This is my own personal layout and not a club layout. Thanks, Era is 1955 and it is proto-freelanced.

Bob Helm

Status Report

Benchwork: 95% complete

Tracklaying: 30% complete

Wiring: 10% complete

Scenery: 5% complete

I've done a bit more work on the layout - here are a couple of pictures:

Hello. A question about grain of wheat bulbs. I have a small mining tunnel that would accept a grain of wheat bulb for interior lighting of the tunnel. Never have used these bulbs before; but know they will take a very small current. I want to hook them up to the Accessory terminal of my power pack and use, for the time being, a Atlas slide switch to turn the bulb on and off. I recognize that it would literally be on for just a second or for however long I hold the slide switch down, but that is really for testing purposes.

overall view of builders express on my peavine sub layout. the prototype is locate at the intersection of grand ave & n. 35th ave, glendale az..

office, storage shed & large lumber shad

My Uncle sent me this link.  $2,000-$3,000...yikes.  Boy, is this an exciting time to be alive!!!

http://www.wired.com/design/2012/09/how-makerbots-replicator2-will-launch-era-of-desktop-manufacturing/all/

The test model that I ordered from Shapeways arrived yesterday.  Note the white object inside the shell, that is a block of foamcore.  The walls are so thin that the material flexes, the foamcore is a press-fit and keeps the walls from bowing inward.

I now have the basic electrics worked out and wired up for the fiddle yard.

The plan was to integrate a programming track into the wiring via a switch.

I use copper tape as my main bus which works very well as you can pick up on it very easily. On the odd occasion (not here but you will see it on the main board) you have to cross one tape over another. For this I use some wide shrink wrap (not shrunk). In the photo below, you can see the underneath of the board.
 

It seems only natural for parents to try and influence the decisions of their children. As children, we reach a point where we usually consider our parents to be… well, lets just say, ‘less than intelligent.’ At that time in our lives, we know EVERYTHING, and are vociferously open about it! By the time we reach our early twenties, we discover that our parents, perhaps learning from our example, became pretty darned intelligent in just a few short years! Thus is the case, I believe, with model railroading.

I had a go at shooting some video of me carving foam rocks.

Enjoy