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First time turnouts...
I decided to follow my model railroad hero who said self made turnouts are the best way to go. I just finished my first attempt and I love making turnouts. Now I am going into an ad for Fast Tracks. I decided to use their equipment and I can not say enough about each piece I purchased and the instructional videos supplied. I am building #6 turnouts using their track assembly fixture, point filing jig, the StockAid filing jig and ending up on their QuickSticks. The videos are very are well done and do not leave you needing more information.
Keeping trains off the floor
Installed a safety device on my swing gate entry to prevent trains rolling off the edge of the layout. A switch activates a Tortiose which raises a pin up through the track.
Green Mountain RS-1's
Jack,
Just so we won't high jack Greg's thread I've started a blog. At present I have four pictures. I have more but they are buried amongst 100's of slides and will take a while to dig out. The four I have were scanned on an old scanner and are not very large. I'll have to rescan them some time for a larger picture.
I chased this train from the River jct. in Bellows Falls all the way to Rutland.
Work bee!
This weekend I had a work bee with a friend coming over to help push the layout forward. Chris took on the challenging job of fixing some problematic switches, adding switch machines and wiring them up so they have live frogs.
Of course he asked how to identify the wires for the frogs: why, they're green of course. Everyone knows frogs are green...
0n30. A Cheap Cop Out?
I've heard from time to time, that 0n30 is a narrow gauge rip off. Mostly from the 0n3 modelers that i've run into. But I ask you, is it really? Now i'm not defending this scale because I own 0n30. But I gave the matter some thought over the past couple of years.
Walthers Car Float and Apron
I was wondering if anyone can tell me what is an appropriate era for a Walthers Car Float and Apron? I am looking for something that would fit in the 1930s to 1940s . I have the Walthers Car Float and Apron in hand but am just not sure if it fits my era.
Loving Life in Nothern Colorado
Dale
Designing a One Town Hawaiian Railway
Inspired by the one town layout concept, I want to explore what can be done in my space using On30 locomotives and rolling stock to represent a very small portion of the OR&L (Oahu Railway & Land Company).
Please share your thoughts and sketches!
I’ve added a “dream space” to keep in mind while developing the first module for future use in a layout. 3/24/18
Neil
10/23/18 Updated plan
Lehigh & Hudson River RR flanger
Hello,
Another project I worked on and is now complete..........an old Ambroid wood kit for a Lehigh & Hudson River RR flanger.
Follow along as I build this kit from start to finish.
My First Layout - HO Scale Maine set in the 1970s/1980s
Thanks for stopping by my blog and checking out what I am up to and providing essential feedback to make me a better modeler. I am going to only post new content here instead of the various posts I have started over the past few months.
Technically this is not my first layout. My first layout (DC) took 15 months to build the benchwork (three 4x8s in a U shape) and lay all the track. I never got to wiring it. I tore it up after realizing a few adustments would make the hobby more fun:
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