Benchwork - Roadbed
Worked on Benchwork today On30 layout
I'm excited. Going full throttle on building the bench work. I'm lucky due to getting used wood. The L-girders were already assembled and holes drilled for wiring. This will be Multi-level with a helix part mushroom.
Buildung a new terminus
After my housemove these summer, I decided to exchange Uig for a new terminus.
Uig was given to a friend, and now I relocated my modular layout from the Isle of Skye to
the scottish Mainland. My new terminus will be at Ullapool. There where plans to build a railway
from Garve to Ullapool.
Here the trackplan for Ullapool.
Best Way To Plane Cork Roadbed
Prey tell, what is the quickest and most efficient way to plane cork roadbed down?
Not so cost effective
Hi Everybody
Tonight I was getting all excited thinking that on Sunday I would go to Home Depot and get the plywood to start my benchwork until I added up the cost.
As I showed in an earlier post I would have liked to make everything freestanding but I have just sat and worked out that it would take almost a full sheet of 3/4" plywood and just over half of a sheet of 1/4" plywood, it's going to add up to about $60.00 per module or 3ft section.
White residue after ballasting
Hi guys,
I have started with the ballasting of my layout after test running for a few weeks.
I have followed a number of instruction videos and read up a fair bit on the various techniques.
Steps:
1/ Put down the ballast and spent hours brushing grain after grain into the right place whilst trying not to breath.
2/ Mist the track from a height to wet it down to break surface tension
3/ Glue it in place with the 50/50 mix of water and PVA glue, using a few drops of dish washing liquid
Street Car Lines
I'm working on a downtown scene for our club layout and would like to have a street car line included in the scene. It has been suggested that I use a silver tape to represent the rails of the street car line; this seems quite lame. I would like to have actual rails imbedded in the street pavement (will be made of styrene). I seem to have seen a system for accomplishing this and to make the street car line operational as well. Does anyone have suggestions?
Gatorfoam and Model Railroading
My latest project with Gatorfoam® was to build a 21” wide by 8 foot long extension L to my N Scale Mooers Junction Railroad. I have put together an article showing the construction techniques I used.
This post is just the latest advantage I wanted to put out there about the benefits of using lightweight Gatorfoam®. My friend Jeff and I spent about six hours adding eight (8) tortoise machines, five (5) homemade turnout direction indicators and a switch controlling the USB camera that show hidden staging.
The next board gets attached
As you can see, I have fitted the previous board to the new one. There is a discrepancy of height between them. The new addition is set higher than the main board as there will be two levels on the track and by starting in the middle, I can make the resulting grades less than if I had everything starting at the lower level. The existing off scene staging is a board 3' x 8". This will be added along the front of the main board. This will give me a proper end to end option rather than an out-and-back style.
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