Building the South Lewistown

StickyMonk Mar 4, 2013

  1. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    That spur is certainly lightly used. Looks like it is almost ready for some trees to be sprouting up between those rails.
     
  2. StickyMonk

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    I will be adding some long grass, just need to find something flexible enough not to derail the train
     
  3. StickyMonk

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    Also need to weather it down, more oily less green
     
  4. RGW

    RGW TrainBoard Member

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    Great work.
     
  5. StickyMonk

    StickyMonk TrainBoard Member

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    Well I guess I sould post some update on the South Lewistown...

    The layout has been been completely changed (again) all track was removed, the upper and lower parts have been removed and a slice has been cut out of it to allow walking into the midle of the layout so it is no longer all round the walls.

    I will post some photos of this at a late date.

    The other thing I have been working on is an old Model Power RS-11, this was one of my first locos so I could never bring myself to throw it out. But being it was old Model Power it ran as smooth as a bag of gravel so it was never used.

    This is what it now looks like.

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    It is now mounted on an Atlas Classic chassis that I picked up VERY cheap on eBAy, Smokey Valley handrails and a few other detail parts it now runs very smoothly indeed, this is now finished apart from needing grab irons but I need to order a new #80 drill.

    I have picked up a Proto 1000 RS-2 chassis as well that I will mount under another old Model Power RS-2 that I have also had for years but I will be doing this at a later date.
     
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  6. Alan

    Alan Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    You must bring this for a run on the AWR. :)
     
  7. JimJ

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    Great weathering on that Alco. Drilling for grab irons is high on my list of least favorite modeling chores.
     
  8. StickyMonk

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    I also need to bend all the grabs, the curved ones will be fun to make...

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  9. JimJ

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    That's gonna suck. Doesn't anyone offer pre bent grabs that would fit? Probably not the curved ones but maybe the others. Although you're probably better at bending them than I am. My attempts look like a 4 year old did them.
     
  10. gjslsffan

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    I thinks its a fine looking Alco, that's something I don't have much of, like the weathering too. I did have a package of pre-bent curved wires for an Alco at one time, for some reason I'm thinking "Custom Finishing " or Miniatures by Eric maybe?? I get CRS bad sometimes.
     
  11. BoxcabE50

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    Wasn't there an outfit named "Smoky Valley" or close to that, which did HO railings, grabs, etc?
     
  12. gjslsffan

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    Yessir, right you are.
     
  13. StickyMonk

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    The handrails are Smokey Valley, as far as grabs getting any detail parts over this side of the pond is difficult. I had a look on the Walthers web site and that was no use, Atlas have none in stock on their spare parts page either... self bent it will be :)

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  14. friscobob

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    Smokey Valley makes good handrail sets- I have one for a GP15-1 (the locomotive I have in mind is a Walthers Trainline GP15-1 that I have stripped the paint & cast-on details off of)
     
  15. StickyMonk

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    I used to use them on my blue box Athearn loco, I think this set cost core than the loco did!

    I also have a set ready to fit on my Model Power RS-2

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  16. StickyMonk

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    OK I am eyeing up the RS-2 Project and took a look at the chassis I got for it.

    I have never seen a curcuit board like it! awful lot of wires considering it is DC, how would I go about DCCing this????

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  17. Alan

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    I had a look at this chassis and have never seen anything like it before. As Matt says, an awful lot of wiring for DC! The white bit on the left is a multi-way socket, but what plugs into it I cannot guess.
     
  18. BoxcabE50

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    Wow. I cannot think of a chassis I have ever seen, with so much non-DCC wiring.
     
  19. JimJ

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    Very odd. It has the colored wires of a standard DCC decoder and it even has "DCC" printed on it in two places towards the middle. Almost seems as if it could be a dual mode decoder.
     
  20. John Smith

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    BLI's first run AC6000's had a dual mode decoder in it. It looks very much like this one does! JMS
     

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