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Ideas for road bridges

Tue, 2013-07-02 19:38 — Drewrail

Good evening,

I am looking for ideas on building a couple of road bridges for my late 60’s early 70 HO era layout. I need bridges that will cover both single and double track areas. These bridges would be type of rural 2 lane bridges that were around then and could also double as scenery divider.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Andy Hauser

Minooka, IL

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Nostalgia reading

Tue, 2013-07-02 04:36 — pipopak

For those that enjoy reading old model railroading mags, this site:

http://www.trainlife.com/

has a lot of Railmodel Journal. Model Railroading, Rail News, Pacific Rail News, Model Builder (all the way to before WWII), Pacific News and Prototype Modeler available for online reading. FWIW. Jose.

Rail Fanning around the L&T Branch today...

Mon, 2013-07-01 05:59 — JLandT Railroad

Some selected photos from a rail fanning perspective today on the L&T Branch...

Pooled Power working hard on the L&T main...

Caboose in tow, ready to fill the middle and head out...

Apparently I didn't get the Memo

Sun, 2013-06-30 04:19 — George J

Must have missed the memo about the "sound board" effect of 2 in Styrofoam being much more noticeable than that of 1/2 in plywood - especially with the track laid directly on the foam.

Although I don't find it particularly objectionable, it is readily apparent when the train leaves the part of the layout with plywood subroadbed and moves onto the Styrofoam section. So, does anyone have any suggestions on how to attenuate this effect short of tearing up the track and relaying it on cork roadbed on top of the foam?

If not, I guess I can live with it.

Working Plastic with Solar Power

Fri, 2013-06-28 14:10 — Stoker

Modeling general discussion

Good afternoon from sunny Arizona:

This was taken in the shade of the porch on the north side of our house at 2:30 this afternoon. It is likely going to get a bit warmer. A couple days ago I received a box of Airfix 1/72 Gurkhas that need to be transformed into my Mexican quarry workforce, maybe I should just set them out in the sun so I can adjust their positions and squash rifles into shovels ??