What did you do on your layout today?

Lew, Yes on the 182, it only goes in one direction and the winch only works in one direction. My thought is to just rewire the whole thing with the wire diagram I got from Rob on the forum. Thanks for the video, it proves mine is a lot louder. I will have to check into it after I get done with the 182!

Johan, wonderful job on the Linde Natural Gas car!

Larry I really like your Crane  & Boom sound car sets! I have one from MTH Railking , but its not remote controllable. Your passenger stations look great! If you get a chance can you take a little video of them in action?

Bryan, Great job on your module! The crash scene with the cops on location, the lighted billboard for dummies, and of course the chain gain picking litter! Its a good lesson for the young kid playing basketball! LOL

Bill, your old caboose with the new LED's  look great! Nice job!

John, you do such wonderful work that you cant even tell that you grind your folks in half! 

Well the CEO has given me the day off from working on the house. That means train room time today. I will spend my time working on my Lionel 182 crane. I plan to rewire it, clean it up and maybe even repaint some of it. Does anyone know it 24AWG is to small for wiring something like that?

Well I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend! 

I hope you all find time for your trains and layouts!

Odenville Bill posted:

Thanks Mark.

   I really like the green caboose.  It started as a $1.00 flea market find.  I will find the car number decals, X14.  It will appear in my next video.  Some where some how.

Bill

Bill! Take me with you the next time you go to a flea market!

Another busy Saturday. I've discovered that I don't have to watch the weather reports anymore.....just look at the volume of work going on here and I know it's raining or snowing......

Bryan- nice work on your module. I do my best work when I'm on a deadline too.

Mike- you can double up the 24 ga. wire if that's what you have. Should work just fine.

Bill- Very nice caboose. Not bad for a buck!

Mark- some cleaning up counts. One step closer to bench work. I'm afraid to google "Pittsburgh Toilet"

John- I don't know how you do it. I'd be blind by now working on those little folks.

So I printed out more block wall images yesterday for the elevated siding. Cut-glue-repeat is the name of the game. One thing I forgot to do was spread the glue on the cardstock (BJ's cereal boxes), with a brush. I just laid it out in a S pattern which caused a little wrinkling. A couple of hours under some weight solved that issue.
I mounted the three flat walls (one inside the tunnel) and put back some of the ground cover. Still more details to do.
Bob

It's not so much what I did for my layout today, but what I did for someone else's layout. Working on 3 locomotives for a client. The two A units were originally Lionel 2032 Erie Alco's, circa 1952-1954. The B unit is from Lionel's MPF days. The two A units were "artistly" repainted by someone using a brush trying to stay away from the decals. Same with the truck side rails. Guess they wanted to update the color scheme. 

I was able to strip away the brush applied paint job as well as Lionel's original decals, black paint & yellow side strips. These shells have now had time turned back about 67 years and all of lead based paint is gone! 

After stripping a number of older Lionel cars my stripping solutions has enough lead in suspension to probably offer some limited radiation protection. 

               Marci caught me & IZ watching a train video yesterday...

Sorry Brian, Izzy is the good looking one in that photo. 

Meet Lucy, she's a 2 yo Boston Terrier, retired mom, who is being trained as a conductor on the SENHRR.  She just came on board on Thursday and learning the ropes quickly.

decoynh posted:

Sorry Brian, Izzy is the good looking one in that photo. 

Meet Lucy, she's a 2 yo Boston Terrier, retired mom, who is being trained as a conductor on the SENHRR.  She just came on board on Thursday and learning the ropes quickly.

I can tell from here Lucy is gonna' be an excellent conductor.

Buffy has similar duties on the PER:

I gotta' hand it to you: I second that emotion, that Izzy wins the beauty-contest hands down:

I "borrowed" this pic of Izzy from one of Brian's posts. 

So maybe today I can get back to my layout. Yesterday at the Parma TCA show the mod squad had set up their modules and as luck would have it I was again next to Bryan. I think everyone that stopped to look at our setup enjoyed it, especially Bryans. Even though I grit my teeth to say this LOL Bryan has done a great job on his module. A lot of thought went into and it is not even totally done yet. In the video he posted of it I was fortunate to have my tank train running through it at the time. Even though he charged me a fee to cross his module LOL All and all it was a great day of comradery and running trains. ............Paul 2

My first BAR reefer. I paint that and added decals.

           just happened to catch this one on "Trains & Locomotives" last night...

Bob, LOL on the Pittsburgh Toilet.  Yes it falls under the heading of, "Why would you do such a thing?"  Those printed walls look great!

Glad to see everyone's favorite train dogs!  What would we do without them?

Ericaann, Nice work on refurbishing the finish on those old engines!

Johan, Great paint and decal work!!

Paul, Nice work with the Mod Squad!  The tank train was great!  I already complimented Bryan. 

