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Post by mlehman on Feb 3, 2014 7:36:56 GMT -8
Mark, Thanks! I know there are a few narrowgauge fans around, so always good to get a thumbs up. The lights are kind of low, so none of the deficiencies show. Those purchasing parlor car tickets are complaining about having no seats, despite the free open bar. Amazing what some consumers demand these days!
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Post by riogrande on Feb 4, 2014 8:57:35 GMT -8
Got a good deal on some distressed plastic, so built some steel loads. To facilitate more traffic through staging, I converted all its tracks from the power-routing of DC days to full-time power as I ready the layout for an ops session next Sat. I like your load. I've got a couple of 62' mill gons - I'll have to look for some Evergreen stock to make some of those. The trains in your staging look more like mid-1960's to eary 1970's freight trains - you aren't slippin, slippin, slippin, into the future ... (sorry, couldn't resist the Steve Miller Band lyrics!). I'd like to see more photo's of those trains, pretty please? Now that I got some bencnwork going up, my first phase is a staging yard. I'll try to get some photo's going in the coming weeks. Tbird, your photohost is blocked at work while I check during my lunch break so I'll have to view when I get home later.
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Post by 12bridge on Feb 6, 2014 16:00:55 GMT -8
I am a bit late, but have been offline for a few days. This is a Jordan wedge plow I am working on. Jordan built about a dozen of these in the early 60s. They differ from the Russell in that they are all welded, not riveted, along with a few other things. I started with a Walthers Russell and smoothed it all out. The cupola was lowered, the rear end was cut off to be modified. The plow itself will have a Canadian style nose flanger added. Next is an EL SD45-2, I changed the horn to a proper one (Leslie SU3L), of which the only proper one made is the old Custom Finishing one. Now it has the correct low profile, tilted stance.
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Post by mlehman on Feb 6, 2014 20:20:58 GMT -8
12bridge, Really nice work on that plow
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Post by navarch1 on Feb 9, 2014 19:55:13 GMT -8
Just a few progress photos on the 2014 Penn central layout room construction. Not much to report this week as the builders had a lot of snow to deal with and did not make a lot of progress. However, these photos show some new details. 1st, a picture at the top of the stairs in the layout room, showing where the master light and power switches will be. These will have indicator LED's to show each switch status, on or off. 2nd, a picture from the workshop below, showing the wiring that is going up to the layout room. There will be aa large number of lights up there, spread over 4 circuits and the light fictures so wired such that if a circuit goes out, no portion of the room goes completely dark. The main panel for the layout room will also be down here. In the layout room, below the top of the benchwork, there will be outlets every 10 feet, wired like the lights so that no area of the room will be without working outlet set. Each set of outlets will be on a 20A breaker. Lastly, a picture looking up into the roof trusses, showing the now complete structure with K-truses and longitudinal truss right on the centerline of the roof, stringers, and the battens for the sheet rock. Bob Attachments:
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Post by thebessemerkid on Feb 20, 2014 8:37:56 GMT -8
How are the k-trusses holding up this winter? Is there a snow loading rating/formula for your setup?
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