Layout design
Pacific Fruit Express adjoining buildings. what else was there?
Great article this month got me thinking about how I want to create my layout. I have an icing house and line and wondered what other buildings were beside it. Sure, the office and maybe a shack, but what else was in the yard next to the icing ramps and line? Car repair shed? What would that look like? I'm going with a southern California theme so it will have to work with that. Anyone have any ideas what to add to make the module look authentic?
Suggestions please.
Thanks.
Yard curved ladder - track/turnout radius?
Hi Folks,
I'm trying to work out the turnout size that will work for a curved ladder on a 5 track double ended yard. My basic question is what frog and radius would work for the following yard:
- HO, modern era (must handle autoracks), 30" min radius, fast tracks turnouts.
- rectangular room (26'x12.5'), yard is along top long wall with curved ladder starting on the right short wall (90 degree corner) curving left into the yard. Yard table width is 24", side leg is 13.5".
New Athearn southern pacific SD45's can you convert them to SD45T-2's ?
I'm looking for some Southern Pacific SD45T-2's. Looks like I missed the Athearn run a few years ago. They're running a new batch of SD45's and I've ordered a pair. Just curious if I can covert these to SD45T-2's? I've seen a kit online awhile ago that had the vent panels. Has anyone done this before? How easy will it be? Cut away the shell and insert the grates? I don't want to ruin my investment by cutting the shell only to find out the vent part won't fit properly.
Suggestions?
Richlawn RR V2 - see the original post on Coving the Corners
I've combined what was in this post to the first post.
Richlawn RR V2 - Love them curves! - Coving the Corners - no cracks!
**** UPDATE 10-2-18 *****
It's been over five years since I installed my coved corners using Charlie Comstock's styrene method and still no cracks - not even one! Also, no rust!
**** UPDATE 4-18-17
It's been over four years since I installed my coved corners using Charlie Comstock's styrene method and still no cracks - not even one!
**** UPDATE 7-18-14 ****
Designing the Tidewater Southern
Like I mentioned in my first entry, I had a design for a 25’x25’ double decked layout, featuring not only the entire TS run from Stockton to Turlock (excluding the Manteca Branch) but SP as well. It was a cool “mushroom design” and I’m still convinced that it would work – given the space of course. However, this is the space I ended up with:
Small railroad prototype
Because the subject of small layouts is recycled so often, here's an example I ran across today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_railway
The Tidewater Southern
Recently, I was paid a bit of a complement. I was told that "not many people do what you do", in reference to my choice of prototype that I model. That's a bit of a double edged complement though. On the one hand, hey, cool, I'm doing something fairly unique, and on the other hand, well, jeez...is there anyone else that does what I do? So I figured I'd write a bit about it, since I also enjoy writing, and maybe, just maybe, someone out there is interested in this as well.
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