I’ll keep that in mind! Not sure how I want to work those switches yet, haha! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Thank you Pastor John for your insight on this type of equipment. Hard for me to judge the size from the photos I have been looking at. For the plate part I used a hole punch to punch out a disk of styrene and it's about 4 scale feet across. I have since added a washer to the bottom of that and it's slightly larger, maybe about 4.5 scale feet.
Almost nothing since Christmas. I'd planned on packing up the trains and going back to the university drudge (and my workbench), but a sudden family emergency postponed all my plans. The one thing I did do was to experiment a little with focus stacking to combat the poor depth-of-field that plagues smartphone photos of N scale scenes. Here's a before/after test with an 89-foot passenger car at a hard-to-photograph angle: Once I iron out the bugs in the process and life returns to some semblance of normalcy I'll make a tutorial.
You mean these canoes? That's Water, you just need your other pair of glasses ...NOT Good catch btw... now I know who is in charge of the Layout Police, or LP as we call them BTW, it's just a joke
That's all right. I also like putting something weird on my layout so someone asks "What is that?!?!?"... I'm not getting any younger either... ya never know!
Well, down with another bout of this ongoing "100 Day Crud". (No. It is NOT Covid.) Friday night the same co-worker came to work sick, and at lunch proceeded to once again hack and cough all over everyone sitting at our table. I wanted so badly to duct tape her mouth shut! So, come Sunday night, sick again. I did manage to get some train orders from my collection organized and filed Saturday, but that was almost it. For model railroading I did get started trying to create a farm scene on a T-Trak module, but there it ended. Felt lousy, tried to watch some football. Bored. Fell asleep. Oh well.
Didn't cut myself too difficult a task for the weekend. Therefore, I nailed it! 1. Read all your posts that I missed. I came away impressed with how much was done. Good to catch up with all of you. 2. Reviewed what I was working on and decided it was time to finish Mikado UP 2295. I have danced around this project with all sorts of distractions. I need you all to keep me focused until it is finished. First thing was to order a new garage heater. The old one is kaput and the weather is turning cold. The few months while I was away from Trainboard were filled with several adventures. From mid-August until October 14th, I was consumed with preparation for my daughter’s wedding. Took some time for my mother-in-law’s 90th birthday party in September. As if I wasn’t busy enough, we purchased a property across the street with an old house the week before the wedding. There is a train room in my future! A somewhat distant future, to be sure. Then came the wedding which made all the work worthwhile. It was both a truly special event in my life and “The Big Dancy Party” the couple wanted. I am exceedingly grateful to have shared that father-daughter dance. Post wedding was just as busy. It took a couple weeks to return to normal while trying to do the undone. Just in time to prepare for Thanksgiving. That is not usually very difficult, but the newlyweds had invited us to Ithaca, New York for the holiday. Preparations were slightly more involved as the now 90-year-old mother-in-law was traveling with us. All in all, it was a great trip. Got to hang out with the granddog and grandrabbit. Consumed way too much food for 8 days. Thoroughly enjoyed myself. Returned home with work to do on the new house. Finishing up the selection of a designer and builder. Arranging for removal of the old house. Suddenly it was the Solstice-Christmas-New Year Festivals. Guests from out of town. Family get togethers. More food to eat! There is no such thing as a free lunch. After all those good times, the moment had arrived to take care of less enjoyable responsibilities. Been a week since the surgery and I am feeling much better. Still not quite ready for singing and dancing, but nobody wants to hear or see me do either. I am ready for some regular train time.
I was able to get the track bus wired under one section and add the ACC bus to much of the existing benchwork. I also added three DCC Specialties Wabbits to drive six Tortoise and am currently pulling my hair. So far functionality is limited to the primary address plus three routes, but I should be able to program 13 routes. Frustrating, but I am determined to figure this out.
