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Originally Posted by p51:

I got to building the flat across the back of the layout, after a very lengthy search for a kit and finding nothing that looks right for what I'd had in mind. I used a 1" thick pine board for the base and building up around it, with the end result to be a building that looks very well-weathered and not painted for a good 10-20 years...

More details here: https://ogrforum.com/t...ure-flat-in-progress

I got the flat completed and installed late last night. I just need to add some small details and weather/clutter up the loading dock:

Originally Posted by Forty Rod:
Originally Posted by texastrain:

One can never have too much Plasticville for your layout, can you?

I can't see how.

 

Lots of stock stuff fits right in and ever single piece is "kit bashable".  The variations are endless.

True. I'm not into stock Plasticville, but I've seen some really good work done from kit-bashing and modifications of those kits on layouts over the years...

Originally Posted by Moonson:

My sincere Thanks for the enthusiastic replies of approval of my parade to:

Steamer; Country Joe; Randy Harrison; p51;\, and

Fisch330 (I do have a circus consist, so you have given me something to consider).

 

Thank you, all,  for taking the time to write a reply and for being so positive about my efforts.

FrankM.

 

 Here are some more of the parade's participants...

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Frank

 

The parade has that small town touch where most people know each other, which can be way better than the big ones.

Organized the train room a bit.  Put in place some simulated wood grain rubber flooring ( to accommodate a bit of ease on the knees when standing and working on the layout for long periods of time) along the isle.  Looks nice enough! 

 

All the while I did this I ran a couple trains.  I still need to get inside the tunnel to fix last weeks derailment.  Hopefully tonight.  It should take 30 - 40 minutes from start to finish because once I'm inside and fix the derailed engine and caboose, I'll probably want to  make a few adjustments around the entry area.

 

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone!!

So I will have something to do tomorrow I went to my LHS and picked up Kalmbach's new book on the RR 50s and then went to Home Depot and bought 5  1x4s  to use as a border around the top of my layout. Will have about 3/4" above the top of the Homosote as a curb. Plus, I plan to install new white mini lights around the on the top edge to help light the layout. Sort of like foot lights. Have the old ones on the edge of the Homosote now and it makes nice indirect lighting at night. Also purchased another O gauge engine from the forum and a nice standard gauge set for that part of my collection.

Originally Posted by Moonson:

My sincere Thanks for the enthusiastic replies of approval of my parade to:

Steamer; Country Joe; Randy Harrison; p51;\, and

Fisch330 (I do have a circus consist, so you have given me something to consider).

 

Thank you, all,  for taking the time to write a reply and for being so positive about my efforts.

FrankM.

 

 Here are some more of the parade's participants...

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The crowd is gathering on the sidewalks!

 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Originally Posted by suzukovich:
Originally Posted by Moonson:

My sincere Thanks for the enthusiastic replies of approval of my parade...

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 Here are some more of the parade's participants...

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Frank

 

The parade has that small town touch where most people know each other, which can be way better than the big ones.

I appreciate your seeing/feeling and saying that, Suzukovich. That atmosphere was not deliberate - not planned. It just seemed to emerge from memories, I assume, of times and places I have seen, somewhere along the way. If somebody asked me to explain precisely what I did to impart such an impression, I could not describe it to them. Yet, somehow, the place came into realization, which is why I said here that I appreciate what you said. I think you are the first visitor to describe the village and its parade in that way. Thank you.

FrankM.

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Originally Posted by suzukovich:
Originally Posted by Moonson:

My sincere Thanks for the enthusiastic replies of approval of my parade to:

Steamer; Country Joe; Randy Harrison; p51;\, and

Fisch330 (I do have a circus consist, so you have given me something to consider).

 

Thank you, all,  for taking the time to write a reply and for being so positive about my efforts.

FrankM.

 

 Here are some more of the parade's participants...

IMG_9449

Frank

 

The parade has that small town touch where most people know each other, which can be way better than the big ones.

Suzukovich, you nailed it!  Growing up in a rural area and going into a small town nearby, I know just what you mean.  We now live just outside my wife's hometown, and it seems she knows everyone.  

 

Frank, your Main Street could be just the same one as hers.

I juggled....five projects...the pickle cannery, the MoPac Am. Std. Car Co. gas electric

kit, and two Hallmark pickup repaints, and a pickle car repaint.  The pickups are a tedious pain....the 1937 Ford comes in green, it is now gray with black fenders (body color fenders were a deluxe option on pickups in that era), and the white 1936 GMC is now blue.  Various paint comptabilitiy problems with both, but the Ford is done.  The gas electric is almost done, but I caught a paint touchup, and it will be done.  There is much more to do on the cannery, sides are almost covered with courrugated siding, but roof is not done. Loading platform is built, but not painted, and I am going to put a canopy over it. The tubs on the Lionel pickle car have all been covered with wood slats and painted, and I am putting bands around them.  Not enough time in the day...

I'm preparing Sun Turkey.  It's like Sun Tea, only you cook the turkey in the sun until it reaches 165°. 

 

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[DISCLAIMER:  No, I'm not.  Don't be silly.]

 

Anyhow, got the bird stuffed and in the oven, with veggies, giblets and such in the roasting pan to make stock while the bird cooks! 

 

And while the bird cooks, I took the 1666 out for a little run with the future Crimson Comet consist...

 

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(Photo taken shortly after Norma Bates Kitteh sat down on the tracks, got bumped by the train and indignantly decamped.)

 

Mitch

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Learned something interesting today: 

 

1) 681-15 rollers fit into Lionel Polar Express contact assemblies neatly.

 

2) Unfortunately, they're slightly larger in diameter.  Just large enough to hold the wheels off the track just far enough to nearly eliminate any tractive effort, so the loco just sits there and spins its wheels.

 

Obviously, this will require some rethinking... ;^.^

 

Mitch

Sun Turkey will only work at Badwater on the floor of Death Valley, in August, and even then, prepare to meet Salmonella.  I, today, avoided the turkey, as usual, and had ham,shrimp, and roast beef.  I also FINALLY finished my RMT powered MoPac version of the Am. Std. Car. Co. gas electric kit.  I got all the walls of my pickle

plant covered in corrugated siding, but not the roof...where I am wondering if I might

go to another material.  Painted the Lionel pickle car body after filling the stamped

lettering, and finished wrapping all the wooden staved tubs in bands.  And I touched

up the filled holes of the Hallmark 1940 Ford pickup, and wonder if Hallmark made

others than this one, the 1936 GMC, and the 1937 Ford (1940 and prior).

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