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Still lots left on the harbor scene.  I have not decided between making my own barge from scratch or buying a kit.  I also wanted to have a building to house a boiler for the crane, but do not have a clear direction on it.  For now, harbor is done enough and moving onto the next project.

 

Here is a project my wife and I have been working on.  I am running out of real estate, but still have a corner to use for a barn scene.   We designed the barn from scratch based on a real picture from the internet.  My wife cut, stained, assembled, and painted it from bass wood.  With its proximity to the track, these animals will not be sleeping much.  Hope to have some more progress of this area in coming weeks.

 

Mike

 

 

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Wow Mike, more great railroad modeling, I think from my view of your expertise the shadowy background is starting to reveal your able assistant, er girl Friday, no, master designer, no, acclaimed architect, no, Chief engineer, and tour de force wonder woman of the layout! Excellent work! You guys make quite the team. Great job and well done to both of you. Rich

I decided on building the barge myself instead of buying a kit. 

I completed it for less than $15 dollars total (wood and spray primer/scratch filler).  Already had the ballast and paint colors on hand from other projects.  Plenty of wood left over for the future service barge used for the dragline.

1st barge, made from scratch out of MDF and basswood. 

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Originally Posted by Hump Yard Mike:
I decided on building the barge myself instead of buying a kit. 

I completed it for less than $15 dollars total (wood and spray primer/scratch filler).  Already had the ballast and paint colors on hand from other projects.  Plenty of wood left over for the future service barge used for the dragline.

1st barge, made from scratch out of MDF and basswood. 

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Very Nice! I have to make one too!

Its been a while since I have been able to show some progress, with the holidays and other house items that needed to be taken care.  Last weekend, my wife and I had sometime to work on her barn scene some more and this weekend I cleaned up a few other areas on the layout.

Here is the barn scene, we decided to hold off on the roof and framing the window for now, to instead complete the scenery.



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Here is a picture of the barge I was working on.  I have so much more I would like to do with this scene in the future, including an additional dredge, more detailed tie on's for the barge and steam house for supply the crane
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I weathered up my oil pumper with chalks and added some additional scenery around it to hide the base of the unit.  I think it came it out really nice.


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I also had a gas station area I was working on.  I combined this with a track maintenance crew, who needed to remove a crossing to complete their work.  I still need to find some cross bucks for it.



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Hump Yard Mike posted:
I decided on building the barge myself instead of buying a kit. 

I completed it for less than $15 dollars total (wood and spray primer/scratch filler).  Already had the ballast and paint colors on hand from other projects.  Plenty of wood left over for the future service barge used for the dragline.

1st barge, made from scratch out of MDF and basswood. 

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looks like the flood of Pittsburgh, 1936!

I have not had a layout update in a long while.  I have been working on signalizing my layout.  Just about complete with building the signals, where the signal bridges were kitbashed and modified with scratch built heads and the single mast signals and cants were all built from scratch.64F5B9F1-0D3D-44DA-BFDF-D68B963E29BB

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If interested in the construction process, the link is referenced below:

https://ogrforum.com/...search-light-signals

 

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Still slow progress being made on the signal system.  I built 18 of the 30 lamp drivers I need and mounted the little LED’s in one of my control points (only 9 heads).  The picture showing the surface mount LEDs, the white grid lines are 1/2” for reference.

The cantilevers are toughest signals to wire and hide wires (16 wires in the mast of the 4 head cant ) but they are both done now.   I really like how they look.  Hopefully they will function as they should before spring time as there is a lot of work left on the signal logic.

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Mike first off I want to tell you your work is outstanding. Next I have a question how close to the original track plan that you showed us on page one did you stay? Were there any changes? Because I remember you saying originally that you wanted one level Loop but from the pictures I don't see any. did you just go with grades or is there a loop in there that I'm missing? And again outstanding work!!!!!

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