.  My painting saves me over $120.00 per box of twenty-four and it is fun to see the finished product.

My passenger cars pass over the 40" Pratt Double Truss Bridge by my control table, so it is easy for me to see the people in my cars. At night the cars look especially nice. Back to painting.

John Rowlen

Good looking work there John!

Alan Rogers posted:

I got the interior done inside St. Francis Catholic Church.

This is absolutely great .  Now all you need is people attending service.

Four generations were enjoying the trains yesterday.

"Let's run them fast Grandpa"

Nothing yet, but after 1:00 this afternoon going to run trains till we get to tired to stand up    Anyone care to join us?

Clem k 

Some great work posted to including the behind the scenes work being done at by Erik and his crew  http://coloradooscale.org . Matt like the trees. it makes the Hells Gate bridge scene really pop. Yesterday with everything going on concerning Thanksgiving I managed to finish a Kadee upgrade on my Atlas CB&Q/C&S SD40

I started out doing a test fit using Mario's Atlas GP35 Kadee mounts.  When I discovered they would work, I went ahead and used styrene strips to fill in the gap on the mounts. A little light sanding of the sides and face then off to paint.

Install into the pilot was pretty straight forward. Used epoxy to set in place and after 3hrs dilled out the hole for screw into the pilot then screwed in place. The next thing was to sand down the coupler mount on the truck assembly to make room for the Kaddee and the mount.  For the Kadde coupler I used a pair of 743s short shank which really is your only option as there is not a whole lot of room to work with.  If your going to fix the pilots you will need to trim of more of the coupler mount on the truck Assembly

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After

Got a lot done over the last few days.  First was able to finish both of my Atlas Double Track Pratt Bridges.

Bryan, those bridges came out great and two together all the better. Your red light district is consuming more and more area. Does that mean the carnival will soon be gone LOL. All in all good job on the two areas. No work for me. Basking in 80 degree weather in Florida. Tomorrow I will be heading to Roundhouse South to see what they have and I can purchase. See you in a couple of weeks,...........Paul

Bryan  Looks very Interesting.     Tom SR.      

suzukovich posted:

Some great work posted to including the behind the scenes work being done at by Erik and his crew  http://coloradooscale.org . Matt like the trees. it makes the Hells Gate bridge scene really pop. Yesterday with everything going on concerning Thanksgiving I managed to finish a Kadee upgrade on my Atlas CB&Q/C&S SD40

I started out doing a test fit using Mario's Atlas GP35 Kadee mounts.  When I discovered they would work, I went ahead and used styrene strips to fill in the gap on the mounts. A little light sanding of the sides and face then off to paint.

 

Install into the pilot was pretty straight forward. Used epoxy to set in place and after 3hrs dilled out the hole for screw into the pilot then screwed in place. The next thing was to sand down the coupler mount on the truck assembly to make room for the Kaddee and the mount.  For the Kadde coupler I used a pair of 743s short shank which really is your only option as there is not a whole lot of room to work with.  If your going to fix the pilots you will need to trim of more of the coupler mount on the truck Assembly

 

 

 

 

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Great looking job, does Mario's have Kadee mounts for other cars or engines?

Thanks guys hopefully it stays its not like it plays automatically and it is just a toy.

Paul, have fun in Florida just be back by December 9 as I'm hosting the Friday group again.  still plenty of room in the red light district for expansion.

Mike, I know what you mean about these bridges and these were the single track converted to double so I had to take it completely apart before rebuilding.  Glad your wife got a laugh out of it so did mine when I showed her the completed project.

More progress on the Big Red build.  Lights, rectifier and sound board wired in.  Lights and rectifier work fine, won't know about the sound board until I get a speaker rigged... 

Next up:  Wiring the DPDT switch as a reverser and rigging a speaker for the sound board!

Mitch

Matt Makens posted:

Planted some trees

 

Matt, that looks beautiful.  

mike g. posted:

Good looking work there John!

I totally agree!

It has an error for me but I followed the url to YT.

I was expecting sound effects, but that is one action packed scene Bryan.  You need a smoke unit there for after,

Started the Ambassador Club video review, here is a snippet of the LionChief GP20 Cab 1800.

