Benchwork - Roadbed
Not Dead, and New Modules!!
It's been quite a while since I've made any progress on the layout. It turns out that wedding planning takes up a ton of time in the later stages, even if you're not really doing the planning and are just going to meet people or pick up things with your fiancé lol Between that and the holidays, the layout was on the back burner for a while.
Advice on adhesive for 0.30 styrene backdrop to wood.....
Went back thru at least 10 pages of index pages, couldn't find a matching topic line. So excuse if I messed up and missed it it. Three months of Covid last summer still has my typing and reading abilities go all over the scale!
Phase II : Ties are in
The tie gangs have finished the main track on Phase II between Birdsboro and Coatesville. All the main track is tied, plus the sidings and the majority of industry trackage. There are still a few industry tracks to get planned out, but they aren't essential to start operations. All the ties have been sanded and restained.
Monday, 4/6, the ballast gangs report for duty and with any luck, later this week rail gangs will start laying rail.
What's on Your Workbench - April 2021
All the sudden it's a new month! I hope you have been busy making progress. Let's see the latest from your workbench and layout!
Eric
Eric Hansmann
Contributing Editor, Model Railroad Hobbyist
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Central Vermont Richford Branch - Video Update #10
I just posted a video update on my HO scale Central Vermont Richford Branch to my YouTube channel.
Highlights include:
1. A quick look at some recently weathered and completed freight cars.
Rise and Run Calculations
Building a small Mom and Pop coal distributor and need a ramp up to 9 scale feet. So in doing the calculations for the grade up to the 9 foot deck I came across a % grade calculator.
Rise over Run to Percent Calculator - Inch Calculator
Any way on with my question is 5% too much for a coal dump?
To obtain a 3% grade i will need 300 scale feet in HO. 200 ft is 4.5%.
Flexible MDF spline sub-roadbed
Looking for information using flexible MDF panels ripped into strips and used for splined sub-roadbed. There was a layout builder who used this technique and I am looking for more info if anyone out there knows more.
This is the only reference photo I managed to save from several years ago. I wish I took better notes and could give the original poster credit for both the technique and the image!
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