What did you do on your layout today?

Thankee!  In other news, after a bit of unpleasantness concerning a top-heavy freshly painted GG-1 shell which resulted in my getting nearly as much paint on myself as on the G, I rassled the thing into submission and got a coat of Krylon blue onto the shell! 

 

 

A bit of sanding to deal with a few blemishes, another coat of Krylon and the shell will be ready for Giraffe Express stickers, detail parts from the Train Tender and installation on the Williams chassis! 

 

I gotta say I like Krylon better than NuSpar spray for these applications; the Krylon dries a LOT faster and is actually a nice ConRail blue, which is closer to the 3376 giraffe cars... 

 

Mitch

hmmm....I seem to remember GG1s having more wheels that that....

What, you never heard of shop trucks? 

 

Actually, that IS a 3376 giraffe car chassis it's sitting on, so it's kosher. 

 

Mitch

Duckduckduckduckduckduckduckduckduckduckduckduckduckduck! Needs a Galloping Goose to pull it.....

I thought it was duckduckgooseduckduckgoose?

Galloping Goose! 

actually I was thinking of him.....

I lit up a couple of unlit bumpers on my Marx layout: 

 

Unhappy unlit bumper is unhappy.

 

Radio Shack to the rescue!  (My local RS isn't affected by the bankruptcy, and will solidly go marching along.)

 

Electrical connexion is effected by putting the wires into the track ends and plugging in some track pins...

 

 

 

 

 

Happy lit bumper is happy! 

 

Mitch

Laid the 8th garden track around the turntable, then for the first time in a month, actually played with trains!

Using the Atlas SP&S switcher made up a freight train on Main #2 siding from the 6-track stub freight yard, then brought the SP Cab-Forward out, hooked up and did some break-in running.

The Cab Forward is the first one we've been able to run after GGG did a great job upgrading it to Proto2 from Protosound.  Very clean wiring and functionality.  George is currently working on our problem-child Veranda Turbine and we're looking forward to more great results of his work.

Cabin Lake & Western is finally beginning to look like a layout!

Nothing, I spent the day visiting other people's layouts in the chicago area. Saw some great layouts and met some even greater people!!!

Is that the duck recipe TrainroomGary uses?  

 

That's all I got my goose is cooked.

Just a shout out to all the folks who have "liked" my recent posts - thank you!  It is much appreciated.

Got around to putting my new Western Maryland A-B-A F7's in service. Cleaned and oiled all bearings then gave them a nice coal train for a break in run. Secondly, I finally got around to decaling my weaver CNJ Pullman bradley passenger cars. They looked so bland with out the road name.

Thanks for the good feedback. The Bushels all came with the Fruit stand. I had to paint every color. One of the first items I added to my layout.

I FINALLY had a chance to work on my curved stone arch bridge and start solving some of the problems I was having.  Here are a couple pictures.

 

 

 

Art

I just stood for an hour and watched my trains running.  I recently completed a book that took up all my free time for weeks, including a lot that I would have spent just watching my trains.  It was a pleasure just to watch them run.  Earlier int he day i worked on a bashing project, but watching toy trains run - a real pleasure, particularly with a PBR in hand!

I need to move the layout away from the wall for a while to access the far side for a rock-faced overhang.  Took quick* measurements & meditated on a temporary room design.

 

*With trains running.

 

I thought my Galloping Goose was cooked, but remembered this

 

 

 

and found this...Are you looking for post Gi-raffe inspiration Mitch?  

i tightened the rivots on my old marx log car.  then i spent some quality time cleaning track.

Hello Art • Well done, I enjoy watching your progress.

     You may want to consider starting a You Tube Channel. With the montinization process, your topic and personality. You could become a Top Dog in the model train channels. Maybe you already have a channel and I have not found it. With the proper YT partnerships, you could earn from $300.00 to $1000.00 a year. My 2 cents.

Well, ya got Norma's interest...

 

 

Mitch

I posted the 28th video in my LCJ&I Lines series, on YouTube.  It shows operation of my Ross 24" turntable, used by two diesels and a crane car.

 

Since I only get yellow boxes when I try to insert a video, I can only provide a URL:

http://youtu.be/8J7Q22trK9o

 

Looking really good Chugman. (it needs a build plaque, or stone, with your name listed as architect)

Art; the bridge is looking fantastic.

I'm trying to figure out why the power converter for my Miller Engineering  signs is not working, I've got 15 volts going in but nothing going out.  I've had the thing for about 5 years but it's been in storage for the last 2 years and when I hooked it all up it will not work.....

 

Paul

Added two more Lionel engines to my roster. A nice 221 that was on my list and a really nice 646 that was, sort of, on my list. After a little solvent cleaning and a lube job with "Red N Tacky" they both run nice. Was really tempted by several nice 736s but with the Greenberg Show coming up, I hld off. he old engine yard is filling up, might have to cull the herd soon.

Worked on my sandlot baseball field today.  Ya know pitchers and catcher report in a week or so.

My switch numbers are too confusing.......I spent the day (yesterday) thinking about it and have come up with a solution.....lettering them.

 

Peter

Thanks guys.  I think that I must have done every dumb thing possible so far on this bridge, but it looks like it will turn out O.K. in spite of it.  I just need to force myself to stick with it and get it done.

 

Art

Indeed, stick with it. Your layout is looking awesome. The arched stone bridge is impressive. 

You have a lot more patience then I do. As for mistake's. What mistakes.

 

Doug  

That is a great video. Very well done. Thank you for sharing it.

 

The wiring continues!

 

This first section is now neatly dressed...

 

as neatly as I need anyway.

 

Just a little further to finish this section.

 

The junction at the end of the aisle is also nearly done.

 

 

When I get power to the next peninsula, I will have a working reverse loop on the upper level.

Even my 3 year old daughter got into the train action today.  She wanted to run trains while my son was at school today. 

 

My son must have taught her how to run them because this is the 1st time ever that she has asked me to run the trains and I didn't even have to show her how!  Makes me proud! 

 

 

Stood at the edge of the table and thought to myself, " How do I show a town without hiding its personality?" This is going to take a little drinkinthinking to pull it off. Pics to follow hopefully soon.  

Congratulations to Jim and your daughter.  Reminds me of our youngest at about that age.  I was just learning how to use our first computer.  One day my wife couldn't find her.  She called, Holly what are you doing?  I'm polluting, she said.  There she was, had turned the computer on and was coloring in a coloring book program.  She couldn't even pronounce computing, and she was doing it.  Now she is grown and married, but still looks like a little pixie, like your daughter now.

Spent the past two nights at the club's current layout in Harry's basement working on a corner that needed a new idea.  I learned to turn a green building into something you might see in real life.

 

Look at that beautiful smile. She is having a great time. Children are the future of our Hobby.

 

Woke up this morning to the both of them in the basement running trains together.  Sometimes they can be friends!

 

 

When my kids were that age, my son would drive the trains and my daughter would fill the gondolas with cows or cow food for a run around town.

 

She's 15 and will still go to train shows and NMRA Division meets with me.

Keep up the good Dad stuff!