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Orionvp17
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Posted - 07/28/2015 : 7:23:38 PM
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Looks good to me, James!
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MarkF
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Posted - 07/28/2015 : 11:57:47 PM
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James, great job! I love those post and cable guard fences found along the roads of the era.
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Dutchman
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Posted - 07/29/2015 : 09:09:03 AM
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I love the cable guard fence, James. And I agree with Mike, the low level photos are terrific.
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jbvb
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Posted - 07/29/2015 : 11:09:43 AM
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Thanks, gentlemen. I've concentrated on the Heubach Farm in E. Bexley and now it's almost finished.

Mrs. H's kitchen garden will be hard to see behind the house: I used Alkem etched corn, Busch laser-cut rhubarb and JTT cauliflower and broccoli. I hoped the phragmites tufts would look more like asparagus ferns, but I suppose they're OK as some sort of allium. The picket fence is elderly Atlas (why it isn't pure white). The little patch of flowers is a snippet of a 'wildflower' grass mat surrounded by a fiberglass window screen scrap painted white.

Two jobs remain: The collage photo of the "Blue Tombstone" (Harvestore silo) behind the barn needs to be reprinted in color, and I need to make a 'barnyard pole' with light and electric meter. But if I want it actually lit, I should spend the hot part of the day digging around on the web for the right 1/8" audio jack/socket combination to mount it removably.
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jbvb
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Posted - 08/05/2015 : 11:50:19 PM
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Here's a try at 'night' photography by turning my camera's exposure compensation down. This is about -1.6 stops with only the 'walking around' LED strips for room lighting.

Mr. Rice's new 'yard post' light isn't very bright, but I think that'll change when I build the real power supply for it. Here it's powered by the 'Diode Test' function of my multimeter.
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jbvb
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Posted - 08/06/2015 : 11:26:56 PM
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Passing by Robinson Rd., I saw an Alco switcher working the east end of Bexley yard. When they stopped on the main beside the Heubach farm, I tried a time exposure in the last bit of twilight:

Today's work included making two rectifier/current limiter LED supplies and finishing & wiring the associated yard poles. On a roll, I took a look at doing one for Rowley Depot. DC power is already available, but I must remove a chunk from the stick of wood that holds the big tree in place before I can mount the socket.
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Orionvp17
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Posted - 08/07/2015 : 09:26:26 AM
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Annnnnnd... we're moving toward "O. Winston Van Bokkelen!" 
Nice image! You're obviously having a lot of fun with this, and the results are good. 
Keep plugging!
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jbvb
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Posted - 08/07/2015 : 11:35:37 AM
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Thanks, Pete, though I have a long way to go to get anywhere near Mr. Link. For one thing, the only equipment I used was camera & tripod, and I didn't do any post-processing...
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Orionvp17
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Posted - 08/07/2015 : 12:42:39 PM
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And no series of little flash bulbs along the track, and....
I still like the images, and it sounds like you're having great fun with the process.
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Posted - 08/07/2015 : 4:15:07 PM
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Very nice job on the farm and photos.
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jbvb
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Posted - 08/12/2015 : 11:37:04 PM
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Thanks, Pete and Bill. Alas, I find I've opened a Pandora's Box by starting with lights. The Rowley depot's outside light won't look good in a picture till I've also lit the station interior and the platform shed. And the Clam Box positively cries out for lights. It also looked easier, so:
I finished the kit (in a now-locked challenge thread from 2012) with no thought of lighting. But years ago I'd bought a set of extra-long drills. The 1/16" was long enough to drill completely through from the roof to the floor. And a #30 solid wire fits into 1/16" brass tube.

Here I've soldered the cathode of one LED to the tube. I'm about to solder the + feed to the anode of the other LED. In between them I'll have another joust with #38 magnet wire.

I decided the time to have used a plug/jack to connect the wiring was long past. I'll put a small terminal strip under the layout and hope nobody (least of all me) picks the structure up abruptly.
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deemery
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Posted - 08/13/2015 : 09:47:10 AM
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Makes me hungry for fried clam strips :-)
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jbvb
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Posted - 08/13/2015 : 11:45:20 AM
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Now would be the time, Dave. But I'll be making a scouting trip down the coast about March 28 next year, so I can let Fine Scale Expo attendees know what's open that early.
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jbvb
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Posted - 08/17/2015 : 11:08:49 PM
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I only managed a couple of hours of RR work today, but that was enough to finish outside lighting for the Clam Box:

Here the #38 wire is soldered from the left LED's anode to the right's cathode (note color marks to keep track). I made sure both would light before cutting off the unused leads, but because they're in series my meter's 'Diode Test' setting wouldn't do. I used the current limiter already in place for the Rice farm instead. Next step was 'galvanized' paint for the LED bodies and leads.

Here's the finished scene. Unless I decide to illuminate the Rowley platform shed & interior, I'm done with lights for this part of the RR.
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