RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted July 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 8, 2020 Hi all, This teleloader.... https://www.shapeways.com/product/QTTHCJXWL/lenni-teleloader?optionId=43812544&li=marketplace Looks very good but a bit expensive at £84.00 though? Phil H Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium z4driver Posted July 8, 2020 RMweb Premium Share Posted July 8, 2020 If you think that's expensive, look at this: https://www.shapeways.com/product/ZJ7YH3VY3/mk100x40-truck-loader-auger-ho-scale?optionId=62608547&li=shops Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Scottish Modeller Posted July 8, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted July 8, 2020 Hi all, Prices on Shapeways never cease to amaze me...... But, the demand must be there! Phil H 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted July 8, 2020 Share Posted July 8, 2020 Wow! I think I could make one of those Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted July 8, 2020 Author Share Posted July 8, 2020 Back to my very first question as to the purpose of the fenced in compound, I've just done what I should have done at first, checked the Google Earth time line, which shows, up to 2014 Triest Irrigation was regularly full of tank cars five number with another five tank cars in the compound with the gates shut, they seem to have stopped receiving tank cars after that year. Also showed up Incyro Services building was built in 2008. So my model will be dated between 2008 and 2014. Photo of the entrance to the compound. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 Just finished the chain link fencing, around 18' of it, I used the Alkem Scale Models etched stainless steel, with 0.8 mm brass posts soldered on, using Carrs brown label flux this worked very well. have fitted Perspex protection 2" high, I do not really like this but I just know the fencing at the edge WILL get damaged by me most probably! 6 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted July 14, 2020 Author Share Posted July 14, 2020 Boards back together now and running trains, want to test everything before adding scenery, have used Blocksignalling servos to open and shut the three pairs of gates, a learning curve for me, they work but need the linkages sorted, when the boards are apart again, have learnt a lot. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 Scenery has been progressing, using the Green Scenes static applicator and various 1mm, 4mm, and 6mm fibres from Green Scene, Peco and Nock. Palm trees from Reality in Scale, other trees and bushes saved from my previous layout. Realized I am short of correct freight cars, particularly mechanical reefers and centre beams. Next layout items are utility poles some 18 of them, plan to use brass tube as plastic one always seem to get broken or bow. 4 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 Cook Construction plant yard. 6 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 I like the 'over run' areas on the verges, from where trucks couldn't make the turn out of the yard without going over the grass!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted August 1, 2020 Author Share Posted August 1, 2020 Must be an on going problem as they have no parking signs as well as cones. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stivesnick Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 This is looking fantasic - the spread out nature of the layouts really helps create a realsitic scene. Perhaps the "unofficial security guard" at Cook Construction could be moved from the pond and deployed closer to the fencing to deter damage! Nick 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 (edited) Having visited Plant City in 2016, I can say that you're really capturing the essence of the area extremely well. If it helps any, GP35 #4420 was on switching duties for the various industries along the route the Potato Spur is on when we were there. It also had a shoving platform on the end of its train. Might help with operational interest. Edited August 2, 2020 by DanielB Correcting a date. 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 Thank you, attached dated 1/2016, switching the spur with shoving platform on main, which class of loco is this? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2020 12 minutes ago, fulton said: Thank you, attached dated 1/2016, switching the spur with shoving platform on main, which class of loco is this? From the three fans and boxy dynamic blister possibly a GP60? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdvle Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 1 hour ago, PaulRhB said: From the three fans and boxy dynamic blister possibly a GP60? CSX doesn't appear to have had GP60's, so likely a GP40-2 though something 6-axle could always be a rare possibility. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold PaulRhB Posted August 2, 2020 RMweb Gold Share Posted August 2, 2020 15 minutes ago, mdvle said: CSX doesn't appear to have had GP60's, so likely a GP40-2 though something 6-axle could always be a rare possibility. They’ve got some in the 68xx number series https://www.railpictures.net/photo/36561/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
long island jack Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Lovely looking layout They had 3 GP60 ex EMDX demonstrators How long is you head shunt on the mainline,length of train you plan to use Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdvle Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 18 minutes ago, PaulRhB said: They’ve got some in the 68xx number series https://www.railpictures.net/photo/36561/ They had - picture is from 2003. They currently don't. https://trn.trains.com/railroads/rosters/csx-transportation Satellite image is from 2016 so question is when did they get rid of them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 There is room in the "head shunt" for a loco plus 4 cars, in my playing trains the layout seems to work well with 4-5 cars spotted at the industries, the train arrives with 4-5 cars plus shoving platform, switches then departs with 4-5 cars pushing the train back. My staging has room for three trains, I find my layouts work better, more fluid, with less rather than more cars. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-UnitMad Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 (edited) When I was at Plant City in 2017 I saw the 'shoving platform' (old bay window caboose) in action. It was a GP40 on the train. Can't recall the number as I lost the video I took of it when my last phone went pop, & I hadn't backed up the file. Edit: re the CSX GP60s - they were also a 'one off' design with rounded cab corners, an experiment apparently with some mild streamlining. Looked quite odd, really, but also meant the Atlas O Scale GP60 in CSX livery was inaccurate. Edited August 2, 2020 by F-UnitMad Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 (edited) Here's #4420 (incorrectly stated to be a GP40-2 - my bad!) and the shoving platform heading across the diamond by the depot (now museum), hope it helps. Edited August 2, 2020 by DanielB 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 What a great video. The shoving platform was not the one I was expecting to see, another modelling project. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulton Posted August 3, 2020 Author Share Posted August 3, 2020 When GP 35 4420 was mentioned, it seemed familiar and yes I have the KATO model, one of my first US locos bought second hand at the Folkestone exhibition, some twenty years ago. Very nice model, I fitted DCC but the loco went out of favour on my, now gone, garage layout as there was NO play in the bogies to allow for change of gradient. Plant City is flat so I will look to see about fitting sound and giving the model new life, even if it has the earlier livery. 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 17 hours ago, fulton said: What a great video. The shoving platform was not the one I was expecting to see, another modelling project. I've got a few more from Plant City on that old channel, but I only got to spend a few hours there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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