What did you do on your layout today?

 

best i could do.  it crushes the picture.  see it in the photo album, it works there

 

 

Bob the layout it looking really good!!

Dare I ask why?

Chris D

You are right but every time I do a field day clean up I can't find anything so the heck with it. I have just about got used to it.

Larry Sr.

Larry

Larry Sr. The problem with field days with the layout is you never can get people for the working party. Nate

Lots of progress today. Almost a full turn of decking completed. This is where it gets interesting with two switches that will form a wye allowing trains to go up or down.



First floor, Union Pacific to Omaha, Des Moines and Milwaukee.



I'm going to have to cut away part of the joist to get the track through.

Thanks for the inspiration guys! Today, I finally got to a couple of projects on my winter list. First, I disassembled, cleaned & returned a broken 151 semaphore to operational status. I managed to find the missing lamp housing in a lot of junk parts on the 'Bay & now she's ready to go on the old TA & TL Lines. 

 

I work at a music venue & due to the shows we've booked, I've worked 13 out of the last 14 days. Taking advantage of my 1st day off in a long while, I felt inspired to keep the momentum going. I'm pretty passionate about Postwar Lionel Aluminum Passenger Cars, & I dug out a solid 2561 body I snagged a couple of weeks back. Pulling from the parts drawer (or in my case the parts tupperware under our bed,) I went from clean shell to fully assembled circa '59 "Super Chief" beauty in about an hour. I have the '52 Super Speedliner & '57 CP set complete & on display & I'm pretty close to completing the '62 - '66 Presidential series. Tonight, I'm one step closer to a complete Santa Fe red striped set. 

 

Its back to work tomorrow, but we'll see what the weekend holds - and by weekend, I mean Sunday & Tuesday.

 

I made some Triple Crown sample decals with my sign making software & cutter to test fit for 10 trailers I need to paint white and decal. The crowns will be red on proto trailers eh

Hello everyone.Well Yesterday I ran to wallmart to pick up some vasoline,mineral spirits,1" paint brushes,wax paper,disposable cups,rubber gloves,fiberglass window screening,masking tape, a new glue gun,glue sticks,some X-acto knifes,acrylic paints,And miss crafting items.

 Then I orderd some Items from   www.bragonet.com  some latex rock molds. Black shadow.  powdered black tempera paint,acrylic gesso.  And it was shiped the same day. So I'd say I'll have it by saturday.

Crawled around under the layout all day putting in the "third screw" in the risers so the roadbed won't sink when we crawl on it to paint and lay the track in the engine terminal.  My back arms and shoulders are reminding me a day of drilling and screwing isn't for the oldsters!  Where is that grandkid when you need one!

Finished wiring three of twelve switches to complete the electrical portion of my layout. Only nine more to go. After almost a month of crawling around under the layout, I should be done in a couple of days. But, I may have to order some more wire to finish the wiring. I have been running some of my locomotives around the outer loop in the meantime to give me a break.

I moved some trains around in preparation for picking up my new MTH Imperial PS3 B&O 0-6-0 switcher tomorrow. I also tested my MTH Railking Imperial K4, back from repair. 

Painted some track, and then painted some more track!

mixed up paints and started painting my Pond and picked up mod podge to do it all up

. . . alas . . . sigh . . . I am still in Florida and am yearning for my layout now.  Would that I could just have Scotty beam me up, back and forth.

.....

Dennis

mixng paint is crazy, a dark green with white then some yellow and tan.  then hit some grey in there.

Back around September, I started working on a smoke fluid storage and tank car loading facility...

 

 

 

Well I've finally been painting it all.  Here are the two upper level tanks after paint and decals were applied...

 

 

I have been out of town the last few days so nothing done on the layout.  Got home last night and ran trains for the kids for a few minutes before bed.

 

This morning I got up early and hooked up my legacy system that got back from Lionel's Warranty Repair last week.  They replaced my CAB 2 and fixed the charging system on my legacy base.  

 

I also ran my new Atlas O 0-6-0 that I purchased off the forum last week.  It was the 2st time out of the box and it is a very nice and detailed locomotive.  It needs a bit of weight in the tender as it is very light weight, but otherwise it ran well and smoked well.  Sounds aren't up to par as my legacy locomotives but it is the perfect size for my running.  It will be repainted to represent my Michigan and Great  Lakes RR soon.  

 

This weekend I will have 2 project locomotives finished repainted for a friend and hope to ge them back to him on Monday.

 

 

Built the shelf (rack) holding the (4) ZW's with built in resetable circuit breakers and TVS (transient voltage suppressors) as recommended here on the forum...  

 

Also wired the 5 taps I am going to use with 12 Gauge Stranded wire got everything in phase....  

Was working on the helix last night, and managed to get a nasty scrape on my leg when I climbed out. Took a while to get the bleeding to stop. New rule: crawl under from now on. As much as I hate it, it's safer. I've now given blood and broken bones to this layout. Never give up never surrender!

 

Heading back down in a little while. Lots to do before Tuesday when Patrick comes over. 

I put a huge slice into the top of a knuckle on my index finger a few weeks ago with a big razor knife while cutting some foam.  I should have gone for stitches but didn't.  I will have a nasty scar there to show that I gave blood while working on the railroad.  I agree though never Surrender!

Ordered a bunch of new track. Now to figure out the best (quietest) roadbed material to put underneath it.

I have cork under mine, however, I have Lionel 027 tube track. It works really well. I'm not sure of the best way to quiet Lionel FasTrack if that is what you bought.

Making rock molds. Boy do they dry fast here. Don

 After My nine day train ride seeing a lot of wooden trestles I started on mine again.I hope to have all the uprights in today. the cross members tomorrow.

Ran trains, ordered diodes and thermistors for new Williams locos.  Also pre-ordered the CN FT set.  And a little wiring under the layout.

I mixed up some plaster of Paris to make some rock molds got a phone call and came back to a bucket of solid rock.

I just got done replacing a Legacy RS board in my ten wheeler that Lionel had shipped to me last week.  Sounds great now! I do wish I would have though ahead and ordered the NYC sound version instead since I like the whistle in that one much better.  

I put ground cover on my tunnel ,going for the mid fall look .

Sorting throught the accumulated mess, threw some old shipping boxes away, found a few stashed items and oiled & ran my new Lionel UP FEF-3 that I bought through the forum this week. What a great looking engine, had the Grey version a few years back, but much prefer this black one.

Dusted it .I worked on it 3 days this week. Looks real nice now. The wife helped also.

Spent five and a half hours plugging away on the helix this afternoon. I'm just not as fast as I used to be.

Here's what I did yesterday...









Today I added 6 more sections to the helix. It takes 16 sections to make a full circle.

Cut and fitted some plywood for my elevated loop, sanding and paint tomorrow

Worked on some whisker tracks on my new Ross Turntable & did a little scenery work.

Building Two 40' harriman RPO's from Southern Car and Foundary

I might start putting down some of the 200 lb of ballest.

 

...keep the rails polished...

SJC

That looks like a lot more fun than WORK!

Larry, some fun involved, but mostly work (on the 2 foot gauge train in the last picture). 

I finally finished my plaster Roundhouse.