Enjoy.

I finished weathering the other two of my wartime black ten-wheelers tonight. One particular detail I wanted to get was the normal wear you see on the footplates. While it isn't perfect, anyone who's ever ridden a steam locomotive should recognize this particular wear and tear on that part.

I also covered the molded coal at the edge of the coal bunker with real crushed coal.

Added two #6 switches and wired them up on the shelf portion of the layout.  Now we can finish our way around with the outside main. 

Also, had my son run and show my dad the layout on Thanksgiving.  That was the best. 

Need to be up in four hours, tailgating for the game tomorrow.  Go Bucks!

Began organizing and tidying up train room for visitors to the layout this weekend.  

Put a set of street lights around one of my team track areas to help facilitate night time loading/unloading operations. 

Cleaned up a multi car derailment inside one of my tunnels which happened yesterday ( Thanksgiving day ).  The derailment fowled both main lines. 

Lubed my Industrial Rail trolley. 

Reprogrammed two Lionel TMCC locomotives. 

Ran trains and had some genuine fun!!!!  Good times in Patsburg!!!!! 

Thaddeus posted:

Added two #6 switches and wired them up on the shelf portion of the layout.  Now we can finish our way around with the outside main. 

Also, had my son run and show my dad the layout on Thanksgiving.  That was the best. 

 

Need to be up in four hours, tailgating for the game tomorrow.  Go Bucks!

Nice smooth trackwork!

trumptrain posted:

Began organizing and tidying up train room for visitors to the layout this weekend.  

Put a set of street lights around one of my team track areas to help facilitate night time loading/unloading operations. 

Cleaned up a multi car derailment inside one of my tunnels which happened yesterday ( Thanksgiving day ).  The derailment fowled both main lines. 

Lubed my Industrial Rail trolley. 

Reprogrammed two Lionel TMCC locomotives. 

Ran trains and had some genuine fun!!!!  Good times in Patsburg!!!!! 

Pat,

I hope you and your visitors have a great time!

Nice Work everybody  

Finished a video,

Well can't say I didn't work on the layout I tore most of the old layout down Not sure on a new track plan yet. playing around alittle might keep is small and simple this time who knows my tables i'm working with one is 4x8 the other is 4x7 so I moved them to a l shape.  one issue I had with the old layout was no place to put buildings it was mostly track everywhere. great for running trains but not for dressing up the layout so. like I said maybe small and simple. here's what I did yesterday was only able to hook up a cw80 at 2 am to test it out with Thomas no command control on this layout yet.  I will have to pull the tables out away from the wall and add an area for the docks but I have the room for that . I also while doing all of this was cleaning track back up too. fill the tub with warm water put track pieces in scrub them up dry them and then a nice wipe down of wd40 to prevent rust. worked so far none of the pieces on the layout have been cleaned yet.  switches not sure what to do with them yet .  now if I could just figure out to tie in whats left of the old layout the long yard and transfer table are still there and the area with elevation to the main level before. first two photos are of those areas

suzukovich posted:

Nice Work everybody  

Finished a video,

 

 

Great Video, I think you have the best winter layout around, and the tunes were a good selection! I am just a little sad I didn't see and Green rolling.

mike g. posted:

suzukovich posted:

Nice Work everybody  

Finished a video,

 

 

Great Video, I think you have the best winter layout around, and the tunes were a good selection! I am just a little sad I didn't see and Green rolling.

The next one will be green.

Well another day spent on the layout today all I did was work on getting a tie in between old and new No wiring other than to test the lift out bridge. It worked thank god. drove my challenger across it. Kind cool I must say. need to put in a lot of feeders but so far it's getting there . don't mind the mess the train room is trashed with all the table work getting torn down. everything is a mess but it's getting better.

