How do you weather ballast?

  Since I am intending these trees for my FreemoN module, I think that they should all be of the "foreground" quality.  I also intend on modeling at least one section of the module to include a woodsy hill.  The edges of the module will "slice" through the woods and spectators will be able to see a fully modeled understory.  At least that is what I am planning, reality and my skills my have other things in store for me.

When we last left our intrepid modeling family, the fictional histories of the two pikes had been completed up to The Great War, and a major change of venue had been decided upon. Now, on with our story.

This is a video of Conway Scenic Railroad Gp7 pulling Steam locomotive #7470  before it heads back to North Conway under Her own power on the return trip.

Here's the link,Feel free to comment..

http://youtu.be/ejb7zamdHtE

Yesterday was the "Steam in the Snow" event at the Conway Scenic Railroad. I followed the train and shot some pretty good video along the route. There was quite a large crowd following along as well. It was a pretty nice Day for chasing Trains in the mountains.Here's a photo

Here's the video.
http://youtu.be/cOT7pQQSGKo

In this blog entry, I correct some mistakes and then start to take a look at schedules and custom loads.

My previous blog postings on this are: part 1, part 2 and part 3.

As always, I am indebted to the folks at JMRI for producing such a great, free program. You can find the JMRI web site here.

-david-

trying out how much a 6 truck articulated car with a 5" long payload would swing out:

Radius is only about 15", maybe a bit smaller, and even then it swings out less than an inch.

But if an inch proves too much it's fun to hook up the two units close together and just haul it to another job :-)

cheers, Leo