What did you do on your layout today?

I turned my table blue... bought a little cast iron pre war AF off a member here and fixed an 1121 turnout control switch. I think on this week off i'm going to travel to the big city to Lowes to get some of that velcro-green grass mat stuff I saw elsewhere on here.

carsntrains posted:

YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, your yard looks wonderful! I may have asked this aready, but how big is your layout?

mike g. posted:

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paul 2 posted:

Brian, better camera, better pictures.... Papa John LOL. I should not throw stones my camera is outdated and does not take good closeups but until it breaks I'll keep using it. Today so far I managed to glue wire in all the fence post and make up pieces to mount the gates on the poles. Being careful when gluing I can manually swing the gates open or closed. Once all the glue sets up on everything I can then start to put the fence in. And another after thought after the fence is up I have some scrap 1X4's and I think I'll make up some bins to keep the piles of scrap separate. Pics ......Paul

Looks great Paul! But don't forget the no trespassing signs! and guard dogs on duty! Cant wait to see them in place!

Mike, You think of everything!!  

Just throwing ideas out there !

You throw out more ideas than I ever have!  :-)

That's because I have no layout to work on right now! LOL

Paul- found the perfect dog for the scrap yard.

All I was able to do last night was get the fence with the track gate in place. Today I don't think I will have much time to work on the rest of the fence. Got to head out to grocery shop then the Tuesday lunch with a bunch of TCA'ers and this evening it a get together with the Tuesday night crew. I might try to squeeze in some time in the afternoon otherwise Wednesday will be a work day. The shed will be back in the yard when the fence is done and the Morrison door factory will be off the mainline before any trains come through LOL. Pic..........Paul

Looks great Paul.

RSJB18 posted:

mike g. posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

mike g. posted:

Mark Boyce posted:

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paul 2 posted:

Brian, better camera, better pictures.... Papa John LOL. I should not throw stones my camera is outdated and does not take good closeups but until it breaks I'll keep using it. Today so far I managed to glue wire in all the fence post and make up pieces to mount the gates on the poles. Being careful when gluing I can manually swing the gates open or closed. Once all the glue sets up on everything I can then start to put the fence in. And another after thought after the fence is up I have some scrap 1X4's and I think I'll make up some bins to keep the piles of scrap separate. Pics ......Paul

Looks great Paul! But don't forget the no trespassing signs! and guard dogs on duty! Cant wait to see them in place!

Mike, You think of everything!!  

Just throwing ideas out there !

You throw out more ideas than I ever have!  :-)

That's because I have no layout to work on right now! LOL

Paul- found the perfect dog for the scrap yard.

Hey now there Bob! He is a great watch dog, but can only run short distances then has to stop and rest! Heck he was tired after the last inspection! LOL

carsntrains posted:

YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, yep. Looks good! I've decided to separate the diesel (removing completely) and steam services on the long siding of my layout, so with a new sand tower coming, I'll add an ash pit relatively soon. Just need to decide if I want to hassle with making my own FT to O27 connections (can I sacrifice only one 10" FT section to make two connectors) or buy a pair? 

paul 2 posted:

All I was able to do last night was get the fence with the track gate in place. Today I don't think I will have much time to work on the rest of the fence. Got to head out to grocery shop then the Tuesday lunch with a bunch of TCA'ers and this evening it a get together with the Tuesday night crew. I might try to squeeze in some time in the afternoon otherwise Wednesday will be a work day. The shed will be back in the yard when the fence is done and the Morrison door factory will be off the mainline before any trains come through LOL. Pic..........Paul

Nice work there Paul! I hope you have fun today and your highly trained SWAT Team is ready for tonight! LOL

LOL Mike- I get the feeling he's like the bull dogs in the GEICO Insurance adds. He will lick you to death.

Deuce posted:

carsntrains posted:

YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, yep. Looks good! I've decided to separate the diesel (removing completely) and steam services on the long siding of my layout, so with a new sand tower coming, I'll add an ash pit relatively soon. Just need to decide if I want to hassle with making my own FT to O27 connections (can I sacrifice only one 10" FT section to make two connectors) or buy a pair? 

Deuce- I made my own FT-tubular adapter. Not hard to do at all. I soldered the rails to make sure I had a solid connection.

Bob

Just like them Bob! Unless he is trying to sleep then he will try and bite you if you screw with him! LOL

Cool Brian, I use to have a lot of the green ones when I was in HO!

mike g. posted:

Cool Brian, I use to have a lot of the green ones when I was in HO!

I've got a bunch of BN GEEPS in HO too Mike.

RSJB18 posted:

Deuce posted:

carsntrains posted:

YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, yep. Looks good! I've decided to separate the diesel (removing completely) and steam services on the long siding of my layout, so with a new sand tower coming, I'll add an ash pit relatively soon. Just need to decide if I want to hassle with making my own FT to O27 connections (can I sacrifice only one 10" FT section to make two connectors) or buy a pair? 

Deuce- I made my own FT-tubular adapter. Not hard to do at all. I soldered the rails to make sure I had a solid connection.

