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A gizmo for painting wheelsets without removing them from trucks
Probably the result of staying up too late:
I had a few wheel sets to paint. Rather than remove the wheels from their trucks, I thought there might be an easy way to spin the wheelset while holding a loaded paintbrush to the wheel.
I took a practice hockey puck, and drilled a hole in its center for a press fit on the shaft of a Switchmaster stall motor switch machine. The Switchmaster was connected to a variable DC power supply. The contraption is strapped to an L-shaped bracket made from scrap plywood.
Never Buy a Locomotive Assembled on Sacred Burial Ground
This project started innocently enough, add DCC sound to an Athearn RTR CF7. I failed to explore the unexplained feelings of foreboding as I removed the loco from the packaging: static grass laid flat and Super Trees shed their ground foam foliage. Passengers in the station fell off the benches.
Read below for the rest of the story ...
Revisiting Standpipe project
I've been meaning to build this tower, but had difficulty trying to figure out the dimensions
until today when I found this
So (in HO scale) the dimension would be about 15 inches high with a diameter of 2 5/8 inches.
Now I have to find out if it would be painted like this in 1956.
How were tall bents built for wooden trestles?
I'm contemplating building a timber trestle and have a question about how really tall bents were constructed. What tricks were used when the needed length of a bent exceeded the tallest trees available in a given area? Are there any links anyone could point to for information on how this issue was addressed? Photos are good...
Signal control, the best recommendation for remote controls for a three way junction. Crystal Brook South Australia.
Hi All
I am looking at modeling a location in the Mid North of South Australia, its a three way junction, from Broken Hill, to Adelaide and Port Augusta, called Crystal Brook.
I am after suggestions for ways to control the points and signals combined.
When things are that old, there is no fixing them...
Over the past three weeks I having busy programming the logic for the layouts signal system into JMRI - Panel Pro and testing it out on the already installed signals on the layout.
DCC mobile train car lighting decoder
Hello to all!
I would like to present to our community an DCC mobile decoder. Decoder schematic is based on Geoff Bunza DCC decoders and programing on his sketches. His work inspire me to create something unusual - decoder for train carts. This decoder is programmable over cheap USBtiny programmer with Arduino IDE. So anytime someone who want make some changes to sketch will be able to do it.
Decoder running cold - NO HEAT :)
Making a gutter
Recently, I posted this picture of a little house on a What's on Your Workbench? thread.
Clubs or Groups in Minnesota
Hi there,
I live in Minnesota (Minneapolis) and have been modeling for over 30 years and would like to know if there are any active groups in Minnesota that are accepting new members, have a layout, need work done, operating sessions etc.? I've looked around the web and have found some sites, but they all look like they are many years old and when I contact the moderator I never hear back.
Any good Minnesotan's out there that know any? I model the Milwaukee Road in the 60's - 70's.
Thanks,
Tim
Mascoutin Valley Railroad Layout Update 010 - Sewage Back up and track 'how to.'
This update comes on the heels of a disaster we had last week in the basement. We had a sewage backup and it put all model railroad activities to a halt. Repairs and clean up occupied most of my modeling time.
I’m going to have to rip out my workbench and replace it since it is no longer sanitary. So all model building and dcc work has stopped. To get even more “down in the dumps,” I also had to remove my module set up station and moved my modules to the garage.
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