Sunday Scenic Showcase Nov 23, 2014

Expanding my streets.

Couple of 1 night projects completed this week. Made a few detail pieces for my ash pit. A holder for tools needed and a step platform. Got the ideas frthe some research on the net and some book photos as far as what was needed for tools. 

 Working on my long, involved, elevated trestle journey. These pics shown my newly learned skills of road building in the soon to be named Yawkey Way and one pic of my learning a new area of electronics.  I am using 3v DC street lamps and had to master the mechanics of fine wire soldering and the use of resistors and shunt feed off resistors. 

Dave what is the building in the background with the circle window on the top?

Nice to see you making progress, Wood.

Added some truss detail to the "Big Bridge".....

Alan

OH...almost forgot...I did my first "video" on the layout.  If you are interested I have it posted over on the 3-rail forum...

Alan

Great start.

Steve,

The row houses look good.

Spence,

Have fun with the street construction.

Dave,

Very nice scene.

Wood,

Your roads look very nice.

Alan,

The bridge is looking better and better.

Steve,

There is nobody better at painting rail cars. You are great.

The following pictures are for Art (Chugman) with regard to his post on 3-rail. I agree with you on working neat 100 percent. Here are some pictures representing working neat 101.

Alan Graziano

Great pictures everyone

Here's what's finished on my workbench today. The Korber diesel shed

Alan - You are my new idol.  Is that one of your secrets to getting so much done and of such high quality?  I just pictured you as working that way, nice job.

Art

I've got a lot of my smaller "back shelf" trains down while I work on shelves, etc.  I decided to run all of them and powerful up one loop today.  This is a homemade 2-4-4-4 created by bashing so old plastic-body locos and such, but it makes a pretty scene today.

I made this loco mainly to experiment with and see how difficult it was to make swiveling/telescoping steam pipes to the cylinders on the articulated wheel sets so they stay attached (as the real ones do) as the articulated wheels swivel a bit in curves.  It was much easier than I thought it might be.  Drive unit is in the tender, the loco's wheels just roll. 

Zett, the building is a Korber. I bought it to make a large sand drying house. It had a rear door that could face the bin. I model the Boston & Albany with steamers famous for their oversize sand domes. Most everything on the market seemed to small more suited to a short line.

Everyone, very nice. I did not do anything this week. thank you.

Alex,

You have the brick detail down on the engine sheds. Great job.

Art,

Thank you. I do feel keeping it clean helps me with quality.

The only problem is if I make the shop too clean, I do not want to work on anything because I do not want to make a mess. A real catch 22.

Alan Graziano

Guys very nice work this week.

Zett, there are two korber buildings that have that window/look.  The first is the 308, and the second is the 310.  Here are the links

http://shop.korbermodels.com/K...ning-Company-308.htm

http://shop.korbermodels.com/K...Textile-Mill-310.htm

Here are some shots of a factory section I built on my layout.  The mainline runs through the building and comes out under the steel section.

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I posted earlier about my streets and learning how to incorporate DC voltage for some new street lights.  I finished my first series of 3v dc Street lamps and I am posting them below. 

The pictures speak for themselves, but I want to tell you how impressed I am with these lights. I strive to light as much of my layout with equipment that is part of the layout and I have struggled finding various street lights that were reasonable in cost, scale in appearance and an accurate replica of want I wanted on my streets.  A while ago there was a post about inexpensive people figures from WeHonest a Chinese exporter.  I checked out his site and found these lamps.  They are priced at $3.00 each, made out of copper. easily modified in height, very realistic, give an excellent light flare and operate on 3v dc. 

I'm a bit late but oh well 

Very nice, Alex!!  Would you mind sharing the dimensions (footprint) of this building?

Really nice photo.

Hi Joey thanks,

The dimensions are 25 x 11

Alex

Thanks, Alex.

WOW IS Korber Models going to reissue their Modular kits soon!

We are looking at some different approaches to support more and unique buildings that have the flexibility to be crafted to fit in a lot of different places.

2015 should brings some more new things