The Model Railroading thread

[u crank]

Outstanding August. Those night time shots are very nice.

[fireftr18]

The one with the movie theatre almost looks real. I like the fire station. It kind of looks like one of ours. Beautiful work.

[August]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

The one with the movie theatre almost looks real. I like the fire station. It kind of looks like one of ours. Beautiful work.

Thanks. I plan to build in the upper floors. When i'm done you'll be able to see the firemen getting ready to go out on a call when you look through the windows.

I'll be using these figures:




https://www.micromacromundo.com/Prei...FQa1wAodgGgCiw

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

All of that stuff is readily available. [...]

Thanks Steve!

What i did not know is that the first railroad companies in the US seems to have used wider gauges than is now standard, it was only during and after the civil war that the systems were adapted to one new standard (taking away the freedom of having individual gauge tracks ).
And no, i do not intend to build own rails to adapt to that, so will use HO track all the way while having a profile as low as possible (80, 75 or less – will prove own problems like with the wheels, but i guess i can do that). I do not know whether there was narrow gauge (like 3 foot and narrower as you mentioned) of any kind used before 1862? Would be interesting for sure!

Thank you very much for mentioning some companies dealing with that, will look for it!

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by August

Thanks. I plan to build in the upper floors. When i'm done you'll be able to see the firemen getting ready to go out on a call when you look through the windows.

I'll be using these figures:




https://www.micromacromundo.com/Prei...FQa1wAodgGgCiw

It looks like you try to get as much realism as you can. Just to let you know, the fire gear is kept at the truck to put on in a hurry. It's not kept in the living spaces.

[August]

Originally Posted by fireftr18

It looks like you try to get as much realism as you can. Just to let you know, the fire gear is kept at the truck to put on in a hurry. It's not kept in the living spaces.

I'll be looking to you for technical advice when I begin the project.

To give you an idea of what it will look like here is another example.

I built an office on the corner that can be seen through the open window. Just a little box held up by posts.

[GT182]

Originally Posted by August

Oh yeah you can get just about anything now a days.

This reminds me of where my my grandparents lived in a little town in NY.... Bainbridge. The main line for the D&H running from Albany to Binghamton, NY went by their house..... 60 feet way from the house just behind the backyard. You could feel it coming and the noise was something else at 70 mph.

[August]

The old F series are my favorite locomotives.

[fireftr18]

August, that looks incredible.

[fumo30]

Every second year there's an American themed model railroad convention organized in Rodgau Germany.
This years exhibitors came from Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Croatia, Finland, Luxembourg and Slovenia.
Captions are in finnish, but the pics speak for them selves.

http://vaunut.org/kuvat/?s=4168&p=0

[Oberon]

The F series really are iconic, probably the most recognizable of the diesels of that era I'd wager.

[propbeanie]

... unfortunately Oberon, he painted them in Pennsylvania colors (The Standard Railroad of the US of A), and not Big Four (part of the New York Central System)... -
Sorry, I'm a former Penn Central / Conrail / CSXE employee, and I used to get a kick out of the old Pennsylvania dudes and the Big Four dudes arguing as which railroad was the best... I used to always say "~WAS~"... - later in my career, I got to rub elbows with former B&O and Chessie fellers who all had the same trouble... :wink:

Good stuff fellers on your modeling. I know how much patience it takes to do that, but it can also be rewardingly therapeutic doing it...

[August]

Originally Posted by fumo30

Every second year there's an American themed model railroad convention organized in Rodgau Germany.
This years exhibitors came from Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland, Croatia, Finland, Luxembourg and Slovenia.
Captions are in finnish, but the pics speak for them selves.

http://vaunut.org/kuvat/?s=4168&p=0

My Aunt Gretel lives in Rodgau.

[August]

BTW this was my summer project. My military rail head had too many dirty nasty Legs and needed some Paratroopers.

The Chopper is a Rocco UH-1D (HO Scale). I gut the doors out and remounted them in the open position. The figures are Preiser US Infantry frankensteined into the proper poses.

[fumo30]

Nice!