MODELING It's Monday, 02/22/2013, Weekend Modeling Accomplishments

Jim Wiggin Apr 22, 2013

  1. Jim Wiggin

    Jim Wiggin Staff Member TrainBoard Supporter

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    Another weekend is done, quickly the time passes when involved in doing what we enjoy.

    What was to be a busy weekend filled with track and soccer meets turned into a nice quiet modeling weekend. Cold weather and flooding caused the sport activities to be cancelled. Saturday I spent the majority of my time working on an airplane project that is due on May 11th but I took some time to walk the former ICG ROW with Angela after enjoying a nice lunch in Monticello. Sunday, work resumed on the airplane project but I also worked a few hours on my Atlas Maywood station kit that will go on the new T-Trak module I need to have completed for the N scale show in Columbus next month. A nice quiet weekend that will be in stark contrast to next weekend.

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    So how about you? Has the odd spring weather allowed you a few spare days to get some model railroad projects done? What did you work on this past weekend? DCC, track or scenery, whatever you may have done, let us know. A picture or two is nice. We'll come back on Friday the 26th and do it all over again. Until then, have a happy and safe week and...

    ​High Greens!
     
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  2. MisterBeasley

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    Half and half. I had Saturday for modeling. I removed the slightly misplaced wye turnout and shifted it back just a bit, and then I had to shave a bit of foam to move the carfloat apron back the same amount. I got the transition from the street-running girder rail to the wye working smoothly with a bit of filing, but then I found that the 0-6-0T was climbing the rails before it got to the wye. I switched to a larger 4-axle diesel, which negotiated that curve OK, and pulled my first string of cars off the carfloat, using the 3 idler flats as part of the process. It worked great, but pushing them back on proved to be a problem. At about the same spot as the little tank engine derails, one of the idler flats also left the track. I'm going to have to look at that area very carefully and figure out the problem. I haven't cleaned the paint off the rail heads on the float yet, so that increased friction could be putting too much stress on the cars further back on the curved track.

    Other than that, we had a nice day on campus as our daughter Annie was recognized for academic achievement at a morning ceremony and for her help in tutoring her schoolmates at another later in the day.
     

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