enginelane Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 Early morning cats and cup of freshly brewed black coffee and seeing in Friday by completing the covered hopper 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share Posted May 12, 2019 Fitted the long shank to all the troublesome 34 ft open hopper cars and 9 times out of ten can run a full set without derailing so looks like the weighting and change of couplers have helped. However the ends of the hopper angling down over the bogie fixing point means can only get a little weight there so still very jumpy especially if being propelled. Might also be planning a layout with two curved points and a baseboard joint at the throat of the fiddleyard might be something to consider avoiding in any subsequent builds. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted June 2, 2019 Author Share Posted June 2, 2019 Pleasant running sessions and when designed used 40 ft box cars as nominal length for Spurs head shunts etc. Inclusion of 50 ft cars has lead to some interesting problem solving tasks in order to complete a switching sequence. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 RS 2 works! Loose wire attached and just needs Monon decals to complete. It was bought as L and N 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted June 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2019 (edited) Good morni g Steve from a very sunny Charente. I was sorry to miss you at Wakefield. However I did take a coup.e of photos for you on my travels. I was standing on the foot ridge in Green River Wyoming last month and a long freight was coming into town. In the formation were two gondols that I thought were empty. The photo show otherwise. I thought they might provide some i spiration for you. It looks like bundles of steel bar possibly galvanised as they haven't rusted and would have come through snow and rain on their eastward pergrination. Jamie Edited July 1, 2019 by jamie92208 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted June 17, 2019 Author Share Posted June 17, 2019 Hi Jamie, yes normally do not do Mondays on the NYMR but when the roster list came out had no one rostered to work the train so clicked on duty. interesting modification and just on one side! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted June 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 17, 2019 As the train was going under the bridge I saw the gondola's and thought that the load detail would be ideal for you. Here's a pic of the train which when I looked at it has the Gondalas in the background and shows the other side of the one with the load of bars. Let me know if you want hi res versions of these and I'll email them. Jamie 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted June 26, 2019 Author Share Posted June 26, 2019 Fixed up the RS2 that was decayed for ownership by the L and N and back dated back to Monon ownership. Number 26 is nearly ready to go into service on Vimes Street and has been allocated Stone traffic whenever the sequel to Vimes Street gets built - see Roundy Roundy 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted June 29, 2019 Author Share Posted June 29, 2019 Dirty black wash with frame dirt and general used appearance is about there. in some photos end hand rails and edges of steps are painted yellow but not sure of dates when changed from non yellow to yellow. Any ideas? Very warm today so north facing garage very cool and although strange to be doing so on such a nice day did run some trains 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanielB Posted July 1, 2019 Share Posted July 1, 2019 Beautiful Alco. Love it. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted August 15, 2019 Author Share Posted August 15, 2019 Health issues resulting in a couple of stays in hospital has slowed down work on the layout but with brothers son coming for a visit and to operate the layout spent some time giving it a shake down this afternoon. Will be interesting to see what brother and my nephew Sam think of it. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted August 17, 2019 Author Share Posted August 17, 2019 Nephew enjoyed his visit and ran through the whole sequence. Apart from a few couplings that needed adjusting and some track cleaning the layout ran remarkably well so pleased he had a good time. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
enginelane Posted August 27, 2019 Author Share Posted August 27, 2019 New baseboards for roundy roundy now installed in the garage so it marks the end of Vimes Street. Many thanks to all who have looked in, commented upon the layout as it developed. I learnt a lot from building it and am looking forward to developing layout 2. Look out for buildings and features appearing in version 2 as well as new buildings donated by the kindness of fellow Modellers. So goodbye Vimes Street and onto version 2 the sequel, let’s hope it proves not to be the equivalent of that difficult second album! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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