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Central Florida Railroad Modelers visit on December 1, 2012

Sun, 2012-12-02 13:41 — rickwade

What to do when you don't have a layout yet and you need trains? Well, last night I visited the Central Florida Railroad Modelers clubhouse. Here's the link to their website:

http://www.centralfloridarailroadmodelers.org/CFRRM_Website_2010/Home_Page/Home.htm

And this link will take you to a wonderful cab ride around their layout:

Promoting the Hobby - or, A Portable Layout, Part 6

Fri, 2012-11-30 20:56 — jeffshultz

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So this all started about a month ago when a message was left on my voicemail at work by the owner of what was the best hobby shop in Salem, OR before he retired and closed it. We also have a relationship through my current job as well. Suffice it to say, he knew I was into model railroading.

A portable display layout.. part 5

Thu, 2012-11-29 23:04 — jeffshultz

You know that point where you get done to the point that the rest of it just seems to go into overdrive?

Yeah, normally me neither.

But this time... about two days ago I looked at the layout and pretty much went, hey, this is finished enough to show!

Virginia Southwestern RR OP Session October 12th, 2012

Thu, 2012-11-29 05:02 — rhelmod

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downhill test run

Wed, 2012-11-28 11:13 — bnsf6951

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to every one

i am trying out my new phones video feature & at the same time run a train down the hill. i thought that since all my vids are of trains going up the hill. i thought i would kill 2 birds with one stone

the switchman was a sleep & didn't throw the switch to the siding at the end of the vid. it's a good thing the engineer was awake & avoided a head on with the SD40 parked in the IM yard...lol...the switchman was suspended for 2 weeks without pay.& needs to take a drug tets..lol

vinny

Model Railroad Open House "Tour de Chooch" 2012 Layouts I visited

Tue, 2012-11-27 17:50 — Great Western R...

Hello, Last weekend was the "Tour de Chooch" 2012 Open House Layout tour here in New Hampshire and in Massachusetts,27 Layouts were open for public viewing. 20 of the layouts were open on Saturday Nov 24th and 7 were open on Sunday the 25th.

I was able to go visit 7 of the layouts on Saturday and 3 on Sunday. 9 of the layouts I visited were Ho Scale,1 was an outdoor Garden Layout. And one of the Ho layouts was at the Pepperell Siding Model Railroad Club .

PROGRESS ON MY "N" SCALE PEAVINE SUB

Tue, 2012-11-27 06:32 — bnsf6951

hello every body. this is a video on all the progress & updates to my peavine sub. it is still very much a work in progress. after 7 months of construction, i decided to lay down some ground cover & do a test run..enjoy the video & thanks for watching

comments & questions are welcome

vinny

www.bnsf6951.blogspot.com

A portable display layout.. part 4

Sat, 2012-11-24 17:47 — jeffshultz

Okay, so I'm now to the inside of the track when it comes to scenery - outside the track was pretty simple, but going inside meant I had to decide what Lone Hill Park actually looks like.

I decided to start with the walking paths in order to define sections to the park - a large field for kite flying, smaller sections for picnic tables, and of course Lone Hill, with it's path to the top.

A portable display layout.. part 3

Thu, 2012-11-22 10:51 — jeffshultz

Okay, the "Portable Display Layout" now has a name - the Lone Hill Park RR.

Once I decided to build a portable layout like this, I also decided that I was going to use it to do a few things I've not done before - such as making a major terrain feature out of foam and Celluclay.

I've used Sculptomold before but have been told that Celluclay is superior - it does appear to be more fine grained a product. However, I've also discovered that at around 65-69deg F. it also takes forever to dry/cure.