What did you do on your layout today?

Mark Boyce posted:

Bob, you are a man of many talents!

If only I used them for good....not evil 😈🤣

beardog posted:

Now I know the true meaning of "slow boat from china". The bridge rectifiers I ordered yesterday

shipped yesterday. ETA 4/29-5/29

One of our daughters buys a lot of fiber art supplies from China.  The prices are dirt cheap, but you had better not be in a hurry!!  I think they still go around the horn!!  

beardog posted:

Now I know the true meaning of "slow boat from china". The bridge rectifiers I ordered yesterday

shipped yesterday. ETA 4/29-5/29

Yeah, if you're in a hurry, click "3 Day Shipping" in the search.  Pricier, but it won't take a month to get here...    

A couple of my more recent projects:  

A cracked caboose shell and a beatup flat car combine to make a transfer caboose, and a couple of Fasttrack bumpers made with #26 bumpers.  Tried a couple of different methods:  The bumper on the left has been trimmed down to fit on the track, while the bumper on the right has had holes hogged out of the road bed to fit the tabs on the bumper.   I think I prefer the right hand method, as one can readily reuse the bumper on tubular track should the need arise... 

Mitch

Mark I like your way of thinking! tomorrow I get to Ditto you! LOL

Bob, things are looking very nice at your house! What's next for the CEO before you come back to the dark side!

Mitch, the things you think of is just amazing!

Interesting evening planned.  My son is coming over after work and my wife is fixing a nice home-cooked dinner.  Then we are going to have a small family operating session.  My wife jokingly said that maybe she would want to learn how.  My son and I jumped on that like "a dog on a bone" or "a duck on a June bug" depending on your favorite saying.

So I spotted cars, developed and printed some schedules, and we will see how it goes.  I was experimenting with my new Eola Yard this week and was reasonably happy with the results.  I am going to try having my wife start out as engineer with my son as her conductor.  I will run the "meat train" and the locals while they are busy making up trains in the yard and switching some local industries.

I'm excited about this for many reasons:

• Trying to get my wife more interested in trains.
• Having a fun family night.
• Practicing operations to work out the bugs and improve the experience.
• See which method of train control is preferred, handhelds or PC tablet.
• Take a break from just working on the layout every day lately.

Art

mike g. posted:

Mark I like your way of thinking! tomorrow I get to Ditto you! LOL

Bob, things are looking very nice at your house! What's next for the CEO before you come back to the dark side!

Mitch, the things you think of is just amazing!

Roof siding and kitchen.......trains too!

Pray for me 🙏

mike g. posted:

Mark I like your way of thinking! tomorrow I get to Ditto you! LOL

Bob, things are looking very nice at your house! What's next for the CEO before you come back to the dark side!

Mitch, the things you think of is just amazing!

Mike, Ditto!

LUKE, THERE IS NO DARK SIDE..........ONLY THE FLAMINGO SIDE

Bob, I pry for everyone on here! But I have a special prayer for you and your honey do list!

Art, sure sounds like you hit the jack pot! Trains, the son, and the wife all at the same time! Take time and enjoy it!

RSJB18 posted:

Thanks Guys. Got the top door assembled. Waiting for the glue to dry. How many clamps does it take to glue a door? 

That many....

Bob;

You can never have too many clamps (nmp)...

Not for my current layout, but for a small one I'll build when I retire this summer. Son and I began working on a Korber O scale grain elevator. We got the silos done today . Also began putting together a dust collecting cyclone kit, HO scale from Walthers (Wish I could find a O one, but the HO one should work since cyclones come in a lot of sizes.

New recruits arriving daily............

ten HUT!!!!!

I wanted to go out and hunt flamingos but instead went to  Home Deot in Carlisle, Pa. and got my Homasote. They cut it for me which saved a lot of work. Had to trim two 2 ft wide pieces and a sharp utility knife took care of that. Brought it back and soon had it down with track on it. Ran some teast trains. Next is the green indoor/outdoor carpet and figured a way to put it down with minimum fuss and bother. It was mild today and snow tomorrow morning  !!

It is noted that some are not going to come to the flamingo side easily...........

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

beardog posted:

Now I know the true meaning of "slow boat from china". The bridge rectifiers I ordered yesterday

shipped yesterday. ETA 4/29-5/29

Yeah, if you're in a hurry, click "3 Day Shipping" in the search.  Pricier, but it won't take a month to get here...    

A couple of my more recent projects:  

A cracked caboose shell and a beatup flat car combine to make a transfer caboose, and a couple of Fasttrack bumpers made with #26 bumpers.  Tried a couple of different methods:  The bumper on the left has been trimmed down to fit on the track, while the bumper on the right has had holes hogged out of the road bed to fit the tabs on the bumper.   I think I prefer the right hand method, as one can readily reuse the bumper on tubular track should the need arise... 