Found an old whistle shed at Greenberg's Edison NJ show today. Cost $2, cut it down 1/2", made a garage door, painted and weathered in an hour , added scenery. Very pleased with the results. Love to recycle stuff! ( and yes, the garage door is intentionally crooked in the fourth picture, one garage door spring is broke! )

Model railroaders of Canfield war vet museum update part 1
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PsB--Tblhhk

Model railroaders of Canfield war vet museum update part 2
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yDiX2NOowkY

thoughts of my Idea of how to get to the yard I put the loop in the alcove so that I don't have to back the trains up the hill I can drive them up and turn them around before backing them into the yard.

Soldering.  Soldering. Soldering.

This time next week, I'll be a married man and my home will be full of out of town family and friends for brunch.  In anticipation, we quickly got the TalMaggio Acres office layout in a presentable state.  The Fiance installed a simple skirt and we hung the flags.  Ran some trains, too.  My layout post is here:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...-acres-office-layout

suzukovich posted:

Nice Work everybody  

Finished a video,

 

 

Nice video Suzu. Almost missed the mirrored train. 

Been in Florida all week enjoying the weather but having terrible withdrawal pains of no trains to run. But yesterday took a ride to Roundhouse South in Port Orange. Great store. I found a set of telephone poles. Enjoyed watching the layout in the store. Thanks Lionelbill for mentioning it. I said you sent me there. Though I will miss the warmth it will be so good to get back to the cold of Ohio, roll up my sleeves, work on the layouts and above all run some trains......Paul

Still in the process of applying sculpting plaster to the foam scenery bed. Added several rock formations and settling on permanent locations for all the industries.  Refinery structures to the left, old coal tower over the run around track, a gearing plant and furniture factory on the right. Also notice far right the holder that was installed on the fascia board that holds my DCS remote.  Also installed a "wireless" power strip so I just have to flip a switch to turn out the entire layout.  Next steps I will be applying a Benjamin Moore paint, Cocoa Sand and begin the process of putting down scenery detail.  

Older version of industry layout below.  Notice the pink foam exposed on the left side, didn't hit that section when the photo was snapped.

I have the Jolly Roger keeping dust off the shelves.

Though I'm a bit more pie-rat, than pirate, I do like piratey things too..

,....like Captain Crunch.

l like to  sing along too.  

But that other flag;.... "Is that a brand of bacon or something?"           

Congratulations on the upcoming day John

John D. posted:

This time next week, I'll be a married man and my home will be full of out of town family and friends for brunch.  In anticipation, we quickly got the TalMaggio Acres office layout in a presentable state.  The Fiance installed a simple skirt and we hung the flags.  Ran some trains, too.  My layout post is here:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...-acres-office-layout

 

Best wishes to you and your bride to be!!!

I finished up my Amtrak passenger cars. They are the Railking ones that came with the RTR set. I painted the interior, then got a flashing LED circuit from Evan Designs (modeltrainsoftware.com). Popped out the plastic "lights" on the end coach, then glued in the LEDs.  Pics and sample video below!

Anyone know why they would model a toilet and sinks if you can't see them???

CLIFFORD posted:

Found an old whistle shed at Greenberg's Edison NJ show today. Cost $2, cut it down 1/2", made a garage door, painted and weathered in an hour , added scenery. Very pleased with the results. Love to recycle stuff! ..

A handsome effort, indeed! Clever and talented results.

FrankM

John D. posted:

This time next week, I'll be a married man and my home will be full of out of town family and friends for brunch.

Mazeltov and sooooooie! 

On the subject of Razorbacks...

Wiring is like sausage and politics.  You don't wanna see any of it being made:

Believe it or not, this worked right the first time I tried it! 

Here's the speaker, scrounged from a wrecked walkie-talkie, and with resonator from a bottle of milk of magnesia:

Meanwhile, Shop Supervisors Norma Bates Kitteh and Sylvia Siamese were carefully studying source material for upcoming projects:

Here's the Razorback Traction Co.'s "Big Red", hitting the high iron: 

Since Big Red is intended for train shows, public exhibitions et cetera, I placed the reversing toggle switch up top, where the E-unit switch would have been on a postwar Lionel loco:

Final assembly of Big Red will be in the next day or two, when I get in taller insulators for the pantographs.

