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Ordered two more "Train Shed Cyclopedias" that address gas electrics... that makes three ...l think there is a fourth. I need to do the Walthers C&NW kit as one of the prairie roads', MP, Q, or RI, similar versions, scratch build the Baldwin and Unit-Stanley steam coaches, and a McKeen car and put reverse units in Mack and Sykes rail buses....after finishing two country stores..so nothing is happening fast.

trumptrain posted:

Before turning in late last night I ran trains for about 10 minutes.  Unfortunately I did not advance any layout projects, however, it was fun to watch em run before going to bed.

trainroomgary posted:

Seated Figures • Union Pacific Railroad • Passenger Cars

Today I worked on three MTH RailKing Passenger cars. Union Pacific Railroad, adding pre-painted seated figures. I used a 30 minute dry time, 100% Silicone clear by Gorilla Glue Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. With a fine tip glue nozzle.

1 UP Passenger car 3 up_edited-12 Figs up close UP Passenger

Photos shot with an iPhone 7 Plus and enhanced in Photoshop CS.

Gary from Michigan.

Great job Gary!  Looks like traveling by train is very popular on your railroad!  

Well done Gary the look very good 

Mark, sorry I didn't make the show. Started off this morning but it had snowed a bit last night and as I was driving through Akron I hit an icy spot on the overpass and the truck slipped sideways a bit and that is when I decided to cancel thje trip and head back home. But should be able to catch up with you at the breakfast on the 17TH.

Johan, pretty nice writeup on your layout for the show. 

So since I didn't go I got out the Korber flats I recently bought and cleaned all the flashing off of them. I can now let them soak to rinse on the residue from the production process so they will be redy for paint. While they soak I am going to try and wrap up putting the sillouetes in the passenger cars. Pics..........Paul

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Paul, You were wise to turn back.  We had ice on my steps and driveway, and a little less snow than yesterday, but the roads were okay here on.  Accidents can happen so easy.  My daughter hit a deer on her way back from Mendelssohn Choir practice in Pittsburgh Wednesday night.  My son-in-law went down to about 5 miles past the Turnpike exit to get her and had the car towed to Butler.  It's their only car, so I loaned them my 2004 Hyundai.  My son-in-law slid down a hill on his way to pick her up from work and smashed the front end.  I don't carry collision anymore since the car was only worth about 1000 dollars, but it was such a good car.  Good news is they were both unhurt!  Also, after 10 years of driving those were the first accidents for each of them.  I will miss that car; I had it 10 years, and it was the best car I ever owned.

I went to the Greenberg show today in my wife's 04 van.  I only bought a '41 Ford Sedan and a Western Maryland wall hanging.  Too bad the 41 Ford is 1:43rd size, I could use a 1:1 model right now!  

Mark, I am sorry about your car, but am glad your daughter and son-in-law are safe! Hey it was a Hundia anyways! LOL Really thought I am glad you made it back from the show safe and to boot a little something from the trip!

John, that sure is some skills your showing there! Its not very often you see folks hand laying there own track! Very nice work!

 

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Johan, once again, some great work! Everything you post could either come out of real life or a movie! What wonderful work!

Paul, I know the leaves are killing you! So do us a favor and take tomorrow off and do something fun! I am sure the leaves will wait for you. But as far as trains go, I think your doing a great job on one of the least liked jobs on a layout!

Ok Mark, I might have missed something, but did you invite the wife to go to the show with you? Did you tell her she could get dinner! LOL

Mike, No I meant that the whole project is put off until next week.  LOL.  

Well, I can’t take her to the train show because she can’t walk that far.  The show we go to will probably be the Christmas performance at Heinz Hall in Pittsburgh.  Our younger daughter sings in the Mendelssohn Choir with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.  Those shows are pretty expensive, although in peanut heaven it isn’t as bad as even a Pirates game.

Mark, that sounds like a better show for the wife! You both must be very proud of your daughter! I think that is wonderful that she is able to sing along with the Pittsburgh Symphony! Kudos to you and mom!

Thank you Mike!  I get pretty bored, and I can barely see her because we have to get the cheap seats!  LOL

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Elliot, I like your weathering of the car. You have been going down the mainline for so long there is nothing wrong with taking the siding every now and then to do small projects. They are just as important.

Trainroom Gary, enjoyed the video and your layout is well thought out. I like the three levels....more action.

