I'm working on my MoPac GP18 project this weekend. I just finished up the no lift spark arresters for it.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays all. I have not been around much, busy with work, home holidays. Great pictures from everyone. I have managed to do something train related these past few days, Going from this, the N scale layout: to this, in preparation for the new HO layout. The stuff in the middle will be gone and stored and put back where they belong to leave me the 10'x10' area for the layout seen here: Benchwork starts Monday, track by Tuesday??????? And as much as I swore that along with the change to HO I was going to say away from getting engines I needed to mill frames, wire and try to figure out how to get a DCC decoder with sound and a speaker inside I just could not resist an SP H10-44 soon to be an SP H12-44: I understand they run pretty good and I have ordered the conversion kit to change into an H12-44. This will be my engine project for the remainder of the decade. [ December 24, 2005, 05:19 PM: Message edited by: sitchad ]
Chad: It's great to see you post. Your N scale layout was a work of art and something to be very proud of. I'm sure your HO layout will be done with the same meticulousness to detail that was evident on your N scale layout. In regards to milling frames, model railroading is model railroading no matter what the scale. Frames have to be milled to get that decoder and now speaker in the frame. BTW, the F-7 ATSF ABBA unit and the two SP Trainmasters like their new surroundings on the JJJ&E. Stay cool and run steam......
Chad: I could even see the frame mounted bell on the chassis. In N scale you need magnifiers to see the same bell. Those are two nice loco's. Stay cool and run steam.....
It all slipped by me this week. I will get a Tompm roll-by next week. William Cowie and I have a good Black Widow run night on the Belmont Shore club a few years ago when we were members. Those were good times with good friends.
Jerry I prolly missed the thread somewhere,but how on earth did you do the window trim?They look the goods! Flash,another fine bridge shot.Did Train Masters run with B units?
On weekends when the San Francisco commute pool was quiet, SP threw everything they had at the freight business. Trainmasters, PA, PB, torpedo tube GPs, and later E8/9s. I don't know for a fact that this particular lashup is credible; the B unit is an all black PB Halloween scheme. I don't believe they mixed power like this in the commute pool. Good catch; I don't think most people would notice.
Chad, that layout design is great..but I have a question: you're going to squeeze that into a 10'x10' area?...how tight are those hidden curves going to be?
Chad: Those curves will be okay in your layout. When will the benchwork be completed? BTW: Do you have the wiring diagram for the Dallee crossing signal board? Stay cool and run steam......
Hi Bob, Here is the link the wiring diagram. http://www.dallee.com/FlasherDT.htm Little hard to see but should give you the idea. Let know how they work for you.
Chad: Thanks alot. I'be using them shortly as I'm addin a short line run off the mainline of the JJJ&E. Stay cool and run steam.....
Originally posted by SecretWeapon: NICE! I found a video link to Scott's now abandoned N scale DL&W cut-off. web page
Would this be a bad time to say I also have a model of the 3305...but I'm going to strip mine and paint it as WP 3003, the only WP road unit painted in the Pumpkin II scheme?
Hi Don, Hey,the layout is gone.Flooded out.I got the viaduct( Paulinskill) from it.Man it's fantastic. I'm trying to find a place on my layout for it. If not,I'll build my next layout around it. Scott's now multi-scaling. He's building a switching layout in "N". He involved with sk(TBmember),as am I, in a huge "HO" Railroad. It takes about 25 mins. to get a train around his layout. Scott also has an "O" layout. I hate him ,He's so friggin talented He made the MTA decals on #4194.The job is unbelieveable.The picture doesn't do the engine justice.