On Friday, the 2065 Hudson and 2046 tender I mentioned in a previous posting arrived!  The Hudson was in good nick, only needing oiling and a little cleaning of the brushes and commutator.  The tender, on the other hand, was pretty close to "basket case" status...

I tore down both the relay and whistle and got them running OK, but the trucks were shot.   After considering a few different options, I scrounged a set of MPC high-speed trucks off a $5 flat car and outfitted them with pickups:

Here's the underbody wiring .  I wired the grounds on the trucks to the whistle mounting studs using solder lugs:

Here's the topside wiring:

And here's the consist on the high iron!

All in all, a productive holiday weekend! 

Mitch

John D. posted:

This time next week, I'll be a married man and my home will be full of out of town family and friends for brunch.  In anticipation, we quickly got the TalMaggio Acres office layout in a presentable state.  The Fiance installed a simple skirt and we hung the flags.  Ran some trains, too.  My layout post is here:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...-acres-office-layout

 

Congratulations on getting married.  You must be a Bucs fan.

Mo985 posted:

I finished up my Amtrak passenger cars. They are the Railking ones that came with the RTR set. I painted the interior, then got a flashing LED circuit from Evan Designs (modeltrainsoftware.com). Popped out the plastic "lights" on the end coach, then glued in the LEDs.  Pics and sample video below!

Anyone know why they would model a toilet and sinks if you can't see them???

 

Great looking work there MO, was it hard to do the LED's? I have the same care and like the idea. I have already switched them all to Kadee couplers. I think that could be a good winter project.

mike g. posted:

Great looking work there MO, was it hard to do the LED's? I have the same care and like the idea. I have already switched them all to Kadee couplers. I think that could be a good winter project.

Thanks Mike. The LEDs were easy. The most time consuming was painting the interiors. 

The plastic end red "lights" pushed out really easy, ordered the 1.8mm on an alternating circuit, specifically requested 2, the circuit comes with 4 normally. A couple of dabs of super glue to hold them. Then I painted the inside portion black to block the light, so it wasn't flashing through the door windows. 

I bent the power wires around one of the upper light mounts, so that when you insert the bulb back into the socket, it makes contact for the LEDs. 

"Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy!"

tested out the lift out bridge did all kinds of little things yesterday getting the area in the alcove setup so I can put a mountain in it. put in about 6 feeders for power I don't want to have any power issues this time.  here's a small video.

Always toyed with ideas on making a RR car to cam a centerline track cleaner. So I started on this ugly duckling. It sits pretty high so the cabin has to be a little shorter than desired. It's as wide as a 6464 Lionel box car so its wider than my atlas rebuit cars. Nobody's going to notice but me. Also repainted a water tank kind of a depot buff that I have seen referenced as a prr color.

Underside of frame

"Big Red" now sports taller insulators (actually eBay wooden beads), so now the pans clear the horns...

Mitch

Two Alco FA  postwar Lionel locomotive that I'm restoring, one will be stay in Union Pacific and the second will be in Pennsylvania Railroad

Still chipping away! This month I fabricated a cement passenger ramp for the East end terminal of my bump-n-go trolley line.  The railing is made from some brass wire I had laying around and the ramp is styrofoam.  I have also begun adding grass, trees and other foliage to the layout.  This is totally a new experience for me.   Pardon the pun, I am totally green at this.

The big highlight of the month was a visit to Elliot Feinberg’s (aka - Big_boy_4005) massive and impressive Twin Cites Central layout.  Elliot lives about an hour and a half drive from my home and we arranged a visit to coincide with a train show in the area.  Most of the track is installed and active and we got to follow a train as it traveled one of the mainline loops.  His layout has close to 3,000 feet of track with about 350 switches.  He gets his modeling inspiration and track plan from studying Google Maps of the area.  It is an impressive and ambitious project and I look forward to more of his OGR forum posts and future visits as his layout progresses.  Thank you Elliot for your hospitality and the inspiration your project provides.

This is a great forum topic and I truly enjoy and get motivated from viewing and reading about everyone’s projects.  Thanks for sharing!

