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YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

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Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

 ash pit  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, your yard looks wonderful! I may have asked this aready, but how big is your layout?

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paul 2 posted:

Brian, better camera, better pictures.... Papa John LOL. I should not throw stones my camera is outdated and does not take good closeups but until it breaks I'll keep using it. Today so far I managed to glue wire in all the fence post and make up pieces to mount the gates on the poles. Being careful when gluing I can manually swing the gates open or closed. Once all the glue sets up on everything I can then start to put the fence in. And another after thought after the fence is up I have some scrap 1X4's and I think I'll make up some bins to keep the piles of scrap separate. Pics ......Paul

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Looks great Paul! But don't forget the no trespassing signs! and guard dogs on duty! Cant wait to see them in place!

Mike, You think of everything!!  

Just throwing ideas out there !

You throw out more ideas than I ever have!  :-)

That's because I have no layout to work on right now! LOL

Paul- found the perfect dog for the scrap yard.

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All I was able to do last night was get the fence with the track gate in place. Today I don't think I will have much time to work on the rest of the fence. Got to head out to grocery shop then the Tuesday lunch with a bunch of TCA'ers and this evening it a get together with the Tuesday night crew. I might try to squeeze in some time in the afternoon otherwise Wednesday will be a work day. The shed will be back in the yard when the fence is done and the Morrison door factory will be off the mainline before any trains come through LOL. Pic..........Paul

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Brian, better camera, better pictures.... Papa John LOL. I should not throw stones my camera is outdated and does not take good closeups but until it breaks I'll keep using it. Today so far I managed to glue wire in all the fence post and make up pieces to mount the gates on the poles. Being careful when gluing I can manually swing the gates open or closed. Once all the glue sets up on everything I can then start to put the fence in. And another after thought after the fence is up I have some scrap 1X4's and I think I'll make up some bins to keep the piles of scrap separate. Pics ......Paul

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Looks great Paul! But don't forget the no trespassing signs! and guard dogs on duty! Cant wait to see them in place!

Mike, You think of everything!!  

Just throwing ideas out there !

You throw out more ideas than I ever have!  :-)

That's because I have no layout to work on right now! LOL

Paul- found the perfect dog for the scrap yard.

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Hey now there Bob! He is a great watch dog, but can only run short distances then has to stop and rest! Heck he was tired after the last inspection! LOL

carsntrains posted:

YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

fiddle yard

Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

 ash pit  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, yep. Looks good! I've decided to separate the diesel (removing completely) and steam services on the long siding of my layout, so with a new sand tower coming, I'll add an ash pit relatively soon. Just need to decide if I want to hassle with making my own FT to O27 connections (can I sacrifice only one 10" FT section to make two connectors) or buy a pair? 

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All I was able to do last night was get the fence with the track gate in place. Today I don't think I will have much time to work on the rest of the fence. Got to head out to grocery shop then the Tuesday lunch with a bunch of TCA'ers and this evening it a get together with the Tuesday night crew. I might try to squeeze in some time in the afternoon otherwise Wednesday will be a work day. The shed will be back in the yard when the fence is done and the Morrison door factory will be off the mainline before any trains come through LOL. Pic..........Paul

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Nice work there Paul! I hope you have fun today and your highly trained SWAT Team is ready for tonight! LOL

Cleveland visit:

Took daughter for a visit to where I grew up.  She was born in Cincinnati.

They have a light rail system (RTA) that runs from the airport to down town and continues to the east side.

it runs along the main corridor for heavy train traffic from New York to Chicago.

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Down town flats have a lot of really nice bridges.

 

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Down town terminal square.

Where passenger trains once arrived.

 

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Couldn't leave out where Ralphie saw his red rider BB gun in the store window

and the Lionel train display!  Sadly, it's now a casino.

No, that's not Jodi Foster, that's my daughter!

 

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Deuce posted:
carsntrains posted:

YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

fiddle yard

Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

 ash pit  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, yep. Looks good! I've decided to separate the diesel (removing completely) and steam services on the long siding of my layout, so with a new sand tower coming, I'll add an ash pit relatively soon. Just need to decide if I want to hassle with making my own FT to O27 connections (can I sacrifice only one 10" FT section to make two connectors) or buy a pair? 

Deuce- I made my own FT-tubular adapter. Not hard to do at all. I soldered the rails to make sure I had a solid connection.