Mitch

Mitch I've got some more busted SP shells, plus a box of S Gauge Flyer busted caboose shells if you wanna make more...

just more hiding places for them terrorist gi-rafs, i think

beardog posted:

just more hiding places for them terrorist gi-rafs, i think

That's peace loving freedom fighting gi-raffes, if you don't mind! 

Mitch 

Brian:  That wooden obs looks like a really nice car.  What make is it?  Do you have a complete train of those old woodies?  Prototype for that style of car would have been about 1895 to 1905.  I've always felt that this period has been neglected by most manufacturers, both for cars as well as engines.  The only similar car that i'm aware of was made by MTH and then, I don't remember if it was ever made as an observation car.

Paul Fischer

I'm pretty sure it is a MTH car, I will check after work tonight on that, I think I have a 3 car set of these cars...

Working on switch inputs to signal system. Once I get the signals working properly, I'll hide/conceal the wires on the bridge.

Nearest track is east yard lead which ends at this interlocking and gets the stop signal since all switches are lined for the mains. Track 1 and Track 2 both get clear signals through the interlocking.

Throwing the switch for the cross-over from track 1 to 2, gives a medium clear signal to track 1, and stop for track 2.

Anthony K, sure is some nice looking work there! You get a chance would like to see more of your layout!

Slow weekend! Been working on a New Auto Ramp for a fellow Forum member. I got all the pieces cut and sanded ready to glue together!

                      you need to go into business Mike !! 

                                                           thanks again for mine !!!

briansilvermustang posted:

                      you need to go into business Mike !! 

                                                           thanks again for mine !!!

Do that and then it wouldn't  be fun anymore!

Had the kids and grand kids here for the past 5 days. But while they were here a few nice things came in. I got my tickets from Menard's for the train show they co-sponsor in Eau Claire Wi in July. Then my set of Weaver trucks came. Today I went to the Medina Ohio show and pick up a few vehicles. The show seemed to be missing a number of vendors and the crowd was on the small side. Unless it picked up after I left.  Then on the way home I made a side trip  to Menard's and picked up my Morton Salt trucks and the freebie trucks. Now with the house quiet I can go back to working on the layout. I will be hosting my Tuesday night group the week after York. And with going to York it does not leave me a lot of time to get the layouts ready. Got to double down now. Pics.....Paul

Another project from this weekend was to respray a junk Plasticville station I had sitting around in pieces.  I replaced two missing doors with some scrap sheet plastic, with sewing pins for doorknobs.   Came out pretty good, if I do say so myself...

The Razorback Traction Co. transfer caboose is complete!   Railings were cut down from the Lionel RS-3 whose chassis is under the Crocodile and whose shell adorns the Red Monster.  When you're impoverished,  you learn to reuse and recycle...  

Fortescue J. Gi-raffe approves of the work... 

But what's this?! 

A...FLAMINGO INVADER!!! 

So far, things seem cordial enough,  but who knows what will happen? 

(Many thanks to Beardog for the flamingo!  It's adorable!) 

Mitch 

uhoh

ALLLLLL will come to the flamingo side................hahahahahahaha

Hey Paul, if you're coming to the show in Eau Claire, it's just another hour to my place. I was also planning to hit that show. Sounds like it's gonna be huge.

God I am so jealous, hasn't been a train show in my area for years. I used to live in 

Ill and go to dupage every month. There used to be at least an annual one in Reno

but those stopped years ago. so now it all the bay

Paul, I'm glad you got to spend time with the kids and grandkids.  That's neat you are going to the show in Eau Claire!  Sounds like you could meet up with Elliot!

Briansilvermustang asked me if I had done any more with my layout.  Over this weekend I did get a bit done.  I pulled out the tacks I used to secure the cork, then sanded the rough edges off the cork and smoothed it up a bit.  I then took a tip from someone several months ago and sprayed the cork with gray stone paint by Rustoleum to give the impression of ballast until I do ballast sometime in the future.  I first tried Testors, and that little can was gone in no time flat.  Some folks ballast before putting in the rest of the scenery, and others leave the ballast go until after the scenery.  I found in HO that I fit in the latter group.  One photograph.

Mark,

   Now I like that, changes the look of the Cork entirely!  Very nice job.

PCRR/Dave

Hooked this up

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Mark,

   Now I like that, changes the look of the Cork entirely!  Very nice job.

PCRR/Dave

Thank you, Dave!

Jushavnfun, That is a cool bridge, and it runs great for you!

briansilvermustang posted:

                      you need to go into business Mike !! 

                                                           thanks again for mine !!!

My favorite 'vette.  1963 split window.  

Yes Dan, I think that is one of the better Vettes too!