Scenery - Structures
Laser cutting design
Looking for information on designing for laser cutting. I am in O Scale and have a 50 Watt cutter. I have done some simple buildings but now want to learn to cut and engrave for brick and or stone structures. Have two books published in the UK but that is all I have found so far. The other more expensive way would be to buy some kits and see how they are designed.
Thanks
Jay Beckham
Lots of updates - depot build, layout lights / flooring / phones, op sessions
Lots of blog updates, finally - it's been quite a while. Lots of photos inside the blog posts.
RGS Ridgway depot build, updates, structure lighting - https://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2019/05/ridgway-depot-construction-begins.html
Layout improvements, including new flooring and a phone system - https://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2019/05/layout-improvements-flooring-and-phon...
Layout improvements, trying some theatrical-style lighting, and op session photos - https://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2019/05/layout-night-lighting-and-op-sessions...
Another hard working steam engine (2-6-6-2T) on Mother's Day
Good morning,
This past weekend I was visiting my Mom and Dad in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The weather was perfect for picture taking and I hadn't gotten any video of the "1880's Train" (Black Hills Central) this visit. Here is #110 working hard and almost to the top of the grade between Hill City and Keystone South Dakota.
Joe F - Mike Confalone article
Joe,
I saw a wood chip mill in an Allagash RR video and I wonder if you could talk Mike into writing an article on its design and construction. It looks ideal for a wood chip operation on my RR.
Thanks,
Jeff
Building The NKLR
I have not built a layout of my own for over twenty years as most of my Hobby time was taken up building locos for other people, and also running a small casting company doing detail parts for locos in 1:43 scale. If you haven't already worked it out I am in the UK, and with retirement from working on the full size railway I decided to do something completely different. My workshop is not that big so doing standard gauge was out of the question, but narrow gauge in O scale would work, so ON30 it is(with a bit of O-16.5 thrown in).
Adhesive For Corrugated Aluminum Roofing
I have a rather large warehouse (28 X 14) with a low pitch peaked roof made from styrene. I'm going to be installing some pre-fab corrugated aluminum roofing to it and can't decide what to use for an adhesive.
What's your go-to adhesive for installing these to styrene ?
I've Been Working on the Railroad!
Prepping the West Sacramento scenery for the buildings under construction.
Nice weathering example for roads with timber crossing
I happened to see this photo and found the road and wooden crossing interesting. Note the road grime continues over the wooden timbers for the crossing. Both the medium gray and the two darker stripes continue over the wooden crossings. This gives an alternative to the "fresh" timbers typically used on layouts I see.
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