That appears to be the fix. I will take pictures with the home button on the right, not the left. I've had that happen several times on here. I'm sorry I took so long to figure it out. Thank you all for the feedback.
If anyone happens to see someone posting upside down views, and they are feeling puzzled or frustrated, would you please pass along what we've now learned?
Making progress on another store building for Richardson, MO on my Zalma Branch layout. The old store is going to be closed in a few months and is close to dilapidation at this point in its life.
Hi Jim, that looks great. But something jumps out at me, the tin on the shed roof could be narrower. It looks like a scale 5 feet wide. I don't ever recall seeing tin that wide. And, you can always tell me to MYOB! It does look like its about to fall in! Dale
Just a heads up watch out for a special announcement for two train board exchange boxcars to be run for the HO forum
Thanks, Dale! I didn't pay any attention to that aspect but I will be mindful of it in the future. It would've been just as easy to cut them into scale widths. Good catch.
I found an AHM Roma Wine tank car from the 1960s at a swap meet for 50 cents. It needs to have the trucks discarded and replaced with body-mount couplers and trucks mounted with screws. The paint on the black pieces also needs to be touched up with silver, and it needs weight. I'm partway along:
AHM actually had some really fun cars back then. These include various specialized tank-container cars, a pitch tank car with a heater (my uncle was responsible for developing and testing this car; in retrospect he thinks they were "rolling bombs" and should never have been permitted!) a horizontal-tank pickle car, a self-unloading pulpwood car. . . I've tracked a few of these down.
Well, started work on a car for my NS OCS/OLS train. I bought an observation platform car from C&O Railfan(Thanks again!). The first step was to make the correct roof. I bought some 7/16 styrene tubing and cut it into just a hair less than quarters rounds. I took two and glued them onto the sides of the roof. I filled in the gaps and ends with contour putty and sanded smooth(gaps) or into the correct profile(ends). Next step will be to figure out "which exact" car I am going to make and then work on correcting the windows(each car seems to be different slightly). Thanks for looking! JMS
