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Wiring Atlas Switch Machines
Can some one tell me how to wire a Miniatronics momentary toggle with 6 terminals to an Atlas switch machine? I have one of the new Atlas switch control boxes with the red and green LEDs, the push button sticks and cooks the machine. Thanks!!
Trak Work Kits installed in the Walthers Hi Level El Cap cars
The Walthers cars can be enhanced with the Trak Works installation kits. The glazing was done using Alclad to tint the windows. The interiors are lighted and riders installed. '
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How to disassemble Walthers Hi level car
San Pablo Valley Railroad #16
Yesterday I completed (well, nearly completed) the first locomotive actually lettered for my freelanced HOn3 railroad, the San Pablo Valley.
The locomotive started out as an unlettered Blackstone C-19.
And emerged from the SPV shops looking like this:
looking for model building collections and builders
I'm working on a research project about people who used to (or perhaps still do!) make or collect small buildings as a hobby. I'm talking about small houses, churches, movie theaters, factories, bowling alleys, train stations, stores, and the like—from the ground up (with any material); no kits. For no particular reason--either as models, or as gifts, as a personal memento, to put by the Christmas tree or around the toy railroad track, as a garden club activity or state fair competition, or just as a way to pass the time.
Richlawn RR V2 - Trackplan modified HOG draft version
A friend of mine has been helping me by doing CAD work on my trackplan which is a modification of Scott Perry's Heart of Georgia (HOG) layout. This is a rough draft and isn't labeled but you can get a general idea. I purposely am going with a simple layout to allow space for my pull out desk since this is also my office. The orange track running around the top and right is an isolated Doodlebug track..jpg)
Doodlebug track.
Modeler Tip - How to erase shadows from your backdrop
Room lighting can cast shadows on your backdrop ruining pictures and viewing. A shadow of a tree or structure looks horrible on the backdrop. I have a tip on how to eliminate lighting shadows on backdrops and have used this method sucessfully on my previous Richlawn Railroad layout. The trick is to leave a small (2 - 3") gap between the back of the benchwork and the backdrop / wall. Next, place a light or lights underneath the layout where the light can shine up in the gap onto the backdrop. I used can style uplights with standard (dimmable) bulbs.
Operation Sessions on Portable Layout at the NMRA Nation Convention
If you are interested in operating on our portable, civil war era theme layout at the NMRA National Convention next week, I have posted a sign up sheet at the following link http://usmrr.blogspot.com/2013/07/sign-up-sheet-for-op-sessions-at-nmra.html
We have about 20 slots open for guest operators to take a crack at operating a battery powered 4-4-0 with link and pin couplers and authentic 1860s era paperwork.
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