RMweb Gold roundhouse Posted June 3, 2014 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 3, 2014 Been serving the news of those storms on the Weather Channel. However I gather that the UK is in for some interesting weather this coming Saturday with possibility of tornadoes. Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 If JZ wanted to see some storms and is still in the Omaha area, there is a big storm coming across eastern Nebraska now, from Omaha to Souix City dropping up to 4" hail and hurricane force winds. One of my co-worker's dad had the leaves and bark stripped of some trees and it blew over some pivot irrigators. Had one up near Ord earlier. In Grand Island tonight and have a tornado warned storm closing in as I write this. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 Anyway, lets have some piccies from today. No storm ones as they need resizing. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 What and where is that switcher? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 What and where is that switcher? Not too hot on my US types, but I think it was near Duncan, NE. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Sorry, Jules, that was a bad choice of words in my question. I meant what railroad did the switcher belong to? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 ... Not worked out how to achieve a scenic break for a fiddle yard on the other side of the loft. Why bother with a scenic break..? ...and presumably, a "non scenic" fiddleyard? If you're viewing one side of the layout, the other side is behind you - out of sight - anyway!! I'd go for scenicking the fiddleyard - even if only very simply; it can look like an Interchange Yard or suchlike. I'm building an HO layout in my loft (very slowly!)... similar size to your's (mine is 17' x 8'); it's rather 'generic' although biased to the Mid-West for location, & was very much influenced by Lance Mindheim's thoughts on layout operation, with a very simple freight branch stretched around the outside of the layout & two ovals (one currently being relaid to represent a long grain siding). My version of a fiddleyard is not only scenic but right there in full view in front of the Industrial Park...!! Here's a link to a Thread about it on another Forum :- http://forum.mtimag.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1055&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 I don't think I've done a thread here about it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 What and where is that switcher? This is as close as I got. Didn't see a railroad name on it. Have seen quite a few switchers in various liveries at the larger grain terminals. I imagine they only get used at busy times of the year, Most, not all, have the former railroad name painted out. Did see one which was obviously former UP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 The NCRC runs out of Columbus (Nebraska Central) but it could also belong to an elevator. Its a lease unit (looks like an NW2). There is an elevator at Fremont, NE that has a GP7 still in CNW paint and another a short line painted GP30. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted June 4, 2014 Author Share Posted June 4, 2014 (edited) Drove past Fremont yesterday and did see a couple of old loco's there. Does anyone know of a maker for an N scale pumpjack (nodding donkey)? Edit. Found one. Edited June 4, 2014 by JZ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talltim Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 There seem to be two or three industries in Duncan. Its proving hard to Google, but I think to the north of the line is the Tasty Topping factory, while to the south is Cargill Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Also called a "walking beam" pump. I asked my wife, who grew up in Texas, and she said they called them "oil wells". Not very imaginative. Another common thing with those pumps is a tank nearby. The well pumps the oil in to a tank and every so often the oil is collected by tanker truck. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Wintle Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Also called a "walking beam" pump. I asked my wife, who grew up in Texas, and she said they called them "oil wells". Not very imaginative. Another common thing with those pumps is a tank nearby. The well pumps the oil in to a tank and every so often the oil is collected by tanker truck. I think the ones in the LA basin (Long Beach, Torrance, etc.) pump directly into pipes to the refinery - there definitely aren't any visible tanks (and the refinery isn't that far away). Adrian 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted June 5, 2014 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 5, 2014 While you're in Rapid City, say hello to my friend, Chester Alan Arthur. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 (edited) Just a little update. Still at the stage of picking up bits and pieces as and when they become available and it probably won't see any work on it until next year. For the moment I am concentrating on my S&D layout, Gurney Slade. But I have put together a few pictures of what I am trying to achieve. The usable space I have in the loft is 17'x10' and I am not trying to get a lot in it, more going for the sparseness of the mid-West. The ones of Dorrance have been seen before, but the others were taken in Ransom and Brownell in Kansas, apart from the last one from Newcastle,TX. Not able to upload pictures from Imageshack. WHY ? Right, I've resized the images. First few from Dorrance,KS. Next few are at Brownell, KS. Railroad long gone, nearest railhead is at McCracken, 14 miles east. Now we move 10 miles west to Ransom. This was on the same line as Brownell. About 40 miles west is a railhead at Healy. This last one is from Newcastle,TX. Named after Newcastle-upon-Tyne, it to was a coal town, though the last mine closed in 1910. I can imagine the guy sitting on the porch having waited since then for his next customer. Edited October 1, 2014 by JZ 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted March 29, 2016 Author Share Posted March 29, 2016 No action with this, but with Gurney Slade nearing completion, work should start this summer. Off to the States again this September. Flying into Denver and doing a grand circle, taking in Pikes Peak, weather permitting, Amarillo, Santa Fe, Winslow, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam and Las Vegas, then up through Monument Valley and on to Yellowstone, across to Mount Rushmore, again, Badlands and then back to Denver. So if anyone can recommend any decent model railroad shops on my route, it would be appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 While you're in Rapid City, say hello to my friend, Chester Alan Arthur. I was back there back in September. This time I had a chance to walk around and see some of the statues. Also took time to pop into Firehouse Brewing for a pint. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave1905 Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Its a shame you didn't contact me on your 2014 trip. I work in the UP's dispatching center and might have arranged a tour, but by the time you will be back this next time I will be retired and won't have access. Oh well. Caboose Hobbies was in Denver, closed and will be reopening at a different location, so check if they are open by the time you come over. There are tourist railroads at Mt Rushmore and the Grand Canyon. Amarillo is all BNSF except of an occasional UP trackage rights train. Las Vegas is all UP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted May 27, 2021 Author Share Posted May 27, 2021 Well, seven years since I started this thread and four since I last posted. My 2016 trip planted something in my head and the itch grew stronger, until I purchased a Blackstone K-27 and 4 freight cars. Initially I had planned a small, exhibitable layout using boards originally earmarked for an IoW layout. But thing got out of hand and I now have 5 K-27s, one each K-36, K-37 and C-25, a couple of Galloping Geese and around 80 freight and passenger cars. This is gradually replacing my S&DJR layout. As for this N gauge project, it has been on the back burner for a while, but now I am converting my sons old room to a hobby rom, I have made room for a small shelf layout, 1300x280mm. While it won't be much more than a shunting puzzle, I intend to go to town on the scenics, well as much as you can in Kansas. I don't expect progress to be rapid, the HOn3 layout is my priority, but on days when it's raining too much for me to visit the shed, well maybe I can get bits done. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted May 27, 2021 Share Posted May 27, 2021 7 minutes ago, JZ said: I now have 5 K-27s, one each K-36, K-37 and C-25, a couple of Galloping Geese Wot - no K28? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted May 27, 2021 Author Share Posted May 27, 2021 3 minutes ago, pH said: Wot - no K28? Desperately after one, but the last one I was after went for £669 and that was non DCC. By the time it was fitted with a decoder and sound + lighting, that would be another £200. Things are sounding a little more positive on the K-28 front with Blackstone. Maybe by the time I get back to Durango, June 2022 hopefully, things my be on the up from them. If they get their act together with it, I may well sell one or both of the big Mikes to fund a couple. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium BR60103 Posted May 28, 2021 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 28, 2021 The nice thing about modelling Kansas is that you can do it on a flat sheet of plywood. (Violates rule 3: Thou shalt not model any place that can be represented by a flat sheet of plywood.) 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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