geysergazer posted:
Thanks Lew for sharing this great project. I have an extra LED and with the help of your pics, I now have a use for it. Great idea!! It's on my punch list of things to do!
Cheers, Dave
paul 2 posted:Lou, engine house came out looking very good.
Lew, that was a nifty idea to add the light to show when the magnet was on.
Paint dried on the supports but I decided to darken them some more. Then while I was moving the building the loading dock popped off. That's what I get for being stingy with the glue. After that dried I added the roof above the loading dock. The kit doesn't come with stairs so I made up a set to go on the one side along with railings. Maybe after dinner I'll glue the stairs and railings together........Pics...........Paul 2
Paul. The building looking a very nice. 🤝
Johan
I added more green around the layout.
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Lou1985 posted:I got the engine house on the layout and sceniced around it. I copied another forum member's idea and covered the engine house with Glad Press 'N' Seal so I could glue everything down around it and still be able to remove the engine house from the layout. It'll look sunk into the scene that way. Once everything dries in a day or two I'll wire the lights in, paint the rails leading into the engine house rail brown, and it'll be done, except for details.
That engine house is real fine, I might use the idea of the Glad Press "N' Seal in the future
Marty R, now, THAT is a serious Christmas layout! Well done. Love to see a video of it in operation.
Jerry
Everyone seems to be in the holiday spirit with some great pictures of their creations. RickA1, it’s really cool to see new bench work in the making and yours looks fine. Your basement is very nice and when the trains are up and running, no one’s going to look at the basement, but your trains. Nice work. COASTLINEKEVIN, your layout is looking good, your scenic effects are cool, also your weathering technics are nice. Keep posting pictures. KeithScoskie122018, Wow, Nice Table work, Nice trackwork send more pictures, Marty R, Nice floor layout, wide sweeping curves with great bridge work. Merry Christmas, Wow.
I know Mike G is busy with other duties as I have been away for a few months to. Sometimes home care, York, and basement disasters just take up our time, as they say It Happens. Either way, today we worked in the layout, changed TPC’s to the new Lionel 360 watt PowerMasters. I wish everyone here on the forum a very Merry Christmas and a Fantastic 2020....
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Dan, I’ll be connecting the ends with a loop using the graduated trestle set. Along the long side of the platform it runs just inside the ground level track
Rails rusted, lights on, locomotives parked. Still need to build an elevated platform for one side of the building but it's serviceable as is. Just some detail work left.
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I am sorry to say it, there was an ooops! on the layout.
Everything came to a sudden stop, evidently the tunnel entrance shrunk since I last used it.
At least it proves the prototype couplings held up on the Atlas F Units with that nasty stop.
Someones going to pay for this!
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Oh oh! I’m glad the Atlas couplers held.
Ruh Roh, Ray 
. Im glad to see only minor damage done. I remember a recent discussion here about 'stupid' truck drivers getting their rigs stuck under overpasses. 
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tunnel entrance had to have shrunk, that's my story and I'm stick'in to it. Maybe they should have let some air out of the tires.
BAR GP7 #63 posted:
What a nice scene!
sidehack posted:I am sorry to say it, there was an ooops! on the layout.
Everything came to a sudden stop, evidently the tunnel entrance shrunk since I last used it.
At least it proves the prototype couplings held up on the Atlas F Units with that nasty stop.
Someones going to pay for this!
you could just make them, "chopped top Mercs"...
sidehack posted:I am sorry to say it, there was an ooops! on the layout.
Everything came to a sudden stop, evidently the tunnel entrance shrunk since I last used it.
At least it proves the prototype couplings held up on the Atlas F Units with that nasty stop.
Someones going to pay for this!
Great job, Sidehack. The roof scratches on the automobile look very prototypical.
I like the guy assessing the damage in the last pic too.
Ray, Great photo story of a mishap including the assessment man in the end!
Made some more progress on my restoration project ( click here )
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sidehack posted:I am sorry to say it, there was an ooops! on the layout.
Everything came to a sudden stop, evidently the tunnel entrance shrunk since I last used it.
At least it proves the prototype couplings held up on the Atlas F Units with that nasty stop.
HEE HEE !
a slight mishap AHAHAHA, guess the limit switch wasn't working
sidehack posted:I am sorry to say it, there was an ooops! on the layout.
Everything came to a sudden stop, evidently the tunnel entrance shrunk since I last used it.
At least it proves the prototype couplings held up on the Atlas F Units with that nasty stop.
Someones going to pay for this!
REMEDY...
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Brian, you have everything!!
