The Model Railroading thread

[August]

Originally Posted by eddie

Do you like the Hurst Olds August,lol Saw a couple in your pics!

Yep I have two, gold and red. Aside from the Cuda hemi they are the coolest cars on the layout.

[eddie]

They really look sharp!

[swamprat69er]

Originally Posted by August

Yep I have two, gold and red. Aside from the Cuda hemi they are the coolest cars on the layout.

I saw the gold one and immediately thought 4-4-2.

[magic452]

Well I'm done laying track for now
Can finely start dressing things up some.

First was some new sidings on the north wall


You don't see most HO railroaders using these things, but I'm not most railroaders. Also put the sidings on the center section. Thanks to August getting his town to look so good I've decided to put a town here.


Re did the switch yard some,one new turnout and a couple of crossovers at the tail end, and added some ballast to dress it up.



Newest toy a set of PA & PB locomotives. Both powered and DCC.



I could not believe I actually got these things to run into the yard.



Busy day at the old bridge crossing.


Summer is here so I"ll be doing work on the house and yard mostly so the Magic Railroad will be going slowly for a time.

Magic

Edit WOW 1600 post Look out Jim, I"m coming after YOU.

[Jimbuna]

Looking good

[August]

That's a nice job of ballasting you did. I'm about ready to begin that stage myself. How much ballast did it take to cover that area? Did you use just straight water and white glue as a binder or go with a commercial product?

[AVGWarhawk]

Looking great Magic.

[HW3]

Brings back memories. It has been 30 years since I sold off all my HO stuff, except for one boxcar that I thought might be collectible one day.

[magic452]

Originally Posted by August

That's a nice job of ballasting you did. I'm about ready to begin that stage myself. How much ballast did it take to cover that area? Did you use just straight water and white glue as a binder or go with a commercial product?

I really cheated on this. I pulled up all the track so I could put under the track magnetic un couplers and add the new turn out. Since it was all empty I got some RUST-OLEM spray on Stone paint, gray and white. Kind of free handed it till I got the look I wanted. Did the same on all the new track I laid. Expensive but easy and I'll take that over less expensive and hard any day.

I'll dress it up later with some regular ballast. It's pretty neat because it is really rugged and will take some rough handling and has a fine smooth texture.

I just wish they made the Stone in a brown tone.

Magic

[August]

An abandoned barn. It's trackside location makes it a favored haunt of hobo's and other dangerous characters.

[fireftr18]

Looks great August!

[AVGWarhawk]

Nice work. Looks like a dilapidated old shack.

[Oberon]

Very nice, love the corrugated iron roofing.

[Jimbuna]

At a glance it looks real

[magic452]

Well been busy on the old railroad.

Made some progress and had some set backs.

Some overall pics.


North wall looking west.


West end of North wall. Stock yard(complete with downer cattle), lumber yard and citrus packing plant. The little hill to the left covers up 3 turnout motors for the second half of the crossover.




West wall looking South. Took out the double crossover, redid 4 times and it just didn't work. Replaced with 4 #6 turnouts. The Y turnout is a passing track and entrance to the main yard. Believe it or not I've backed 20 car trains through this Y.
Where the little farm house is, is where I put 4 of the turnout motors, pic later. I'll cover that area with citrus trees to go with the packing plant. There was one just like this just a couple of miles of where I grew up and we had citrus groves next to my house. Rebuilding my childhood.


West wall looking North. The ladder set up is now part of the main yard. Needed more yard space as I running 15 to 20 car trains.



Entrance to the yard.



The classification yard along the South wall. Have added some more sidings.


The yard looking South and some of the rolling stock.
Also the completed Southern Pacific Daylight, well almost complete, I've got one more Alco PA unit to add. Will be a PA-PB-reversed PA if I can get all that running.


This is the stub end looking South, may bring it across the bath door and put in a roundhouse and turntable????
All the locos are DCC with sound except the two little switchers.


This is the center island, the much too big building is a meat packing plant, will shuttle stock cars from the stock yard to here. Not too sure about how this will go in???



Here's how the turnout motors are placed for the yard entrance and half of the new crossover. Re moveable top cover is holding the little farm house.



I am now radio controlled. Many of the turnout controls are mounted near the turnouts, like to be more involves in operations and walk to the controls, Radio makes this workable.


A emergency repair,don't have time for shopping for non essentials.


Most of the scenery has yet to be detailed but is mostly in place. much more detailing to go. Got a big box full of stuff, buildings to build, cars and people, trees, etc.

I think I'm done laying track and just re did all the electrical mess and everything seems to run OK. I can now start "operating" the Magic Railroad.

Snoopman2 asked a while back about the cost of this. Way too much. Houses around here go for about $85.00/sq.ft. I did a cost thing on another forum and it came out to about $42.50/ sq. ft. of benchwork, or about what one might expect to spend on a decent use car. Another reason for the shoe repair.

Magic