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Temporary Layout
Hi All,
Recently some very surprising circumstances forced my wife, daughter, and I to move in to her parent's home while we wait for our house to "be complete" which should be some time around Spring. This of course left me in a tough spot layout wise as I had nothing to permanently setup and operate, so I figured I'd create a temporary, mobile, and cheap layout to hold me over until a more permanent layout could be deigned and implemented.
What size home-made ballast should I use (with comparison pictures)
OK, I know that some people get pretty vocal on their opinions about the right ballast size, so I hope I'm not opening up a can of worms here, but....
Extruded Polystyrene Rigid Insulation foam after 3 years/now almost 8 years later.
Today I hauled my modules out of storage; they were in there for over three years. The Extruded Polystyrene Rigid Insulation foam has shrunk a bit, but by only just under 1/8 of an inch on a piece 80 inches long. However it did not shrink in thickness. In some places the gluing of it to the hollow core door did come undone, but not down at the ends against the 3/4 inch ply. I can't recall what type of adhesive I used. I think I'll screw it down with screws in a washer and sink them flush with the foam.
Horseshoe & Cottonwood Update #13
Progress has slowed as studying took over, but some progress has been made with scenery and track work with 98% of the roadbed complete and 95% of track installed and wired. Only two more switches/tortoises to install and the rest is mainline run. Aside from the frontage, scenery is in through the second titular town of Horseshoe Meadows shown:
The first train into Horseshoe Meadows.
Hot Trains
What ever happened with the "Hot Trains" video series? It seems to have died after issue #1 on the Bear Creek and South Jackson. John Colley, Sonoma, CA, old hand, new e-mail address
New toy for my other model railroad
OK my other model railroad is the live steam park, Train Mountain. So we got a new toy to use for our LAYOUT MAINTENANCE. Its called a Brush Blazer, what a beast! A quickie test today, we cleared about an acre in less than an hour! Russ
http://trainmtn.org/tmrr/index.shtml
The beast:
Before:
Air brush recommendations
Okay guys, suggestions needed. The wife says what do you want for Christmas? I was racking my brain because there really isn't anything I am needing. Then it occurred to me, an airbrush. I have always wanted to try weathering using an airbrush. So.......what do you guys use? I don't need anything fancy. Just something I can do some basic weathering on cars, structures and track. trying to keep it under 100 bucks including the compressor.
feeder wires
When wiring your bus wires and feeder wires, I'm using # 14 for the bus and # 18 single strand copper wire for my feeders. Do you think that #18 is a good size or should I go #16. I heard that #18 may create too much resistance because it's small, true but still it's a copper wire which is a good conductor in itself and the feeders are short. I use suitcase connectors to connect the feeders to the bus.
What do you think ?
Chuck
Help needed on Woodland Scenics Glue Spray/Scenic Cement
I have just watched a YouTube movie about fixing down ground foam. he uses a spray bottle of what he calls Scenic Cement. he mentions that it has a built in surface tension breaker. When I check out Scenic Cement, it mentions that it can be spread by a brush. Is THIS the right stuff?
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