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bror hultgren
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 Posted - 01/01/2015 : 5:30:27 PM
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James, All the scenery work is really pulling the layout together. GORGEOUS.
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jbvb
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Posted - 01/12/2015 : 3:06:24 PM
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Thank you, Pete, Lynn & Bror.
Today's post is sponsored by this month's "Unfinished Symphony" gallery ( http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44342 ). This project ran around my layout just as Rapido made it for four years.
Today Victor C. came over, and in between showing him techniques to build a P2K boxcar with separate ladders & grabs, I cut off the unprototypic (for the B&M) skirt remnants, opened it up and applied tape window shades. But since I actually finished it (there's light weathering around the trucks & roof), I wasn't sure it should go in the gallery.
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bror hultgren
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Posted - 01/12/2015 : 9:18:49 PM
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James,
Did the American Flyer cars run through Rowley? (Still have some goobers in the optics)
Bror
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jbvb
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Posted - 01/12/2015 : 9:41:24 PM
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I see the cruft, Bror, but the only known (to me) alternative to figuring out how to clean it myself is driving to Melrose on two consecutive days and paying ~$75.
AF (Osgood Bradley to those who have trademark lawyers after them) cars were the first choice for Boston - Portland trains from delivery to the arrival of the stainless-sheathed lightweights in 1947, and some of them used the Eastern. Even right before through service ended in 1952 Rowley saw #21 (unnamed, no consist listed) and #22 the Penobscot with three sleepers and "deluxe streamlined coaches Bangor - Boston". But only momentarily, as neither stopped.
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Orionvp17
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Posted - 01/12/2015 : 11:07:10 PM
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James,
Optical goobers or not, I like the image, and the progress is cool, too! I have a bunch of candidates for the Unfinished Symphony and Choices Challenges, and need to find the time to rise to the occasions. You have done this....
Bravo! 
Pete
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Twist67
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Posted - 01/13/2015 : 09:45:33 AM
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Hi,
Your layout is looking great.Scenery is growing very fine....Nice work,keep it going.
Cheers,Chris
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Mike Hamer
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BessemerBob
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Posted - 02/11/2015 : 9:08:09 PM
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How did the Eastern Route hold up through the snow storms?
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jbvb
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Posted - 02/11/2015 : 9:34:35 PM
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Bob, so far all my roofs have held up, so the Eastern Route is fine. But the snow is a foot above the windowsill in front of me as I type, and moving it around has consumed energy that might have gone to RR projects. A couple more snowstorms are expected, then maybe it'll warm up a bit next week.
I'm in the middle of restaging for my next op session, which has led to completing weighbills I'd only put one or two entries on, messing around with a weighbill-generating spreadsheet a more experienced operator gave me, playing with spreadsheet programs to clean up some errors on it and so forth. I've spent some of my snow-free time today looking into a dedicated layout LED power supply, which goes slowly. I'm not an EE and nobody else seems to have had the idea I have, so I've looked at 50 or more circuits, forums discussing them, etc.
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nhguy
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Posted - 02/11/2015 : 11:48:04 PM
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Looking good there James. I've got a B&M OB car that trails my Washingtonian and Montealer passenger trains. Very good looking scene. Bill
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jbvb
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Posted - 02/23/2015 : 5:29:59 PM
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Thanks, Bill.
Finally, thanks to a weekend with only 4" of snow and one roof to clear, plus an above-freezing day with sun, actual layout progress:
Acme Fast Freight is a major, high-priority customer in my version of West Lynn, with cars dispatched 6 days a week to other regional hubs. Because their prototype Boston-area location was in Malden, I didn't have to research anything; I bought a Walthers Allied Electronics background building because it had enough windows to work with my 'staging viewer' holes. The brick fill areas got hit with leftover paint in an airbrushing session a year or two ago.
Yesterday afternoon I decided I was tired of looking at the cardboard mock-up and started sawing.
I used model airplane cement for the joints and reinforced them with .100 x .188 styrene strips located to support any floors I decide to install. And yes, it's big enough and my workbench had sufficient other stuff on it that this has been a stand-up job, using the track as a work area.
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Dutchman
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Posted - 02/23/2015 : 5:49:10 PM
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James, it is good to see you take advantage of the time Mother Nature was nice enough to give you. Rare this past month, for sure.
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Originally posted by jbvb
The brick fill areas got hit with leftover paint in an airbrushing session a year or two ago.
Now that is what I call planning ahead.
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And yes, it's big enough and my workbench had sufficient other stuff on it that this has been a stand-up job, using the track as a work area.
Been there a few times.
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LynnB
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Posted - 02/23/2015 : 6:23:59 PM
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I like to plan ahead but everything else seems to take priority. Keep plugging away James.
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MarkF
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Posted - 02/23/2015 : 9:49:42 PM
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Lookin good! It will be fun to see this structure come to life.
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jbvb
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Posted - 02/26/2015 : 8:59:35 PM
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Thanks, Lynn & Mark. Bruce, because Floquil has changed thinners over the years, I usually use lacquer thinner when airbrushing; it works with all versions, but I can't put leftovers back in the jar. So when I mix too much, I wind up patrolling the layout room looking for current & future projects that could stand some of this color of paint.
Yesterday I planned a quick trip to Newburyport to get some detail photos & measurements of the first firehouse ('Deluge #1', built 1864) before it was demolished. The city was delaying the owner's plan to replace it with condos, and somehow nobody bothered to shovel the roof. The rear part, which looks a little tired here, finally collapsed Monday.
This photo from happier & warmer days shows its final occupant, which moved out a couple of years ago. I will model it as Lawler's store with a dry cleaner in the recent 1-story addition. Then I took a look at one of the roofs of my mother's house and decided it needed shoveling, so no modeling that day.
I did get some time in on the Acme Fast Freight building. The roof & 3rd floor were made of .040 styrene 'scribed' with a compass to match the backdrop's curve. Now it's waiting for airbrushing weather (when it's not bone-chilling to open the window for my vent hose). The weather guessers give me hope for Monday.
In the mean time, I am invited to two op sessions this weekend, and have opened up a ModelTech Studios "3D Background Tenement" kit for the other side of the Saugus Branch track.
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