Where the Asphalt Ends
(with apologies to Jim and "Red Rock National Park")
Since this is off in the distance, I built this stuff 25% under scale:
I always wanted to do one of these: :-)
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Patrick that is super. Next time I see it, it will be done and on the layout. I need to get my room ready and start my Tinplate layout. Don't need skill to build that type of layout.
See you soon.
Looks great, Pete. 
The Mott Haven gang will be over after dinner to take a tour. I have a hunch that they will be very grateful for that new "facility" you built. 
Jim
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Looking great, Guys!!
Was PC around long enough to get that rusty? Looks super, as always, Steve.
A small token from the past.
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Inside the roundhouse. Adding lighting running off a power supply till my special resistors arrive and IO can hard wire everything in.
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Wow,
Guys just some excellent work this week! very nice.
Here are some photos of a scratch built freight hose I made for my harbor scene. Basic idea came from NYC docks freight houses.
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You found my third rail ;-) great build.
Dan
Great pics, all!
Railroad guy, you take really nice pictures. Rich, I like your freight house a lot, mostly because i have an appreciation for what a pain it is to attach all those corrugated panels. Nice work.
Ok, haven't posted in a while, but it doesn't mean i haven't been building stuff.
Here are a few recent projects. As with 95% of the stuff i've built, they're all about 95% completed.
As always, thanks for looking.
nick
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Nice street section Nick.
Dan
Originally Posted by nick b:
As with 95% of the stuff i've built, they're all about 95% completed.
Hey, that's me! 95% of the time.
Looks great, Nick. Good to see you posting again.
Very nice work everyone.
Alan Graziano
Nice work everyone.
Jim P. is the that a water wagon from a Twenty Mule Team model I see in front of the Taco Wagon?
Vulcan, the Pepsi machine is incredible. Is it scratch built? I like the Dino sign above the pump as well.
Rich, I like the cut stone retaining wall. Is that tile from H___ De___? I've been eyeing it for retaining walls but am concerned about the weight of using real stone alah you and Mr. Policastro.
Joe
Joe,
You're right. That's from the 20 mule team model. The twenty mules, themselves, are wandering around the layout individually in various places.
The weight of the tiles could be a factor on portable layouts, but I don't worry about it for my very permanent home layout.
Jim
Jim,
Since the mules and water wagon have found their way onto your layout how about the borax wagons? I've got the model that brother built 30+ years ago and I started painting wheels and parts to match the blue and red colors of the directions about 20 years ago. I came acroos it again recently and thought the water wagon could work but didn't think the borax wagons would. I would love to be able to get another kit to use with my trains.
Joe
Joe,
I ran one of the borax wagons through my band saw to reduce the height of the sides. Now they use it at the gold mine across the tracks from the taco stand.
Jim
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Joe,
It is real stone from lowes, 12" x12" til mosaic
No issue with weight, works great!
Jim, lowering the sides of the wagon worked out really nice.
Rich, the tiles look great. That is exactly the way i've thought about using them. it looks easy enough to cut the 12x12 down into 3", 4" or 6" strips as required but what did you use to cut the ends?
Hi Joe,
yes they can be cut along the back, which is a kind of webbing along the lines horizontally. Vertical cuts are a bit different, fold along the line you want, but will "break" unevenly at the next joint each line, so the end is jagged, which is what you want for a joint to the next piece.
However if you want that cut as a flush end, I used a pair of tin snips to cut the small individual blocks. The snips didn't really cut the block, they created force and the block broke evenly between the blades.
I hope this helps
regards
Rich
Thank's Rich. I wasn't sure if you needed some sort of saw or cutting wheel. I didn't think of tin snips.
