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I've heard the difference between the 91% and the 99% alcohol is the 91% contains some oil which leaves a residue ....
 
Originally Posted by Jeff Metz:

Added some "porch lights" to a few buildings. Bought first can of denatured alcohol and cleaned track. I had been using 91% alcohol before. No problems with the 91%, just wanted to try it due to so many posts about denatured.  

Originally Posted by Gregg Laiben:

Started converting from claws to Kadee couplers (rolling stock only) - 4 down - a bunch more to go.

Doing the same, but also doing locomotives.

 

Tonight I plan to do some more plaster cloth in my river area and then will be laying a nice earth colored brown over the entire right hand side of my layout, getting it ready for ground cover.  

Renovation project is well under way. I am working now on fine tuning the engine service area (roundhouse and turntable portion of my layout) and I relocated all of the accessories and re-wired them. Fortunately they all worked on the first try. Next step is to re-ballast they area with new material and put the engines back into service. I would like to get this part of the renovation done by mid week.

 

Then it is on to the new siding yard.

My grandson discovered that the beige MTH Christmas passenger cars look like Clarabelle, and Annie, so we pulled them from the shelf and ran them with Thomas, James, and Percy so he had passanger cars that lit up. Once running, he noticed that unlike the regular passanger cars, these had no passangers. He is five and misses nothing, runs DCS remote better than many adults! He disappeared for a minute, and popped up from under the layout with a package of 48 seated figures, and beamed, "Hey, Poppy. We need to put these people in the cars! So, yesterday, we populated the cars. Sharp kid. I guess I'll need to find better hiding spots for Christmas and birthday presents!  

In the home stretch for the Micro-Layout contest. Test fit the buildings, then pretended I was a politician and started throwing dirt around. By the way, given this is influenced by East Highland on the Redlands Loop, I used genuine Redlands Loop dirt. I'll have the rest of the dirt on it tomorrow night and should have it finished Saturday evening or Sunday in time for the deadline.

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been there.  straight leg wrap I had.  took 6 weeks to isolate, then the pain really began with bending and going up stairs. tears! No pushing in the clutch on that mustang I see!  youll be in the chair with the dcs remote for awhile! that sucks.   Originally Posted by Cobrabob:

Not only am I unable to work, Car Show and Cruise-in Season are about here!

Cobrabob.

Norhtern Haserot Trk. 72

Bob's LX 62312

 

Toady was dedicated to working on the relocated refinery. There is much more room for it in it's new home. I installed a roadway to this area which will connect to other areas of the layout. It was one of those days when all went very smoothly with the installation of the roads. I hope this continues with the rest of the renovation work which is fairly extensive.

the guy tonight was worried about our hobby, but a thing my generation in the our 30's loves trains and we were the MPC generation 4-5 year olds of the late 70's. I always loved them.  when I rode the PAT train loco, I was only 10 filmed for a show due to my intererest then.  the kids now need to know they have a part, and they need us to keep this hobby alive.  take the kids to see real ones and layouts!  I think we can keep it going!  Originally Posted by Chris D:

well, I ran some trains. attached the new BNSF sd-70 mac to the dash 9 premier to see how she ran.  big engines and I need 072 for those  I have o54 now.  watched tin plate legends on I love toys trains!  love that show.  also trains and locomotives!!

 

Finished sanding all the homaboard joints, vacuumed the whole area, filled the joints with White Lightening, sat back and pondered the track plan and possible mods to it before laying it down.

Next is painting the base coat.  I'm thinking a dark ash grey for the "steam part" and a more brownish dirt color for the electric and diesel area.

Installed 4 Gargraves O42 DZ-2500 switches.  I am replacing my Lionel O42 6-65168 and 9 switches, all 38 of them.  I am so amazed at these Gargrave switches.  Zero dead spots, excellent remote movement and every engine and car, postwar and modern move effortlessly over them.  I found the best price at www.wholesaletrains.com $55.95 per unit. 

 

I originally started with O27 track and remote switches 1122E with auto derailing, moved to the O42 switch and curves and am now switching to the Gargraves switch.  From a cost, reliability and appearance point of view I like the O27 track.  But, I really want to replace all the track with Gargraves and put down a roadbed.  It is a question of $$$$ and time.  So I am going one step at a time.  When it is all done I will probably spend 2x the amount of money then if I had done this in one whack...

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Good morning

Last two days all the scenery blue board, painted and textured and put back on the layout

did all the painting and texturing in the garage then let it dry outside. Have to blend the edges of each section and prep for ballast. Made some test sections of ballast to see if my three year old ballast cement is still good. Have four gallons of this stuff the first gallon was still good. TWENTY MORE DAYS TILL OPEN HOUSE at Blissfield Railroad Days.

Clem   

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