What did you do on your layout today?

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

 

Norma Bates Kitteh, on the other hand,  was sublimely uninterested in the subject. 

Mitch 

Talk about photogenic!  Norma knows just when to squint before the flash.  " I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMitch." Purrrrrfect!

Bruce

Impressive list of projects Bruce. Very nice

Bob

Bruce, Your improvements make all of those models look great!!

Thanks Gents!

All this 2 rail activity is a bit worrisome.  Thank goodness I have no room for 2 rail curves.

Bruce

All I did to my layout today was to run trains on it!

Making bridge piers from bass wood.

romiller49 posted:

Making bridge piers from bass wood.

Great craftsmanship.......

Rod, I can't say it better than Dave said it!

Everything looking good. Going back to work tomorrow and try the work bench and layout this weekend. 

Slowhands posted:

Thanks for the reminder! I had read about that back in April or May when we first got the tender. The tether clip on the tender is missing, so I do have to either try to find one or get creative.

You mean the tether plug?  Here are some happy snaps I just took:

Seems to be a stock electronic item to me.   Keep us posted!   

brwebster posted:

Talk about photogenic!  Norma knows just when to squint before the flash.  " I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMitch." Purrrrrfect!

Norma's an old hand when cameras are about.  She knows to close her eyes when the funny looking thing with one eye is aimed at her...  ;-) 

Mitch 

Lee

Much success by going back to work. Would have been surprised you could drive after such a procedure.

enjoyed your progress with the assembly and paint of your freight cars

Rod, 

nice work

 

John d.

Bruce, Now there is some great work! I am not into Steam Engines, but I do have to say what you have there looks wonderful!

Rod, the piers looks store bought!~ Great work on them! Did you also build the bridge? It's really a nice looking setup!

 

Thanks John Well I thought I was going back to work until I put my boots on and tried walking to the chicken house to get the eggs I was in so much pain looks like I’m staying home tomorrow with the foot propped up. I guess I might as well face it  I need to take it easy a few more days. 

Rod I really like that pier great work

romiller49 posted:

Making bridge piers from bass wood.

That looks great. I don't have the skills to scratch build something like that.

Take a few more days Lee!  Get well!

I did some switching with my railking locosound mountain type.Maybe not the best sounding but you can not beat it for its pulling power.

seaboardm2 posted:

I did some switching with my railking locosound mountain type.Maybe not the best sounding but you can not beat it for its pulling power.

Locosound always bemused me a bit in RailKing trolleys.  One simply does not expect a diesel engine and horn in a PCC...  

Hopefully,  the Mountain has something vaguely approximating a steam engine sound?  ^.^ 

Mitch 

New Under The Hood up! 

https://ogrforum.com/...04-wabash-cannonball

Naturally,  Norma gets into the act...

Mitch 

Mitch,  It is good to see someone up at this early morning, 3:48 A.M.  Norma looks happy playing with her trains.  My cat, Nutmeg,  loved to lay by the track and watch the train pass by.  Is Norma a TCA member yet?  TCA could use new members.

Have a good night.  OGR Forum is the purr-fect cure for insomnia.  I am going back to bed.

Sincerely, John Rowlen

TCA?  Train Cats of America?  

Mitch 

I filled a side dump pipe/log car , 4 gondolas, and 4 hoppers with a load of free "coal" a pal dropped off. Made for some kind of medical filtering filling. It's as hard as a rock. I can't cut it in side small cutters Forklift accidents spill a bunch often and he grabbed a big lunch bags worth seeing a potential. Im thinking it may be candidate for conveyors, etc. I haven't dumped the side dumper yet but the "hollow bead/micro licorice" coal seems very tameable at this point. Not too heavy, it makes a nice load. It I've got about 4lbs left to play with. 

Adriatic posted:

I filled a side dump pipe/log car , 4 gondolas, and 4 hoppers with a load of free "coal" a pal dropped off. Made for some kind of medical filtering filling. It's as hard as a rock. I can't cut it in side small cutters Forklift accidents spill a bunch often and he grabbed a big lunch bags worth seeing a potential. Im thinking it may be candidate for conveyors, etc. I haven't dumped the side dumper yet but the "hollow bead/micro licorice" coal seems very tameable at this point. Not too heavy, it makes a nice load. It I've got about 4lbs left to play with. 

Adriatic,

Very nice!  Looks like a similar material I used many moons ago to make fishtank filters.  Back before there were drop in packs, you packed your own with charcoal and cotton.

Thanks everyone for the kind words and likes! We are excited to grow our family.  This is our first.  I'm sure many of you can imagine what we're going through.  I'm excited to have a train and LEGO buddy!

romiller49 posted:

Making bridge piers from bass wood.

Ron:  Nice!  Basswood is really strong stuff.  I use it for the uprights and roadbed.  I use balsa for the stringers and x-braces.  Wish I had room to use your idea of extending it outward.

I wanted this to be done in Santa Fe colors.

