N Scale T-Trak

billmtx Oct 28, 2010

  1. arbomambo

    arbomambo TrainBoard Member

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    railfanned the existing 6' of the "Mother Road" T-Trak modules...the "Dari King" will add one more foot, and the grain elevator group will add another 7 feet....giving 14' total! The 7 feet of elevator modules will be a transition to a series of 'town' modules...the whole series progressing to the 'left' as one views the modules, which will depict a transition to the 'West', with a corresponding change in topography/geology (imagine the ATSF travelling westward, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, etc)...still have the ballast on the 2 two fotters to do, but, all in all, I'm pleased with the 'look'.
    Bruce

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  2. Jalsalsa

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    Plans for setting up these modules at an event sometime soon?


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  3. spyder62

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    Anyone in the Salem, OR area doing T-trak? Will pick up some track from my supplied when I'm back east for the Amherst show and going to try a few and see how they go.
    Cutting a Module box on the laser right now.
    thanks
    rich.
     
  4. arbomambo

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    and added some more details, in this case, some Gold Medal Models Highway guardrails...
    Bruce

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  5. BoxcabE50

    BoxcabE50 HOn30 & N Scales Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    The guard rail. Now there is a detail I'd never thought about adding. It really helps make this look like a "T" road junction!
     
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  6. arbomambo

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    Hello all,
    some more work on this module today...added some figures to the "Dari King", painted the road and the 'earth' base, striped the road, then created the 'tar-filled' cracks...
    Next are the gravel shoulders and parking lot.
    ~Bruce

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  7. arbomambo

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    Hello all...
    a big show (for us and our Gulf Coast bit-o-heaven) coming up for us in March...
    The T-Trak, AND, by design, N Scale(!), is getting a LOT of interest in our Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida panhandle area...this is precisely what I was hoping would occur. Even 'O' scalers are expressing some serious interest in N scale, and a few have even built a T-Trak module and purchased some n scale equipment.
    I've got to step it up just a bit (I've got 7' more of modules to do after this one)...I've added some family and teenager 'action' at the the drive up "Dari King" ( a little MP3 sound system plays a continuous loop of 20 of the top 100 Billboard hits of 1957).
    I have plenty of details yet to add to this one; a couple of nice trees will straddle the side road toward the skyboard, the power poles, the telephone poles, and, of course, the ground cover over the areas that require it.
    ~Bruce

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  8. jcox3751

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    Bruce,

    Great work. How about a closeup of the roof of the Drive in?

    Cox
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  9. BoxcabE50

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    What tunes are in that loop? I'd sure enjoy seeing and hearing this, in person!

    I hope we can see a batch of photos from that upcoming March meet!
     
  10. arbomambo

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    Joe,
    I'll snag a couple of pics this evening...I stayed as true to the kit as I could...I used the peel and stick paper, painted it the gray color, then outlined the seams with a warm gray artists pen-the color I use for the tar-filled seams on the highways-roads.[

    Bruce
     
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    I picked 20 tunes from Billboard's top 100 of 1957...I'll post the list this evening, but , if I remember correctly, I included a couple of Elvis tunes, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Marty Robbins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Patsy Cline...
    Bruce
     
  12. BoxcabE50

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    "Don't Be Cruel", "Bye, Bye Love", "Wake Up Little Susie",.... 1957 was a big year for the Crickets (Buddy Holly). I remember that well. Pasty Cline- "Walkin' After Midnight"? Marty Robbins "A White Sport Coat"? Of course you have The Penguins "Earth Angel"? Four Preps "26 Miles"? And........... :)
     
  13. arbomambo

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    I think the two Elvis tunes are "All shook Up" and "My Teddy Bear"...
    Buddy Knox-"Party Doll"
    Del Vikings-"Come go with Me"
    Debbie Reynolds-"Tammy"
    Sam Cooke-"You Send Me"
    Jimmie Rodgers-"Honeycomb"
    Rays-"Silhouettes"
    Johnny Mathis-"Chances Are"
    Fats Domino-"Blueberry Hill"
    Diamonds-"Little Darlin'"
    Jerry Lee Lewis-"Whole Lotta' Shakin' Goin' On"
    Guy Mitchell-"Singing the Blues"
    Leroy Van Dyke-"The Auctioneer" (I wanted to throw a few Country songs in the mix)
    Patsy Cline-"Walking after Midnight"
    The Everly Brothers-"Wake Up Little Suzie" and "Bye Bye Love"
    Buddy holly and the Cricketts-"That'll be the Day"

    and a couple of others I can't recall. I can always add plenty more-each MP3 has a 4G memory card
    Bruce
     
  14. BoxcabE50

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    Yikes! There is a mis-spell. Ouch. "Pasty". Of course I know it is Patsy Cline. I recall the tears of my mother, when news of Patsy's death hit. Wow, what a voice! It was big news, until the JFK assassination steamrolled headlines. My all time favorite is from a couple of years later than "Walkin' After Midnight". It is "Life's Railway To Heaven". (Release date 1959.)

    As for mixing in some country, well, there was a lot of crossover back then. So adding some country is very normal... Your diner is really a memory rollback!
     
  15. BarstowRick

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    Anyone actually have a working time machine so we can go back to the good times....back when.

    I miss my youth.
     
  16. Point353

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    Did N scale even exist back then?
     
  17. r_i_straw

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    Now now, be nice. I have been into N scale since 1964. Rick was still very young back then. They called it 000 at that time. ;)
     
  18. BoxcabE50

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    Lone Star 000 electric trains started about 1960? Although not quite N scale, small stuff did exist in my youth, and Rick's. I remember the operating display set up in the window of popular Seattle hobby shop. Which was also where I later would buy a good amount of my early N scale.
     
  19. Point353

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    Sorry, OOO ≠ N.
    OOO was a Lone Star development.
    Arnold (Rapido) introduced N scale in 1960 and named it after the Nine millimeter track gauge.
     
  20. r_i_straw

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    Yeah, but it still ran on nine mm track. I replaced the rubber bands in my diesel and run on the NTRAK layout at shows sometime for fun.
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