Here are some pictures of my second Broadway Limited 21" Dining Car with Preiser 65602 Seated People I painted.  The car was previously painted after modifying the original Lionel interior by cutting off an extra set of tables from one of the Floor molds that Lionel put in the car.

I have been running this car as an empty Dining Car when dinner was not being served.  As I prepare for the inevitable, I decided to add Preiser People so all my passenger cars would have passengers that match the other set cars,

While dinner was being served, seven more people joined the thirty-five already in the Dining Car. There are now forty-two (42) Seated People in the car.

I am checking my paint supplies to see if I work on the Santa Fe Baggage Car wood-grained Floor (a Yellow, Sand, Earth Red and Dark Earth wet blend),  or start fabrication of a scratch-built kitchen in the Santa Fe Dining Car.  I purchased the 1927050 Union Pacific "Excursion" 2nd Add-on 2-car pack to fill out my UP Excursion passenger set that should arrive this week. The two UP "Challenger" 2nd Add-on cars were finished this past week.

I need to re-group/organize my painted/finished Preiser 65602 Seated People, and I may need to start painting some more of the remaining 12 unopened packages of 36 people.  My selection has been depleted by the 9-car Santa Fe, two-pack Challenger and Pennsylvania Dining Car.

Have a very good week.

John Rowlen

John Rowlen, Fantastic work, Beautiful passengers riding a beautiful train, wow...Briansilvermustang, great pictures, it’s nice to see who is doing all the pictures and others should pls e recent pictures for us to see. It’s a great forum. I had friends over to simply run trains for a few minutes. Mike G., when I learn how to do a video, I’ll put some on the forum. My grandson will help me. Thanks for the compliments. DECOYNH, nice looking room and pet. RSJB18 Bob, great scenic effects, looking good, and the weather here in Middle Tennessee is just cold 47 degrees, but it feels cooler. I know that’s not cold compared to other areas of the country. Lew, great pictures, really neat way to do a layout.  Everyone have a fun Sunday. Happy Railroading 

John Rowlen, wonderful skills again demonstrated in decorating and populating a scale passenger car.  Thanks for taking the time to photograph and post you projects.

Suggestion:  change your OGR username to "Sincerely, John Rowlen."

John, more great work!

Larry, great photographs!  I’m waving hello back at you!!

Carl,  Thank you for the suggestion.  Have a good week.

John

The life of a 'hogger' on the GNRW:

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Hi Guys and gals

During the week, I managed to get some Woodland Scenics plaster cloth put down on my Styrofoam structure work on the layout. The end result is a rigid ,lightweight base for scenic paint and details. 

To start off, I managed to find a pair of pplastic bowls with lids to hold the water used to wet the cloth. These were at the Harris Teeter market for about 7 bucks for the pair. Having the lid makes it easier to handle the ised water for dispoasal outdoors without spills on the floor. 

The paper towels are handy for absorbing excess water which puddles on the table. Heres the cloth and a old pair of scissors used to cut the cloth. When cutting the cloth , choose sizes that you can handle and control easily when the cloth is wet. Too large and the pieces get unwieldy and become a mess.

Here is some of the work to cover the tunnel portal and some vertical walls I have between levels. The Tunnel Portal

  And here is some work on the vertical walls.

So that's it for now. Plan to get bck to it and do some more during the week. One last point, its always a good idea to clean up when you finish one of these sessions. It can get kind of messy . and don't forget to cover the tracks. 

Bob, looks really good! Thanks for sharing on how you do it. It will make my life a lot eaiser!

Ericaann, Great start on the engine rehab! If I may ask what is your stripping solution?

Brian, great photos of you and Izzy! Oh and your engines also! LOL

Johan, wonderful job on the new Refeer! Looks great!

Larry Thank you for sharing such wonderful photos of your amazing layout! I cant wait till your grandson comes over to show you how to do videos!

Sam, What a great story of the Hogger life!

Lirr, your plaster cloth work looks great! Messy is lightly putting it! LOL

So yesterday I went out to work on my @#182 crane that just wasn't working right. So here is what I started with!

As you can tell everything is coated with years and years of grease from probably the day it was built! I soaked it in Dawn soap and with the help of a small cooper brush and some scrubbing I was able to get it all cleaned up.

I then went on to the cleaning and painting the body parts of the crane, then electrical! I found why it was only going in on direction. The loose wire was broken off of the outter field connection. I was so far in where it broke off I couldn't see it till I got the motor out. I reconnected a new wire and tested and works great! This morning I am going to go out and put as much together before I can start construction noise! LOL

After several hours and many cups of coffee and a couple cold ones as the day went on here is what I have now.

I hope everyone has a great Monday and finds time for there layout and trains!

Mike g, your silver crane looks great, I look forward to seeing the progress on this and your layout, and thanks for the kind comments. Today I will Be wiring in more accessories and soon will attempt a short video. Everyone have a great week.