Just thought i would put a few pics of last weeks work. A weathered coni with a new coal load. Didn't get a chance to do anything this weekend as i went away for a break fly fishing.

Ill be back into it tomorrow with a bachman 4-8-2 to weather. Also going to be very busy over the next few months with bunch of laser kits coming to make (bar mills and branchline). I plan to make construction threads and photograph them as i build if anyone is interested.

Anyway the pics.

Ok so I would like change a facility on my railroad to a truck loading/unloading facility and I would like to "pave" the area around the facility including the area around the rails. In other words i would like the typ of faciltity where the paving is the same height as the railhead around and in between the rail, hopefully this makes sense. What materials or material would be best to accomplish this? Hopefully a material that I can get a smooth asphalt finish with but that doesnt matter that much.

 Don

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Any ideas on how to make the wood-chips more realistic? I have never seen n scale wood chips or an idea of what to use. Anybody have an idea? Maybe weathering, I don't know, the chip insert just looks hokey.

 

Here is a new video of the Albuquerque Carnuel & Tijeras RR and the new Intermountain F7's with modified NCE FT decoders installed.
Thanks Gang, Mike & Robin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w9dhRAp5z8

Hey Guys im in the process of desinging a new layout and thought i would post up the plan and get a few of you to offer your advice and tell me what could be done better. Its always better to have more then one set of eyes.

Anyway A bit of background on it. firstly it is designed to wrap around an 600mm concrete wall in my unit with two modules on either side and an end one connecting them. It is desgned to give two 2 metre by half metre modules and the end connecting one.

 I plan to scenic the two large models first.

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I want to post a public thanks to fifer (Who is a member here) for excellent service. I just placed a rather small order with him and the service was excellent as always........

SO where can I go to post FLAMES about my the  (Experlative deleted) phone company?????

If anyone remembers earlier pictures of my City of Saint Barbara, you may note that I never showed the other side of town.  That's because there was nothing there.  So, over the past several weeks I have been constructing new buildings and rehabilitating some old structures to populate the other main street in town, Schuylkill Avenue.  I have a couple of quick shots here and I'll try to get some better pictures later.

This is a view from the yard level looking up at the city. Constructed the bridge from a piece of foam board and some strips of wood.

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Well, This posting is to announce my new, future N scale model railroad layout:  The Prairie State Railroad Company.  The PSRC is a railroad that is completely contained within the State of Illinois and moves primarily freight.  We left the passenger trains to those larger lines with their fancy streamliners, we move freight, more money to be made).  The PSRC is set in late 1954 and is still primarily steam powered.  Mainline steam power consists of "NKP-look-alike" 2-8-4s with cosmetic changes to give them a different look, USRA 2-8-2, 4-6-2, 4-8-2 and 2-10-2s

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My new layout is going to need a passenger station. I already got a Clarksville Depot and another lil Walthers builtups depot... but their both nice small stations. I need a major station.

 Time period is mid 50's, but I'm pretty flex at this point.

 any recomendations for a kit?

<p>I’m going to be spending some time tidying up the site. This site has been online for over 2 years now and have officially published 112 articles! During that time I’ve found that there are things that have become redundant and others items that are becoming increasingly important. One of the more ‘major’ additions I made [...]</p>

Woodland Scenic’s roadbed is too wide. For the past year I’ve been staring at the rails on the NES, and now the WGR, trying to figure out why the track seems so crude and toy like. Originally I presumed it was because of rail size - having used code 80 on the NES. I changed rail [...]

Here are some more videos of the WHRC in action. I've also updated the earlier post to include preview images of the videos. [MEDIA=5] [MEDIA=6] [MEDIA=8] [MEDIA=9]

The WGR is progressing slowly - and that which is being done isn't really worth a feature here. In an effort to maintain some sort of publishing regime, I'm going to start uploading a series of videos of the Windsor Hantsport Railway Company. I want to extend a huge thank you to Kim "Grizzz" Little - [...]

Progress has been steady and I’ve completed the basic structure for the first bridge.  As mentioned, I’m attempting to pay better attention to non-train details - thus I’ve put a little more thought into this simple bridge then I would have in the past. I’ve decided to freelance the bridge design based on local examples, as [...]

Before I can proceed much further in the layout I need to finish the wiring, weather the track, and install the concrete bridges for the highway. My last layout taught me that while trains are number one, it’s important to give roads/houses/industries and their elevations equal thought. I have seen (and am guilty [...]

Having completed the track I was eager to try running some trains. I had been rather cavalier when I installed the track work - not bothering to test each turnout etc., in favour of simply finishing the job. As such, I was eager to get trains running and see how I did. The verdict? I managed [...]