Bob

Deuce, I just bought the two adapter tracks because I wanted a flat wall when I make a hole in the foam that goes under the track (have not installed that yet.  And the adapters come with the pins for the O27 track in them so all you do is cut the tubular track to length and slide it together.   I will do so file work on mine when I take it all apart and wire it all.   Got it all isolated last night. 

Bob that adapter you made looks good.   I just wanted straight edges. 

Mark thanks and yes I used old nasty track so it would be pre-dirty!  

Mike I'm anxiously waiting to see more progress on your project!!  Cool dog!  Layout is 17 feet long on that side.. both ends are seven (one to go around closet for other room/the other to leave room for the door)  They the track bumps out to about 10 feet wide in the middle,  until I get that closet taken out. 

Im so glad to get that finished! 

Did yall notice how small that engine is on the 3rd track in?    Its a Lionel convention Pennsylvania engine. 

Jim

Thanks Jim for the information! As far as my progress its slow, payday to payday! I hope to get the roof done this coming weekend! Weather permitting!

carsntrains posted:

Deuce, I just bought the two adapter tracks because I wanted a flat wall when I make a hole in the foam that goes under the track (have not installed that yet.  And the adapters come with the pins for the O27 track in them so all you do is cut the tubular track to length and slide it together.   I will do so file work on mine when I take it all apart and wire it all.   Got it all isolated last night. 

Sounds cool Mike and Deuce !!!   Coincidence happened yesterday.  Looked at Facebook and dang if it didnt show video of steamers using ash pits..  With many different sizes and shapes of them!!  I'm telling ya the man is spying lol

Jim

More work on my team track area. "Concrete" surface is finished, need to play with some more detailing.

Steve, that turned out really nice!

I know this is a silly question here, but does anyone run S scale?

Mike G,

   Not me buddy.

PCRR/Dave

Mike...   Folks.   Here is my track plan that I started with

Jim

WOW Big change! I like the new layout plan!

Jim @carsntrains not sure if you've seen these or not. A bit too deep for my layout but ...

http://www.narrowgaugemodeling.com/product/ngm-b810/

Deuce that is cool!  About what I have planned to do.   I'll keep that one in mind.  

Mike that is the track layout I started with. 

I took that straights out of the center of the "lump" and moved it to the sides of it to make it go closer to that wall.    Then in the middle of the curves on the end I put a switch on each end that goes to the yard.   I'm going to try to get the foam under it tonight and take some more pictures.   You see the square out of the one end is the closet that protrudes into my domain lol  When I get that out it will make a huge difference in available "property" .. 

Jim

carsntrains posted:

Deuce that is cool!  About what I have planned to do.   I'll keep that one in mind.  

Mike that is the track layout I started with. 

I took that straights out of the center of the "lump" and moved it to the sides of it to make it go closer to that wall.    Then in the middle of the curves on the end I put a switch on each end that goes to the yard.   I'm going to try to get the foam under it tonight and take some more pictures.   You see the square out of the one end is the closet that protrudes into my domain lol  When I get that out it will make a huge difference in available "property" .. 

Jim

I believe railroads have the right to use eminent domain.

Paul,  

I like the "brick" road you made with the plaster sidewalks....  You posted photos about a week ago.     Whose brick paper or brick plastic styrene, did you use for that  brick road ?

I tried to read back several pages in this thread but couldn't find this question/answer...

chris a

Chris a. I got the brick paper off EBAY. Hope this works.............Paul

5 Lt. Calico Brick Seamless Paper Scenery Sheets for O Scale Model Train Layouts

Got the phormer Phillies cars primed and resprayed.

Paint's a little crazed in spots, but then, so am I.  

Mitch 

Paul,    Thanks for fast response,  just ordered a set of 5 sheets.  chris

Mitch,

   Using your ladies Dryer and Washer as a Paint Drying Station for your O Gauge custom work could get you in big trouble, even as dominant as I am, this is one line I would not cross!  Tell her to let me know when the funeral is going to take place, I will attend.

More Power to ya buddy!

PCRR/Dave

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Mitch,

   Using your ladies Dryer and Washer as a Paint Drying Station for your O Gauge custom work could get you in big trouble, even as dominant as I am, this is one line I would not cross!  Tell her to let me know when the funeral is going to take place, I will attend.

More Power to ya buddy!

PCRR/Dave

Heh.  This is one perk of bachelorhood...  ;-) 

Mitch 

Jim, I am with Bob! Its your room take what you want! LOL

Mitch, Dave is right! You must have some huge ? LOL I would never try that one!

the single life is nice, no wife, happy life

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Got the phormer Phillies cars primed and resprayed.

Paint's a little crazed in spots, but then, so am I.  

Mitch 

At least you covered up that hideous red and white pin stripe.

LET'S GO METS!

It's crackers to give a rozzer the dropsy in snide!

I think Paul could get away with using the W/D as a paint table. I think its fair to say that I could too. I use 'em, and I fix 'em too!

LOL Sometimes I get in trouble if I look at them the wrong way!

Another snow day here in the NE. I am sooooooo ready for Spring.

Continued on the SPAM today. Although this looks like a girder bridge so I could pass on the SPAM and just have eggs bacon sausage and SPAM!

Before and after paint.  The vertical supports are going to be silver after the gray dries.