Modeling topic

"Rutland Yard" Kitbashing & scratch building Structures HO

Thu, 2013-01-17 21:00 — skiwiggy

Scenery - Structures

The starting or ending point of any railroad is a yard! I decided to start a new layout by creating the yard and city first. The Track arrangement is based upon the Rutland Railways Rutland Vermont Yard. The Delaware & Hudson railroad being the other main railroad I model will share these facilities.

My goal is to kitbash and scratch build structures to closely match the prototype. Elements of both the Rutland & Delaware & Hudson Railroads will be combined to create the overall look of Rutland yard and the city of Rutland.

Free HD Train Footage

Thu, 2013-01-17 18:38 — LKandO

60 minutes of very cool HD train footage that you can download for free. In fact, they encourage you to download and remix to you heart's content. Cool.

You will need a torrent program like BitTorrent or similar. All four seasons required 70Gb of hard drive space.

Article:
http://nrkbeta.no/2013/01/15/nordlandsbanen-minute-by-minute-season-by-season/

Georgia Central Rly's THE GENERAL

Thu, 2013-01-17 15:39 — Graham Tomkins

i would like to know the date that THE GENERAL [of civil war fame] was built and what manufacturer built it. Thanx. G. ~~

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Hand laid rerailer

Thu, 2013-01-17 11:38 — burlington router

Trackwork

Has anyone out there made a hand laid rerailer. Any pictures or drawings would be great. I do HO but shouldn't matter. I need a project for the long weekend. Thanks.

Unable to post / reply without runon. Cannot enter separate lines

Thu, 2013-01-17 08:24 — tyndalljohn6

This is being written with "Messaging Plain Text". With this and "Full HTML" I cannot use my enter key to start a new line. Now I switched to "Full HTML" and the same happens. I am accessing through Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8. Any one else have this problem and / or a fix? Thanks John

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Ti Launchpad and Model Railroading

Thu, 2013-01-17 07:55 — robteed

DCC - Electrical

I ordered two Ti Launchpads for $4.30 each with free shipping. At that price even if I used them just to blink LEDs for grade crossings its well worth it.

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_LaunchPad_%28MSP-EXP430G2%29

Green Bay Second Try

Wed, 2013-01-16 12:42 — richhard444

Scenery - Structures

OK here goes again. These photos are of the Green Bay Industrial Area on my layout. The first shows Green Bay on the right & part of the branch line leading to the lumber mill at Hardwood. The second shows the other end of the branch line with the lumber mill in the distance. The rest of the photos show some of the buildings. The three on the right are scratch built and I will be having them judged for merit points for getting my Master Builder-Structures, Certificate of Achievement.

Richard - Superintendent Chicago North Western

Bachmann GP7 sound install

Wed, 2013-01-16 08:35 — bapguy54

Photo's of my sound install Tsunami sound in a Bachmann GP7. Milled top of frame to fit keep alive caps since board is installed up side down. Loco runs good and sounds good. Joe

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Finally Trackwork is now almost complete

Wed, 2013-01-16 06:10 — McRuss

Benchwork - Roadbed

Today I finished the tracklaying except for the MPD area, the tracks there will installed when I receive the turntable.
After that I have to install the electric part.
The turnouts will be sets either by turnout motors or mechanically.