Well, I am back at it again with the summer day camp at the railroad museum. Today we will finish up the kids T TRAK modules, snap them together and run trains before they take them home. Trying to foster the model railroad bug in the next generation. Here is a shot from last year. I will post new ones later today.
Layout Module update; the modules are now in place in their new home, track wiring in place, time for the scenery to start. advance warning...... grumpies to follow........man I hate ballasting.
I really love the looks on the kids faces. They are really having a great time. On the Clinch Valley, a coal shifter emerges from the Trace Fork sub about to enter the mainline, headed to Gilbert yard with another load of coal. Larry http://s527.photobucket.com/albums/cc354/ClinchValley/
Good stuff so far. I haven't had a chance to do much modeling this week. I did manage to start constructing a hill with some old wire mesh I found... How the whole eastern side of the layout looks now.
Very nice images so far, everyone. All of you are very good at presenting your visualizations in real form...well done! In my effort this week, a Pennsy FA2/FB2 set charges out of the tunnel west of Seneca Falls sub.
Russell's Railcamp looks like fun. Certainly the participants are having fun. Maybe some of us can go next year? SAMRA monthly meeting last night. Orphie Neathery gave a clinic on making decals. The SAMRA RR is the San Antonio and Northern. Here is the layout (H0 scale) headquarters and shops. This is a Walthers modular structure by John Lowrance. Doyle Bond is scratch building Mission Valley Mills, an old New Braunfels, Texas industry. This photo is current construction. It is still to be painted and detailed, water tanks, smoke stacks, etc.
me steam finally came! yeay steam! Walthers 0-8-0 . Need to weather, reletter & add a bit o' weight, but otherwise lookin' & runnin' groovy. Thanks for posting all the groovy pictures! Keep on rockin' & rollin'! --Mark
Great pictures, everybody. Just keeps getting better and better. Here's a couple from me this week. For those of you who are going to be Portland for the National N Scale Convention... take a lot of pictures and post them real-time for us to see!!! Have a good week, all.
Great photos guys!! Here is one from me,, just messing with the digital camera. I need to do some ground cover in the yard. Adios Wyatt
I finally have a building located on my layout. It's the Walther's Dayton Machine Shop. It's the first building I've found a permanent home for. It is at the north end of the Riverside Drive Underpass. See more in my Riverside Drive album. I just had to add this too. It's my son gone Choo-Choo over the Baldwin 2-8-2 at Chehalis-Centralia Railroad. See more in my Kids Gone Choo Choo Blog.
Here's a shot I submitted to this weekend's Modeling Photo Challenge. I re-worked this Life-like 0-6-0 saddle tank to run like a charm. The biggest problem was the gears binding in reverse. To fix that, I simple removed the foremost gear. The drivers all had this little extruded nub where the pin goes to connect the drive rods. The drive rods had a big tendency to catch that nub every time, so I filed those down flush with the wheel and used tiny screws instead of the original pins to attach the drive rods. So now this little guy has the two rear wheels geared, and the foremost wheel driven by the drive rods, pretty much just like the Kato Mikado. Next steps, I already isolated the motor, but since I'm still waiting to get a decoder, I just soldered the leads back together. There's 3 candidate locations for the decoder, the roof of the cab, above the front chassis, or vertical against the back of the cab. I will also be adding a yellow LED pretty much dead center in the boiler, then with fiber optic, run a line to the front and rear headlights. Still debating wether to add two LEDs for directional headlights or just one. Oh, this little guy will pull 10 cars easily up my 2% grades. Anyways, enough talking, here's the pic.
After a lot of education and testing I`ve begun to paint the backgrounds on my layout. They are not finished yet. I still have to paint thousands of background trees. Stefan
Excellent photos guys My latest project is a P2K GP38-2 detailling project, turning this...... into this... Jon