Dave

In anticipation of the magazine article photos I plan on getting this week, I found every detail part and figure on the layout that had anything close to a glossy finish and blasted it all with some dullcoat.

Progressed to the paint primer on the centerline track cleaner ugly duckling. It needs doors on the ends. The black primer does not show true in these pics.

Pennsylvania & Ohio rr conway yard posted:

Two Alco FA  postwar Lionel locomotive that I'm restoring, one will be stay in Union Pacific and the second will be in Pennsylvania Railroad

Good heavens!  Did someone dunk that poor thing in glossy black paint?

Mitch

I have 3 Ives Standard gauge boxcab locos I wanted to run but the Ives cars were on a high shelf. Didn't feel like climbing up to get  them so I used twist ties to fasten the Ives and Lionel latch couplers together. Worked good !!  I have started using twist ties on the old latch couplers to prevent separations on the high iron. The Ives engines are really great. run as smooth as silk, quiet, very little gear noise  and if you cut the power they coast about 4-5 ft. I would like to get an Ives steamer if I can find the right deal.

Thank you Dave. It was my pleasure hosting you and the Jeffs. Why don't you plan on coming up for the Woodbury meet in April. I'll be having the layout open for the local NMRA layout tour.

BTW, your little passenger platform looks great.

Good heavens! Did someone dunk that poor thing in glossy black paint?

Mitch

just  looks like that 

Here's an old Max Gray rendition of the iconic PRR K4.  It's minimalist decoration screams out a need for super detailing.

After removing the old paint I spent a lot of time filing and buffing.  This shows a couple of glaring mistakes....the too tall sand dome and the over wide pilot beam. 

I concentrated on the loco front by first bobbing the ears on that pilot beam.  New pilot grab irons still need to be added here.  The large step plate below the smoke box received a covering of fine brass screen, as will the running boards, to represent a non skid surface like Diamond Plate.   Trimmed edges with "L" shaped brass will also continue onto the running boards.  As equipped, the outdated divers helmet classification lights just aren't right on a late K4, so off they came.  The plan is to make my own replacements and probably will rework their oversized mounting brackets.   Brake hoses and some added rivets where needed.  Next in line will be adding the piping off the generator plus the associated grab irons near by.

Bruce

brwebster posted:

Here's an old Max Gray rendition of the iconic PRR K4.  It's minimalist decoration screams out a need for super detailing.

Funny how when people talk about "the good old days" of the hobby, they fail to recall that frankly, they were dealing with crap compared to what we have now...

Plastics and new techniques helped, but Id still take that brass scrapload over 95‰ of todays offerings wide pilot and all.  Mmmmm,  shiney brass object, gooood!

Lets see, added a plate to cover gears on an A frame hoists trolley, and painted the new plate orange.  Gave it all another grime wash (blk paint) and looped a solid silver neck chain into the gears because it was handy.

Repaired burnt wiring on a K line Broadway Limited luggage car, and resoldered truck leads on two more,  only to have to replace that wire too.

(if you have these, check your red wires. The wire is rotting inside the insulation.  The ends are shiney, but inside is all green rot. Moisture must have been trapped inside at the wire factory) .

I ran the 1061 Santa Express while I moved Yukon Cornelius and the Burl Ives Snowman from Rankin & Bass's Rudolf the Rednose Reindeer off thier shelf and onto the layout. (I wish I had found a Winter Wizard when they made him..."A choo choo?..For me?" lol. [Santa Clause is Commin' to Town]

I also ran the big layout and by literal accident,  found out the mods I did to the Rivarossi Casey Jones pilot truck allowed running on 0-31 with the tender just nicking the cab floor cantalever brackets. I just moved it to the 31" to rail cars easier on the 36" Super-O, and bumped the throttle by accident. I then watched & waited for a derailment that never came. By the third loop I knew I was golden and bumped her up a few notches. Another(pilot truck arm is one) Erector set piece was quickly cut for a 3/8 drawbar extension. 3 holes about 1/8" apart, one to screw down to the drawbar,  two holes for extension choice. It worked perfect now when hooked in the shorter extension position. Using the long extension hole, I then tried 0-27, and it again succeeded! I will need to fab a new pilot truck arm 1/32 longer as the pliot wheels do scrape the drivers some on 0-27,  but it has run for an hour no issues.