So today I did some small projects. I washed all the fronts and they are ready for paint. Before and after dinner I got a few more passenger cars done. Three left to put the sillouettes in and the wiring can start.  And this afternoon I got another set of reefers from the NJHR's andf that was a surprise. They were not suppose to get here till Tuesday. Pics.....Paul

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Quite a bit of excellent work's been getting done since I last logged in about a week ago.   John,  that hand laid track work is exceptional.   Johan,  the Shark Bay is looking great.  

Mark,  hope your back is doing better than mine, it's been a "character building week" not being able to stand or sit in one position for more than 30 minutes max....  Anyway, it's starting to get better slowly.

Managed to get the ballasting done, on the grades, and cut and located the table top for the passenger tracks under a "future station"....  Just need to lay out the center lines and finish laying a whole bunch of gargraves straights...   Figured I'd better get the ballasting done before I set the 20 inch wide x 8 foot long sheet of plywood.    

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trainroomgary posted:

Today I published a YouTube video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU8y9AHCmks

In this Train Room Update video. I have a new item for the train room, which I am calling, “Top Secret”. So hang onto your railroad hat, to see what’s new in the train room. I will also being doing a train room tour.

All aboard for a model railroad adventure with Train Room Gary.

Nice purchase. The fact there's a Sears and a mall that's not dead is good for you. All the Sears on my side of the state are gone and the mall it was in is a ghost town.

Mark Boyce posted:

Paul, You were wise to turn back.  We had ice on my steps and driveway, and a little less snow than yesterday, but the roads were okay here on.  Accidents can happen so easy.  My daughter hit a deer on her way back from Mendelssohn Choir practice in Pittsburgh Wednesday night.  My son-in-law went down to about 5 miles past the Turnpike exit to get her and had the car towed to Butler.  It's their only car, so I loaned them my 2004 Hyundai.  My son-in-law slid down a hill on his way to pick her up from work and smashed the front end.  I don't carry collision anymore since the car was only worth about 1000 dollars, but it was such a good car.  Good news is they were both unhurt!  Also, after 10 years of driving those were the first accidents for each of them.  I will miss that car; I had it 10 years, and it was the best car I ever owned.

I went to the Greenberg show today in my wife's 04 van.  I only bought a '41 Ford Sedan and a Western Maryland wall hanging.  Too bad the 41 Ford is 1:43rd size, I could use a 1:1 model right now!  

Sorry about the car, but I'm glad your daughter and son -in-law are okay.

Mark, cheap seats are better then no seats! But it's  the thought and honor you give your daughter just being there!

Gary, Not a mac person, but nice video and thank you for the tour of your train room! One question, how big are you reverse loops on the 2 upper lines?

Paul2, nice that your moving right along with the flats! They will be up in no time. Also some really nice box cars you got there!

Chris A. The ballast looks great! Your station track are going to look wonderful filled with passenger trains! One would like to know with the addition of the 8' X 20" shelf how wide does that make bench work in that area?

The first sunny Saturday in recent memory meant no train time for me. We had a big storm roll through Friday night and it took almost all of the leaves off my 60' Oak in one shot. Needless to say you all know what I did yesterday- more today too

Mark- sorry to hear about all the car troubles. Glad the kids are OK though. The first snow of the season always causes trouble. I had a '83 Hundai, they are great cars. I gave mine to my sister when she went to Pitt- got to 140K miles before the clutch blew. This will be my daughters first winter driving to school. Fortunately I work there so if the roads are bad I can drive her.

Friend of mine hit a deer a few years ago, it came up over the hood and through the windshield into his wife's lap. Needless to say it was a bad wreck. They were both OK but very scary. We don't see deer here on western LI but we have tons further east. More and more I'm hearing about accidents involving deer.

Paul- that's a nice beer train you're building.

Chris A- the track is looking good. Hope you back heals soon. I'm on regular monthly visits to my chiropractor so, I feel your pain.

John- two rail, hand laid turn outs? WOW Very nice!

Train Room Gary- congrats on the new MAC, you nailed it, you are a MAC guy. Love the train room.

Off to rake more leaves......

Bob

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Thanks Frank.

Tons of military history around here. Curtis Aviation, Roosevelt Field where  Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight originated from, Grumman Corp, Fairchild-Republic, Sperry Corp (My dad was an electrical engineer for them). And Teddy Roosevelt too.

Here's a map of the area showing where Curtis was located. The purple road was the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway. The monument in my OP is located where St. James St South and Clinton Rd meet.

The rail line shown at the bottom was called the Central Extension, operated by the PRR/ LIRR. Many dough-boys shipped off to war on this line.

