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Fun Names for Your Railroad - Railroad Name, Towns, Businesses, etc
Many people are very serious about the names of their railroad, towns, cities, and businesses - I'm not one of them. If you are strictly protoypical you may have to stick to actual names although many "real" names are humorous.
So here are a few of my favorites that I came up with:
"Hum-Drums" - "We're always trying to drum up business" (For a manufacturer / distributor of drums & barrels - owner Ima Drum)
Scale Model Animation 3 – Teaching The Crane Critter How to Crawl
Model animation—bringing models to life—adds enormously to the interest and enjoyment of any layout or individual model! In this installment I revisit The Crane Critter. In this installment, we begin to teach The Critter how to crawl, when, and where we need it to go!
The Crane Critter with a new? Coat of paint ready to go!
Building a GE 85 ton steeple cab: The Trucks
I am designing the trucks so that they fit into the atlas drives without gluing.
My initial design is good, but it will require some strengthening.
Here is an underside shot with the frame ground down and the truck side frames in place
I will be adding a inside end piece for strength and to keep the side frames square.
Building a GE 85 ton steeple cab: The new 3D print version arrives
My initial 3D print arrived and I have done the pre fitting over the Atlas HH600/660 frame.
I am happy with the body but have found a few design issues with my trucks.
I print using Shapeways.com and here you are able to see right into the model and I don't have any clearance issues with the drive.
Building a GE 85 ton steeple cab: The original display model
Here are a couple of shots of my original scratch built GE 85 ton steeple cab
Before details and the final frame.
Super Trees on hold - for a bit
My apologies to the folks wanting to see what I cooked up using the Scenic Express Super Tree kit! I have been busy with other projects, but rest assured, I will get them finished off this week.
With the fiasco of the big meet canceled last month, clam digging with my Dad and a few honey-dos popping up. I just haven't gotten in the mood to finish the rest of the trees and get some pictures. A few of them are still hanging on the clothesline waiting to get some sort of leafy coating.
Building a GE 85 ton steeple cab
Back a few years ago I started to scratch build a GE 85 ton steeple cab based on the two Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting had the 60 or more Utah copper owned. I finished it about a year ago as a non operational locomotive in a HO scale diorama.
Over the past year I have been designing HO cars in 3D and printing them though Shapeways.com.
The Atlas HH600/660 has a slightly larger bolster to bolster dimension than the actual 85 ton steeple cab but is a good platform for it.
After designing the cab and trucks I have started the locomotive with the plans of making two.
How do we add pictures to a post that can be viewed larger by clicking on them?
I noticed that some posts with pictures have the ability to be viewed larger. When you mouse over the picture a hand appears instead of an arrow. On the pictures with the hand when you click while the hand is on the picture it enlarges and the hand may turn into a plus (+) sign that if you click again the picture gets even larger.
How is this done during the posting? It the actual picture a link to another web location?
The Operations Race - what to do? I have an answer,
In my other post I posed the question on what to do if you / me don't like "Racetrain Operations". As I thought about it the answer became obvious - do what Lance Mindheim does- on your own layout operate at whatever speed you want! Duh! In my case I presently don't have a layout; however, as a member of the Central Florida Railroad Modelers I have access 24/7 to the layout so I can go in and do a little mini ops session at my own pace.
The Operations Race - what to do?
******* NOTE - the following is one man's opinion (mine) and for discussion purposes only - not to say there is a right or wrong way******
I'm a big fan of Lance Mindheim especially on his ideas on realistic operations and have his book "How To Operate A Modern Era Switching Layout" among others. Lance describes many techniques to slow down the operations process including "walk time" for conductors / brakemen, "3 Step", brake tests, opening / closing gates, and many others.
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