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Originally Posted by kennyb:

 Only thing is,I am thinking it would look so much more realalistic painted flat black,and weathered to look like it has a little rust,instead of using silver like Lionel originally had them.I've never seen a real Bascule bridge in silver,your thoughts about the new color?

Ken, I know I've seen bascule bridges silver(or light grey at least), also light blue, rusty brown(anti-rust primer?), and the usual, black. Including streaks of "old colors" could be a great detail.  

Originally Posted by Adriatic:
Originally Posted by kennyb:

 Only thing is,I am thinking it would look so much more realalistic painted flat black,and weathered to look like it has a little rust,instead of using silver like Lionel originally had them.I've never seen a real Bascule bridge in silver,your thoughts about the new color?

Ken, I know I've seen bascule bridges silver(or light grey at least), also light blue, rusty brown(anti-rust primer?), and the usual, black. Including streaks of "old colors" could be a great detail.  

See! http://www.michiganrailroads.c...1RougeDrawbridge.htm

Originally Posted by trumptrain:

News from Patsburg

 

I worked on creating a removable access area that will be located on the lower front face of the mountain on the mountain division This removable access area is needed so that I can gain access to a lockon and to fix derailments.  The mountain is up against a wall and is not accessable from the back side.  Since the mountain already sits on an elevated level of the layout,  the area needing access is out of arms reach if I try accessing from underneath the layout.  

 

A drawer type pullout automobile/truck tunnel will serves as my access.  I used a HO tunnel portal made by Scenic Express set on 18 by 8 inch rectangular piece of styrofoam with styrofoam walls and a black piece of construction paper covering the opposite end from the portal..... all sitting on a styrofoam base.    This way the tunnel will be 3 D and when finished I will have a vehicle sticking half way out of the portal.  

 

That's all the news from Patsburg

 

Happy Railroading & Keep driving those spikes.

Patrick W

Free State Junction Railroad " Where the trains always run on time"

Pat,

It sounds interesting; post some pics!

Originally Posted by kennyb:

Today I wet sanded the rust spots and did some body work on an old #313 Bascule Bridge I'm restoring.I bought it off the bay for $42.00,and when it arrived I was so disappointed,I was going to send it back.But I tinkered around with the motor,and got it to run,so I decided to keep it.After I wet sanded the rust off and old paint,I took it outside and shot it all with sandable auto primer.It is starting to look like I got a deal now!Only thing is,I am thinking it would look so much more realalistic painted flat black,and weathered to look like it has a little rust,instead of using silver like Lionel originally had them.I've never seen a real Bascule bridge in silver,your thoughts about the new color?

Kenny,

I have some of the same thoughts about a 282 crane that I picked up. It has rust and dirt. I am thinking that it will never be a collectable; so why get rid of the authentic rust only to add it back after its painted? I am leaning towards cleaning it without ruining the aged patina.

I relocated my rural train station and outbuildings four feet, freeing up space for the "rezoned" land I plan to "develop" into commercial area on my layout.  It proved to be one of those projects that goes exactly as planned, but I did not enjoy the work because it mean all three of my train loops had to be shut down while I was working so I could not run even one of them to keep my company.

So Bryan, I see the track on the floor.  is this the pattern you are using and then setting that up onto the platform you have? Looks pretty cool.  I also want to incorporate a subway into mine this time around.
Chris
  Originally Posted by Bryan in Ohio:

Started bench work, got most of lower subway level done.

 

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I tried to rezone a parcel and the planning commission a rejected a variance.  I guess I have to talk to the mayor on the side!! lol.  Originally Posted by Lee Willis:

I relocated my rural train station and outbuildings four feet, freeing up space for the "rezoned" land I plan to "develop" into commercial area on my layout.  It proved to be one of those projects that goes exactly as planned, but I did not enjoy the work because it mean all three of my train loops had to be shut down while I was working so I could not run even one of them to keep my company.

