JAMO Posted April 6, 2018 Share Posted April 6, 2018 What about a "game": the theme can be "draw me a layout"... it can be a little challenge for us, something funny and useful for you! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 (edited) In between the rain storms, I have been musing over developments in the shed. Right back in the days before I even had a shed, I had found a Santa Fe CLIC chart for Lubbock, Texas. I'd even sketched this out and posted on the LDSIG a few years before the shed, for a site in a spare room. I'd not had any luck fitting it into the shed, as I originally standardised on #8s which look great but are pretty lengthy, such that I could not fit the whole of Zone 4 into my space. By compromising on #6s instead of #8s I can fit it in... and as Peco are introducing code 70, which is more appropriate for light weight industry track than my current code #83... Ignore the buildings, they are just place holders for now. Edited April 8, 2018 by Dr Gerbil-Fritters 5 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted April 8, 2018 Author Share Posted April 8, 2018 Scrutiny of Google Earth and Bing Maps provides additional food for thought... I particularly like the Associated Paper building (Bancroft on the CLIC) and there's nothing there I can't bodge a reasonable likeness of. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted April 8, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted April 8, 2018 Did Jordan lay that track? This is meant as praise. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 That looks like a great use of the space. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 Some minor tweaks, and provisional idea for the staging tracks. I finally managed to work out a way of fitting these into the opposite corner from the 'end of tracks' to give the maximum length of run. Tweaked this arrangement to match the prototype, which has two right hand turnouts and a dog leg, not the CLIC which suggests a Y and a right hander. This nicely matches the prototype seen in yesterdays post, but obviously the buildings are needed to make the scene. Staging has always been a problem with my ISLs... this time I think I may have managed to fit it in such a way that the staging is at the furthest end of the line away from the 'end of tracks'. This is the short side with the door. That means the long side opposite the one seen above, with Zone 4, is free for a further set of industry tracks thus making the length of run longer than I've managed before. So far, seems promising... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 now you'll have the dilemma, whether to have a continuous run or not!! Hat coat heads for the door................. Ray 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted April 9, 2018 Author Share Posted April 9, 2018 (edited) Bad Ray, Bad! Edited April 9, 2018 by Dr Gerbil-Fritters Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted April 9, 2018 Share Posted April 9, 2018 now you'll have the dilemma, whether to have a continuous run or not!! Hat coat heads for the door................. Ray Shouldn't even be an issue in my book - just a 'given'. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 In other news, another Decapod has arrived. This one is a Western Maryland version, so has some minor differences from the Frisco one. A cunning plan is slowly percolating. Not much incentive to trek down to the shed, as the weather continues to be unseasonably horrible. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Things are looking up on the motive power front... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Up north, when it's unseasonable, and we want to walk to the shed to play trains, we have a device called a umbrella, which works really well (unless it's windy), rumour has it, there popping up all over the rest of the country!!! Hat coat................................. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted May 2, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 2, 2018 Nice locos to have, Seaboard next? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 I have my eye on an ATSF variant, but Seaboard would be nice... the only ones I don't like are the Erie and SusieQ versions. They run as good as they look too, well weighted and controllable. Also surprisingly small locos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 I like my decapod. Not as good as a diesel at pulling trains (especially starting them on a tight curve), but they're a good choice. The loco to tender wire is a bit too long and that causes issues though. (Can't remember which roadname I bought, the plan was to replace the decals with my imaginary shortline). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted May 2, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 2, 2018 Seaboard would be nice... Don’t overlook that Seaboard, as the parent company, sold some of theirs and dome of their later copies to the Gainesville Midland, which ran them until 1959 on their side-of-the-toad switch back route, often in pairs, over undulating 3% grades.Thus is just brilliant, although it was shot at 24 fps and is shown at 25 fps, which makes it slightly comical: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bPFGBKS4yE8 They run as good as they look too, well weighted and controllable.I keep hoping for one in S! Also surprisingly small locos. Designed for track laid lightly across the tundra. In many ways, a lightweight consolidation with an extra pair of drivers to further lighten the load, requiring smaller wheels which increased the reactive effort. The frames were no further apart than the usual US standards, to enable use of as many standard parts as possible, despite the 5’ gauge. The axles were, of course, slightly longer on those shipped over to Russia, and on the 200 or so which never made it.Because of the wartime emergency, those which didn’t go had the tyres removed from the wheels, and wider tyres were fitted, putting the flanges closer together. You could always tell a genuine Russian decapod from a later copy by the former having tyres about 7” wide. Sorry to be so nerdy, but it was the late David Lloyd’s article on them in Continental Modeller circa Easter 85 which first drew me into American outline, and they have been a favourite ever since - shame they didn’t seem to make it onto more shortlines! 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 The five current survivors all came from the Eagle-Picher mining co... so a third life, after mainline, shortline and then industrial. This may give a clue as to what I might be up to in the shed I have loved their sporty looks since I saw them (in brass version) on Bill Lane's Detroit and Mid-Western (?) in CM sometime around 1980 38 years later and I am about to acquire my third... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 Number three ordered this morning... shopping from the smallest room, ah modern life! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted May 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 3, 2018 Just as long as you don’t order an O class next! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 not enough wheels for my tastes! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2996 Victor Posted May 4, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 4, 2018 Thus is just brilliant, although it was shot at 24 fps and is shown at 25 fps, which makes it slightly comical: Excellent footage - really inspiring, not that I need another project to think about! But I have got a Decapod in WM colours, bought "just cos", that hasn't otherwise got a purpose..... Must.... Resist..... Cheers, Mark Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 5, 2018 Author Share Posted May 5, 2018 (edited) Now we are three... the addition of ex-AT&SF 2554 completes the roster of dragsters for my current copper mining railroad idea.... Precedents would be the Magma Arizona out of Superior Az, and the San Manual Arizona out of Hayden Az... Edited May 5, 2018 by Dr Gerbil-Fritters 7 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 28, 2018 Author Share Posted May 28, 2018 (edited) Deep in the shed, something stirs... The construction gang is in town, laying out the new Arizona Eastern shortline. The freight house is being assembled, the depot and various sheds to follow. Track laying proceeding to schedule. I'm trying something very different from my previous ISLs. Edited May 28, 2018 by Dr Gerbil-Fritters 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LNER4479 Posted May 29, 2018 Share Posted May 29, 2018 Straight away I like the gently curved alignment of the tracks. Gets away from the parallel-to-walls and 90deg corners syndrome. Looks much more interesting visually. I also approve of the type of motive power! Fingers crossed this keeps the mojo going 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gerbil-Fritters Posted May 29, 2018 Author Share Posted May 29, 2018 You've noticed I've 'Granthamed' some turnouts. Worked surprisingly well, I thought. Need to purchase 10 more (ouch) and then complete the track laying... got a huge block of leave owing to me, so will be taking advantage of that. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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