Modeling topic
Holgate & Reynolds
Years ago, the last time I actually scratchbuilt any structures, I used brick and stone material from Holgate & Reynolds. It came in long plastic sheets and was really great stuff. I can't seem to find H&R on the web and Walthers doesn't carry it in the new catalog.
Is it still made and available?
Is there something available that's just as good to use?
Thanks,
Roger Huber
Deer Creek Locomotive Works
Happy Spring! (A trip to the MECR)
Here is a video of a video I took yesterday of Mass Central 1751 heading back from the mill in south barre. As you can see, the weather was really looking fresh and thawed, and the sun was shining, and the sky was blue! :D I think this road would make a great model railway. It is only about 20-30 miles, owns four locos, and train lengths never exceed 20 cars! Usually, less then ten, i think. Note there us an abandoned boxcar a couple yards beyond the pie of ties. I would love to check it out someday, but there is a NO TRESPASSING sign, and the area is fairly populated.
A Visit to Scottsdale Model Railroad Historical Society, An Arizona Model Railroad Club
On a recent visit to Arizona, I had the great pleasure to visit with my old friend, Robert, and tour the Scottsdale Model Railroad Historical Society. From the club’s website: “The Scottsdale Model Railroad Historical Society is located in the Model Railroad Building at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park. An integral part of the Railroad Park, the Society displays HO (standard gauge) and HOn3 (narrow gauge) equipment, structures and scenic techniques.
Starting the work on town of Watersmeet
I am starting to work on the town of Watersmeet and the connecting road to Ironwood (located in the window well)
This is the ramp down from Ironwood to the road leading to Watersmeet. The basic sub form is two pieces of 11/2" thick rigid foam glued together. The road surface is .060" styrene.
AC&Y Morning Sun book available
The Morning Sun book about the Akron Canton & Youngstown Railroad is available. It was authored by Bob Lucas and the ACY Historical Society members. More information here: http://www.acyhs.org/
<selfish plug> Yours truly drew the line art illustrations for the book! </selfish plug>
Richfield Rail-Runners got a new toy
Richfield Rail-Runners got a Cricut cutting machine and wow have we been busy. It has been a bit of a learning process with Auto-Cad but we have it down. I will have pictures up soon. We have done several buildings out of 4ply card stock, .30 and.40 styrene, clapboard siding and board and battin. We have cut 1/6 " bass wood too. The Vollmur brick sheet gave us a bit of fits, however we won. Cut out a nice brick building.
Martin
Decoder Programming Education
Been having an interesting time of it setting up some new locos for the layout. The problem appeared to start when I tried to setup the long address for my new Rapido GMD-1. Worked fine at the default (de fault is always de user...) address of '03'. But when I changed it on the programming track to aything else the loco would brick. However, I could do a factory reset to the default address, this worked, and the loco was functional.
Walthers New Mainline HO Scale SD70ACe
I see Walthers is bringing out a SD70Ace. with same motor as they use in their Proto range
Sticker price is allot cheaper than say Athearn/Intermountain. with MSRP of $199.95 for DCC/sound
Question is are Walthers engines any good?
http://www.pwrs.ca/announcements/view.php?ID=9963
Background Pictures
Where could I find pictures on the web (or how should I word the search string) of light/medium industry, warehouses, commercial structures or similar for placing directly on a background or cutting out on Gator Board for semi-relief buildings?
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