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Looking for suggestions!

Thu, 2020-07-23 05:35 — Roger Litwiller

This is my first attempt at designing a control panel. Looking for feedback on design, layout and functionality.

SCL =Standard Car Length.

The printed card will be covered with plexiglass. The mainline crossover turnouts (1 & 6) will be wired to a single switch to throw both turnouts together.

I am a big user of images found online for my modeling. I am in search of roll on/off dumpsters that look like they have been used. Do you have any pictures to share. I am trying to weather 6 of Walthers green dumpsters and have been unable to find used pictures on line either via Google or DuckDuckGo.com searching. Most of what I have found seem to be publicity shots. Looking for real world stuff. Thanks. Tom

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removable industrial switching area over hidden class yard lead?

Mon, 2020-07-20 07:05 — Highlandsoft

I cruised the forums and didn't find much relevant to this, so a few thoughts from y'all would be helpful.

I have room to add a several track active classification yard, about 8' long. Conventional wisdom would have an 8' lead serving it.

So how much grief would I cause myself by having the most distant 6' of that yard lead hidden under an industrial switching area?

31 || Scenery Experiments || Part One

Sun, 2020-07-19 06:10 — Human.c.ity Junction

Scenery - Structures

This Episode is Part One of my new video series "Scenery Experiments". In this video series, I am going to attempt to weather my structures, add grass, foliage and trees, and include figures and other small details.

Workshop Tip: For fast-penetrating scenery glue for coarse materials without alcohol prep, use Armor-All Glass Cleaner

Fri, 2020-07-17 09:27 — patentwriter

Scenery - Structures

I conducted a series of experiments recently to determine if I could develop a scenery adhesive that would not require the use of alcohol as a preparatory step to reduce the surface tension of granular materials, while having a minimal number of ingredients. For these experiments, I prepared scenery material samples of three types:

COMPLETED -CN Covipan Intermodal Yard

Fri, 2020-07-17 04:30 — Roger Litwiller

Here are a few photos and article of the completed Intermodal Yard on my layout, the Trenton Subdivision in N Scale. More below.

GLASS CLEANER FOR WETTING AGENT?

Thu, 2020-07-16 13:28 — TXPACFAN

With the low supply of alcohol these days I have been looking for an alternative for a wetting agent for ballasting and scenery. In the past I have used Windex glass cleaner to thin latex paint for air brushing. Thought I would give it a try for ballasting when I ran out of IPA. Seem to work pretty well. Has anyone else tried it?

Jim