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A TRAIN TOO LONG
A train Too long. Has anyone else doe this?
One afternoon while messing around on the layout, I had to add a locomotive to a train to pull the two and a half percent grade. My layout is built mainly for switching with a rather short main line run. A normal train for me is around a dozen cars which one of my old original Atlas Alco units can easily handle.
The ongoing making of a branch line terminus, and stories...
This ongoing project started at the beginning of 2013.
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and was put on hiatus from March 2013
to December 2016.
The layout is almost ready, and now I'm having second thoughts
It's "go" time to start operating the layout. Then why am I having these second thoughts? Since 1979 I've been flying helicopters for America's Army. That's pretty much my whole adult life. My flying continues at age 60, although as an evil contractor. Most of these flying years has been in attack/gunship versions. Army flying is old hat stuff for me.
Converting to an oil burner locomotive
At the moment I have 4 loco projects on the bench.
From Bachmann a 2-6-0, 2-8-0 and a 0-6-0 porter and the last a Brass 3 truck lima shay by precision scale.
I am a freelance modeler at the most and focus on logging and shortline operations. My aim is to model a shortline that interchanges with a logging operation (at the moment based on the NP Yacolt Branch).
Show us your turntable pits.
Lately I have been working on the pit of my TT.
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I have found various images of pits on the net and narrowed it down to one as a guide, but I'd like to see how other fellow members have weathered, graveled, stained, etc their pits.
How long is a Trinity 31,000-gallon DOT-111 crude-oil tank car?
A quick Google search didn't readily yield any relevant results. About how long in feet is a modern 31,000-gallon, crude-oil tank car prototype? I recently bought a bunch of Atlas' new TrinityRail 31K crude-oil tank cars in N-scale. The Atlas cars are pretty neat, complete with BLMA trucks (with blue hubs), 36" BLMA metal wheel-sets, and body-mounted, brown BLMA couplers (how are these different from the BLMA models?). Thanks!
AAPRCO???
It was a special trip to the train yard today to see what the American Association of Passenger Rail Car Owners train that is staying here for a couple of days for their convention. They have a webpage if you want to know more about them. They have ways to charter a car or a seat and tour different parts of the country. We rubbed shoulders with some very friendly people there today.
It's an Uphill Battle!
Information any model railroader may already know... but, James Mays always seems to present these things in an entertaining, and informative way. (I blame this man for getting me back into Model Railroading, what with his "Flying Scotsman with Authentic Chuffing Sound")
Dry transfers instead of decals over existing paint job?
This is somewhat of a continuation question from a previous one about decal application.
For an existing, finished paint job, are you better off applying dry transfers instead of (waterslide) decals?
I ask this based on decals needing a glossy surface and that decals will be glossy and show edges when applied. I've never done dry transfers, but I figured they'd be a better application on a paint job you don't plan to touch ever again.
Thanks!
CDMV
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