worked on relighting a building, finished the top floor.
Eric - Nice work !
Nicely don Eric! That's a project I need to do someday.
Evening everyone, I know a lot of you just got a lot of likes from me and that is because I haven't been here on the forum for the last 2 weeks and there is just to much great work being done by so many folks that it could take a full page to comment on everyone's great work!
I haven't done anything new, but hope to get out to the train room and use the wire diagram that @Mark Boyce made for me to help me wire in my new AIU. It is going to be a slow process and probably a few phone calls to Mark, but I am sure I will get there!
I have one request, besides everyone finding time to have fun with there layouts and trains. Please find time to spend quality time with your family! I have spent the last 2 weeks helping my younger brother that just lost his wife at the young age of 54. don't take things for granted!
God Bless you all!
Fresh cut grass!
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Signalwoman...For a simple track plan, that one is fascinating! I like it.
@mike g. posted:Evening everyone, I know a lot of you just got a lot of likes from me and that is because I haven't been here on the forum for the last 2 weeks and there is just to much great work being done by so many folks that it could take a full page to comment on everyone's great work!
I haven't done anything new, but hope to get out to the train room and use the wire diagram that @Mark Boyce made for me to help me wire in my new AIU. It is going to be a slow process and probably a few phone calls to Mark, but I am sure I will get there!
I have one request, besides everyone finding time to have fun with there layouts and trains. Please find time to spend quality time with your family! I have spent the last 2 weeks helping my younger brother that just lost his wife at the young age of 54. don't take things for granted!
God Bless you all!
Sorry for your loss Mike and glad you were able to be there for your brother. It’s going to take him some time.
Jay
@Papa Dave posted:Signalwoman...For a simple track plan, that one is fascinating! I like it.
Thanks! The rear curve and reversing loop will be covered by a second layer up top, leaving the long run in the front exposed. Im also working on a working road system that will parallel the outside track.
@Mike g, it’s good to see you back on this thread, please accept our condolences for your family, your brothers loss of his partner/wife, and you said it, we can’t take tomorrow for granted. We should live today like it could be our last. You’re in our prayers. Now, I’ve been working it get my turntable back in action, finding that my older Hurst stepper motor and brake were defective, and now the new replacement is on my work bench soon to re-installed soon. I have most of the parts here, waiting on a new special made Collar, to connect the motor to the bridge shaft for a more secure hold. The bridge will also get new guard railing similar to our friends CSX Al really nice Millhouse turntables…. There’s so many nice pictures on this thread, great work everyone. Happy Railroading Everyone 
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@Signalwoman posted:Fresh cut grass!
All that " Fresh cut grass " .
.............I'm guessing there must be a 60 inch zero turn JOHN DEERE in that barn. 
Last time my grandson was over, I told him I would have the lower freight yard operational. It took far longer than I anticipated but I got it "done enough" to please him. This was a surprise to me, but he was excited about the ability to switch cars between the 7 tracks. The smile says everything. Have a pleasant Sunday evening all.
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@leapinlarry posted:@Mike g, it’s good to see you back on this thread, please accept our condolences for your family, your brothers loss of his partner/wife, and you said it, we can’t take tomorrow for granted. We should live today like it could be our last. You’re in our prayers.
Prayers for you too from me Mike g .
After seeing these photos Larry sure makes me wish I had room on my layout. Really good looking turntable . 
@Dallas Joseph posted:All that " Fresh cut grass " .
Haha, well it's a 60's setting, maybe a Farmall super C with a belly deck. Lotta real-estate lol.
Morning everyone, thank you all for the kind words! It is going to take awhile but I am sure he will be ok.
@Signalwoman, That sure is a lot of grass! I think it looks great, just happy I am not the one that has to mow it! LOL
@leapinlarry Larry it is nice to see your getting everything fixed up on your TT and almost ready to reinstall it!
@ScoutingDad Jeff, you could have just posted the photo and it would have said everything! What a great photo!
Well time for me to do a little wiring, as you all know it is what I love doing most! LOL
I hope you all have a great day and I will check in later!
P.S. I hope you all find time to have fun with your layouts and trains!
Jeff, what a great photograph of your grandson!!
Larry, I’m glad you got a plan on your turntable.
Here is a little ditty I painted and built last week. Our older daughter gave me a Plasticville produce stand. I didn’t glue the roof on, so I can do a little more painting when I get some other colors for the produce. She was happy to see the photograph.
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Here's my version of the same kit.
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@mike g. posted:Morning everyone, thank you all for the kind words! It is going to take awhile but I am sure he will be ok.
Mike, sorry for your family’s loss. I sure miss a lot when I’m not here every day.
@Papa Dave posted:Here's my version of the same kit.
Yours looks great, Dave!
Populating, not final ofcoure, but looking much more lively.
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@Mark Boyce posted:Jeff, what a great photograph of your grandson!!
Larry, I’m glad you got a plan on your turntable.
Here is a little ditty I painted and built last week. Our older daughter gave me a Plasticville produce stand. I didn’t glue the roof on, so I can do a little more painting when I get some other colors for the produce. She was happy to see the photograph.
