Congratulations, Lee. 
My lobster pots have finally arrived from the UK, so I have been working on the area around the stone shed.
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Lee, I will be looking forward to reading your next installment after I get a chance to read the first one.
Max, your lobster pots look great, well worth the wait!
Thanks, Mike.
p51 posted:mike g. posted:Very COOL Lee, you have to be excited to see your layout in print! I am so very happy for you!
I'm far from done. I'm looking to write a first-person perspective article on my layout as if it was written back in the 40s, complete with 'original' photos.
Still trying to figure out who to pitch it to. I'll almost certainly give OSR first crack at running it when I'm ready to make my pitch. If it goes like I'm thinking, it won't be like anything you've ever seen in a model RR mag!
Congratulations Lee! I'm going to have to get a copy!
Came home from work, went to the train room, and ran trains for a while! Three trains and a trolley going simultaneously. Soothing to the eye, sweet to the ear, and the nectar of cinnamon smoke fluid is lovely to smell. 
Enjoyed every moment!!!
Now to reattach the pantographs to my GG1.
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I put this in the wrong posting not once but twice.
Today was a very interesting day for me. Yesterday taking my wife for an appointment I realized I had my camera in my pocket. I didn't want to take it with me so I put it on my truck by a windshield wiper. Forgot all about. Today is my wife's birthday so I took her out for dinner. Restaurant was probably 14 miles away. Had dinner and when we came out I was getting in the truck and I noticed the camera which I had totally forgotten about was still sitting by the wiper. Hard to believe that at 70MPH it did not fly off. Guess I am one lucky guy. So while she was watching the Cavs I went down and mixed a couple of small batches of plaster and covered some areas of the plywood. This time I tried mixing some Woodland Scenics earth color in so I got a bit of difference from just the white plaster next to it. Tomorrow after a trains show in Parma Ohio I'll glue down some ballast. Pics.................Paul
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going to be a late night tonight going to delete all engines from all three remotes and reinstall them all in order. penn. with penn., B&O with B&O, western Maryland with all western Maryland . I'm trying get all my engines to work as they should.
paul 2 posted:I put this in the wrong posting not once but twice.
Today was a very interesting day for me. Yesterday taking my wife for an appointment I realized I had my camera in my pocket. I didn't want to take it with me so I put it on my truck by a windshield wiper. Forgot all about. Today is my wife's birthday so I took her out for dinner. Restaurant was probably 14 miles away. Had dinner and when we came out I was getting in the truck and I noticed the camera which I had totally forgotten about was still sitting by the wiper. Hard to believe that at 70MPH it did not fly off. Guess I am one lucky guy. So while she was watching the Cavs I went down and mixed a couple of small batches of plaster and covered some areas of the plywood. This time I tried mixing some Woodland Scenics earth color in so I got a bit of difference from just the white plaster next to it. Tomorrow after a trains show in Parma Ohio I'll glue down some ballast. Pics.................Paul
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You are one lucky guy there Paul, sounds like you got some good work done, but I cant see any pictures!
p51 posted:The On30 Annual is out now and even though I've yet to get my own copy (I have the digital proof of my article, though), I've already gotten some email kudos for it.
My article is on page 80, I think. I didn't make the cover, though, but I'm okay with that!
Funny how you never know how others are going to take what you put out there, but I never excepted the warm reception in the hobby I've gotten with my layout!
Congrats Lee. IMHO your layout should have been on the cover.
Bob
Ralph M posted:Adding some small details to he area around the new bridge
Very nice Ralph. Looks like its always been there. The girl talking on a cell phone- next to a phone booth- is a bit ironic no? 
ran some trains.......
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Today: I just glued about a bizilion things - now all I can do is wait for them to dry before I can move on to anything else. Gonna be bored for a few hours. AND, in the midst of all this rebuilding a new locomotive arrived. I haven't even taken it out of the shipping carton yet - haven't had time 
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I bet when I copied and pasted from putting the pics on the wrong thread that is why all the x's. So here they are and I hope I am not duplicating them here...................Paul
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An intermittent issue that caused my DCS remote to shut down completely became less intermittent and more constant today. The engine menu would appear and just as suddenly the screen would go blank. A second set of new batteries confirmed that if a fix was to be found, I was gonna have to go inside. Separating the case halves was more time consuming than tracking down the problem. Plain as day, there was the positive lead, broken away from the battery box. A little solder and I was back in business. Wish they were all that simple!
Bruce
BANDOB posted:It was a cold, wet Saturday morning, so when the grandson was over he continued his work on the scenery.
A lovely photo, Bill.
The future of the hobby, right there.
paul 2 posted:I bet when I copied and pasted from putting the pics on the wrong thread that is why all the x's. So here they are and I hope I am not duplicating them here...................Paul
Love the plaster work Paul, sure brings things together!
Ran wire for the switches on my control panel for Lionel PW display layout. Will use vintage 364c switches I grabbed at York.
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'Spent yesterday and today adding my first ever "green" scenery to my current in-work layout. My previous permanent layout is a Christmas village theme and is all "snow" and has no "green" areas.
Thanks to Scenic Express Products it is beginning to look pretty good although I still have a bit of work to do and no trees nor a backdrop have as yet been added.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks.
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very nice scenery !!
Your scenery looks great HMORGAN125 The little water course between tracks and the passenger platform are the best!
The scrappers came in and ripped all the track up and hauled it away except some sort pieces and some 031 curves. The engines and cars are being stored.
Spent about six hours today beating the Fort Smith Trolley Museum's Lionel layouts into some semblance of operating order.
"Rocket," the Museum's newest feline assistant (named after the Rock Island streamlined train), was on hand to give technical advice.
There was, of course, a gi-raffe involved.
The motorman on the Museum's Birney also had assistance:
"Rudy", another carbarn cat, chills in an ex-Vera Cruz open car...
"Rocket" loves him some trains and trolleys!
Mitch
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Ran trains twice today. Had BIG FUN!!!
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Mark Boyce posted:Your scenery looks great HMORGAN125 The little water course between tracks and the passenger platform are the best!
Thank you, Mark and Brian. I have always been proud of the passenger platform. It was made of balsa stringers with coffee stirrers as the planking. Painted with acrylics and weathered with chalks. 
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HMORGAN125, I agree with Mark great job on the scenery. I like the idea of the small bridge too. Everything is blending in together very nice.................Paul
very nice station and passenger platform !!!
HMorgan125 posted:'Spent yesterday and today adding my first ever "green" scenery to my current in-work layout. My previous permanent layout is a Christmas village theme and is all "snow" and has no "green" areas.
Thanks to Scenic Express Products it is beginning to look pretty good although I still have a bit of work to do and no trees nor a backdrop have as yet been added.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks.
Nice looking work there, everything has a nice smooth flow and a clean look to it. I like the lumber scattered around the tracks.
Today I colored the plaster and laid down ballast. Have to mix up some glue and glue it down. Had some extra pieces of tongue and groove boards so I am going to add a shelf under the last table I did. Have to have a place for the boxes still on the tables so I can see how I want to lay out more track. Pics...............Paul
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I installed circuit breakers and TVS's on the KW I use for track power. All these years I've been lucky and not fried any electronics, but from what I've read here I was asking for trouble by not having this protection. I used the Mouser parts that other members have used and recommended.
p51 posted:The On30 Annual is out now and even though I've yet to get my own copy (I have the digital proof of my article, though), I've already gotten some email kudos for it.
My article is on page 80, I think. I didn't make the cover, though, but I'm okay with that!
Funny how you never know how others are going to take what you put out there, but I never excepted the warm reception in the hobby I've gotten with my layout!
Lee congrats. Saw this a couple of days ago but have been real busy with other things. To bad about not making the cover but the big thing is you got published and recognition for your work. Funny we all have had a seat at the table following your build and the trial and tribulations. I think all of us agree that the layout has turned out well and for the On30 crowd, well they are just late for the show and just now figuring out what they have missed. Also can you email link to the article?
Paul,
Really nice work! So many of you folks do wonderful work on your empires big and small.
M. Mitchell Marmel posted:Spent about six hours today beating the Fort Smith Trolley Museum's Lionel layouts into some semblance of operating order.
"Rocket," the Museum's newest feline assistant (named after the Rock Island streamlined train), was on hand to give technical advice.
There was, of course, a gi-raffe involved.
"Rudy", another carbarn cat, chills in an ex-Vera Cruz open car...
"Rocket" loves him some trains and trolleys!
Mitch
Looks like Norma's got competition
paul 2 posted:Today I colored the plaster and laid down ballast. Have to mix up some glue and glue it down. Had some extra pieces of tongue and groove boards so I am going to add a shelf under the last table I did. Have to have a place for the boxes still on the tables so I can see how I want to lay out more track. Pics...............Paul
Looking very nice Paul! you just keep moving right along! I sure like the way its turning out!
well I just working on my layout doing ballast on some switches and small sections of track. I also put two more bridge sides on. Maybe I will be able to do more later in the day.
I wish I knew how to post pictures on the computer but I'm computer stupid.
Carl
some train watching in the yard....
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No pics today but for sure a good morning and part of the afternoon. I went from working on the layout to working at getting under the stairway cleaned out. Once I did that I took my saws all and cut out the doorway along with a partial wall that was there. Then I gathered up all the things I had to go out to the street for garbage pickup along with the wood from taking out the doorway. To remove the next partition I have to relocate an electrical wire that I will use for overhead lighting. Maybe after dinner I'll tackle that but right now I am going to run some trains as a reward to myself for working hard.....................Paul
Carl Machen posted:well I just working on my layout doing ballast on some switches and small sections of track. I also put two more bridge sides on. Maybe I will be able to do more later in the day.
I wish I knew how to post pictures on the computer but I'm computer stupid.
Carl
Carl, you may be computer ignorant, but not "stupid".. Because one doesn't know something, doesn't make them "stupid".. Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results would qualify as stupid.. I'm ignorant of a lot of things.. I've also qualified as stupid a few times also.. lol
