shortliner Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 A site that I had forgotten, came to mind a little earlier in a thread about controllers - but part of it might be of interest to the three Amigos http://www.awrr.com/ look at the left side of the page Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Williams Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 And some progress photos - looking back I didn't take anywhere as many as I thought - and none of how it looked when we'd finished on Saturday night..... Is that what's known as a 'light-bulb moment' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Is that what's known as a 'light-bulb moment' Steve, Being a bit of a 'Cut' nut as well, can you tell me where that canal picture was taken? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted June 17, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2011 A site that I had forgotten, came to mind a little earlier in a thread about controllers - but part of it might be of interest to the three Amigos http://www.awrr.com/ look at the left side of the page Gone to the site Jack but not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium richierich Posted June 17, 2011 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2011 Immense!! Nice track plan, certainly different with a triangle junction. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Sorry - I thought the ATSF diesels would interest Damian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted June 18, 2011 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 18, 2011 Gone to the site Jack but not sure what I'm supposed to be looking at? Like Chris I see no diesels. The left side of the page is all adverts - local to the user, not on the site. The right side of the page offers three different threads. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisonic Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Maybe because you get shunted to a webring? I found what Jack meant - you click on "ATSF Diesels" and are presented with a listing of stock leading to photos. I've just bookmarked it 'cos I love the ATSF liveries.........thanks, Jack. CORRECTION: It appears to be a listing of specifications only. No pretty pics, that I can find. P. Best, Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Most odd - this is what I get Try googling Armadillo and Western RailRoad Co. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted June 18, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 18, 2011 Armadillo.... Smooth on the outside, crunchy on the inside! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 [/url] http://www.angelfire...ker/index4.html http://www.ransompar...page17.html#top Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Williams Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Steve, Being a bit of a 'Cut' nut as well, can you tell me where that canal picture was taken? It was taken on the Wordsley / Brierley Hill border (not sure where one finishes and the other begins), adjacent to Leys Road, just before the Fens Pool branch. Best way to find it is to locate the glass kiln at Wordsley and head up the canal towards Merry Hill. A few hundred yards on, the main canal bends to the right, whilst the remains of the branch head stright on. Steve Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Right then. On with the Wye. (its looks like a triangular junction to me, but hey) First I've cut the ply that will form the base of the boards. It's positioned on temp supports to allow marking up. ''''Owd Grinder'''' has very kindly produced a full size plan for this bit, so this now gets offered up. This information now needs to get transfered to the boards. I usually just use a nail and push it through the paper to leave a mark. Once done you can join the dots with a pen on the board. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Having pinned thorugh the plan and joined the dots we now have the trackbed drawn on the boards. And this is where we leave my comfort zone, for the track bed is going to be supported by insulation material. I've cut a few trial pieces.(there will be wood on top). Now I need to build the boards and the leg sets. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted June 20, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 20, 2011 D, did yoy use a curcular saw in the end for cutting the insulation? Snow storm?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 D, did yoy use a curcular saw in the end for cutting the insulation? Snow storm?? Yes I used the table saw and chop saw to ensure correct depth etc. I also used a heavy duty face mask as this throws out horrible fumes and fluff like dust. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 A few shots of one of the part completed embankments, and just to wind up that nice Mr 'Owd Grinder' not only are they diesels but from the wrong company too. ha ha ha. The question now is, would the curve's within the wye have had cant on? My feeling is perhaps not because the trains would have to run fairly slow through the points on the wye anyway, plus we are talking the early nineteen hundreds here. Opinions greatly received. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Since "cant" or "super-elevation" is only used for high-speed curves, and the maximum would be around 4" (actual) I certainly wouldn't bother here, where it is simply a slow-speed method of reversing a locos direction of travel. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Since "cant" or "super-elevation" is only used for high-speed curves gosh..and here I was, thinking you'd all gone philosophical? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Who - Me? thats one of those long words I can't spell! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
shortliner Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Harold Minkwitz Pacific Coast Airline pages are back on-line - this is the On30 version, but they may be useful for your scenic treatment for your high desert area http://www.pacificcoastairlinerr.com/ and this will probably interest Old Gringo http://www.pacificco...inerr.com/1879/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gringo Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Thanks Jack, I need something to take my mind off those great big grey and yellow monsters that have "gotten lost and are crawling all over our two streaks of rusty rails" in the high desert of New Mexico! It seems that they're dodging the tumbleweeds far too easily and multiplying by the week. All the best, John. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 23, 2011 Share Posted June 23, 2011 Hi....I don't know if any of you remember the one-time secretary {?} of the NMRA British Region, the late Peter Makin? I visited his home a few times, years ago...and found his 'home' layout to be utterly delightful......a 'round-the-walls' oval, with a station/yard area off to one side, storage roads underneath. It was a fictional railroad, he called it the 'New Mexico Central'... Very 'high desert' in landscaping..... That name always truck me as being so fitting and descriptive for a railroad of something like class one pretensions.... Locos were of a mix of SP-types and ATSF- types, giving flavour rather than accuracy...[plus, he bid me build up his MDC two-truck Shay..once he realised I had got mine working well]... But the name he came up with, seemed so simple, yet evocative, to have emblazoned on a tender....I still wish I could come up with something as simple, yet without being in any way 'twee'....[somehow, the ''CActus Bush & Donkeydollop Railroad'' doesn't have the same ring of realism??}..yet I am reluctant to plagiarise... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Indomitable026 Posted June 26, 2011 Share Posted June 26, 2011 Loaded ready..... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium 2ManySpams Posted June 27, 2011 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted June 27, 2011 Now....if you painted the base of the trailer yellow...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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