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How To Video: Box Fan dust filter
I just finished making a video on the box fan that I added a 16x25 furnace filter holder on. This is to help out with dust control while I build the walls and work on drywall. I am also thinking of keeping these fans on 24x7 for dust control once the layout construction begins. I know there is nothing worse than having dust all over your scenery and track work and I am hoping this will reduce if not eliminate this problem. Let me know what you think and enjoy!
Jeremy Brown
Santa Fe - High Desert Division How to Videos:
RAIL-CLEANING RAILCAR - HOME-MADE
Dear modeling friends.
Using pieces from our junk pile, we built (finally) our rail-cleaning railcar. To be noted, in our Consolidated Nickel layout, we have a 1.5-meter tunnel section, which is almost inaccessible. We have retrieved an old Metaltrain flatcar (a one-piece solid, heavy block of die-cast alloy). We have machined two pieces of thin stainless steel sheet (origin: old 3.25-inch PC diskettes), and installed them under our flatcar.
Unexplained Loco Stops
Hi I'm Isaac, and this is my first post ever. Before I explain my problem, I'd like to thank everyone on this forum and the other railroad forums for helping me get where I am today; I would not possess even the slightest bit of knowledge I now have without you all.
A little bit of background on my layout specs: Atlas code 100 #6's and flex on cork, Digitrax DCC (Zephyr Xtra & IR Loconet), Feeder wires about every 3' (soldered to the bottom of rail joiners)
Helix vacuum close-quarters tool
Due to a recent session of carpentry-related layout work on our HO scale September 1927-era Sugar Pine Lumber Company/Minarets & Western Railway layout, I've been spending some time with the compact shop vac doing general cleanup. The existing shop vac tools didn't help much with the helix, though, with its 3-inches of clearance between levels. I needed a narrow vacuum tool that drew from the side, not the end.
Transformation
In preparation for the upcoming Railway Modellers Meet (http://railwaymodellersmeetofbc.ca) layout tour coming to my layout room on May 4th I've been madly cleaning and preparing the room for the onslaught of people expecting to see something interesting.
Ramblings on a Garden Railroad
I have not seen many posts in garden layouts. My interest is a railroad to serve the Lilliputians living among the bushes and around the edges of my yard. This would be designed to operate as any of the smaller scales and based on railroad practices as much as I have knowledge to do. Help here is appreciated.
Please consider following along and provide your input. I am very open to ideas and look forward to a new journey.
Neiler
Masonite Track Cleaning Car
Here's my most recent "procrastination" project... a masonite track cleaning car. I decided it should blend in with the other rolling stock, but chose a "tongue-in-cheek" road name :)
Research showed that Highball sells Masonite decals, but they are for a Thrall All-Door boxcar... tried to make them work, but it is really too new and too big, plus they are just too large to fit on a smaller car, so - I ended up making my own with a similar format, except for the data blocks from Microscale.
Let’s see your fascia!
A WPF recently got sidetracked over fascia design and color. I really found everyone’s design and choices interesting. Please post yours here or ideas for making it more attractive, efficient, useful, etc.
Thanks!
Neil
Work bee!
This weekend I had a work bee with a friend coming over to help push the layout forward. Chris took on the challenging job of fixing some problematic switches, adding switch machines and wiring them up so they have live frogs.
Of course he asked how to identify the wires for the frogs: why, they're green of course. Everyone knows frogs are green...
5 Minute Enhancements
What are the quick things you can do to improve your layout or the layout room?
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