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Cover OGR Jan 2016 Run 282

 

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     Today I did some train room house keeping and the U.S. Mail Lady brought me Run 282. I started off with the usual fanning through the pages. The first read, was on page 23, Product Reviews, LionChief Plus Lackawanna 4-6-0 Camelback, by George Brown.

     I would like to tell you more, but it would be best for you to "Check It Out & Pass It On." As always the article has a lot of information and is well done and has eight photos.

Gary

• Cheers from The Detroit and Mackinac Railway - "A Toy Train Layout"

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Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:
Originally Posted by suzukovich:
Originally Posted by Moonson:

 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.

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.

Thank you, Mark, that was fun to read.

FrankM.

Fixed the oversized pickup rollers on my Polar Gi-raffe Express Berkshire; rolling them against the flat side of my grinder wheel (make sure they're rolling freely and are at roughly a 45 degree angle to the motion of the wheel) ground 'em down to factory size, and a minute or two on the polishing wheel smoothed 'em out!  The Berk once again chugs along cheerfully!

 

Also replaced the rear coupler centering spring on my F3.  Whoever designed that was either a masochist or a sadist, I'm not sure which. 

 

Sent another order off to Train Tender for more little fiddly bits; I'm stocking up for winter. 

 

Mitch

Completed the bench work and roadbed leveling along this wall over the last 2 days.  Adding a cross over and tying the staging yard track into the mainline needed careful alignment, but I thoroughly enjoyed the detailed work.  I have also been adding power feed drops as I go.  The ease of soldering to GG rail as opposed to Atlas ( my previous layout ) makes the process a breeze....and no melted ties either!

 

 

Broad, sweeping curves throughout.

 

 

Couldn't help posing a few goodies in their new home.

 

Originally Posted by brwebster:

Completed the bench work and roadbed leveling along this wall over the last 2 days.  Adding a cross over and tying the staging yard track into the mainline needed careful alignment, ...

 

 

Broad, sweeping curves throughout...

You're like some cool sculptor, but in reverse. That is, you are making artistic and masterful use of the space first and carving the layout into it, complete with all its curves and straight lines. Instead of taking away material as a sculptor would do carving into stone, for example, to sculpt a statue, you are starting with the space and carving - adding in - the body of your creation. The effect is masterful.

 

Very interesting to be welcomed in to witness the progress. Thank you for the ongoing ride !

FrankM.

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Originally Posted by Moonson:
Originally Posted by brwebster:

Completed the bench work and roadbed leveling along this wall over the last 2 days.  Adding a cross over and tying the staging yard track into the mainline needed careful alignment, ...

 

 

Broad, sweeping curves throughout...

You're like some cool sculptor, but in reverse. That is, you are making artistic and masterful use of the space first and carving the layout into it, complete with all its curves and straight lines. Instead of taking away material as a sculptor would do carving into stone, for example, to sculpt a statue, you are starting with the space and carving - adding in - the body of your creation. The effect is masterful.

 

Very interesting to be welcomed in to witness the progress. Thank you for the ongoing ride !

FrankM.

Bruce,

I could never describe it as eloquently as Frank, but I totally agree with his sentiments!  Thank you for sharing how you are making use of the space you have available.  It looks great!

Wow!  I'm completely floored, Frank and Mark. 

 

Thank you so much for your generous compliments.  Your encouraging words assure me that the layout is indeed headed in the creative direction it was intended.  I hope the minimalist approach can continue to be interesting throughout the build.  A bit more variety than simple sweeping curves lay just ahead.  Stay tuned...and again....Thank you!

 

Bruce

Today, I finally got a wiring loop and switch I was able to take apart, placed into a 1944-dated Adlake RR lantern and used a wood base my Dad made to place an electric bulb inside it. It'd already had a small hole at the bottom, probably where it'd already had an electric light.


I'll probably put a hook under the fascia on the layout to hang it from eventually...

I ran my new (new for me) Lionel LionChief Plus GP7 and yesterday (Sat) I ran most of my Williams engines on the club layout (Southwest Michigan Modular Train Club). My Williams are the New Haven ABA Alco's, BL-2 Chicago & Eastern Illinois, U33C Lehigh Valley and Hudson Chessie System 4-6-4. I like my new GP7 LionChief Plus, but my Williams U33C Lehigh Valley is my favorite just because it runs real smooth. Everything but the GP7 is conventional.

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Originally Posted by Mark Boyce:
Originally Posted by Moonson:
Originally Posted by brwebster:

Completed the bench work and roadbed leveling along this wall over the last 2 days.  Adding a cross over and tying the staging yard track into the mainline needed careful alignment, ...

 

 

Broad, sweeping curves throughout...

You're like some cool sculptor, but in reverse. That is, you are making artistic and masterful use of the space first and carving the layout into it, complete with all its curves and straight lines. Instead of taking away material as a sculptor would do carving into stone, for example, to sculpt a statue, you are starting with the space and carving - adding in - the body of your creation. The effect is masterful.

