I found this old photo taken at the NTRAK National Convention (West) in 1993. It was taken by Robert Schleicher and appeared in the magazine that he published at the time, Rail Model Journal.
Good morning from Northeast Ohio! Only managed to get one car done this week: Accurail 40' RBL Kit, added a Fishbelly Underframe to match the prototype, replaced the cast on grabs with Tichy Metal Grabs and the sill steps with A-Line Sill Steps. Car was painted with Floquil Reefer Orange and Scalecoat II Pullman Green, then lettered with Tom's Model Trains decals. Car was rebuilt into this configuration in 1954 from an older car and leased from North American Car Corp. for hauling Ballantine Beer from Newark, NJ to locations across the nation. While I only got one car done this week I did work on a GP35 for the Wabash Railroad, not a lot of extra detail parts on this one, but the grabs and lift rings have been installed and the roof of the cab has been painted in Aluminum prior to adding the Wabash Blue paint. Thanks for looking! Rick Jesionowski
A time warp to 1968 on the Playa Desnuda branch, just after the Southern Pacific took over all control of the Pacific Electric. The big hook was called out for a derailment It was just a jump to the left
I spent last weekend exploring Marsland, NE. First spotted a Blade Train headed for Wyoming. A while later, a few Fueslages showed up! Last, the fictional modern life of this real life ghost town is helped by a little steam and stagecoach tourism. Here's the the restored Mogul returning to town with the Stage Coach Special.
Mark, amazing work as always, one thing really stands out to me, how did you get your windmill to spin?
Wow, some great stuff already this weekend ! I Got out the old card reader and memory cards to find some old photos taken on one of my Ntrak modules just before it was completely stripped and rebuilt. Here are the first two. This photo was taken somewhere along Alameda Street near downtown Los Angeles sometime late 1942 or early 1943. Caught this short train of about a dozen M5 Stuart tanks being pulled by a consolidation. It had to have come from the GM plant in South Gate where they are building these. They are most likely just moving them to Taylor yard north of downtown and when they have enough to make up a full trainload they will head off to the SF Bay area where the War Department has a finishing and shipping facility at a Ford plant there. M5-tank-move-1 by nscalestation posted Oct 27, 2017 at 10:31 AM This second photo is a closeup of one of the flat cars as it passes the intersection. Taking a risk with these photos as there are war time restrictions on photos of military equipment. Railfan or spy ? M5-tank-move-2 by nscalestation posted Oct 27, 2017 at 10:32 AM Back story: I grew up in South Gate and remember playing on a tank they had in the park. It was not until many years later that learned the tank was an M5 Stuart and had been built at the local GM plant. Wanting to build up a train like this I had a hard time finding a good tank model. Did find some war gaming figures that were too heavy and one resin kit from Japan. Ended up using parts from both to make my own resin models. The Ford plant mentioned was in Richmond, CA and the part where the tanks were unloaded from the rail cars is now called the Craneway Pavilion and a number of train shows have been held there in recent years. Photos on the walls show these M5 Stuart and M4 Sherman tanks being unloaded there and yes, the tracks are still in the floor. The whole area is part of the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Site.
Thanks. I found a supplier of super tiny stepper linear actuators on eBay. Comes out to about 40 cents each. I decided to dissect one and was able to separate the motor into a free spinning unit. And there it is, a super tiny turning windmill motor.
Mark, are you using Raspberry Pi to test that motor out? How do you supply power on layout? Is it PWM control? (So many questions, so little understanding by me!).
My goodness. His name appears in a number of articles in a 1984 N Scale Model Railroading Manual I have on my shelf.
I've been in the hospital most of this week. An extremely low sodium level. Feeling better now but I got behind in my project. So I'll see ya next week
Well, I got to mucking about with some figures...I have this 974 that is on a bit of a destructive streak. It tried to take out my porch step, then it destroyed this iPhone, and then this poor sap is just trying to do his job, and the supervisors watch him like a hawk!
I have it programmed and running on Arduino. Servos use PMW, stepper motors turn by alternating polarity between two coils.
Worked on tweaking trackwork this week, and then could run trains. Here's a glimpse; Mark - that windmill is awesome, as is the rest of the modeling! Candy - take it easy n get well! Brad - the b/w pics sure fit the story. Nice!
