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Great Northern Piggyback Special 1968 edition
When I was looking though my Great Northern In Color Vol: 1 Lines West I came across a picture of an unusual train sitting at Spokane taken on a summers evening. The captions states "On June 20, 1968, Train #5, the Piggyback Special, is serviced in twilight... The train's consist included an RPO, and storage mail and express cars as well as TOFC flats." The photo shows a A-B-B consist of F units, followed by a storage mail, then RPO and 6 TOFC flatcars with a full load of GN trailers I decided I needed to model this train.
German Trains & the Roses visit the Richlawn Railroad.
Today Michael Rose and the Mrs. visited us for great food, fellowship, and fun! My day started at 7am as I fired up the smoker to smoke the 6-1/2 pound prime rib roast that I had marinated overnight in the fridge. Four hours of smoking with apple wood and it was medium rare. Below is a shot of the roast, a rib, and some potato wedges just before consumption. Not show was broccoli, rolls, and butter. Our guests also brought us a nice bottle of merlot!
An Open Letter to Charlie Getz
After receiving my NMRA bulletin this morning and reading president Charlie Getz's discussion of Caboose Hobbies closing, I felt compelled to write a response. First, here is a summary of what Mr. Getz wrote:
Great News for Those Who Couldn't Attend My Last Clinic
I recieved an email recently with some great news. I have a request to do a double clinic at the Midwest Regional Convention in April. This will be in Rockford Il. and they want me to do it twice on a Saturday. I will also be a main speaker (reason people should come) though am still awaiting final verdict from my parents.
Your Modeling Season?
Thoughts about when you do most of your modeling?
My layout lives in the uncooled third floor of my home, so it can be brutally hot during high summer. However, I do have A/C in other areas, where I can work on structures or rolling stock. So I tend to work on the layout itself during the cooler months, and structure and rolling stock projects during the warmer ones.
Nick
My experiement with lighting photos with a 50w LED spotlight
I'm lighting my layout with Michael Rose's style LED boards and I'm very happy with the results. In another post on this website someone mentioned an LED spotlight and I was curious on if I could use one on my layout (our layouts that I visited to improve photos. Yes, I know that you aren't supposed to mix light types so that could be an issue on other layouts.
Here's the LED spotlight that I purchased that arrived today:
SPSF Meadow Sub: GP7 (Front Range Products) Powering Project (Kato)
This weekend I started a powering project and thought it would interest fellow modelers on this site, so I will post the steps here as I go along.
SMA25 Tinkering with DCC++ Base Stations: JMRI To Track Connections, Accessories & Fun
Take the 2 boards pictured below, download the efforts of Gregg E. Berman, the creator of DCC++: https://sites.google.com/site/dccppsite/, add 2 wire jumpers and you have a DCC base station that can be controlled with multiple throttles directly from your PC. It will also act as a $9 JMRI to DCC hardware interface—really!
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