It’s been awhile since I posted an update but now getting near “pulling the switch” for the first time.  Joints of my track have been soldered and I have almost completed placing the 18 gauge feeder wires.  Probably a little overkill towards flawless running but have feeders to each separate track section and my locomotives will have current keepers installed. 

Hopefully I will have enough time this Christmas break to run the bus lines, connect the wiring, and performing a test run.  
 

Joe

With less than a week away from my big push to complete the mainline on my Cascade Sub, I wanted to share some outlets for following along with the progress on this and future projects. Daily updates will be posted on the railroad's new Facebook page: @upcascadesub while a more complete update and projects overviews will continue to be posted on the MRH blog and on the railroad's blogspot page (upcascadesub.blogspot.com). 

Here is a little update on my Layout , i have named the Louisville & Northern , Based on a branch division somewhere in Central /southern Indiana and Northern KY area. 

here is a few pics of the viaduct  as it is right now, i used Aluminum Square tube  and flat bar, next step is to add the details to give it the Iron plate style appearance hopefully i will have a few viaduct towers to add underneath, before painting 

it also is a left hinged  lift up for  when i dont feel like ducking under

Hello,

today I uploaded the December Update to Youtube. During the last few months not much happend to my modelrailroad projects. But last October some friends and I spend a weekend in Berlin to built about 20 curved modules to FREMO N-RE standards. After these I spend a few days in the Harz Mountain region and took a trip on the HSB (Harzer Schmalspurbahn) from Gernrode to Wernigerode and back.

 It’s Bears verses Packers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Check out the Atlantic and Great Western’s Shipper Special to the Frozen Tundra.

For those of you who have been following along with my “Scratch building a Trolley Snow Plow” blog entry, this project is not, in fact, directly related. Think of it more as a little side project. Wheras the other blog deals with the project of building an entire double truck Wason snow plow, this blog is going to focus on a single trolley truck, for another car. Stay tuned...

Well printing and assembling the ADM elevator has been a time consuming process. So far I have created drawings for 175 individual objects which were all printed on a 3D printer. Although the elevator is not a faithful reproduction of the prototype it is close to it. I found that trying to reproduce all of the detail was near impossible.

Trying to build something this complex has been a real learning experience, I have found a lot of ways to not do something. If I were to do it again there are features of the model I would do differently.

There's more to come. Plan on having another individual one for the staging yard. These will be printed on regular 5X9 paper and a copy given to each yard or road crew as appropriate. Note this will also be in addition to basic physical track diagrams on the fascia.

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