Bob

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Deuce posted:
carsntrains posted:

YAY we went to the hobby shop.. Booo they had no more switches.    Well except in a "kit"  that had two switches, 5 10 inch straight tracks. and two 036 curves.    SOOO I bought it lol     Got the yard all put together and ran one of my older engines.  Now I have 6 trains on a layout with enough room for 2 lol 

Finally my 4 track fiddle yard next to the 2 mains!!!   Connects to the inner main at both ends of the yard. Finding a place to park the old Wabash now has led to a longer pass through siding than needed!  That's always good!  

fiddle yard

Here is a picture of my super easy ash pit!   Just two Fastrack to 027 adapters and 3 inches of 027 track. 

 ash pit  

Duece its so simple its silly isn't it??   

Jim 

Jim, yep. Looks good! I've decided to separate the diesel (removing completely) and steam services on the long siding of my layout, so with a new sand tower coming, I'll add an ash pit relatively soon. Just need to decide if I want to hassle with making my own FT to O27 connections (can I sacrifice only one 10" FT section to make two connectors) or buy a pair? 

Deuce- I made my own FT-tubular adapter. Not hard to do at all. I soldered the rails to make sure I had a solid connection.

Bob

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Deuce, I just bought the two adapter tracks because I wanted a flat wall when I make a hole in the foam that goes under the track (have not installed that yet.  And the adapters come with the pins for the O27 track in them so all you do is cut the tubular track to length and slide it together.   I will do so file work on mine when I take it all apart and wire it all.   Got it all isolated last night. 

Bob that adapter you made looks good.   I just wanted straight edges. 

Mark thanks and yes I used old nasty track so it would be pre-dirty!  

Mike I'm anxiously waiting to see more progress on your project!!  Cool dog!  Layout is 17 feet long on that side.. both ends are seven (one to go around closet for other room/the other to leave room for the door)  They the track bumps out to about 10 feet wide in the middle,  until I get that closet taken out. 

 

Im so glad to get that finished! 

Did yall notice how small that engine is on the 3rd track in?    Its a Lionel convention Pennsylvania engine. 

Jim

carsntrains posted:
Deuce, I just bought the two adapter tracks because I wanted a flat wall when I make a hole in the foam that goes under the track (have not installed that yet.  And the adapters come with the pins for the O27 track in them so all you do is cut the tubular track to length and slide it together.   I will do so file work on mine when I take it all apart and wire it all.   Got it all isolated last night. 
Jim,
Yeah, I'm going to have to do a bit of illusion because I'm not cutting down into the table. I'm going to use small wood strips to "frame" the ash pit, fill it, and then slip it under the rails. I read that some ash pits were filled with water to quench the hot ash ... so I think I'll just pretend that my ash pit is almost full and ready to be emptied.
 
 
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Deuce that is cool!  About what I have planned to do.   I'll keep that one in mind.  

Mike that is the track layout I started with. 

I took that straights out of the center of the "lump" and moved it to the sides of it to make it go closer to that wall.    Then in the middle of the curves on the end I put a switch on each end that goes to the yard.   I'm going to try to get the foam under it tonight and take some more pictures.   You see the square out of the one end is the closet that protrudes into my domain lol  When I get that out it will make a huge difference in available "property" .. 

Jim

carsntrains posted:

Deuce that is cool!  About what I have planned to do.   I'll keep that one in mind.  

Mike that is the track layout I started with. 

I took that straights out of the center of the "lump" and moved it to the sides of it to make it go closer to that wall.    Then in the middle of the curves on the end I put a switch on each end that goes to the yard.   I'm going to try to get the foam under it tonight and take some more pictures.   You see the square out of the one end is the closet that protrudes into my domain lol  When I get that out it will make a huge difference in available "property" .. 

Jim

I believe railroads have the right to use eminent domain.

Paul,  

I like the "brick" road you made with the plaster sidewalks....  You posted photos about a week ago.     Whose brick paper or brick plastic styrene, did you use for that  brick road ?

I tried to read back several pages in this thread but couldn't find this question/answer...

chris a

Pine Creek Railroad posted:

Mitch,

   Using your ladies Dryer and Washer as a Paint Drying Station for your O Gauge custom work could get you in big trouble, even as dominant as I am, this is one line I would not cross!  Tell her to let me know when the funeral is going to take place, I will attend.

More Power to ya buddy!

PCRR/Dave

Heh.  This is one perk of bachelorhood...  ;-) 

Mitch 

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