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CY&PRR - Atlas Signal Tower Upgrade
I have been able to snatch a little time here and there this summer to work on this really neat project, upgrading the venerable standard Atlas 704 Signal Tower HO kit using a laserboard upgrade kit from Vector Cut:
http://www.vectorcut.com/RR.htm
I first learned of this item through a post here on MRH:
http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/19937
I ordered it last winter and have now been able to work on it.
On the prowl for layout ideas
Hi there chaps... this is my first post after some time away from here. I'm going to shortly be moving into a new house with a double garage and one of my goals is to build a small layout in there. As I have two cars, a multitude of bicycles, and the usual guy stuff that ends up in a garage, I'm thinking a shelf layout, probably point to point, will be the way to go.
Looking for station lights like these
Has anyone seen HO lights that look like these on the station platform?
I checked the Walthers site but couldn't find anything.
Testor's Dullcote
What is recommended for a flat spray other than Testor's Dullcote? I bought some Matte finish spray from another well-known craft supplies manufacturer but then read somewhere that their Matte finish wasn't really the same as Dullcote's flat clear. Any thoughts on the matter?
A Lighting Valance for the BNML
The next step in my lighting program is to test my Valance design and install it.
Catch up on my lighting thread here: http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/21591
Grande Pacific Big Scene
Long time since I posted on the status of the Grande Pacific Railroad. Back working on RR for the summer to hot outside and have done the vacation cruise. Here is the Big Orb Scene. Here is link to photo album.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.361443270692787.1073741848.234942163342899&type=3
TCS AX4 Decoder install
I am installing a TCS AX4 decoder in an Atlas Classic C424. The motor part is done and working fine. I am intending on replacing the incandescent lamps with LEDs. In the front, there are two lamps, one for the headlight and the other for the number board. The AX4 has built in resistors for LED installation. Can I run 2 LEDs off the one connection? Essentially, running them in parallel.
Gorre & Daphetid Railroad Sorethroat branchline
Hello,
it's been quite a while since my last post. I continued on my Garve and Ullapool Railway and rebuilt my Leckmelm modules. I also laid the track at Inverlael station and build a small fiddle yard for the branchline that leaves the main line at Inverlael.
But in early spring I constructed a second level above my Garve and Ullapool Railway. There I will built a H0 american layout. loosely based on John Allens Gorre & Daphetid.
N&W Alco RS-11 Air Intake Vents/Shutters
Hello
Today I have a product to share with you that has been missing until very recently.
The story began with a pair of "NW" RS-11s from Atlas dating back to mid-2000s. When I decided a year or two ago to keep their factory paint and make them more prototypically accurate, I discovered a body modification. All N&W purchased RS-11s had shutters/vents added over the air intakes at some point in the early 60s. I searched Walthers and other places for possible solutions, but couldn't come up with any leads.
Two Videos of Brian Pate's HOn3 Klondike Mines and Standard gauge CPR layouts
Brian Pate has long loved the industrial architecture of the Klondike, specifically the sternwheelers, dredges, placer equipment and railways used during the gold rush. He and his wife Margaret have visited the Klondike on information expeditions many times and this research has helped him create the beautiful models of his Klondike Mines Rwy. Brian used artistic license and both set the KMR after world war II – long after the original KMR had ceased operations – and also to imagine a world where the
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