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Testtrack & sound
A short video of my cow-and-calf On30 diesels.
Based on Roco h0 BR215 chassis and each fitted with a Tsunami 1000 ALCO 244 sound decoder. All very new to me but great fun !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0OO9Dc8SuE
cheers, Leo.
Huey P. Long
On a related note to Mr Powers excellent work, he mentions acquiring plans for the station from someone, but I cannot find the name.
The reason is, I am stuck down here in New Orleans working as Engineer and I need HO scale plans for the Huey P. Long bridge.
I have checked with the New Orleans Public Belt and they do not have any thing that is usable.
I do plan to take digital photo's as I take trains over the bridge.
So If any one knows if plans exist and where to get them I would really appreciate it.
Thanks
Doug Hatman
slip switch code 55 #6
7hr 23min and about 10 sec away from needing a lithium with a thorazine chaser. It ain't pretty.
The Last train on the IoS
These movie was made during the FREMO Meeting at Hanau. It was the last train with modern equipment during the meeting, and so we decided to run a Departmental Train, which could be used for dismantling the track.
Markus
Track design software
Is it me or are the Design Layout softwares hard to use. I have tried a couple of times over the years to use Atlas Software (free) to try and design my layout on the computer to see what it will look like. I have struggled with the whole thing, from trying to have "Benchwork" design saved.... to creating my design on the page. Just not into Cad program I guess.
I have read some of the Manual ( 227 pages! ) but isn't there anything easier?
I have my idea on paper and want to get on with building but am wanting to see if all my idea will fit .
Progress Thus far...
It's been a few days short of a year that I ceased being a member of the HO scale fraternity and undertook the challenges of modeling in N scale. Progress has been slow, but the time has come to share with you what I've managed to accomplish thus far.
The Price of Failure
Isaac Asimov once had a chemistry student tell him that they had repeated an experiment five times and each time it resulted in a failure to produce the desired results. Asimov's response was, 'did you follow the same sequence each time," the student said, "yes," to which he replied "Why?"
First diorama in awhile What do you think
this is a quick photo of the first diorama I built in awhile. I am not to crazy about the color of the dirt but I am sure I can use somthing to fix it. I am also going to be adding signs and additional detail yet. See me your thoughts on it as i am trying to do better. I think the dirt drive is what;s turning me off the most.
Joe
Joe
Nice modeling
Have any of you guys ever seen this man's modeling?
His name is Cliff Powers and he models New Orleans in most spectacular detail.
Here is the web link,
http://magnoliaroute.com/magnolia%20route.htm
Enjoy
Doug Hatman
Dave Frary's ebooks
I purchased "222 Tips for Building Model Railroad Structures(eBooks)" and "303 TIPS for building model railroad structures and scenery(eBooks)" by Dave Frary. I found the PDF books to be helpful and discovered at least two dozen new ideas so far. The only downside I've seen is some info is dated (a problem with all publications) and the tips are sort of randomly covered without a good index of them. With a PDF file the articles can be searched, so the information can be found.
Rick
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