If those erector set holes were smaller, or the screw shank bigger, Id be finished on running mods and painting erector set flats. The excess play at those two mismatches is all that is wrong with it. Id drive a larger screw, but the E-set piece isnt very "pretty" and a future repair may need a bigger screw then, since its now just driven into flat plastic, and holds without a support boss. I'll do a better, longer, drawbar in brass too.

Back to Santa who is now warm and running at cannonball speed on a constant 12v dc supply, no throttle. Three diodes later, he is cruising much more merrily.. See? He waved

Ran trains for first time in forever.  Tentatively placed buildings I've been working on and purchasing this year.

Looks Great Scott!

Ran trains, as usual, and finally repaired a latch coupler on my Standard gauge 514R refrigerator car.  They are a pain in the sit-upon !!

Did a bit of experimenting with Lionel latch to knuckle coupler adapters.  As many generations of Lionel operators before me will attest, they ain't any beauty contest winners, but they work...

Mitch

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Did a bit of experimenting with Lionel latch to knuckle coupler adapters.  As many generations of Lionel operators before me will attest, they ain't any beauty contest winners, but they work...

Mitch

Mitch;

Have you tried taking out a latch and putting in a gi-raff??? If that doesn't work, try a windshield wiper   

Mitch;

Have you tried taking out a latch and putting in a gi-raff??? If that doesn't work, try a windshield wiper 

But that's the most IMPORTANT Hungerdunger! 

Mitch

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Mitch;

Have you tried taking out a latch and putting in a gi-raff??? If that doesn't work, try a windshield wiper 

But that's the most IMPORTANT Hungerdunger! 

Mitch

Wow, Mitch, you only included one quote... three more quotes and you'll have a gallon   

Sincerely;

McCormick... semicolon

mike g. posted:

Looks Great Scott!

I agree fully. I love the downtown look, Scott.

Apples55 posted:

Mitch;

Have you tried taking out a latch and putting in a gi-raff??? If that doesn't work, try a windshield wiper   

Presented without further comment:

Mitch

While in Florida last week spending Thanksgiving with the daughters I was able to go to Roundhouse South. That is one nice hobby shop. And because I made a pinky swear with my oldest daughter to do black Friday between the two I picked up a couple of things for the layout. At Roundhouse I got a package of Lionel telephone poles for 22 dollars and while cruising the aisles of Walmart I got a box of three swivel bar stools for 50 dollars for the basement layout. Good to be back and after I get up the leaves that fell while I was gone I can run trains and work on the layouts again. Hey Brian, are you still hosting this Friday night. If so I will be there. Pics of my buys............Paul

Good finds Paul now all you have to do is invite the guys over to use those stools.

No not this Friday for hosting it is Friday Dec 9 @ 7

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Apples55 posted:

Mitch;

Have you tried taking out a latch and putting in a gi-raff??? If that doesn't work, try a windshield wiper   

Presented without further comment:

Mitch

Mitch;

While I personally applaud your creativity, I think the Kadee crowd will take serious issue with your actions    

finally got to run some trains .

Nice work everybody.   Mitch you do have a patent for those Giraffe Couplers? Then again I can see it now. prominent Model Railroader and CEO of the Save the Giraffe Car Society arrested for cruelty to Giraffes. The Giraffe world in shock.!!!!   

Anyway Made another video with my new SP SD9/7s 

Apples55 posted:

Mitch;

While I personally applaud your creativity, I think the Kadee crowd will take serious issue with your actions 

Actually, I shouldn't use that coupler on O scale trains, as it's obviously G(iraffe) scale. 

suzukovich posted:

Nice work everybody.   Mitch you do have a patent for those Giraffe Couplers? Then again I can see it now. prominent Model Railroader and CEO of the Save the Giraffe Car Society arrested for cruelty to Giraffes. The Giraffe world in shock.!!!!  

No gi-raffes were harmed in the making of that picture!  That was actually a stunt gi-raffe. 

