Mike, I'll make sure I do! I've been keeping an eye on the progress and it looks great! I'd love to see it in person. Chris
I haven't seen the top of my workbench for 2-3 years so I thought I would take this opportunity to take a picture in order for me to remember what it looks like. So I am sharing the picture. Maybe I will do something on this workbench besides clean it up.
I finally got the code working for my Arduino frequency counter and very quickly found out why my turnout control circuit hasn't been behaving. Now I need to go over the math again and figure out if I need to buy more parts to get it working properly.
Hi Been a while since I managed to do any modelling and projects are backing up. Still need to work on M&E 17 and WNY&P 630, but they have progressed a little. The three here are LA&L 425, SIXX 77 which is a former Cartier and Alco demonstrator C-636, and an RS-1 that has been partly converted into an MRS-1. How many projects is too many?????? Here we have RRPX 563 (in M&E colours), an ex-AT&SF SSB-1200, a Topeka cab GP-7U, to become M&E 23, and a Black Maria Cab unit, part of an A-B-A set from Zsolt Kemeny in Hungary, the completed photo below is his awesome work. He is also responsible for the RS-27 and the DR-4-4-15. The RS-27 is scratch built by Zsolt, based on a modified Union Pacific version. I will likely add dynamic brakes and paint it in MLW colours used on an ex-UP unit on lease to the PGE/BCOL in the 70's. This is the DR-4-4-15 "kit" that I will use to build a CNJ Babyface unit. The parts are for the NYC/MP version, so I have extra parts so I can build the shorter CNJ version. Here is a completed NYC unit that Zsolt made. Looks Awesome. (Zsolt photo) And here is his completed Black Maria. Pretty nice work. (Zsolt photo) Really need to finish some of these. Cheers Steve NZ
Not a lot of modelling time lately, but this week I managed to complete some long running projects . . . The two display flatcars for the Provincial Museum Train: I have yet to build the logging exhibits they carried. Tim
Also completed - the three display coaches for the Provincial Mueum Train: Three more cars and a steam locomotive to build . . . Tim
I forgot to post this photograph of a test run of the museum train consist as it presently exists: Tim
Sorry for taking so long to reply to your post. With work and honeydos haven't been working on my modeling. Almost have the frame done. The hoist house and changing house are complete. The grizzly is coming along. Originally built it a number of years ago and not happy with how the sorting house came out. Totally rebuilt it and added interior details. Now adding the corrugated siding. Very tedious and I'm taking my time. Here's a few photos of the grizzly and updated gallows. The stairs are cut from Evergreen shapes. Need to be shaped. Grew up in Tonopah and go back at least twice a year to visit my sister. Your son must work at Hadley/Round Mountain.
No problem. Life gets in the way of my trains a lot too...and I'm retired...lol. Yes...the son works IT at Round Mountain
Hi George. Several of my high school buddies used to work out at Round Mountain. They are all retired now. My uncle used to own a small ranch between the State Highway Station and Carver's. Next time you're there, look behind Carver's and you'll see a bunch of Poplars and other trees. My uncle put in a large pond in the early 1960s. I helped plant a lot of those trees back then. Also used to swim at Darrough's when it was just an open air swimming pool and hardly anyone used it. My Dad put in the first television repeating towers in Round Mountain in 1961. The mountain that the antennas were on is no longer there. The mountain was turned into one of the large pits back in the late 70s. Not much there back then.
Right now, I'm suddenly becoming keenly aware of the importance of all those high school math classes long ago as I try to work out a reflective IR detection system and crack the concept of diode modelling as part of the final two components of my signalling system.
just a little more detailing... a few road signs, crossbucks, and power pole...still left to do, some more 'Farm' details (tractor, etc), a barbed wire fence and corral fence, highway guardrails, and static grass... ~Bruce