 

Originally Posted by Chris D:
I tried to rezone a parcel and the planning commission a rejected a variance.  I guess I have to talk to the mayor on the side!! lol. 

 

By any chance is the planning commision headed up by your spouse? We are empty nesttors and decided to take over the apartment in our 2family for recreation. I have a train room, my wife has an art room; then there is a guest room and a kitchen. I was thinking outloud one day and mentioned tunneling into the unused kitchen or guestroom. There were comments like why don't you just take over the whole house.

Originally Posted by Chris D:
So Bryan, I see the track on the floor.  is this the pattern you are using and then setting that up onto the platform you have? Looks pretty cool.  I also want to incorporate a subway into mine this time around.
Chris
  Originally Posted by Bryan in Ohio:

Started bench work, got most of lower subway level done.

 

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It's a bi-level layout. Wait 'til you see the double helixes!!!  LOL

 

just joking

There is light at the end of the tunnel, and it is NOT an oncoming train!  Today I got

final structural details in place and sceniced the foamboard base with Gypsolite colored by acrylics.  Was leery of scenicing but got surprised by good results on other projects.

This means this huge creosote plant Murphy has had so much fun with is almost done.

Ran tire tracks around in the wet scenery with a 1/43rd truck in the "gravel and dirt"

parking lot.  That will dry overnight and I will do a touch up wash of acrylics over the

scenery.  I wanted one, and, by cracky, I got one....some place for these backwoods

sawmills to ship their products.

I arrived back in Michigan with the car ferry that Alex built me on Sunday night.  I was beat from the 10 hour drive so nothing got done that night.  1st two days back at work have been a killer so no layout work was done then.  This morning I finally got off my butt before work and painted the wall a nice blue where the car ferry will go.  Tonight I plan to pick up all the lumber I need and after work tomorrow there is not stopping work on the layout until noon Saturday when I am needed back at work.  

 

I have to get the benchwork built, track laid, and car ferry installed before my family gets home sat evening.  I have decided to hold back any photos until the work is done Saturday before work and it will be photo documented on my layout thread.  

Well, it wasn't 40 visitors Saturday. It was 4, one of whom was my daughter. I'm thinking it has been 8 years since she's seen it, so it had to look very different to her (and that's with 6 years of no progress). It looks so different from just a year ago. She actually said she wants to help with the scenery.

 

Patrick was over on Monday and he finished screwing down the decking we put up last week. Then we put up another 8' of backdrop and another 8' of decking. Then he glued and screwed down all 32' of sound board. While he was doing those things, I was poking at the layout lighting.

 

Last night I got serious about the lighting, and got the first 4 lights up. Two at the front end of the string and two at the back. I made a temporary plug so I could fire them up. The first two look great. I'm going to head down and get the middle 4 wired  up, pics to follow. Those LED bulbs are amazing. 9W for 60W equivalent, 5700K daylight, generate no real heat, and they're dimable. I'm putting them every 4'.

 

Haven’t posted much lately, but wanted to let you all know I am still kicking.

Anyway for the last two months I have been relocating the “town” area on the Ironbound RR. It’s heart-breaking because it really looked fine where it was! You can find pictures of the town as it was, on my layout website:

http://trainutz.com/ironbound.shtml

But I made a serious mistake when I originally framed the town platform area years ago. And so I am posting this to see if I can save anyone else the headache of making the same mistake. This applies to almost anything on a layout.

 

I located the town area at my eye-level. That is, I located the STREET-level at eye-level. But by the time I added structures, autos, li'l folks, poles, signs, etc... everything looked juuussst a bit too high, so visitors are unable to see the interior scenes and the tons of other custom details I worked on. I can not simply lower the platform... there’s a freight car storage yard located below it. So I decided to bite the bullet and move the town. But there was nowhere to move it TO! The layout is filled to the brim. So I have been busy engineering a raised area over a corner which will be the new town area. This is looking good with many new structures, but still weeks from completion. I will definitely post the new stuff on the Ironbound website when it is complete.

