[Back from the depths]

5 hours ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

Those do work, but the color is not very controllable. For small components like these the best method is to blue them using a brass plate and heat, so you can control the color and keep the finish constant over the surface. 

I am not familiar with the process that you describe. Anyway, when I was in the Navy, I was somewhat of a" gun nut", handguns mainly, the Colt .45 ACP especially although I never did own one. The closest was a Walther P38. A shipmate had a Luger; the P38 was much sweeter to fire. So my experience is with the chemical bluing.

[Back from the depths]

Bluing? If I were going to do that, I would use a chemical process with one of the various gun-bluing products; Hoppe's for example.

[I ought to open a quarry.]

Unless you are running some kind or underground coal mining equipment, I think that station needs to be jacked up a bit!

[Edwin Beard Budding would be most pleased if he could sell me his invention.]

31 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

 Might I suggest setting it up at the end of your driveway?

I had thought about that. Wiring it up to display a particular aspect would be the problem.

[Mole began whitewashing his house...]

I once painted some O scale track brown:

As you can see, I was not too careful!

 

BTW, that is a ten-inch radius curve across a double-track through route. Although at this time the route has been cut back to the loop pending further thought on the new layout.

 

Ten-inch radius in O standard gauge?? Trolley/interurban line. I have a two car train of fifty-foot interurbans that will go around that loop coupled.

 

Edit: I think that I used aquarium gravel for the ballast.

 

[Edwin Beard Budding would be most pleased if he could sell me his invention.]

11 minutes ago, Florence Locomotive Works said:

 ...snip... On an unrelated note, are those what we call in the USA "dwarf signals" to the left of No 16's tender in your post?

Douglas

On the Pennsy, they were referred to as "pot" signals. If it survived my move, I have one somewhere.

[Some expatriated products from Robert Stephenson & Co.]

 

 

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motor from another era 1 Bachman engine and stuff it inside a 3d printed shell

Considering the size of ATLAS, "stuff" might be an understatement!

[Wagons, real and imaginary.]

 

Nice scene.

[One morning long ago]

3 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

"The morning fog was thick as pea soup" - excuses, excuses.

I always thought that pea soup was green!

[One morning long ago]

4 hours ago, Mikkel said:

Thanks FLW, although I was surprised when I looked at the photos and saw how poor the paintjob looked on the rear edge/underside of the cab roof. Amazing what close-up photos will reveal.

No, not a poor paint job, just many, many years of the engine crews' hanging on for dear life!

[Part 58: Kemtron caboose kit]

Amount of heat required? Try assembling a Kemtron ALCo RS-3.

[Lancaster!]

A few years ago when I was still living in Florida, I was going into the grocery store and heard the unusual sound of four radial engines thundering and looked up and saw a B-17 going over. I saluted it and stood and watched it until it disappeared from sight.

[MUTANT LOBSTER ATTACKS PERRY BARR STATION!]

I stumbled across this and thought "Open it and see what it is about.". I am glad that I did. Very nice pictures and layout. One question: is the catenary hot?

[Rivarrosi motors]

Have you or can you check the brushes on #3? I am not familiar with the Rivarrosi motor so I do not know if they are accessible.