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Larry, that sure is a nice engine! I have never seen a BNSF in blue before!

Mike, BNSF picked up 10 of those GP38-2's from GMTX, in trade I believe, 2 of which ended up as 'smurfs'.MTH did a pretty nice representation of them too IMHO.

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Of the ten GMTX GP38-2s purchased by BNSF, six have white short hoods and the other four have blue short hoods.

 

Larry

Last night I decided to mix it up.  I took off all my MTH Wi-Fi (DCS3.0) and decided to run a bunch of Atlas and Lionel engines using the Lionel cab-2.  I know I can run them using the DCS app but hadn't added them all to the app as of yet.  I had not run my vision line Hudson in a while having gotten the smoke unit fixed (again), it really is a great engine.  I ran that with a set of military vehicles behind it, tanks and ambulances.  

It was a lot of fun and must have been about 2+ hours of enjoyment.

John

jbmccormick posted:

Last night I decided to mix it up.  I took off all my MTH Wi-Fi (DCS3.0) and decided to run a bunch of Atlas and Lionel engines using the Lionel cab-2.  I know I can run them using the DCS app but hadn't added them all to the app as of yet.  I had not run my vision line Hudson in a while having gotten the smoke unit fixed (again), it really is a great engine.  I ran that with a set of military vehicles behind it, tanks and ambulances.  

It was a lot of fun and must have been about 2+ hours of enjoyment.

John

John, sounds like a fun time! I am just dreaming of that day where I run trains for an hour or all freakin day if I want too!

Last weekend Menards had Lemax trees on sale anywhere from .79 to 2.29 each depending on size and multi-packs for 4.99.   I bought a cart full as the expense and time it takes to put trees together has been daunting for my sons layout.  This weekend I spent some time making them look better.  A few minutes of hacking them up with a pair of shears and some fine turf and they look much better.  

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Elliot and Lee, good to hear the toes are healing.

Mark, glad no family members were injured in that accident. You can replace a car but not a person.

Yesterday mother nature took precident ...raking leaves. Never did get to do anything else. Today I got up early and before I venture outside to tackle more leaves while having my coffee I'll finish the silouettes off in the passenger cars. Tomorrow will be a whole day of train related things. Lunch with TCA members, a tour of the B&O roundhouse in cleveland and Tuesday night train crew get together that night...............Paul

Gary, great looking Afgan! You could always move the washer downstairs, that way you can work in the train room like Paul2!

Lee D. Don't rush it, take care of that TOE first. The trains will be there waiting for you!

Paul2, I am sorry that you had to spend all day on leaves! The good thing is that they will be done soon for the season. Then you will have to deal with SNOW! LOL

Nice picture Brian! I sure hope your Browns did better then my Seahawks! LOL

Colorado Highrailer, sure sounds like a nice project coming to a finish! What's next?

Now that the last track is installed I am going full speed with wrapping up the wiring job.  I affirm that any "next" RR will only be battery R/C.   The total looks like eleven Z-1000, 14 DC power packs and 7+  control panels.  

Sometimes I think of Stanley in The Office working his crossword puzzles oblivious to the world around him.   Something like pulling wires.  Excuse me now, I gotta go down and do my puzzle.

 

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RSJB18 posted:

The first sunny Saturday in recent memory meant no train time for me. We had a big storm roll through Friday night and it took almost all of the leaves off my 60' Oak in one shot. Needless to say you all know what I did yesterday- more today too

Mark- sorry to hear about all the car troubles. Glad the kids are OK though. The first snow of the season always causes trouble. I had a '83 Hundai, they are great cars. I gave mine to my sister when she went to Pitt- got to 140K miles before the clutch blew. This will be my daughters first winter driving to school. Fortunately I work there so if the roads are bad I can drive her.

Friend of mine hit a deer a few years ago, it came up over the hood and through the windshield into his wife's lap. Needless to say it was a bad wreck. They were both OK but very scary. We don't see deer here on western LI but we have tons further east. More and more I'm hearing about accidents involving deer.

Paul- that's a nice beer train you're building.

Chris A- the track is looking good. Hope you back heals soon. I'm on regular monthly visits to my chiropractor so, I feel your pain.

John- two rail, hand laid turn outs? WOW Very nice!

Train Room Gary- congrats on the new MAC, you nailed it, you are a MAC guy. Love the train room.

Off to rake more leaves......

Bob

Guess I jinxed this lady...

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