I think its about time to see.....

why I think that's a great idea!

grab your camera and c'mon over, visitors are always welcomed,

Chris, I would love to visit sometime! Ill put that on my list to do in the near future. I am going to attempt a layout with overhead wiring this winter, and am thinking that some pitchers would help me get some more ideas. I know at one time there were some on this sight, but can no longer find them. looking forward to seeing some.

Thanks Tom Cat

the club's next open house is Sat, July 14 during the Merchantville, NJ custom car show. this is a huge event in town, we usually have a very busy day.

or you could visit during work sessions most Tuesday evenings. just let us know when.

Where are the photos? 

Dennis 

Drew, looks like Spiderman has been working.  Fantastic job.  How many hours do you guess you may have in the job?

If you ran cat down a two track main w/o turnouts what do you guess the cost  per foot would be in time and material?  Just a rough guess. 

Thanks, tt

Looks great, but "I think it's about time to see" some thread titles that actually tell me what the thread is about.  

Wowak,

I haven't posted in some time, or even really looked at the forum. Someone mentioned at the club recently that there had been a request for pictures here, and I happened to be feeling indulgent; so I took some, logged in, and ran a topic search for the club's name. This pre-existing topic was the first result. If you would like to take issue with the topic name du jour, please address it upstream to the original poster.

Tom T,

That's a complicated calculation, due to the nature of sourcing enough H column for a large project. Straight 2-track mainline with no switches, expect to spend ~$4/foot in parts, and 2hr/foot in time. Add complexity to terminal areas, and the cost for both parts and time grows considerably.

For the area pictured above, the wirework from the bridges out has taken about 40 evenings, at ~7 hours an evening, for a total of 280 man-hours.

--Drew

I have to chime in with the amount of time Drew has invested in the catenary. Each item is made from scratch: poles, guys, overheads. Each 40" span of catenary wire is made up of dozens of individual pieces of wire.

once Drew gets rolling, we get out of his way. There have been times when he does get that glazed far-away look. But all of us at the club admire his work and resolve and support him as best we can.

Drew

That cat work is outstanding. Very, very well done

Holy cow! That's cool.