Welcome to the last day of January to welcome in the first weekend of February. What will we fill our first weekend of February with? Trains of course! It is a train show weekend for me. A few members from my N scale club, NSBN, will be attending this weekends GTE show in St. Charles MO for a fun weekend of T-Trak running. Through the week, I have worked on my two modules and will continue to do more tonight before leaving early tomorrow morning with a fellow club member and making the 2.5 hour trip. Hopefully we do not encounter too much ice! If your at the GTE show this weekend, stop by the T-Trak set up and say "hi". My only want or need this weekend is for Atlas code 55 #10 turn outs. We'll see if I find any. Other than that I just plan to run CB&Q passenger trains and B&M mixed freight all weekend. So how about you? What plans do you have for this weekend? Track work, painting, scenery or maybe some structure building. Whatever your plans are, let us know! We'll all come back here on Monday, February 3rd to see how we all did. Until then, have a happy and safe weekend and... ​High Greens!
We got back from our ski trip to Whistler/Blackcomb in British Columbia late Wednesday night, and our bags made it back sometime Thursday morning. We had a great trip - good skiing, good weather, good food and good friends. My only train-related activities were watching the tracks that rode up the same valley as our bus, and once hearing a whistle from way up on the mountain. Our arrival was late enough that I took Thursday off to catch up on sleep and try to get my internal clock a bit closer to Eastern Time. So, I got to spend a bit of the day planning where the roads around the tannery would go, studying the instructions and parts for the tank car platform that will handle the tannery's needs, and even doing a bit of modeling by building the pit where the salt hoppers will unload. It will be more of the same for the weekend, I hope.
I had an old Trainhouse (?) N scale B&O Gondola kit that came defective and needed a hole drilled in the bottom of it so that I could pop the trucks in. So, I did that. Also, I'm in the process of wiring my downtown buildings for light. This wasn't planned properly by me in the beginning, so I'm doing this in true Frankenstein style. My whole layout is a mess of weirdly done things, and this will be one of them.
The other Athearn GP7 I have seems to have an intermittent contact in the headlight wiring too. A good chance to do two rewiring jobs with homemade light boards. In any case, this one is my first LED lighting job from a few years back. It's due for a rework!
Rhis weekend I will glue down the track on the roadbed I glued down last week. Also have a trestle to install. I will also start on my mtn line. I was able to get some ideas with the help of my wife. Let the foam fly.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk - now Free
Really nice, Nick, if I could throw out a hint and a plus...the rust streaks in the first pic of the RBOX seem a little too defined at the top, and I really like the color(s) you used on the couplers. I'd also be curious to see how your roofs turned out, as that has always been an area I've never felt quite satisfied with my own attempts at.
I'm not happy with the roofs. I used chalks and you can't tell in photos there are done. so they need to get done again. Also i was trying a technique in a book and was not happy with it.
