Not sure what grass you may be referring to. Check post from 06/03 where we were talking about the golf course...that was static flock with a Grassinator. The ground cover in the ground throw reply is a mixture of WS Fine foam.
Been too darn hot to do much. It takes the AC units an hour or so to cool the room down to comfortable, but I got a little done on the lower Winston Salem Southbound level. The glue isn't even dry in some, I couldn't wait to see what they looked like. ; )
Very nice! The highway scene is great, as is the variety of foliage you're using. Just about time for the weed killer train to fight back that Kudzu.
I just found this thread, and boy am I glad I did! Excellent carpentry and modeling of a line a am VERY familiar with (although I am at the southern tip of the NS Piedmont Division here in Atlanta). Looking forward to following the progress on here...very fine look and feel to this model railroad. Jamie
Thanks. That's some fine benchwork you've got going yourself. I havent' posted anything lately as I've spent the last several weeks putting in the flooring and Loconet and connecting all the busses back to the command station. In between, I've been working on car cards and waybills and trying to get a test 'n tune session going. KB
Kevin, On your awesome looking interstate overpass, how did you build the railings for that deck girder bridge? I have a similar bridge to build: As you can see, the railings seem identical. Jamie
After I built the overpass, I added modern railings from Rix Products (628-0164). I then used my handy NWSL chopper to cut scale pieces of H or I beams. Glued them on top of the railings. Then stripped it with like .015 round styrene.
Hello Kevin, Fantastic job on the layout. I love the idea about not having too many rr tracks in the same scene. Keep posting pictures for us.
Oops. My mistake. Thanks for pointing that out. My layout is the CCSB and the club I am in is the CCNS. Sometimes I get them confused. The correct link to the blog is Central Carolina Southbound v2.0 BTW, I haven't posted anything new for awhile. Have been stringing lots of Loconet cables and panels, which don't make for very interesting pictures. Have also been staging trains and working on paperwork for a test 'n tune ops session. Promise to post more as soon as I actually DO something. KB
My trackplan was made from the actual NS plan and I didn't add anything that wasn't there. I worry sometimes that there may not be enough "stuff" to do. But if you like long runs thru the countryside, I have it.
I've done some work lately, and can cover the last 2 months in about 30 seconds. I found myself needing to use more than the single Loconet jack I had wired. But before I could run all the jacks, I needed to finish all the lower fascias. That was job #1. After that was done, I wired the Loconet panels alternating a UP5 with a standard single jack every 8 feet. By that time, everything was looking so good, I went ahead and put down the finish flooring. Since the room is a couple hundred feet from the house, I put down a plank floor instead of tile or carpet. It gives it a rustic look and feel. I spent quite a while getting things going for a Test 'n Tune Ops session. Train Orders, Car Cards, Waybills. Staging all the trains and figuring out where to start and end them so they could be turned for the next session became way more than I thought it would be. Below shows the 2 staging yards and some of the 28 trains staged. I had to go with a max of 16 cars for now as I just didn't have enough rolling stock.
09/30 Post Part 2, I worked last week on the yard at Linwood. I've had the track roughed in for several months, waiting to make sure I had covered all the interchanges between the Receiving Yard, Forwarding Yard and Class tracks, Engine Shop, etc. Finally just jumped in and started soldering and glueing track. I extended the forwarding yard about a foot. It handles 3 trains each 16 cars long. There are 3 tracks going to the Car Shop, another 2 to the Engine Shop and a bypass around the Shop to the servicing facility. There are 3 tracks in the receiving yard. In addition, there is the lead-in "behind the tower" to access the receiving yard southbound, and the "thoroughfare" which runs from Lee at the north entrance to Duke on the south. There are 8 tracks on the class yard and a drill long enough to handle them. There is also a "working " hump. Well, maybe not working, but there is a hump there and I was able to push a string up and decouple them one at a time and gravity roll down the class track. The cars roll about 2/3-3/4 down the track, but as they begin to stack closer to the hump, they hit pretty hard. If I could fix it so that I could vary the height of the hump, I could vary the amount of roll.
!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If a picture is worth a thousand words, then you have written a very cool, exciting, and intenseifiing million-page novel. One quick question: How much money have you spent up till now????!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!:tb-shocked: ................................................................................................................. :thumbs_up: Speechless!!!!
Kevin?? Where do you get them manual throws for the turnouts? I could use some...TIA ** Disregard...I found it...duh me...LOL