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A New Skyscraper for Philly
A new skyscraper was just added to the Philadelphia section of the S scale Penn Western. I had used some sandstone textured foamcore for the flooring of a food court for the train station and thought that the texture would look good as the siding of a building. So, I designed a 180 foot structure to fill a part of the skyline. After rounding up the parts needed and cutting sections of foamcore, the building actually started out as a kit.
trackwork
Hello
i am new to rr modeling i see most people use flex track i have a load of bachman fast track
can i use this or should i go a different type of track
Thank You
Alcove Expansion - Gravel Plant
It seemed like it took me forever to finish the tunnel portal and rock cut area in the back of the alcove expansion. Since I work from the back forward, I needed to complete this area so I can work on installing my gravel plant in the foreground. I'll be using the Walthers "Glacier Gravel" kit (doesn't almost everyone?) and need to get the sub-roadbed in first so I can get the track and turnouts put down. Below are a couple of pictures of the area.
Help Switchlist Database Design
I need to create a simple relational database to keep track of what cars are in what tracks and in what sequence. I'm having trouble with the tables and relationships to accomplish this task.
An example end result will be a track list which can be marked up to perform switching tasks:
TRACK 1602 - INDUSTRIAL LEAD EAST TO WEST
SEQ CAR_NUMBER CAR_KIND L/E
1 ARMN 715251 REEFER L
2 BNSF 185321 REEFER L
3 ARMN 755285 REEFER L
4 ARMN 755219 REEFER L
Quick and dirty N scale lumber loads..
Started building lumber loads for some N scale centerbeam cars I bought. More info on my blog...
http://adventuresinmodeling.blogspot.com/
Paper mill progress - finally!
After posting the raw parts of a scratchbuilt digester complex for my mill months ago, I have finally made sufficient progress for me to call it (as a wise man recently said) good enough - for now.
The raw pieces were some PVC pipe couplings, a potato chip can, vitamin bottle, some styrene sheet from a "for sale" sign, wood, and masonite.
Gravel pit Tracks
Attached below, its what I have for a small gravel company. It has the main track in where the cars will be loaded(top track), and below where the full cars wait for pickup. The Gravel company has its own switcher that moves cars around. I am wondering, with the little room available in this area, if I could enhance it, or just leave it the way it is. Any ideas are welcomed...
Benchwork start to go up in the next two weeks...
FGWX 200000
In 1987 while visiting the US a friend of mine photographed this car passing Tower 55. I discovered the picture while scanning some of his slides. Does anyone know the history of the car and how it is used? I have never seen a picture of one before.
Michael.
Video of finished tunnel portal in rock cut
For all of you that's been following the construction of the tunnel portal to remote staging located in the rock cut I've created a little video to show you how it looks from the "train view" via my MUVI micro camcorder. You will remember that the area isn't visible to trainroom visitors as it's hidden by a foreground hill area. I needed to scenic the area as I do enjoy making videos with the train cam and I also have a wireless train mounted camera I use during open houses.
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