MODELING It's Monday 9/12/11, Weekend Modeling Accomplishments

Jim Wiggin Sep 12, 2011

  1. Jim Wiggin

    Jim Wiggin Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Well Monday is here again. I hope your weekend was more railroad related than mine.

    The garage thing is becoming a nightmare. Most of my RC workshop items had to be replaced because of either mold or water damage, so Saturday was spent at the local Hardware store and building new bench work to replace the stuff ruined in the garage. Still have a long way to go and with an RC event that I need to cover this coming weekend in NY, the layout is getting done any time soon.

    On a Railfan level, Jess my Railfan Jeep got new wheels and 30" AT tires cheap. The wheels came from a newer Wrangler TJ so the cheap Mag wheels are gone. I'll try them out in a few weeks when I go to NH to explore more of Potter Place NH as a picture I found this weekend gave me more questions.

    So how about you? Let us know how your weekend was and post pictures of any progress you might have made.
     
  2. retsignalmtr

    retsignalmtr TrainBoard Member

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    My club had our annual display at the Newburgh Mall in NY on Saturday. We setup and ran our 20' X 20' HO layout, an 8' X 8' lionel layout. a small N layout and our new 8' X 15' T-Trak layout. All ran perfectly and we had a good time.
     

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  3. dti406

    dti406 TrainBoard Member

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    No pictures this week, but I managed to build two Details West Double Plug Door Cars and an Atlas 23,500 Gal Tank car and paint them Signal Red. I also built an Atlas 60' ACF Boxcar and painted it CSX Blue and it will be lettered in a B&O Chessie Scheme.

    I also drilled out and installed lift rings and grab irons (temp) on an Atlas U33C, also drilled out for the air brake hoses. On an Atlas RS-32 I drilled out and installed the Air Brake hoses along with drilling out the holes for the pilot grab iron and coupler lift bar.

    Rick
     
  4. SP-Wolf

    SP-Wolf TrainBoard Supporter

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    Just about got all of my frogs powered. 2 more to go. I could have finished. But, it got to be time to stop. Perhaps this evening I'll get that done. Now it's time to really consider how I'll do my control panels. Havn't decided if I'll put the track plan along the fascia or build 2 or 3 control panels.

    Over and out,
    Wolf
     
  5. MisterBeasley

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    I did everything I planned, which was, thanks to some friends who came into town, a total of nothing. They thought the trains were neat, though.
     
  6. Artieiii

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  7. jeffrey-wimberly

    jeffrey-wimberly TrainBoard Member

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    I worked on my rebuilt Stewart F9's. First order of business was to strip the blue and yellow Santa Fe paint then repaint them in the black and gray of the Midland Gulf Railway. I'll eventually have numbers for the number boards but I have to get more tape for my label maker first.

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  8. Paul Liddiard

    Paul Liddiard Staff Member

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  9. jeffrey-wimberly

    jeffrey-wimberly TrainBoard Member

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    That what it shows in the video title.
     
  10. Davidfd85

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    Well been working on the layout little by little. Hard to get allot done on just weekends.
    Roadbed is all done, wiring for the DCC is done and working, wiring for all the turnouts is done and working, control panel is built and working.
    Spent last 2 weekends making my hills on one end and a tunnel on the other. Just finished it up this afternoon. Painted it a base color dirt brown. Next will start on getting the rocks and tops looking better. The tunnel ends are just placed not set yet.
    I made the control panel out of piece of aluminum and left over pinstripe tape I had out in the garage from building my street rod.





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  11. Wolfgang Dudler

    Wolfgang Dudler Passed away August 25, 2012 TrainBoard Supporter In Memoriam

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    I've started with the office for my lumber yard at my module Salina.

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  12. Artieiii

    Artieiii TrainBoard Member

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    Yes Paul, these are HO. I bought 4 Con Cor amtrak passenger cars from ebay ($55). I painted them and added custom decals. The engine is a new Kato F40PH with a Digitrax DCC/Sound decoder (drop in). The engine looked like this for $69.99 plus $44 for the decoder. I painted that and added the decals. I would have bought it if some manufacturer was making them for HO scale. Only O scale and N scale for the Ski Train.
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  13. FLG

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    its not really a "weekend" activity but tomorrow i will head to Tucson, AZ to visit a local club
     
  14. mikelhh

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    Nice office, Wolfgang.

    I finalised the plan for a new diorama I'm making. British 00 scale on a 27x23 inch table top.
    Contours yet to be carved out.

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