Jerry

Adriatic, the loads look great! Sure is a nice gift from a friend!

John D. Your going to have so much fun! Just remember now you have to split your train time for diaper time! LOL

Jerry your uprights turned out looking great! Also what a wonderful layout!

It's likely the same product as fish tank filter material, but medical grade. Kinda uniform, but doesn't have little bits to jam in crevices. If it akes paint, maybe good for ballast...? If someone wants to do a coal loader trial let me know.

Slowhands posted:

Thanks for the reminder! I had read about that back in April or May when we first got the tender. The tether clip on the tender is missing, so I do have to either try to find one or get creative.

Found the part you need:  

Per Lionel:

6908102T61

TETHER / TENDER / 3-POS / SOUND OF STEAM

$3.00

Available from North Lima Trainworks

Mitch 

Last night this Atlas beauty was finally resurrected:

When I got her, USPS had given her a makeover via kicks and punches. I was able to source all the parts I needed to cosmetically fix the unit. When I did, I tested her for a bit and after a while, it would just randomly take off while running. I damaged a few premium rolling stock that day and learned to test units with nothing else on the track. Reluctantly, I took her back to my bench vs selling it and moving on because I just LOVE this engine too much to just give it up. After searching for days I stumbled apon a few possible issues and fixes which included cleaning and checking the tach sensor and adjusting it's distance. I also went over ever single wire to make sure they were all correct, they were.

Well, I went to go test her again, this time on an empty layout as to avoid casualties lol and she performed great except now the smoke unit quit working, fan would blow but no smoke. I could see the light at the end of the tunnel but I wasn't quite there yet. Long story short, she came back to the bench, this time for like two months as the documentation available for EOB and the TAS Smoke unit are hard to come by. I did managed to track down a few bad solder joints on the smoke control board.

Well, I am glad to say that from the fiery ashes, this engine lives to see another day (or in this case, hopefully many years).

I learned a lot in the process and got advice from countless people in this forum, I could not have done it without them.

Thanks!

My continuing saga of LED passenger car lighting...

Completed a vista dome car this afternoon which leaves me with five cars left to do not including the observation car that donated its  good trucks.  Here’s a shot of the vista dome car and baggage car of the same set.

 

Larry

Mitch, Norma looks like she is playing stare down!

Adriatic, The loads look good!

Jerry, your upper levels supports look great!

Daniel, You made a huge disaster come together great!  The UP Diesel looks great!

Larry, The cars look great with the lights.  I have the LEDs and drivers from GunrunnerJohn.  I will need to jump on the relighting bandwagon someday!

Hi Guys, some great work today! Daniel and Larry, you guys have done wonderful work! You might want to take tomorrow off and rest! You don't want to over do it this early in the winter season! LOL

 

 

Thanks for the nice comments, Mark and Mike.                                    Three of the five cars I have left to do are vista domes.  They are more time consuming to do since the strip of LEDs has to be cut into short sections and then wires are soldered to the strips to connect the sections together.  

Larry

Today it was raining on and off most of the day, so we had to play in the train room. The grandchildren ran several LionChief Plus locomotives. Today’s play time was with the Lionel's Lantern Caboose.  This caboose has the conductor that comes out & waves his lantern.

Then we made cupcakes that look like billiard balls in the diamond rack from my pool table.

All photos shot with an iPhone 7 Plus. 

Gary: In the Train Room with my junior engineers.

Haven't done anything yet.  Will be attending the S. Maine Hi-Railers show in Rochester NH this morning with an HO buddy.  It's about an hour's drive, but with this rain, we may need a canoe.  This show for me is the best for my needs of the half dozen or so that I go to each year.  Not too big, not too small, JUST RIGHT!

Listening to  Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to get ready.  Taking my wife to the movie next week.  "We are the Champions."

 Red Sox/Yankees rivalry is GREAT.  The 2 best teams in baseball.  Sorry if anyone is offended.

I woke up.  At my age that is a major event.  Got to go get breakfast and other stuff.  When I get back I will work on it.  Now where did I put that train layout?

Sincerely, John Rowlen

@Mark Boyce - Happy Birthday! 

@M. Mitchell Marmel - check this out. A food trolley! At a market on the Pier in Philly

John D. posted:

@Mark Boyce - Happy Birthday! 

What John said!   

@M. Mitchell Marmel - check this out. A food trolley! At a market on the Pier in Philly

Yes, but do they do cheesesteaks? 

Mitch 

M. Mitchell Marmel posted

@M. Mitchell Marmel - check this out. A food trolley! At a market on the Pier in Philly

Yes, but do they do cheesesteaks? 

Mitch 

There were three. One was deli sandwiches,  one was Indonesian food, and one is ice cream. So I guess no cheesesteaks.

Did somebody say Cheesecakes ?

jgtrh62 posted:

That's a really good looking model Daniel, great job on putting Humpty Dumpty back together again! 

Seconded!  Attaboy,  Daniel! 

Mitch