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Your experience please - laying track on cork on foam
My plans are to lay my cork roadbed directly on 2" foam; however I ran across the post below and I'm curious about others experience. I could still change at this point.
"Track Directly on Construction Foam
Mon, 2013-09-16 18:39 — av8r
Stewart FT A-B-B-A Set
While rutting around in one of my railroad cabinets looking for a certain item I came across a project I had forgotten about. A set of Stewart FT's, A-B-B-A set that I had modified the B unit on following an article in Railroad Model Craftsman. Unfortunately I can't remember the year and I really don't want to dig through 40 or so years of magazines at the moment.
Richlawn RR V2 - see the original post on Coving the Corners
I've combined what was in this post to the first post.
3 Days of Operations on the Columbia & Western
Bob Hadlow pilots a train up Pup Creek in the Friday session.
Building the Tidewater Southern
First off, I have a confession. I am not a carpenter. I have never framed a house or built a deck or raised a barn. Therefore, benchwork intimidates me. My first layout, a small switching layout I had as a kid was built by my dad. My second layout was assisted by my dad. My last layout was entirely built by myself, but it was unstable...and that's being generous. I knew going into this that in order for this to be an enjoyable layout to work on and run, it would have to have the best benchwork I'd ever built in my life.
Switch stand
Would a railroad's switch stand be seen on a private track or would it be different.
I'm modeling a small factory that has two turnouts on its property with three spurs - unloading track under a gantry crane, loading track alonside the factory, and a off-spot storage track as seen here:
Milton - A Backdrop on the 8th Sub
I had a gap of about 30 feet in the backdrop between a the scene I completed most recently and one I last worked on just under a year ago. I figured it was time to finally get this area complete.
Steam Loco Tender Weight?
With all due respect to Joe's suggestion to try things for yourself, that is slightly impractical in this case, so I'll ask for advice and hopefully have a good starting point for experimentation, if nothing else.
Is there any generally accepted guideline for determining the ideal weight for a steam locomotive's tender? Failing that, what do you do that has worked well for you? Is the NMRA recommendation for freight cars applicable in this case as well, or is there a better standard because of the different application?
1/4 inch Foam?
I am in the process of building my benchwork and subroadbed. I had everything designed out such that the yards would use 1/2" plywood with 3/4 inch extruded foam over it and other areas would use the same materials but cut to just wider than the trackwork and mounted on risers. Masonite (or plywood) spline subroadbed is not a practical option for me - been over that already, so this post isn;t about that as an option.
Scratchbuilding structures, and track replaced
Today I pulled the Shinohara code 70 flex track off of my two extension modules for the Woodland Fill, and re-laid it with Atlas code 55. I also add some new strain reliefs and tidied up the wiring.
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