Johan, great pics. And you're doing a excellant job of redoing the scenery on the layout.
Marty R, that is one nice Christmas layout, So good I don't think you shpould tear it down after Christmas.
Well today I had hoped to put some long hours into the layout but the wife decided she wanted to do some last minute, fight the crowds Christmas shopping. So all I managed to get done today was put the stairs and railings together. Tomorrow I have to figure out what colors I will do the stairs in. Pics..................Paul 2
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Hi guys, Its been a while since my last post. I have been busy working on the house. But last night we had Christmas for the kids and Grand kids as we have to work at the store on Christmas.
My lovely wife was nice enough to let me work in the train room today so I got a little done. I moved my track closer together and I add a siding up front for the crane so it would be closer for the grandkids to see when playing with it! While I was at it I also added a second siding for extra empty cars waiting to get loaded by the crane. Did some test runs and found some dead spots. They will have to wait till my next free day to work in the train room. Here are a couple photos!
You all have been doing such great work! Paul, Mark, Lou, Lew, Larry, Brian, Johan, Bob, Ray, and everyone else I sure hope you all have a great Christmas and if I don't post before a happy New Years!
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Mike, is that a siding for your Gantry Crane? 
And Merry Christmas!
geysergazer posted:Mike, is that a siding for your Gantry Crane?
And Merry Christmas!
Hi Lee, the first siding is for the crane and the second one is for the waiting empties! You can see the crane at the end of the tack in the 3rd photo.
Mike, got it! Nice! I think that will work beautifully.
Nice work, Mike!!! I’m glad you got some layout time, but it must have been great seeing your family!!
Brian, that would be a much safer way to transport on my layout and a great looking boxcar
Started construction on a Western Railcraft Colorado Midland boxcar kit.. I have a C.M. gondola and one of their Hanrahan double door reefers, so all l need for train for Cripple Creek is a C.M. side door caboose and one of their locos....which last has been done in two rail brass...
geysergazer posted:Mike, got it! Nice! I think that will work beautifully.
Lew, it was your wonderful idea. I also think it will work nicely!
Mark, it was nice to see the family and get a break from the trusses. But what was really nice was to get some train room time. I am working on the wife to let me have Sunday train room time. Lol
Mike, when football winds down, trade it for train room time
BAR GP7 #63 posted:
I really enjoy your work!
leapinlarry posted:Everyone seems to be in the holiday spirit with some great pictures of their creations. RickA1, it’s really cool to see new bench work in the making and yours looks fine. Your basement is very nice and when the trains are up and running, no one’s going to look at the basement, but your trains. Nice work. COASTLINEKEVIN, your layout is looking good, your scenic effects are cool, also your weathering technics are nice. Keep posting pictures. KeithScoskie122018, Wow, Nice Table work, Nice trackwork send more pictures, Marty R, Nice floor layout, wide sweeping curves with great bridge work. Merry Christmas, Wow.
I know Mike G is busy with other duties as I have been away for a few months to. Sometimes home care, York, and basement disasters just take up our time, as they say It Happens. Either way, today we worked in the layout, changed TPC’s to the new Lionel 360 watt PowerMasters. I wish everyone here on the forum a very Merry Christmas and a Fantastic 2020....
Merry Christmas to you too, Larry. A GG1 and a Big Boy... doesn’t get much better than that!!!
Had an interesting message waiting for me after playing Santa at the A&M the other day. Gerry, a chum of mine and local prewar Lionel expert, needed a transformer for a prewar set he was gifting to a relative. I, priding myself on being adequately stocked with backup transformers for just such emergencies, fixed Gerry up with a 1034 and an LW. In return, my prewar consist now has date-appropriate motive power, as Norma Bates Kitteh is proud to demonstrate:
A demonstration that prewar trains can, in fact, handle O27 switches:
After I turned off the power, Norma was still patiently sitting there waiting for Trains, so I had to oblige her...
Mitch
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That's a great trade Mitch. Even got it in Razorback Red
I see Norma is up to her usual high-jinx 
Bob
RSJB18 posted:That's a great trade Mitch. Even got it in Razorback Red
Yup! I'm mulling over either painting the consist to match or finding a nice Peacock 248 shell...
I see Norma is up to her usual high-jinx
But of course!
Mitch
Mitch - nice pick on the 248. I do miss that modern NH (New Hampshire) engine. Amazing even when the train hits the kitten, she takes it in stride.
Very good deal, Mitch! I too am amazed at how Norma stays close, too close to the track, but doesn’t mind!
