Sunday Scenic Showcase November 10, 2023

I finally finished my latest project in replacing the Atlas turntable with a siding/yard. I found for this size layout the turntable and whisker tracks took too much room. Having it this way allows for more small yard activity, and with the great idea from Bob @RSJB18, I can still run a train on the O48 loop while doing so. I now have 11 sidings individually switched at the panel.

Gene

@Genemed posted:

I finally finished my latest project in replacing the Atlas turntable with a siding/yard. I found for this size layout the turntable and whisker tracks took too much room. Having it this way allows for more small yard activity, and with the great idea from Bob @RSJB18, I can still run a train on the O48 loop while doing so. I now have 11 sidings individually switched at the panel.

Gene

Looks great Gene. You earned your Yardmaster Patch!

Happy to help with the design.......now if you could help me convince the CEO that I need more space in the basement.......

@RSJB18 posted:

Looks great Gene. You earned your Yardmaster Patch!

Thanks Bob.

now if you could help me convince the CEO that I need more space in the basement.......

You’re on your own with this one.😉

Really Nice guys.
Alan you have done marvelous on the exterior walls of the light house. Looks much better than any cake I’ve baked using the baking powder. ☺️

Clean transformation Gene and well organized control panel.  Thanks for sharing it with us…

Yesterday while listening to college football I began organizing the wires from the three lamps I had added to the Railway Express sign. The sign now glued to the roof is from Todd Architectural Models, Chatham NJ.  Lamps from Locomotive Joe’s.

Building is MTH RailKing Freight and transfer. Every freight door moves.

I need a great source for several Trucks with Railway Express signs on their sides to park around the exterior.   I have lots of freight to deploy which is coming in on the next freight….

John

Your building looks great.

Gene,

Your results look good. Good idea Bob

This is a new scene we added to the NJ Hi-Railers layout   We didnt build it  We acquired it from Mike G of Connecticut who scratchbuilt or kitbashed everything

This was also from Mike   A still in the hobo Camp

@Alan Graziano, Alan how do you obtain that finish wit the baking powder.

@bluelinec4, Ben the shipyard is incredible.  Mike G did a masterful job as did the club members that incorporated it and did the track work.

@bluelinec4 posted:

This is a new scene we added to the NJ Hi-Railers layout   We didnt build it  We acquired it from Mike G of Connecticut who scratchbuilt or kitbashed everything

This was also from Mike   A still in the hobo Camp

Ben,

I thought these looked familiar. They look great on the layout. I'm glad these models found a new home. I have a few of Mike's models on my layout or waiting to be put on it.

Dave

Last week on Sunday Scenic Showcase, we featured photos, the one below being part of that post of our J Tower model that was assembled and weathered by Ms. Zora Maya Keith, my Thursday and Sunday morning layout helper and friend.

New for this week, we offer a joint effort among me, my son Chris and the "Z" lady as we begin to detail the interior of "J" Tower's upper floor. I cut and assembled the framework for the switch levers. Zora Maya made and painted black, a polymer clay inset for the framework for the levers, glued it in place to the floor and stained the wood flooring, lever base and a desk installed in the tower's bay window using stain mixed and cut by Chris so as not to overpower the wood works' coloring. The switch levers are round toothpicks purchased by Chris, cut to length and sprayed metallic silver before being inserted into the polymer clay insert in the lever frame base on the building's floor to hold the position of the levers. Also installed was an Arttista figure of a "Tower Man Throwing a Switch". The best photo of the interior, to date, is below.

Stay tuned as there will more photos in the future as new detail parts arrive and further progress is made.

Coach,

I sprinkled the baking powder on the wet paint. After it dries, you are able to take some off if you put too much on. It is quite simple to do.

Alan

Ben,

I love the new stuff on the layout.

Randy,

The J Tower looks great.

@Alan Graziano, thank you Alan, sounds easy enough.