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RSJB18 posted:

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.

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Nice Bob! That sure turned out looking sharp! Great work!

Made a bit more progress this week with the elevated platform that will soon become the base for Mount Krog and the Krog Tunnels.  The section is cut from 1/2" plywood and supported by 7.5" 2x4s and 1x4s. The elevated section can easily hold my weight - I plan on further testing the tensile strength of it by consuming more beers this weekend

Any recommendations or suggestions as to if and how I should secure the supports to the underlying table/homasote? I'm thinking either white glue under the columns or just let gravity do it's thing.  I don't really want to run screws up from the bottom as it'll affect the sound-deadening capabilities of the homasote. If the consensus is to run screws up from under the table, I'll likely only do a few columns, just to ensure that the platform stays in place.

mike g. posted:
RSJB18 posted:

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.

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Nice Bob! That sure turned out looking sharp! Great work!

That turned out great!!!  Some really good ideas your posting Bob!

Jim

carsntrains posted:
mike g. posted:
RSJB18 posted:

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.

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Nice Bob! That sure turned out looking sharp! Great work!

That turned out great!!!  Some really good ideas your posting Bob!

Jim

Thanks Jim- I've been making it up as I go. Imagine what I could do with proper planning...

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Bob, your project is coming along great. I like the looks of the sides. Well done. This morning the first thing I did was open my package that came yesterday. I got it of EBAY. The price was right and I didn't have that road name. The only thing I have to do is mount wheels on the trailer. I have some undecorated trailers coming which I could take a set off of one of those or just hit some train shows and see what may be out there that would work. And of course next month I may find them at York. After that I worked on the last sections of the fence, all done with that little project. I'm just waiting for the glue to dry. I'll drill a hole for the wire from the sound shed and then vacuum up the area. This afternoon I'll probably start  back up on track work. Pics...............Paul

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Jushavnfun posted:

Soldered  new wire leads, then I decided to solder some more wire leads, then  I came back and soldered some more.  Almost done, yea right.

Wiring is my the part of layout building I do not like.  Soldering is the worst part for me.  Who would have guessed it as I was trained as an electronics technician!  I'm glad I haven't had to do any of it at work the last few years!  

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BANDOB posted:

After 5 hours of running on Saturday, some equipment went to the shops on Sunday for COT&S.

 

What exactly does COT&S mean? I struck out on a search in the acronym tread and online both. Here in Detroit it's a Coalition of Temporary Shelter... search engines think I want Army cots for napping 

Did you try "railroad COT&S" as search keywords? I got multiple immediate hits.

COT&S = Clean, Oil, Test & Stencil. (Applies to air brake rework.)

Trainorders thread on COTS

Thank you.   Not exactly, I used cots first and the search engine threw out the other terms. Boolean terms get tossed by the search engines now and I can't figure out how to force them to anymore. My searches were way more productive with them, but that doesn't sell me crap I guess.

 

Any idea what stenciling is for? Shoe dimension? Shoe tracking?

 

Thanks Bob on that idea. I was toying with that but have to find some pictures of a rusted fence. I have a bottle of rust paint.Had to run out to Sam's Club for some house items but I had gotten a flyer that had the LED shop lights on sale. 7.00 dollars off each one. So I picked up two more for the basement. Finishing off the fence I drilled a hole for the wire of the sound shed and vacuumed up the whole area. I didn't like the color of the base so I had some aged concrete paint left and I put one coat on. Think it made it look better. Then I got out some fine black ballast and started laying in a road through the gate over to the shed. I laid down some strips of Balsa wood for a track crossing in the yard.  Later I'll start gluing the road down. Pics...................Paul

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I know it's probably a Faux pas to do this, but I got my layout in an article in a competing* magazine, Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette, in the March/April 2018 issue:

 

*I don't think this is competition as such, as OGR certainly is focused toward a very different aspect of the hobby...

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Working on weathering 2 freight cars, trying some new techniques blending alcohol washes with pastel powders.   At the same time, I am weathering weathering Korber Joes Pickle Factory, which I just bought from a fellow OGR forum member...    Evaluating whether to put Joes together as a 6 story backdrop building, or the more conventional 39 inch long - 3 story flat.... 

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My saga continues as I work every day cleaning out the living space where I intend to live and have a layout. The previous occupant (deceased) was a hoarder and lived like a pig but I now have the bedroom cleaned up and a nice bath. A new kitchen is being installed and almost finished. Last but not least, the living room where my layout will be is almost clean of trash and dirt. So there has been a lot of drama and progress. Right now it appears the layout will be  about 9 ft wide and  15 ft long.  The modules will be approximately 2 ft wide on the long sides and 4 ft wide on the ends. They will be built like my old layout- 1x4 frames and legs with cross bracing on the top covered with Homosote covered by green indoor/outdoor carpet. Using  clean O gauge tubular track from the previous layout. There will be 3 loops of track, the outer one O with 072 curves, the second standard gauge with 054 curves and the inner O gauge with 054 curves.  No switches,  conventional control and my tinplate and other buildings. Main goal right now is to run trains. Possibly tomorrow I will start to bring the boxes out of the shed where stored. It has been almost a year- way too long and I am excited and impatient.

beardog posted: I soldered thousands and thousands of solder joints when I was a tech at ATT. 

Now that is am retired, I use wire nuts. 

Too many failed crimps before I started tech to ever give up soldering. I tend to spend more time inspecting crimps than it takes to heat an iron, so anything more than one or two and the iron gets hot.   I do get that it is too much like work though.  My pet peeve is lack of slack in wire length, or even worse, ribbon cable... or gambling on wire colors. I've even seen 5 wire codes in one machine, three countries standards and change in ones standards 

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