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01-17-23, 11:58 PM | #271 |
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Been up to the train room recently after a long hiatus. The layout now has a working farm!
The view from the cornfields From the Farm stand across the street. A birds eye view of the chicken coop Also I just finished wiring up this little guy for lights. Still thinking about where to put him.
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01-18-23, 01:20 AM | #272 |
Gefallen Engel U-666
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Welcome back!
...way to 'necro' errrr glad yer back on track after nearly half a decade! How many operational locomotives are in that 'train room' fleet? There are six alone in the round-house pic.
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01-18-23, 09:39 AM | #273 | |
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All of the ones in that picture are operational. About 2/3rds of the roundhouse bays contain a working locomotive. Here's some more in the line up.
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01-18-23, 10:14 AM | #274 |
Canadian Wolf
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Nice August
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01-18-23, 12:38 PM | #275 |
Gefallen Engel U-666
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l'll just settle for a dryer Febuary! The Napa Wine train tracks, incl. a vital trestle bridge over the Napa River are currently washed out... ...and the Napa Expo Train Society recently got evicted from its Quonset hut after 52 years of dedicated hobbyists' multi-generational work due to profit motivated fairground's management decision-making Now I'll have to build my own after 30 years of enjoying this place...but think some astute nephew glommed all my childhood train stuff from mom's basement years ago...
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01-18-23, 04:13 PM | #276 |
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Too bad that looked like a nice layout. Did the society find another place or did they have to destroy it?
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01-18-23, 07:23 PM | #277 |
Gefallen Engel U-666
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I think so...over to Sacramento?
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01-18-23, 08:35 PM | #278 |
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That's good to hear. It takes so much to create these layout's it's nice when they can be preserved. Some people make them modular which is something I wish I had done. The NMRA has a standard for modules that allows for that and to mix an match them.
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01-30-23, 01:37 PM | #279 |
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Fueling up.
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01-31-23, 02:37 AM | #280 |
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That's a cool setup!
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01-31-23, 08:56 AM | #281 |
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Not very realistic i'm afraid. Steam engines and diesel fuel do not mix.
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02-01-23, 01:17 AM | #282 |
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Got the motorbike placed on the layout.
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02-01-23, 09:01 AM | #283 |
Born to Run Silent
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Nice, is that a Honda? Do you run the wires under the base to power the lights?
One thing about model railroaders, they don't just model a tank with a few shells and scrub lying around, they model the whole blinking town. Very very cool, love the chickens too!
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02-01-23, 10:24 AM | #284 | |
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I believe that is a post war BMW. It's from a set of two produced by a company called Rocco. For the lights I used micro LED's and ran the wires along the frame and down underneath the layout. I put the wires on the back side to hide them but I found they are so thin that once painted in you can't even tell they are there.
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02-03-23, 12:27 AM | #285 |
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This is what railroad people call a "U-Boat" Otherwise known as a General Electric U25B.
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