Modeling topic
Tank car handling in the 1950's ?
Hi All, I'm planning to have a small fuel distributor on a spur on my layout and was wondering if anyone is familiar with tank car handling in the 1950's era. Was there anything in the general codes requiring spacer cars between engines and caboose and gasoline or other oil products tank cars? Would these rules apply when an engine was spotting a tank car on a spur or just in a train? Any info would be greatly appreciated....DaveB
Benchwork Update
The cabinets/bases are built. They will be stained and have doors added at a later date. The modules themselves need some more work. They do not lay flat as currently built with 2x4s, so I think I will rebuild them with L-girder frames. Not sure when I will get to that, holiday plans have my foreseeable weekends booked.
Thanks to everyone who has read and commented so far!
Cleaning the Train Room
I'm building my train layout inside a 12 x 16 Handi-House shed located in my carport,....early photo..
Its basically a closed room with a single entrance door on that one end.
Any information on this train?
Good Morning folks, my Grandson is totally into model trains of all kinds. Or as he recently said, "When I was younger I was into trains, but now that I'm older I'm into all forms of transportation." Anyway, for his 5th birthday last week a friend of the family gave him a model train he had been given in his youth. He said it was old when he got it those many years ago. He has no idea what brand it is or if it even works. His said he has seen it run, though. He says it is steam powered and used a bunsen burner of some sort.
In the Nick(el) of Time
It's been almost five years since I've posted on this site, nearly all of which was spent separated from my layout, and most of which was entirely without model railroading. I'm not at all bothered by spending my mid-20's gallivanting around instead of playing with trains. But between the current state of both the world (melting down under a global pandemic) and my life (settled in a long-term rental house with my girlfriend, and rapidly becoming a crotchety old grandpa at heart), I figure I'll be hunkered down for most of the winter and will have probably the money, time, energy, and desire to really pick up the hobby again.
58 | Getting Started with Woodland Scenics Shaper Sheets | Kato T-Trak Module | Scenery
In todays episode, we are going to get back to working on the T-Trak Module Kit From Kato | Made by Woodland Scenics and get started on adding the scenery. This is the first time I will be working with the Woodland Scenics Shaper Sheets.
Stripping and painting plastic models
I have been using 90+% alcohol to strip plastic models for repainting for a while. I was wondering if anyone can share their experience using Denatured Alcohol from the paint store instead of the local drug store brands. What are your normal routines for preparing to paint after stripping, or maybe you have another method other than alcohol that works well that you can tell me about.
Thanks for your help and thoughts.
Joseph
HELP please !, .....resize a couple of images
HELP please, resize a couple of images
I have 2 images of arches that exist on the viaduct bridge at Balt. I need to resize them so I can print them out accurately in order to more completely finish my mock-up model.
I believe I did this once before, but I am having trouble this morning. What I had done in the past is cropped them to the exact width I wanted to image, then resize them into inches with my IrfanView photo software, then print them out. But for reason I am NOT getting an accurate size print out today ??
How do prototype lights work in a consist?
Santa brought me a ProtoThrottle for Christmas, so I've been working on reconfiguring my locos to work better with it. While working on the light functions, I went down a rabbit hole to better understand how lights are controlled while in a consist. I was able to find an SD40-2 operators manual online that briefly discussed a couple of switches on the back wall related to lights.
Timer and trigger for 1/2 scale grade crossing?
Are there adjustable timers and magnetic reed switches that can handle about 1A at 12V?
I have nearly completed the 1/2 size crossing signal, and thought it would be fun to trigger it when the garage door opens or closes. Just run for 10 seconds. I don't want it to keep blinking if the door stops halfway. It needs 2 trigger points on the garage door, one near the bottom and one near the top of travel.
I tried to find ready-made timers instead of starting from scratch.
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