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While I didn’t do this today, most recent adjustments in the Lehigh Valley portion of my Layout- added a roadway of smaller vehicles on the ledge, painted a plastruct truss that I’m using as a girder, added some roadway in the Valley, added the workhouse, my accessory transformer now powers the workhouse, Marx tower and this Brawa clock by the Girard station. Next step will be wiring the yard lights which will likely require a larger power supply for this accessory transformer.

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paul 2 posted:

Johan, great pics. And you're doing a excellant job of redoing the scenery on the layout.

Marty R, that is one nice Christmas layout, So good I don't think you shpould tear it down after Christmas.

Well today I had hoped to put some long hours into the layout but the wife decided she wanted to do some last minute, fight the crowds Christmas shopping. So all I managed to get done today was put the stairs and railings together. Tomorrow I have to figure out what colors I will do the stairs in. Pics..................Paul 2

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Paul. Thank you. This redoing project is a very interested. After new back drops everything can looking even better. 🤝

Johan.

Found some battery operated street lights at Menards so I hooked them up around our little town. It will be a nice surprise when the boys go to look in the morning.  All of the lights are battery operated LED lights. I do go through batteries every now and then, but I figure they don't put any load on the transformer, and batteries from Dollar Tree are 6/8 per buck, so I'm not too worried about it.

 

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paul 2 posted:

Johan, great pics. And you're doing a excellant job of redoing the scenery on the layout.

Marty R, that is one nice Christmas layout, So good I don't think you shpould tear it down after Christmas.

Well today I had hoped to put some long hours into the layout but the wife decided she wanted to do some last minute, fight the crowds Christmas shopping. So all I managed to get done today was put the stairs and railings together. Tomorrow I have to figure out what colors I will do the stairs in. Pics..................Paul 2

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Paul, I think details like stairs and railings and painting them can be huge. Arnold

 

Today, Christmas, I opened my 1933283 BNSF ES44AC #6438 non-powered and placed the #6438 body shell on a BNSF powered chassis with Bluetooth.  The job was more difficult because of the ditch lights and upper level railing.

I had to use the walkways of the powered engine and then fasten the #6438 body shell to the walkway. The light boards transferred nicely, and the antenna fastened to the #6438 inside roof.

Here is a video of the finished engine.

Merry Christmas,  John Rowlen

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Weathered and lowered a Weaver PS-1 Rutland boxcar.   Decided to only use my Pan Pastels and Testor's Dullcoat as I was looking to just fade the Green and Yellow paint scheme.   Been putting in some hours on my "new to me"  Golden Gate Depot Ogle Coaling tower,  I will post some photos tomorrow. 

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I have made good progress on the GGD Ogle Coaling tower since Christmas !   Here are some in progress photos....  After this morning's weathering touch up work,  I think I will start stringing the chain for the coal chutes, weather the door and window frames now that I have pulled the masking tape,  and anchor the footers to the legs.  

The first 2 photos are what it looked like out of the box, great model but the stairwells are way out of proportion, like G scale.....  Used a razor saw to scribe wood grain into all the beams,  added Plastruct O scale stairs and railings along with bracing for the platforms then went through about 4 weathering steps... (painted random boards different shades, lightly airbrushed the tower with a translucent coat, did a black acrylic wash, went back and dry brushed areas that went too dark hiding the great details that GGD provided.   

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chris a posted:

I have made good progress on the GGD Ogle Coaling tower since Christmas !   Here are some in progress photos....  After this morning's weathering touch up work,  I think I will start stringing the chain for the coal chutes, weather the door and window frames now that I have pulled the masking tape,  and anchor the footers to the legs.  

The first 2 photos are what it looked like out of the box, great model but the stairwells are way out of proportion, like G scale.....  Used a razor saw to scribe wood grain into all the beams,  added Plastruct O scale stairs and railings along with bracing for the platforms then went through about 4 weathering steps... (painted random boards different shades, lightly airbrushed the tower with a translucent coat, did a black acrylic wash, went back and dry brushed areas that went too dark hiding the great details that GGD provided.   

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Chris. What an fantastic work. 👏

Johan

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Johan,  thank you !   I'll shoot some more photos when I put the tower back on the layout.  Even though it's overcast outside the photos almost always come out better with mother nature's sunlight.   

I have two Atlas O 40 foot BAR PS-1 boxcars that I have thoroughly washed, painted the black ladders the correct red/white/blue and dull coated them....   I am going to lightly fade them like the Rutland Boxcar I did a few days ago.  Hope you had a great holiday and are doing well. 

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chris a posted:

I have made good progress on the GGD Ogle Coaling tower since Christmas !   Here are some in progress photos....  After this morning's weathering touch up work,  I think I will start stringing the chain for the coal chutes, weather the door and window frames now that I have pulled the masking tape,  and anchor the footers to the legs.  

The first 2 photos are what it looked like out of the box, great model but the stairwells are way out of proportion, like G scale.....  Used a razor saw to scribe wood grain into all the beams,  added Plastruct O scale stairs and railings along with bracing for the platforms then went through about 4 weathering steps... (painted random boards different shades, lightly airbrushed the tower with a translucent coat, did a black acrylic wash, went back and dry brushed areas that went too dark hiding the great details that GGD provided.   

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Chris. What an fantastic work. 👏

Johan

Johan took the words right out of my mouth Chris.

Your efforts were well worth it. Share another pic when it is on your layout, can't wait to see it

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Johan,  thank you !   I'll shoot some more photos when I put the tower back on the layout.  Even though it's overcast outside the photos almost always come out better with mother nature's sunlight.   

I have two Atlas O 40 foot BAR PS-1 boxcars that I have thoroughly washed, painted the black ladders the correct red/white/blue and dull coated them....   I am going to lightly fade them like the Rutland Boxcar I did a few days ago.  Hope you had a great holiday and are doing well. 

Chris. You're welcome.  It's would be a nice see more pics and BAR PS1 cars too. The Rutland box car looking a very nice. I got three free days and now back to work again. I have weathered mine BAR trailers and made a some loads of them.

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Lot's of great stuff going on. Chris- the coaling tower looks great. Johan- nice work on the trailers. Brian- You've got a special gal there. CGW Patrick- the signals look nice.

I took another look at the motor for my M-10000. I couldn't get it to run the other day. I'm guessing the gears were a bit out of sync so I gave it a shot of power at 18V and it sprung to life! Just need to clean up the track and put it all together now. 

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