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Whispering Falls
I was following Greg Shinnie's post on the construction of Whispering Falls, a craftsman kit by Rail Scale Miniatures. I'm no longer able to find the post. If anyone has a good link to it, or perhaps a copy of the post, that would be fantastic.
Brad
Curing cabinet plastic safe heat/time mindfulness
Greetings and Salutations.
I wonder if anyone here has any experience with a curing/paint drying cabinet?
there are a couple of well rated units that can be set for specific times and temperatures.I believe that they are used for plastic models as well as brass models and other practices with scenery such as making tunnel portals out of plaster and walls of various kinds.
it is basically an integrated warm air convection system which circulates warm air around the model of choice.
Arizona Rock & Mineral ballast order delays?
Has anyone placed an order with Arizona Rock & Mineral recently? Any feedback on actual response times? I know their site warns about 21 day processing due to weather issues there, so I expected it to be slow. However, we're a bit past that now and my calls are going to a voice mailbox that's full.
Want Athearn/Roundhouse 2-8-0 with DCC/sound in NYC Lines paint
I am looking to buy an Athearn/Roundhouse New York Central Lines 2-8-0 with DCC and sound. Will pay cash. If you have one or know where I can get one, please let me know.
Thanks,
Jim Six
Walthers Switch Machine - Powering the Frog
Thanks to the very informative description provided here by Prof (thanks Prof!!!), I thought I understood how to power my frogs using the Walthers switch machine.
Alas, I am doing something very wrong because the frog's power source is not changing to match the routing of the switch.
A little background...
-I am using HO scale Fast Tracks turnouts that I have built and tested.
Making steel plates out of paper and wax polish
I experimented with my wife's RubnBuff wax to create steel plates.
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I just used my fingers to rub in it on the paper also paint to depict rust.
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Just test fitting them and will later put some dents in them to show evidence of logs and drift wood colliding with them in the past.
Labeling Wires
So yes, wires should be labeled. But how?
I've seen letter stickers designed for wires, but I really don't want to need a cross reference table. It seems that a full word would be more clear and less chance for confusion.
Cascade Sub: Summer Update 2021
It has been quite some time since I have posted on this blog, however progress has been occurring in the background. As expected for a younger man, life is busy and ever-changing. In the past year I have had very little time to work on the railroad consistently for long stretches of time, only getting a few days or weeks to tackle projects.
Track laying,..electrical question
Track laying,..electrical question
I'm a little confused with this observation of mine. I've been laying lots of code 100 atlas track lately,...and attaching the multiple feeders wires to the bus wires. The area I have in question is down one side of the layout under my steel mill and freight yard tracks. Its all going to be a single power district with a single bus wire feeding it.
That single bus wire stretches the length of side of the layout and has open ends (no connections at this time on either end).
Caboose marker lamp questions
I haven't modeled cabooses (cabeese?) in years because while in N-scale my layout was too modern for them and now I'm just getting around to it in HO. I've acquired three different MDC Roundhouse old time caboose kits off E-bay now and I'm wondering about marker lamps. I love these old kits with a the real wire grab iron and railing bits in them, I wish they still made them.
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