 

Anyway... I am still kicking and I am still loving the layout. Even though it’s relatively small, the detailing and reworking never ends... which is exactly how I love it to be : )

 

Happy Model Railroading!

 

~Andy

Chris,

 

You are correct the track was just laid out on the floor so I knew exactly where to put the bench work.  Here is a current picture of what it looks like now.  I also got a roll out control bench made and a control panel.  Subway level wiring for power is done and happy to report after sitting in boxes for 5 years all subway sets fired right up and worked perfectly.  

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Worked on the layout for the first time since early April, in fact I've only been in the train room a handful of times.  I started to paint the new station I purchased last fall.  I also spent some good quality time running trains with my 2 and 4 year old boys.  With the hot weather we've been having I should be able to find some more time to work on the layout.

 

Woke up  made coffee and ran my Berkshire,... pulling my new Chessie Special Madison cars around the ceiling, tested my new hi-rail service truck, smiled and headed outside to grade and soak the first soil layer in the front yard 6'x14' raised garden box for my Lionel G-scale Gold Rush (old one, porter). I got hot and headed to the shade to cut and paint some the wood for my "soon to be", 4-line, 56"x8'(actually 2-56"x48" sections), "upstairs" loopy layout, featuring one line each of Super-O[pregnant loop w/2-post war tunnels], O[loop], O-27 [4 switches to make a loop & fig.8], and an elevated O-27[1/4 dog bone]. A long hot, but good train day here. This post, a quick forum scan, and a couple more loops, then Im calling it a day...     

Originally Posted by Jdevleerjr:
Originally Posted by VaGolfer1950:

I added a silo to the farm. Silo is a Harry Heike creation.

 

 

 

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Is that silo a kit?  I really need for my small farm scene on my layout

It is a solid cast finished structure that Harry was selling at York in April. I grabbed one as it seemed to be the right height for the MTH barn.

I'm trying to talk myself into doing some scenery.  Last week I finished installing the Wye and small (2x14) yard area and have a lot of plywood to cover.  Right now I'm taking a break from painting the corner molding I've applied to the edge of the layout to give it a finished look.

 

Other than adding a 2-track engine facility (need 2 054 left hand switches) I think I have all my track exactly where I want it and things are running well.

 

I stink at modeling scenery or any artwork that needs to be done, but like most things in this hobby, the 1st step is the hardest.  Once you get going it's not so bad.

better buy up the incandescent bulbs before they stop selling them!  or you might have to get the LED ones! Originally Posted by Big_Boy_4005:

Let there be more light...


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It's a good thing these are dimmable.

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Right now there are 15 bulbs working. By the time I'm done there will be close to 200. One section at a time, steady progress.

 

Originally Posted by Chris D:
better buy up the incandescent bulbs before they stop selling them!  or you might have to get the LED ones!

Chris, those are LED bulbs even though they look like incandescent. They only draw 9W per bulb, but look like a 60W. That's how it will be possible to have 200 of them in the room on a single 20A circuit. They aren't cheap, about $13 each at Home Depot. I'm just going to keep buying them in batches of 20 until I have enough. Maybe the price will come down.

I'm actually thinking of replacing CFLs throughout the house with these.

 

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Originally Posted by Big_Boy_4005:
Originally Posted by Chris D:
better buy up the incandescent bulbs before they stop selling them!  or you might have to get the LED ones!

Chris, those are LED bulbs even though they look like incandescent. They only draw 9W per bulb, but look like a 60W. That's how it will be possible to have 200 of them in the room on a single 20A circuit. They aren't cheap, about $13 each at Home Depot. I'm just going to keep buying them in batches of 20 until I have enough. Maybe the price will come down.

I'm actually thinking of replacing CFLs throughout the house with these.

Big Boy, Buying bulbs in bulk from a lighting supply house could save you $. You should check around your locality for one, you will likely even have a choice of different manufacturers to pick from. I used to only pay 1/3 the price for lots of 100.

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