Mitch

Dear O Gauge Advisor:

I recently acquired another Lionel giraffe car.  While it rolls down the track smoothly, I am having trouble coupling it to my other giraffe cars:

Could it be because it's the wrong color?

Signed,

Concerned in Cucamonga

Could it be that the Giraffe is dragging it hoofs?

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

No gi-raffes were harmed in the making of that picture!  That was actually a stunt gi-raffe. 

Almost looks like that Giraffe is a member of the Fantastic Four!

Just think of this guy as a Giraffe:

Well I thought no gi-raffe could possible be hurt; so I'm glad to learn a stunt double was used.  The Gi-raffe Stunt and Acting Guild can rest easy as you complied with their contract!

I'm not too sure of the legalities of hunting lobsters with Gi-raffe heads as bait.

Bryan in Ohio posted:

The other project was a lot more fun.  I turned a River Leaf Model building into a No Tell Motel complete with animation and sound.  The animation was piece found in Germany that makes sexy animations in HO.  To use for O gauge I found a magnifying sleeve at Michael's Crafts that is used to read small directions.  I cut it to right size and replaced the old windows with the new magnifying sleeve.  This makes the animated figures appear larger and more in line with O gauge.  I also used Photoshop to create an interior for the building and the downstairs so no wires would be visible.  Added a strip of LED lights for added illumination in the room.  To cap off  the whole effect I was able to find a dealer that has sound boards for various scenes.  After talking to him about what I was trying to do he informed me that he has just what I was looking for but of course he doesn't advertise it on his website.  Got that wired up and put the speaker into the building and as the video shows it really adds realism to the scene. Video is for mature audiences only.

 

Brian!

With out words, in the good way!

like the stair effect and the magnifier glass. Actually the distortion is nothing and allow a clear view.

I should made the shade longer?? 

Great job!

Andre.

Andre,

Thanks for the compliments, and sorry about turning your nice building into a den of sin. ha ha  I'm going to place it right next to your Scuttlebutts building...it just seems like the right combination.  

I know for sure that someone makes a figure set exactly like noted above, as I've seen them on ePay, in O scale...

I made a firm commitment to add that new set of RailRax to the wall in my new layout room, starting with the "anchor" section at waist level. I found the screws that I had bought, charged the battery in my electric screwdriver, located the level, and had a chilled O'Douls.  I also made a commitment to having a second chilled O'Doul's...

alco FA locomotive 2023 up and prr 2245 departing Conway yard on the A&R track

layout update 12/2/16 / alco FA locomotive 2023 up and prr 2245 part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKSpq6pX5Sw

alco FA locomotive 2023 up and prr 2245 part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hBpMrzKTMo

Pennsylvania & Ohio rr conway yard posted:

alco FA locomotive 2023 up and prr 2245 departing Conway yard on the A&R track

Good work on getting those two back up and running! 

And that's an interesting approach on the Pennsy lettering.  Mixed case lettering would never have occurred to me, but it works pretty good!

Mitch

Why do trains always derail in the worst places possible?  Today I plowed the 303 on the left here into the back of it's own train which of course, just happened to be inside the double track tunnel just around the bend behind the apartment building and under the tree.  Oh well.  Luckily I had a reacher and a flashlight and could remove the obstruction! 

Today I changed out some engines and just enjoyed running some trains. On the mainlines this time around were one Legacy, one DCS and two conventional engines. Tomorrow I am heading to a train show in Medina Ohio to see if I can find some needles in a hay stack on my bucket list...............Paul

Got a call from a local junk store, he just brought in "boxes of Lionels, some Standard gauge" so I drove there to take a look. as expected, mostly rusty junk. A decent Lionel pre-war set with a  with a good 229 engine, clean cars. A bunch of nice stamped metal street lamps,  an AF 312 engine in need of some TLC, an AF  billboard with a whistle in it plus a nice cast iron AF wind up engine  with no breaks in it.  the rest just rusty stuff.  My auto goes in the shop Tuesday for its  last (??) repair so I didn't buy anything See what is left later in the week. But if I hadn't gone, I know I would have missed something good.