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Summertime at the Bridge to Nowhere
So the Bridge to Nowhere is all fixed up. More trees, shrubs, animals, people, autos, and trains too. A bit of paint around the outside of the diorama, and now I have something to show visitors when they stop by.
Santa is on the front of HBR 4200 making his traditional holiday tour.
Can we do a "post in progress" without posting it until we're ready?
Is there a way to work on an entry to this forum over a period of time without posting it for view by others? As an example I would start a subject, add text and pictures, and save it without posting so that I could work on it later. I would return to the same item and do additional postings (saving each one) over time until I was ready to post it to the forum visible for others to read / comment.
An interesting trend
Rails Along the Rio Grande 2017 - in review
This year's Rails Along the Rio Grande show was productive.
Wow do I miss my hobby...
Well this has been an 8 year journey. Modeling and running trains has been on mostly a hold.
My Mother passed away 5 years ago. That was real tough as she was my best friend. Miss her still terribly.
I cleared my mathematics credential in California. So I can now teach History and Math all the way to 12th grade. I teach 7th grade mathematics right now.
Finally, I have been finishing my Masters which I started, but stopped when my Mother passed. 3 more weeks and it is done...3 more weeks.
The Bridge to Nowhere
The only part of my Flin Flon layout I kept was the big bridge scene. I had built it to be moved and I am happy to say it survived the 1400km journey.
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This weekend I built a stand for it and got it out of its shipping crate I made. I was very pleased to see it was all intact. I had taken off a lot of small details before the move so once I figure out which box I put them in I can add them back to the scene.
SMA26 Revised TwinT Block Detector for DC and DCC Train Detection
I rarely run with DC train control. Yes, certainly in bench testing and on a test loop I will exercise DC models, but my focus is on DCC control, for the most part. Recently, I had an impassioned request for help with block detection on a DC layout, with a specific request to use the “venerable” Twin-T detector circuit. It led me down a path that I did not expect, and to this report, that may be of interest to modelers
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NNEScenic2 Build Blog
The build of the Northern New England Scenic Railroad version 2 has officially commenced. this new blog thread will document the build, which will probably go for many years. There is still some room prep going on that will stay in my planning thread. But all actual build will go here. I will start with a response showing the design again, to have it here in this thread for reference.
I look forward to the process and the wisdom and contributions others may make over the years to my build choices and progress.
-Ed
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