Mike. the wife and I will say a prayer for your little grandaughter for a speedy recovery from the pneumonia.
Mark, glad you found time to do benchwork. It is looking sharp.
The wall is coming down slowly. I spent the morning shoveling out and helping the neighbor next door. But I managed to make some headway. Nothing like pulling nails out of old lumber. I'll work on it some more tomorrow. Pics...........Paul
Paul fought the battle of Cuyahoga Falls, and the walls came a tumbling down. Well not that quickly. I can hear the screeching sound of long nails slowly coming out of wood at my dad’s 1888 house.
Thank you Paul. I’m pretty pleased. Mianne goes together faster than I thought. And all the cuts are square and holes are straight, two things I am never able to accomplish on my own.
mike g. posted:Mark, just amazing! Love the winter look!
Dave, are you sure your not a landscaper! Looks great!
Mark, I am glad you made it back safe!
Carl, I feel you! Do it, then do it again! that's how my body work turns out! LOL
So today I went out and worked on the control panel and a little bit on the crane! Not to much and not worthy of pictures.
On a side note I hope I don't offend anyone, but I am asking for prayers for me 15 month old granddaughter as she was taken to Seattle's Children's Hospital with Pneumonia her little right lung is in bad shape right now!
Mike, of course we'll be praying for your Granddaughter.
mike g. posted:Anthony, now that is a yard to impress most! Your work looks great!
Lou, very nice! Good job on the engine!
Jim, dig that stuff out! I bet it would look great on your layout! LOL
Dave, Thank you Sir!
Ok Mark, your spose to be taking it easy! All that snow work is not good for the train body! If you don't have to go anywhere just wait till it melts and work on the bench! LOL
Really please take it easy today, don't over do it!
BTW Mike your control panel does look good! Is it a repaint fix or a new one?
Jim
mike g. posted:Mark, just amazing! Love the winter look!
Dave, are you sure your not a landscaper! Looks great!
Mark, I am glad you made it back safe!
Carl, I feel you! Do it, then do it again! that's how my body work turns out! LOL
So today I went out and worked on the control panel and a little bit on the crane! Not to much and not worthy of pictures.
On a side note I hope I don't offend anyone, but I am asking for prayers for me 15 month old granddaughter as she was taken to Seattle's Children's Hospital with Pneumonia her little right lung is in bad shape right now!
Praying for your granddaughter and all of your family!
Jim
First I would like to thank you all for the Prayers! As soon as I know something I will let you all know!
Mark the bench work looks great! now that you have some up, your next move is the books! LOL
Paul, Its looking good! I can see more space heck I think I even see a new table appearing before my eyes!
Hi Jim, its a repaint!
Again, Thank you all for the Prayers!
Dave Ripp. posted:Anthony K posted:Last weekend I got the last of the track in place for the west end of my yard. This weekend I wired and tested; so far, so good. I also started to place dwarf and mast signals for the running tracks.
Here's the west end with mains 1 and 2 to the left.
Nice Anthony, I love pull through yards very realistic. Is your whole layout a parameter and or around the room? How many main lines?
Thanks Jim, Dave, Dave, Mark, and Mike! Sorry, I don't have a YouTube channel. The layout is around the room, a folded-over dog bone, sort of in the shape of a "J". Double-track main ~ 110' in length with a 7-track hidden staging yard and a 7-track yard pictured. PRR position light signals by Custom Signals.
Anthony K posted:Dave Ripp. posted:Anthony K posted:Last weekend I got the last of the track in place for the west end of my yard. This weekend I wired and tested; so far, so good. I also started to place dwarf and mast signals for the running tracks.
Here's the west end with mains 1 and 2 to the left.
Nice Anthony, I love pull through yards very realistic. Is your whole layout a parameter and or around the room? How many main lines?
Thanks Jim, Dave, Dave, Mark, and Mike! Sorry, I don't have a YouTube channel. The layout is around the room, a folded-over dog bone, sort of in the shape of a "J". Double-track main ~ 110' in length with a 7-track hidden staging yard and a 7-track yard pictured. PRR position light signals by Custom Signals.
Control panel and track look great and for some reason I feel like I've seen it before.
Mike I don't have any grands so I can only imagine what you are dealing with.
My son is cleaning on the closet that half of it is going bye bye! Need to figure out the directions in the room with a compass so I can say "the north side" and stuff like some other folks do!
