On a related note to Mr Powers excellent work, he mentions acquiring plans for the station from someone, but I cannot find the name.

The reason is, I am stuck down here in New Orleans working as Engineer and I need HO scale plans for the Huey P. Long bridge.

I have checked with the New Orleans Public Belt  and they do not have any thing that is usable.

I do plan to take digital photo's as I take trains over the bridge.

So If any one knows if plans exist and where to get them I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

Doug Hatman

7hr 23min and about 10 sec away from needing a lithium with a thorazine chaser. It ain't pretty. 

These movie was made during the FREMO Meeting at Hanau. It was the last train with modern equipment during the meeting, and so we decided  to run a Departmental Train, which could be used for dismantling the track.

Markus

It's been a few days short of a year that I ceased being a member of the HO scale fraternity and undertook the challenges of modeling in N scale. Progress has been slow, but the time has come to share with you what I've managed to accomplish thus far.

Isaac Asimov once had a chemistry student tell him that they had repeated an experiment five times and each time it resulted in a failure to produce the desired results.  Asimov's response was, 'did you follow the same sequence each time," the student said, "yes," to which he replied "Why?"

Have any of you guys ever seen this man's modeling?

His name is Cliff Powers and he models New Orleans in most spectacular detail.

Here is the web link,

http://magnoliaroute.com/magnolia%20route.htm

Enjoy

Doug Hatman

I grew up in Louisville, Ky in a little 6th class city called "Richlawn" (thus the name of my model railroad).  My last visit home I took many pictures of my boyhood home (with the owners's permission & blessing) and now I plan on constructiing a scratch build of the home & garage.  Here's the front of the home as it appears today:

Here's some detail on a closeup of the front porch area:

I volunteer for the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway http://brscenic.com/ as a car host and on a recent trip to McCaysville / CopperHill, TN I was looking at an old building in town that had some windows that had been bricked in.  Here's a photo of the building:

I just finished putting together a Tichy water column. I've never done a water column before and the directions are best described as 'sketchy', but after studying them for a while and making a trip to the LHS for a #80 drill bit it went together without too much difficulty. I tried mixing India ink and alchol, Polyscale roof brown, Polyscale boxcar red, and a Floquil rust pen to wether the concrete pad. I also used some acryllic gloss medium on the pad in an attempt to simulate water (but it's pretty hard to see that effect)

Anyway, here is the result

You're probably thinking that I am cranking out freight cars at warp speed, but most of these projects have been in various stages of completion for several years.  Recently I decided to clear out the workshop and get current with my various projects.  Last year I finished and painted all of these cars, and this year I decaled them and am now in the weathering and finishing touches stages.  Here's the latest: