ACTRR my be dismantled and re-constructed

Thanks , It is VERY close.
Mike

 

Here is the newest video of the ACTRR.
Part 11 .

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Mike

 

Nice video Mike.:thumbs_up:

 

Thanks Bob , Man a week off flies by !!!
Mike

 

I have been working on the problem end of the layout. I think I have found a way to almost completely cover the loop into the garage wall window.
Here is the latest progress.







Mike

 

Looking good!

That red church in the last shot, is that a kit? Which one, if it is?
I could really use something like that.

 

TD it is all on the last page.
http://www.trainboard.com/grapevine/showthread.php?t=109494&page=10

Thanks , Mike

 

Thanks Rick , I am working on the overpass connecting both halves of town and will post pics this evening.
Mike

 

Looking good Mike.:thumbs_up::thumbs_up:

 

Thanks Bob , Mike

 

Here is what I did today. I had to build the new end as it went off the old layout so had no end on the right.







Mike

 

Wow... just came upon this thread today. Awesome work. Too bad that you had to tear down but it looks like a better layout is being born...

Thanks for sharing this project build with us.
Cheers

 

Thanks Tyler , Welcome aboard !!!

Mike :thumbs_up:

 

WOW!

That looks great!

I hope mine looks that good when its "done".

 

How did you get the arching effect to your overpass with the essentially flat Rix overpass sections? My long term plans call for a similar overpass, and I've been wondering how to get that kind of an appearance, rather than unrealistically angular effect I had been anticipating.

Great work!

 

Well , beleive it or not I pre bent all the parts by hand first and glued as I went by simply rubbing them warm with my fingers to shape. The Rix styrene is pretty easy to bend without breakage and the ends were scratched from Evergreen and sheet styrene.
Mike

 

Cool! Or should I say warm! I'm surprised that those railing sections would be that cooperative with bending that way. This did get me thinking about a technique my dad used many years ago to adjust plastic eye glasses frames. He had an old tin pound cake pan filled with white sand. He would put the pan of sand in the oven to heat it, then take it out of the oven and put the plastic to be bent into the sand...after a few minutes the plastic would be quite bendable without cracking.

 

Nice ! That is a cool church, I missed out on that one last year.

 

Wow, really nice lines on that bridge Mike. I'm impressed that the material responds that well to shaping.

Now about those clearances: any double stacks or Auto-Max's in your future? The MT auto rack is just making it...

Great work,
Gary