WPF Nov. 29 - Dec. 5

[rhoward]

Hey hey hey, Lets get the next edition of the best thread on the forum going!

I have gotten a guard rail made and installed on the small girder bridge I have built. I made the points using a Fast Track #6 turnout jig, and then just cut and bent some old code 70 rail I have had for many years to fit.

You can see I have installed some fishplates to join the rails properly. The track behind and below is in the process of being ballasted. Ballast is down, just needs to be glued in place. Maybe later tonight. Another angle:

Then the rail gets rusted....

Lets see what you have been doing!

 

[catt]

Lookin'good.How about a pic from street level going back to the back drop?

 

[rhoward]

Lookin'good.How about a pic from street level going back to the back drop?

Ha.... That will next week, maybe. I got a bit of the track on the fill ballasted today. As soon as the gravel road, driveway to the dairy and a bit of scenery is done, I will do several of the bridge from street level with the backdrop visible.

Closest I have now is this one from a couple months ago:

Thanks Catt.

 

[steveparkinson]

Working on a man made bumper for a spur, still need to ballast the track but thoughts on the rails used and pile of gravel?

Thanks
Steve


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[Burlington Bob]

I saw two tracks with piles of gravel used as stops at the end today. Both piles were almost as tall as the boxcars that were on the tracks. I've seen them before but the piles were never that big, usually only about five or six feet.

 

[Rico]

Catt you're our official thread starter now!
Steve I've seen stops like that too, looks god!
I still haven't done much layout wise but I did set up some passenger equipment yesterday to take inventory.

 

[goscrewyourselves]

It comes down to whatever works, and what you have seems to work! Nice job.

 

[logandsawman]

Ray--nice bridge work
Steve-- great idea on stop!
Rico--nice lineup!

Here is a boarding house I put some signs on, added a sidewalk and the sign, closeup shows a little more work to do!!





Thanks for looking--lasm

 

[goscrewyourselves]

lasm,

Your Boarding House looks great ... I think the signs really make it.

 

[saronaterry]

Nice stuff, guys!
My wife took this and a bunch of others while I was showing off the layout to friends. I didn't know til I saw it as a screensaver on her phone. What a wife!!

Terry in NW Wisconsin

 

[catt]

Downtown Bel-aire,MI. My N scale version of the real town.

 

[Railrunner130]

Terry,
That's the exact level of tranquility I'm looking to use on my layout. Nice job.

 

[Iron Horseman]

My latest fleet additions. Couldn't decide whether to put this in the "latest investment" thread, the "how do your run your F3/F7" thread or some where else, so I just decided to put it here. Two passenger ABBA sets of F3s, a GP9, and a lone KCS Erie Built. One ABBA set is Genesis and the other Proto by Walthers. Can't decide which I like better. The Walther's are the first "long bonnets" I've gotten since the Stewart FTs in the early 1990s?.

 

[Yannis]

Excellent lineup Iron Horseman! Many wishes for happy scale miles with them. Looking forward to hearing your experiences between the F3 sets as these are two options that interest me a lot! Thanks for posting.

Yannis