 

Very interesting to be welcomed in to witness the progress. Thank you for the ongoing ride !

FrankM.

Bruce,

I could never describe it as eloquently as Frank, but I totally agree with his sentiments!  Thank you for sharing how you are making use of the space you have available.  It looks great!

I agree.

Well what I should of been doing, cleaning up under the layout making room, I got into putting in some scenery. The section I worked on did not have a lot of room, height wise, so with coarse clump foliage and creative accents from Scenic Express I covered the top area. It is a little over 6 feet. A couple of pics................Paul

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Continued installing some foam wood grained  flooring in the train room.  Ran a 19 car coal train with a N&W Y6b on the point and a 13 car beer train with a B&O GP9 on the point.

 

Also surveyed the layout to see where I will put this new building by Woodland Scenics before I ordered from Walthers.

 

Ordered a Woodland Scenics building from the Walthers Dec sale cat. , using a gift certificate given to me by one of my students.  Found out Walthers was giving an additional 10% off because it is cyber Monday!  Very cool!!!  I love these buildings by Woodland Scenics however... I may have not ever purchased a Woodland Scenics building ( in this case the Corner Emporium ) because they are priced over my budget.  I'm not saying these structures are not worth the $ but their asking price ( even on sale ) is more than I'm willing to pay.  So all in all I paid $50 with shipping.  I can live with that

Originally Posted by paul 2:

Well what I should of been doing, cleaning up under the layout making room, I got into putting in some scenery. The section I worked on did not have a lot of room, height wise, so with coarse clump foliage and creative accents from Scenic Express I covered the top area. It is a little over 6 feet. A couple of pics................Paul

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I like what you did Paul. If I ever get around to cleaning out the rest of my basement, I'm going to add more too extend my layout and maybe do a side by side and switch to GarGraves. Still thinking on that one.

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The hole in the bottom is actually a drain hole put there by Adlake.
 
Originally Posted by p51:

Today, I finally got a wiring loop and switch I was able to take apart, placed into a 1944-dated Adlake RR lantern and used a wood base my Dad made to place an electric bulb inside it. It'd already had a small hole at the bottom, probably where it'd already had an electric light.


I'll probably put a hook under the fascia on the layout to hang it from eventually...

 

Hi Paul:
 
Yes, the one is from Lionel, and the rest are Weavers. Lionel's is #3, and there is a Weaver #1, and two #2s, which I will have to pretend is Number 4, for the sake of saying I have all four of the engines just like the Milwaukee Road. Now to get the one "A" to quit it's having "fits" and get it to stay operational. My friend had the second #2 and the price was way to good to pass up, along with six cars!!
 
Jeff
 
 
 
 
 
Originally Posted by fisch330:

Jeff:  That certainly is an impressive line up of Class "A"'s!  What manufacturers are those engines from?  Looks like the 3rd one over is the Lionel that they did a few years ago, but are the others Weaver ?

 

I'm happy with just one of those beauties.

 

Paul Fischer

 

Originally Posted by trumptrain:
Mitch - I think MTH did a Frothingslosh beer tank car.  I know I've seen one in O gauge somewhere in my travels. 

A little research reveals both a tank car and a reefer!

 

http://mthtrains.com/30-73201

 

http://mthtrains.com/30-78120

 

 

 

Originally Posted by David S:

M.Mitchell Marmel, Mitch.

Here is some more pictures of the bridge. This is when I first started it I have made progress on it since then. I made it by scratch and had no plans for it. Glad you liked it and thanks for asking about it. I will post some more updated pictures soon.

A sturdy and practical design! I like it!

 

Mitch

Jeff:  I had both the MTH and the Weaver, F-7's but both had the same cab # 102.  So I ultimately sold the Weaver, at the October York meet, and kept the MTH.  My "A". is #1 and it, too is a Weaver.  i also have a seven car Weaver train of the original 1934-35 cars, which I am putting decent interiors in.  Weaver used the interiors from the Pullman Bradley cars and they really look dumb in those cars.  The P-B cars had straight back seats that didn't line up with the windows, and I've been replacing them with aftermarket interior seats. 

 

I also have about 10 of the 1936 and 1938 cars from Weaver.  They actually came with no interiors and dark green windows with four large bulbs in the inside for lighting.  So, I have also been working on these to put interiors and overhead lighting in.  Big job and I really don't have the time to take on the project so it's kind of on hold, for a while.

 

All of the cars, with and without updated interiors, really look great on my layout and are fairly impressive to my train buddies.  none of them are Western Road fans and if they are dark gray, dark maroon, dark green or dark blue, they don't recognize them as acceptable passenger car consists.  Wish my layout were larger to really showcase my engines and cars.

 

Paul Fischer

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