@Papa Dave posted:Here's my version of the same kit.
Great job, fellows!
Peter
im sorry mike g. time will heal though. that's why I got back into trains help heal to get mind off of things.
Traded for another Peacock Pullman...
Note the Depression-era Christmas bulb inside...
Mitch
@M. Mitchell Marmel posted:Traded for another Peacock Pullman...
Note the Depression-era Christmas bulb inside...
Mitch
Is that the first “blue light special”???
@Apples55 posted:Is that the first “blue light special”???
I believe so, yes!
For the uninitiated: Early Christmas tree lights were wired in series, so the bulbs were about 12v each. Thrifty train operators would pick these up on sale after the holidays and use them instead of pricier Lionel factory bulbs.
Mitch
Morning guys and gals! I hope your all having a great Tuesday! LOL
@Signalwoman Population is a good thing, it always brings things to life!
@scottyhubcaps Scotty thank you and I agree with you that trains are a great tool to help ones mind!
@M. Mitchell Marmel Mitch now that is going way back! I didn't know they use to put christmas lights in trains! LOL
Well as for me folks, after a nice long talk with @Mark Boyce yesterday I got out and started setting things up for my wiring of the layout. Firs was to hook up one channel for power of the whole layout and next was to hook up power threw the GRJ Watchdog signal board then to the terminal block.
Today I hope to get all the drops connected to the right set of wires for the mains power and then I will have to cut the center rails on my sidings and provide new drops. The fun part is going to be running them to the relays and AIU! LOL
I hope you all find time to have fun with your layouts and trains!
@mike g. posted:I have spent the last 2 weeks helping my younger brother that just lost his wife at the young age of 54. don't take things for granted!
My condolences, Mike.
Peter
@mike g. - Prayers and condolences to your brother Mike.
Don
Love the Challenger.
I’ve finally gotten around to weathering a couple of loads after 20 years.
obx
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@SIRT posted:H2O STEP 2 - Man, 18 bucks for a plastic light panel these days.
HEY SIRT..........is that an SRT Hellcat Challenger ?
( by the way , nice progress on the layout )
@SIRT posted:RT PLUS HEMI 372, 15K MILES. Only 149 made with those options for 2015.
NICE
Well, I finished up a project I started a few days ago, prompted by a FreeCycle posting offering several veneered pressboard shelves of various sizes (aside: if you're unfamiliar with FreeCycle, it's an on-line group in which you can offer or request, for free, surplus and/or used items to or from your neighbors, items that might otherwise just clutter the home or get sent to the landfill). The boards seemed perfect for a long-delayed project: building in some more rolling stock display/storage shelves.
Years earlier, I had built a set of shelves in a set-back in the foundation wall behind the layout (they are peeking out from behind a paper mock-up of the backdrop I was designing at the time, which incidentally will make another appearance later, and if you compare with the later photos, you may be able to detect a few of the changes I've made in the several years since this photo was taken!):
To condense a long process, it turned out two of the shelves were a perfect size to rip into six narrow shelves, all perfectly sized to fit into the available space. All I had to buy new was a six foot one-by-two board (which I cut in half to form two vertical wall attachment supports) and a hardwood dowel to cut up and insert as stops at the ends of each of the shelves. I cut two grooves along the length of the shelves to fit the wheel flanges, and glued and screwed all the shelf components together last night.
This morning, after confirming that the now-assembled shelves would fit in the space allotted. I used a concrete drill to create attachment holes in the cement block wall (behind the white vinyl waterproofing barrier), and cleared and temporarily removed the original shelves (shown reattached on the left in the photo below). This allowed me to attach the old paper background mock-up with tape to the wall, before reattaching the old shelf and attaching the new (I also reused the mock-up as a sort of backup backdrop and to partially hide the white vinyl when the backdrop is rolled up to access the storage shelves):
I then reattached the rolled-up backdrop, and after lowering the backdrop and repositioning the fabric at each side, you really can't see anything has been changed, even with a doubled storage capacity!:
So, most of the time you really can't see any of my handiwork, but now I finally have enough storage space for rolling stock not in current use of the layouts. Now, if I can just figure out what to do with the MTH animated McDonalds I bought after it arrives tomorrow . . . 
[Oh, and what to print with the PLA filament Amazon just delivered for my new 3D printer . . . ]
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@obxtrainman posted:I’ve finally gotten around to weathering a couple of loads after 20 years.
obx
There's hope for all of us with too many projects! 
The weathering looks great!
Slowly moving forward......
Have a great day, folks!
Peter
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Peter,
It looks like you use CA glue to assemble the Korber buildings. Which brand/type do you like for assembling the walls?
@BradFish1 posted:Peter,
It looks like you use CA glue to assemble the Korber buildings. Which brand/type do you like for assembling the walls?
I like either of these…….the Gorilla brand regular SuperGlue is less runny, gives me more time to get things together than the regular Loctite……and,my favorite.
The gels of both brands are about equal.
The Loctite is good but you pay for those applicator systems……They have a larger bottle but it is very runny and you need to use applicator q-tips.
Just my opinion……they all are pretty good.
Peter
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