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Heavy Haulage

Sat, 2013-01-05 07:24 — Leo Starrenburg

Locos - Rolling stock (general)

trying out how much a 6 truck articulated car with a 5" long payload would swing out:

Radius is only about 15", maybe a bit smaller, and even then it swings out less than an inch.

But if an inch proves too much it's fun to hook up the two units close together and just haul it to another job :-)

cheers, Leo

An invaluable tool: the mason's level

Sat, 2013-01-05 06:21 — wilkenw

Trackwork

If you want to achieve perfect track work, buy yourself one of the very small levels that masons hang on a level line. Mounted on the back of a slow moving gondola or flat car, it will reveal imperfections in track work that simply do not show up on longer levels but which can make a bit difference in the smoothness of train operation. I've found my mason's level especially helpful when having to work out transitions to and from super-elevated curves, especially one long climbing "S" curve that once drove me nuts with passenger car derails.

Conway Scenic Railroad Steam in the Snow Event Video from last year

Fri, 2013-01-04 19:47 — Great Western R...

Tomorrow at the Conway Scenic Railroad in North Conway New Hampshire is the annual "Steam in the Snow " special excursion. Last Year I followed the train from North Conway to Sawyer River and return. It was pretty much an all day affair.I will be going tomorrow to video and photograph the event. Here is a video I made of last years excursion..

http://youtu.be/NRvgg45qqbQ

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N&W Coal Train with Pusher in HD Video

Fri, 2013-01-04 17:17 — rhelmod

Layout tour

Milestones

Fri, 2013-01-04 13:09 — mike.h

Scenery - Structures

Not quiet as aspected but "just in time", I reached my self-defined goal yesterday by completing the steel-girder bridge which I build using ME Girder-Bridge Kits. It rests on plaster abutments for which I scratch built casting molds.

Posting up Posters

Fri, 2013-01-04 08:29 — M.C. Fujiwara

Included this in my Free-moN module construction thread, but thought I'd post it here for the archives and to see how others do it:

Wireless fast clocks

Fri, 2013-01-04 08:07 — IAISfan

Apologies for doubling up the posts on this, but I thought this was an area that might be of interest beyond just my blog, and didn't want it to get lost in the discussion there. I recently became aware of a new wireless fast clock system from Iowa Scaled Engineering that I thought others might benefit from as well. Details are in the blog entry at http://model-railroad-hobbyist.com/node/9031?page=4#comment-86082 .

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Rio Grande Southern wreck photos - 1912 - never before published

Thu, 2013-01-03 20:11 — rgs_info

A friend has allowed me to publish a set of detailed photos from a passenger train wreck on the RGS, on May 17, 1912. Details and a link to the photos are on my timeline page under that date:

http://rgsrr.home.comcast.net/~rgsrr/rgs/tline3.html

The photos themselves are here (but I couldn't fit the full backstory of them - see the timeline above for those details):

https://plus.google.com/photos/116851198948919943557/albums/582942133599...