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jbvb
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 Posted - 02/21/2012 : 07:29:40 AM
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Last night I took a break from structures and got going on the diamond crossing in West Lynn. This is where the Gear Works track crosses the future wye.
The diamonds I'd built previously were in Code 100, where the rail bases touch and leave a reasonable HO flangeway. Not in Code 70; I needed brass shim under it all for the guardrails. I hadn't found a picture of one of the low-cost industrial track diamonds I remember from 40 years ago, but on reflection this would have been built in 1942 so heavier construction is warranted.
I am trying leaving the wye rails continuous and cutting the flangeways later. Down the line, I hope I can detail this for NMRA Civil AP judging, but it's more important to me that it operate well.
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Pacbelt
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Posted - 02/21/2012 : 11:49:22 AM
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Nice track work!!! :)
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jbvb
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Posted - 02/29/2012 : 11:09:17 PM
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Thanks, Carmine. I'm pretty sure I can make it operate well; I'm less sure I can make it realistic enough to qualify for the NMRA's Civil Engineering AP. But I'll burn that bridge when I come to it...
While I was waiting for glue to dry on my Challenge project, I got started on the other rail.
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jbvb
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Posted - 03/11/2012 : 11:15:09 PM
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Today's model work was all on my Challenge project. This is the shed addition I scratchbuilt for my B.E.S.T "Clam Box".
Anyone running a fryer in late August will want the windows open, but even in a rural area the Health Officer will require screens. I used some package wrapping ribbon I kept from a few Xmases ago for the screen. white-glued to the window frames. At twice life-size, it's clear a bumblebee could fly through the mesh, but at normal viewing distances I like it.
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LandNnut
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Posted - 03/11/2012 : 11:30:59 PM
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L&N nut
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bror hultgren
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Posted - 03/12/2012 : 1:03:07 PM
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Living in Ipswich one knows that it is more important to keep the GREENHEADS out!
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Twist67
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Posted - 03/20/2012 : 5:39:50 PM
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HI,
nice progress on your layout.Things coming together more and more...I hope to get back to my own layout,soon...
Where do you went to your vacation in Germany?
Regards,Chris
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jbvb
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Posted - 03/21/2012 : 11:06:23 PM
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Thanks, Mike. I've admired your work here and in magazines; it's been two decades since the winds of business blew me to Ottawa (Via was still using steam heat, I got some nice night slides, but have no good way to scan them) but maybe I'll see it in person some day.
Chris, I visited family near Kulmbach and afterward escorted my daughter to Gottingen for a senior term abroad.
Bror, I've got friends in Ipswich, including a couple of modelers. I live about 20 miles away. But in my model world it's late August or early September and greenhead season is past, so screens are only needed against saltmarsh mosquitoes at night and on cloudy days.
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jbvb
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Posted - 03/24/2012 : 4:32:04 PM
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I took some pictures of the mostly-finished Clam Box, featuring Rt. 1A's new pole line and the detail painting on the railroad's telegraph poles.
Once I escape the computer vortex, I'll start on the structures for the area between Rt. 1A and the Little River.
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MisterBill
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Posted - 03/28/2012 : 5:27:01 PM
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The Clam Box, that's good. The places that're out there.
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jbvb
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Posted - 03/30/2012 : 06:45:41 AM
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This is only indirectly progress on the layout. But boy, does it make me feel organized:
The binding was done by a librarian friend who specializes in that. It cost me a lot more than buying MR's DVD, but I don't have to start a Windows box to use them. The bookcases are just as homebrew as they look...
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deemery
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Posted - 03/30/2012 : 09:04:05 AM
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A trick to prevent the sag in bookcases like this is to cut down the shelves by about 3/4" and glue a 1 1/2" strip of wood to the front. This serves as a stiffener and also adds a bit of decoration to the shelves. Normally I cut dadoes to make bookcases (for some reason I really like doing that on a table saw.) But don't ask why the one bookcase I made has shelves that slant in them. (Lined up the top of the dado on one side with the bottom of the dado on the other side. DUH!!!!)
dave
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LVRALPH
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Posted - 03/31/2012 : 06:50:09 AM
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Nice!!!!!!!!!!
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bror hultgren
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Posted - 04/15/2012 : 3:47:07 PM
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James,
Unless your B&M is operating in mid winter, you will need to a crowd a (la Mike Hamer) lined up for those tasty morsels:
Bror
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