leapinlarry posted:We ran trains for friends several times in the last few days, do my Retiring from my Job. Now, we can spend many fun hours finishing this layout.
Congratulations Larry! I'm sure this is an exciting time for you. Now it's time for the real fun.
PUFFRBELLY posted:Just a couple of pictures of the area under "The Eastbridge Viaduct" heading toward the Lift-Out section. Added a bit more scenery and an old boxcar that the railroad uses as a storage shed. Hope ya'll like 'em.
Chief Bob (Retired)
Nothing like seeing that beautiful blue on the rails.
NS6770Fan posted:Today I have so far attempted to install the track into our Walthers Engine Shop. 3 hammers, 2 pieces of flex track,and a helper (Henry the cat)
have all been used so far
Looks good, but you forgot to give the pliers some credit! LOL
leapinlarry posted:We ran trains for friends several times in the last few days, do my Retiring from my Job. Now, we can spend many fun hours finishing this layout.
Congratulations LeapinLarry! Enjoy your your retirement and the extra time with the world's best hobby!
1934 Ford pickup truck.....before and after weathering...
mike g. posted:Hi everyone, So today its raining, so what do you do when its raining? You go outside and put gutters up! Well atleast that's what I did for Easter! Now I have 90% of the roof done, the gutters up, all that's left is to side it and it will be ready for final inspection! A couple pictures for who wants to see.
An of course the inspector had to check things out, He doesn't look to happy but lucky for he he is an easy bribe! LOL
Fantastic work Mike. Looks like a new Menards structure, Mike’s Train House 
JD2035RR posted:mike g. posted:Hi everyone, So today its raining, so what do you do when its raining? You go outside and put gutters up! Well atleast that's what I did for Easter! Now I have 90% of the roof done, the gutters up, all that's left is to side it and it will be ready for final inspection! A couple pictures for who wants to see.
Fantastic work Mike. Looks like a new Menards structure, Mike’s Train House
Thanks JD, I thought about that name, But some company already took it! I think they make trains! LOL
another flamingo frosty bar
randr posted:Made signs
For my granddaughter
Randr, really like your billboards! They really turned uot looking great!
randr posted:Made signs
For my granddaughter
If you can give me a mailing address, we can get you a flamingo to go with your
grandaughters flamingo frosty bar 
'
John
been super busy at work re arranging the shop for a new machine center, long days...
before, shop a mess, stuff everywhere...
after, getting this part of the shop re arranged...
the new CNC machine... will start setting it up today...
the shop some what back together yesterday... I'm tired...
now hopefully to get back to some trains...
probably after a long nap... 
can't wait till things are some what back to normal...
beardog posted:randr posted:Made signs
For my granddaughter
If you can give me a mailing address, we can get you a flamingo to go with your
grandaughters flamingo frosty bar
John
I always had flamingos in the front yard, but now I live in a condo and there are probably restrictions in the rules and regulations
Continued working on my layout. The major components are made and assembled now I must add bracing to the bench work for stability and bear the weight. Not heavy lifting but tedious and time consuming. No really good place to cut wood which is a bummer. But I will have some track down soon.
Due to medical problems, l just barely got my order in for two 3rd Rail HW RPO's, for the mountain prairie states ,for D&RGW and Burlington. Also wanted Mopac and RI, not offered. (and C&S) for a postal dist. ctr.
Brian, That is a great looking shop, and nice CNC machine! Do you own the shop? I can see that would take time away from trains!!!
no, the owner lives in Florida,
I take care of things here for him... I am usually here 7 days a week...
briansilvermustang posted:been super busy at work re arranging the shop for a new machine center, long days...
the new CNC machine... will start setting it up today...the shop some what back together yesterday... I'm tired...
now hopefully to get back to some trains...
probably after a long nap...
can't wait till things are some what back to normal...
wow now thats a CNC! where in Ohio are you?
Toledo, Oh.
Amtrak station here...
briansilvermustang posted:no, the owner lives in Florida,
I take care of things here for him... I am usually here 7 days a week...
I would say he has full confidence in you! Great job!
thank you Mark ! been here going on 27 years now,
started here with Bridgeport mills that didn't even have digital readouts on them...
we now have 10 CNC machines; 4 wires, 2 lathes, now 4 mills...
RSJB18 posted:OK So I hope this is a REALLY BAD APRIL FOOLS JOKE
I also made my own dwarf signals. Check out page 206, 4/23/16, page 221, 6/30/16 & page 231, 8/16/16 for details.
You should be able cover the back with sheet styrene. I would suggest using cat5 wire and conceal everything in the body of the signal. I installed my signals to indicate switch allinment. Good luck with the snow and your signals. Dave
Brian, the shop looks great! How did you move everything and keep the floor looking so good! I bet you had a good night sleep after that!
Bob, I was watching the news this morning and they said you could get more SNOW on Saturday! Sorry !
briansilvermustang posted:thank you Mark ! been here going on 27 years now,
started here with Bridgeport mills that didn't even have digital readouts on them...
we now have 10 CNC machines; 4 wires, 2 lathes, now 4 mills...
