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Loop around my layout
Here is a video ride around my layout. I used a Go Pro which is a bit wider than a few spots on the layout. A bit of editing to speed up the journey. Enjoy.
Tim
We Now Have Track!!! (School Club Beginnings)
After a short wait I have great news. Over the weekend I received the first donations for our school layout. They are an extremely generous amount of products from Augusta Track creator of a modular track system (website link: http://www.augustatrack.com/)
Their card
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The Power Packs and Signs
Transfer Terminal Kitbash: Fiber Optics
In comments on my last post, someone asked about the routing of the optical fiber. I think "routing" is too dignified a word for what I did, but here's a closeup:
Three and no more???
Three and no more....
Three what? Hobbies, of course - and three projects per hobby. My best friend's Dad once said to make sure that you limit your hobbies / interest to three and no more. The reasoning is that is you go beyond three you will not be able to do justice to / enjoy your hobbies and interests. Yes, you can do more than three; however, you can become to diluted - just like too much water in a good bourbon ( I am a Louisville, Kentucky boy!)
The great battle between Leverettrailfan and the B&M Dietz Vesta
Okay, you guys and gals are probably thinking "oooooh, I wonder what this is! It sounds like a movie trailer, and a bit exaggerated, but I'll look anyway because the title sounds catchy.". Well, basicly, I ordered a B&M Dietz vesta, it came today, I found the wick was the wrong size and had been sloppily trimmed, the wick tube was loose, and the fuel tank/burner assembly was not coming out. I managed to get it out using a hammer, and a skrew driver (the lantern is fine, it wasn't as nasty as it sounds, and I did try using maximum strength first).
Cleaning up the power wiring -- Phase 1 (east zone) Complete
Well, this afternoon I celebrated being able to run a sound loco from one end to the other with no hickups or hangups -- save for the occasional spot of dirty track. All the zone lights triggered as they should have. And the hand laid curved turnouts were traversed without a hitch. Granted, it was my Rapido GMD-1... heavy enough to be well behaved.
SMA17 – Cheap Flicker Free Car Lighting for DCC, DC, and AC – a New Kind of KAOS
Model animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! Recently a fellow modeler (George hohon3) asked if there was a simpler and cheaper way to have flicker free car lighting in his passenger cars, without expensive keep-alive circuitry. I gave him some solutions already known in the hobby, but these were not satisfying him, nor me. I even referred him to the battery KOAS article in the November 2014 issue of MRH – but no, he wanted something simpler.
Railyard Productions will be broadcasting LIVE from the Lincoln Funeral
If you would like to watch Railyard Productions live broadcast you should "Follow" me on Twitter then you will get a message when I start my broadcast. http://twitter.com/robteed48808
9:00AM Saturday Morning May 2nd: Removing the Presidents casket from the Lincoln Funeral Car and placing it in the horse drawn hearse. I will be broadcasting this.
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