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a little road construction and Scenery
Hey gang
I have been busy working on the railroad adding this road and a little scenery. The roads are made from styrene with auto body filler to smooth out the sides. I still have some airbrushing of the tire marks to do so I can complete scene!
thanks for looking Paul B
Making your own washes
Looking for some advice on how to make washes using latex or water based paint as the base. Can anyone suggest what sort of proportions they have used? Started by taking a 3:1 ratio of water to paint, but the paint was still too viscous to be considered a wash and the results were plaster rock molds that appeared to be painted, with little color variation. Added some old washes that I had based on Woodland Scenics wash to improve them. Hoping that someone will have some advice and experience as WS washes are way to expensive to do a large layout.
The narrow gauge years of the Austin and Northwestern Railroad
I want to model the early Austin and Northwestern Railroad (A&NW) because I live nearby. This is a very condensed history, followed by a 1924 Southern Pacific schedule and a freight tonnage table. The A&NW is a point-to-point railroad with long spurs that branch off the mainline to Burnet and to Granite Mountain and Marble Falls.
MRC USB Computer Interface and MRC's software. Your thoughts?
How many of you use this program? Do you like it? Does it do what you thought it would do?
Placed Roadbed for the Loveland Yard
Today I placed the cork roadbed under the tracks in the Loveland Yard. It looks pretty good and yes it did quiet down the noise when running trains on it. I also removed those ugly switch machines on the two Atlas turnouts that had them.
Tank cars in Arizona around 1960
Hi all,
My layout is loosely based on, or inspired by the Santa Fe branch from Phoenix to Ash Fork - Williams Junction in the early 1960's.
I want to buy some 10k gallon tank cars and maybe also some Atlas 11k gallons LPG cars for my layout and wonders which brand of oil companies would be most appropriate for the Prescott and Phoenix area in that time period.
Would it be something like Phillips 66, Gulf, Shell, Standard, Conoco or someone else?
KnuT
Doodlebug ops : Backwards running?
Dear MRHer's,
Just a quick one. Assuming I have a B'mann HO "Doodlebug" railcar,
is it proto-plauisble to run it "backwards"?
IE
- I start the passenger run from the Home terminal down a branchline "running forward"
- I get to the end of the branch, and have to "return home"
solvents for waterslide decals
Thoughts on a layout talking to the DCC system
Background synopsis: I model the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway. Most of the railroad is flat, crossing the swamps and lowlands of NE Minnesota. However, at the geographical edge of the Lake Superior basin, the Missabe brings long strings of loaded ore cars down Proctor Hill to the docks in Duluth.
At the dock, the Hill Ore Job drops off its loads, ties on to a string of empties already at the dock, then heads back up the 2.2 percent 7-mile grade of the coastal escarpment to Proctor (MN) yard.
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