Lookin' good Grey. MMMmmmmm coffee.... Oh yeah coffee.... i love coffee. i better get some too. It's 9 am here.
Your layout is looking great. Keep up the good work! Wine bottle corks and water towers.... It reminds me the beginning time in the hobby. When I was 8 years old, my father and I used popsicles sticks to make telephone polls holding the wires going to the swithches:idea:. They were hot glued in place in holes in the plywood. Old furnitures can also be very useful. An old long table have a test track on the top and a lot of place to store some rolling stock and other things.
Bob - :: Deep rolling chuckle :: You have warned me time and again about that. I fullly respect you and the idea. I would not be a: Single, Unemployed, 51 yo living in a 3 bedroom townhouse if I took all of the advice I was ever given. That said: Please always give any advice you have. So far I have followed 98 percent of it and with great gratitude. I'm Train Fan: Thanks
Stev: I'll pass along any helpful advice I can give give you... Have fun.... Stay cool and run steam....
Steve- Nice progress. It is a good thing you did not use Starbuck's - Strong coffee eats right through blueboard. I imagine the foam would be an ok backing for the painting surface. I don't know how well it would look if painted directly onto the foamboard. It is not a smooth surface. However, as a backing for a sheet of acrylic, it should do fine or if you want to put it against a wall, it would be ok, too. I would just fear it sticking out into a room and a coffee crazed guy knocking into it and snapping it in half.
Mark, - Email sent from my main email account. I wish I did. Here are the rest of them: http://www.windingstream.com/Photos/nh/robynsnhpics903.htm Enjoy
Grey and Grandure loop laid and lightly tested, (despite 3 dates this weekend). The engine in all of the pics is the Model Power 4-4-0. Black “dot” in the on the grade in the back is the Model Power 4-4-0. Atlas ATSF SD24 in above picture. The black dot above the table leg is Model Power 4-4-0. The black dot on the curve to the right is the Model Power 4-4-0. The black dot on the unsupported 4% grade is the Model Power 4-4-0. Can you find the black dot in this picture? [ November 07, 2005, 07:29 PM: Message edited by: Grey One ]
Steve: That's good news. That's a hefty grade for such a small loco. Did you have any wheels spinning? Stay cool and run steam......
Wheeles spinning? Not while I was pushing. Um, I mean, no, not that I noticed. I do have to admit I was runnning it with a full head of steam most of the time. It did run slowly on straight level track. It did find a #4 turnout I forgot to file.
Wow looking Great Steve!!!! That Unitrack sure makes life easy.... Do you have any other Yellow Units
Bob - That is not a dot, it is a : "Model Power 4-4-0" [ November 07, 2005, 11:31 PM: Message edited by: Grey One ]
Grey, I am at the about to lay track stage with most of my cork laid. That is when I got distracted by dreaming about other rail related things. Although I think soonI will have to resume the progress.
Touché! LOL Yes, the Unitrack has made the almost undoable for me – the achievable. Oh, and that is “Great Northern” not “Great Steve”. As for “other yellow units” Yes, why actually I do have quite a few canary yellow with grey. Let's see - 3 LL GPs - 1 Bman GP 1 Concor? 85' high cube Oh, wait, let me see here. Would you believe al_ of them seem to have been scheduled for patch jobs?
Steve- I am quite relieved. For a moment, I thought is was one of the rare, poisonous red backed Boston beetles (pestum Bostonus, miniatusaum, insectum non gratis), indiginous to dwelling areas of human males in coastal Massachusetts populated areas.