Jim
GeoPeg posted:Lou1985 posted:Installed an ERR AC Commander in a 69 year old 2343 Santa Fe F3. An ABBA set with a Railsounds II B unit from 1997 leads El Capitan from a signal stop. Runs pretty well for 69 years old if you ask me.
What a gorgeous set. As a kid, that's the exact set I used to dream about, except back then, we had only battery operated sound! And yours I stunning! Nicely done, Lou!
George
I've also got a set of ABBA 2343s from 1996-1997 that I usually run on the Super Chief. I wanted that set since I was 11 (in 1996) and finally bought it last year. So mission accomplished, 22 years later.
They'll fix her up Mike, hang in there. Beside, she's the grand daughter of a marine, and they're tough. That and she has a lot of trains to play with in her future.
I have always wanted to be able to run trains from the testing and work room directly to the layout a few rooms over. So I completed most of the track from and to the layout, cut several wall holes to run the track through and put in a hinged lift bridge to allow access to a basement closet when the train is not running.
Working on the last of the support structures for the track inside the layout since that track is elevated. I will be adding some trusses to the support beams as well as some railings on either side of the track.
Instead of 3D laser building the rail supports I am designing a rails support to be cut with my laser cutter.
I'll have photos up soon.
AlanRail posted:I have always wanted to be able to run trains from the testing and work room directly to the layout a few rooms over. So I completed most of the track from and to the layout, cut several wall holes to run the track through and put in a hinged lift bridge to allow access to a basement closet when the train is not running.
Working on the last of the support structures for the track inside the layout since that track is elevated. I will be adding some trusses to the support beams as well as some railings on either side of the track.
Instead of 3D laser building the rail supports I am designing a rails support to be cut with my laser cutter.
I'll have photos up soon.
I need to find me some hand rails for the side of my mine Eric's Trains bridge!
Jim
Let's see if you guys can guess what I'm trying to recreate here:
"Sweet Home Alabama" with Reese and Matthew.
Mike G, Keep you and your family in our thoughts and prayers! Dave
mike g. posted:First I would like to thank you all for the Prayers! As soon as I know something I will let you all know!
Mark the bench work looks great! now that you have some up, your next move is the books! LOL
Paul, Its looking good! I can see more space heck I think I even see a new table appearing before my eyes!
Hi Jim, its a repaint!
Again, Thank you all for the Prayers!
Mike, Thinking positive thoughts for your grand daughter.
Jim, Elliot, Dave, and Modeltrainspart , Thank you for your thoughts and prayers! Elliot she is just like here grandpa a fighter!
Daniel, looks like the group from Friends or Big Bang!
mike g. posted:Jim, Elliot, Dave, and Modeltrainspart , Thank you for your thoughts and prayers! Elliot she is just like here grandpa a fighter!
Daniel, looks like the group from Friends or Big Bang!
😂😂 Almost guys, I'm trying to recreate the water tower from point place in Wisconsin from "That 70's Show". I loved that show growing up lol all great guesses though!
My thoughts and prayers for your granddaughter my friend. I'm sure if she is anything like her Grandpa she will do just fine! God bless!
carsntrains posted:AlanRail posted:I have always wanted to be able to run trains from the testing and work room directly to the layout a few rooms over. So I completed most of the track from and to the layout, cut several wall holes to run the track through and put in a hinged lift bridge to allow access to a basement closet when the train is not running.
Working on the last of the support structures for the track inside the layout since that track is elevated. I will be adding some trusses to the support beams as well as some railings on either side of the track.
Instead of 3D laser building the rail supports I am designing a rails support to be cut with my laser cutter.
I'll have photos up soon.
I need to find me some hand rails for the side of my mine Eric's Trains bridge!
Jim
Jim,
We sell these handrail stanchions on our website. you can use .020 music wire for railings
Finished my 139th Lionel and Atlas O-gauge 21" passenger, the Union Pacific Challenger Dining Car. I am finally done with the 21" passenger cars. I have many figures to finish on cold evenings if I get bored, but I need to get back to work on the layout. Thank you for your encouragement, it has been a long project. You can see some of my earliest cars by searching "Preiser 65602" on the web. I did not post those pictures, they were moved to that site from OGR Forum a couple years ago.
Sincerely, John Rowlen
Mike your grand child is in my prayers to the One who helps us all.