I worked at a tool and die shop near here in Saxonburg, Penna when I couldn't get work in electronics back in the mid '80s. About 2 years ago, my friend showed me CNC machines at the shop where GE made the prime movers for their latest Tier 4 diesel engines where he retired from last year. Amazing!
mike g. posted:Brian, the shop looks great! How did you move everything and keep the floor looking so good! I bet you had a good night sleep after that!
Bob, I was watching the news this morning and they said you could get more SNOW on Saturday! Sorry !
Last year we had a freak snowstorm that gave us a good inch of snow on May 15th. It is still early!!
beardog posted:randr posted:Made signs
For my granddaughter
If you can give me a mailing address, we can get you a flamingo to go with your
grandaughters flamingo frosty bar
John
randr posted:Recycled unused plasticville and accessories
the flamingo I am talking about is about 2" tall
randr posted:Recycled unused plasticville and accessories
Very nice! Great way to seed the young mind with train items first then trains! LOL
mike g. posted:Brian, the shop looks great! How did you move everything and keep the floor looking so good! I bet you had a good night sleep after that!
a lot of scrubbing where the machines once sat...
this stuff was a pain to get off the floor...
you can still see where the machines were...
I came in Easter morning and gave the floor a good mopping and send him some pictures, the floor is one of the owners pet peeves... which I found out the 1st week I started here, dropping a 12' I beam, chipping the new finished floor, he still hasn't forgotten...
I called the owner once the machine was set in place and checked out, to tell everything looked good, one of his following questions was, " how does my floor look, good ?" kinda' funny...
Well Brian, I sure hope you sent him the pictures, cause from what I can see the floors look GREAT!
Hey guys, I shot a bunch of before and afters for "show and tell" this weekend at the Modelers Retreat. There are 40 pairs in the slide show, here are a few of the most dramatic. Before was done for last year's retreat, 13 moths ago.
Here are the latest of the bluff. I worked on it all day yesterday. I ran out of already made trees from enterTRAINment, and finally found my buckets of material.
I had a huge box of already shaped Woodland Scenics armatures. I just slather contact cement on the branches, and dip them in the bucket.
Nothing like having individual trees to make a big impression. I figure there are over 100, I didn't count.
As I approached the carved section, I started using clump foliage instead of trees, hot gluing it in place.
I got that seam to almost disappear.
Still have some work to do.
Should wrap up this project Thursday, then I can start on the ground. I just picked up my last construction vehicle at the post office this morning. It was tough finding this one with the fork attachment. Got it on the bay, from a guy in the Netherlands.
Yes, some big differences Elliot! 100 trees sure don't go far, do they! But they sure look great!
Wonderful work Elliot! You got more done in a year then I ever got done on my last layout, before we moved! I hope to fallow in your footsteps with this layout as far as working on it as much as I can! Thanks for sharing!
p51 posted:I’m working on changing the “Stoney Creek Road” on the layout. It never looked right to me, and I recently read where someone made a decent looking paved/gravel road with 100-grit sandpaper. I bought some a couple of nights ago and gave it a try. I did all the work with a couple of uncut sheets of it on the table, working on it with paints and such. I think it didn’t turn out half bad, better than it is right now, anyway. Now I just need to figure out how to scrape down the existing road surface and get this cut out and then glued into place.You can sort of tell the layout of the road from the edges I drew (wider than I think I'll need, just in case). The bottom right corner on the right sheet is to cover a corner right up to the grade crossing this road spans. It was just short a tiny bit for the one sheet to cover the longer of the two segments. I also put in lines from cars turning out of the driveway to a depot as well. I wanted to not to have to do much of anything else other than gluing it down and getting the edges matched to the rest of the layout (which I assume will be the hard part).
Looks good Lee! Please keep us posted on how you get the old road out and some pictures of the new road in place!
p51 posted:I’m working on changing the “Stoney Creek Road” on the layout. It never looked right to me, and I recently read where someone made a decent looking paved/gravel road with 100-grit sandpaper. I bought some a couple of nights ago and gave it a try. I did all the work with a couple of uncut sheets of it on the table, working on it with paints and such. I think it didn’t turn out half bad, better than it is right now, anyway. Now I just need to figure out how to scrape down the existing road surface and get this cut out and then glued into place.You can sort of tell the layout of the road from the edges I drew (wider than I think I'll need, just in case). The bottom right corner on the right sheet is to cover a corner right up to the grade crossing this road spans. It was just short a tiny bit for the one sheet to cover the longer of the two segments. I also put in lines from cars turning out of the driveway to a depot as well. I wanted to not to have to do much of anything else other than gluing it down and getting the edges matched to the rest of the layout (which I assume will be the hard part).
I used 3M non-skid material that is used on stairs. It has a very sticky backing that settles down nicely. It can be painted to represent the age of the road. The material is black so I applied a coat of a grey-black paint. After that I dusted a grey chalk over the road to the degree that I felt I was looking for.
The Two Percent Tunnel is complete at the JRM Museum in Springdale!
https://ogrforum.com/...e-two-percent-tunnel
Mitch
Ran trains with the 4 yr old twins again. they sure have a lot fun, give each one a DCS remote 
and the only accidents where caused by me 
Of course three trains on one loop is alway fun
Been busy installing barb wire..........
Lee and Howard, the roads look great!
Watching Mitch's trolley on the linked topic was great!!
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