Mike- praying for your granddaughter. If she's half as tough at you, she will be fine. The doc's and nurses are amazing and will take good care of her. I know what her parents, and you, are going though- my daughter was in the hospital with a high fever from a UTI a few times when she was a baby. Turned into surgery when she was 3. All good since and now.
Bob
Daniel J. Gonzalez posted:Let's see if you guys can guess what I'm trying to recreate here:
"That 70's Show "
OK- back to trains.....
Ran mine for a bit last night. My new FM H10-44 and K-line MP-15 on the leads. Both are Pennsy black with gold lettering. Cool having two matching PRR paint schemes circling the layout.
Still fiddling with a yard extension for my layout. The simulator in SCARM is cool. Gives a good feel for what can fit on the sidings and how operations would work. Still a long way from beginning negotiations for land rights though.....
Disregard the odd bump in the upper loop (red), had to use a piece of GG flex to get the ends to meet up. The simulator won't run past miss-aligned sections. If approved by the local zoning commission, the yard will be a shelf above my desk.
Bob
RSJB18 posted:OK- back to trains.....
Ran mine for a bit last night. My new FM H10-44 and K-line MP-15 on the leads. Both are Pennsy black with gold lettering. Cool having two matching PRR paint schemes circling the layout.
Still fiddling with a yard extension for my layout. The simulator in SCARM is cool. Gives a good feel for what can fit on the sidings and how operations would work. Still a long way from beginning negotiations for land rights though.....Bob
And the yard will be a great place to change direction of the train by using that Y!! Im sure you thought that out! Whats the yellow track out into the room?
Jim
John, congrats on finishing all the passenger cars! I have been fallowing you for awhile now and they all look GREAT!
Ottawa Mark, sure looks like a fun little corner! Nice work!
Bob, I sure hope the zoning commission approves your plan! Sure would be a great addition to your layout!
Thank you everyone for your thoughts and Prayers!
Jim- yes the "Y" works well, especially with dead end sidings. The stray track is what I removed to put the GG flex in. I usually pull track sections off to the side instead of deleting them until I'm sure I don't need them any more.
Bob
thoughts and prayers for you and your granddaughter Mike !
may she get well soon...
John Rowlen posted:Finished my 139th Lionel and Atlas O-gauge 21" passenger, the Union Pacific Challenger Dining Car. I am finally done with the 21" passenger cars. I have many figures to finish on cold evenings if I get bored, but I need to get back to work on the layout. Thank you for your encouragement, it has been a long project. You can see some of my earliest cars by searching "Preiser 65602" on the web. I did not post those pictures, they were moved to that site from OGR Forum a couple years ago.
Sincerely, John Rowlen
Beautiful work, John! Must be very satisfying to accomplish so fine and unequaled body of work.
Finished it Yeah!
looks great Bryant ! like your city background, looks good
Bryant Dunivan 111417 posted:Finished it Yeah!
WOW awesome layout! Really like those TOFCs too! Why is Batman being called on?? : )
Jim
carsntrains posted:Bryant Dunivan 111417 posted:Finished it Yeah!
WOW awesome layout! Really like those TOFCs too! Why is Batman being called on?? : )
Jim
The idea was to make this a Toy Train Layout (not too realistic). Enjoy it with my Grandkids.
The theme was from Spiderman. I thought the Bat signal was a fun idea. If you look around tyou should see some vehicle Easter Eggs:
1) Ecto 1 going by the bus station
2) Bullitt Chase seen with Charger and Mustang front of the Lionel Hobby Shop
3) JFK Presidential Limo going by the front of the York Hotel
4) Taxi Cabs courtesy of "Scrooged".
Other cars from various shows and movies.
Congrats, John Rowlen on completing the 139th and final car.
Bryant, looks great! What a wonderful job, I bet the grandkids just love it!
Nick, nice work on the water tower! One day I might get a inkjet printer! LOL
Mike, I hope your granddaughter recovers quickly and her stay in the hospital is short.
I went to Portland to watch my granddaughter play basketball on Saturday so I couldn’t make the train show.
Yesterday I put away the cars and track I had on setup on the floor of my garage and added the last of my Diesel engines to my DCS Wi-Fi app in my phone. I just have the Shay to add.
Larry
nmp...
Thoughts and prayers are with your granddaughter, Mike.
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