New additions to the Leetown Division.Local rail-fanners have noticed some new power recently including S2A #3547,N4A #2659 and Central Vermont T3A #705

Hi all,

I've had a retina problem with my left eye since June 11. Long story short, I've now had 4-5 laser surgeries since then and one other procedure. Each time, the doctors thought they'd fixed the problem but it kept worsening and my retina was actually detaching. So, two days ago, I had full day surgery on this eye and the doctors have assured me that the retina is now back in its correct position and well-lasered in. I now have a large gas bubble in my eye which will last 2 months -- it's intended to keep holding and pushing the retina back into place. I won't be able to drive for about two weeks.

Neighbours and friends have been great in terms of driving me around, but I thought I'd try Uber so I can be a little more independent. Has anyone -- especially those living in Canada and in the Toronto area -- used Uber and have any feedback? I've signed up and gone to their website but it seems really expensive, i.e. $10-15 to just go a few miles and around $20-25 to go about 5-10 miles.

Please note that I'm not at all Uber and taxi savvy, as the last time I used a taxi of any sort was in 2012! I'm so used to driving myself around.

I've had to take a lot of time off work during July, so this has given me a bit more time to work on my N scale layout.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Rob

Well it's been a few years I think since I've really posted and man has it been a busy few years. I purchased my first house and my layout is still back at the old place, after over a year since I've touched it I've gotten the itch to do something with trains again unfortunately there's no room to have a layout yet at my new place. So I brought some stuff home to build a small diorama and maybe try my hand at weathering some of my cars and locos in the meantime. I guess this post is mostly to say hi again and that I'd like to see lots of pictures because this site is my new source of fulfilling my model railroad needs!

Oh and I should probably point out that I purchased a house along some railroad tracks!

Fellow members,
I want to propose a change to Blue. I want linking to photos posted off site banned. Here is why. Go back through the threads and you will see that we no longer can see the progress of Ebbet's field that TeeJay had worked so hard to post, and now he is gone, We can no longer see most of Running Bears photos, We can't see CNnutbars photos, nor Deano's photos, which makes the archives of Blue more or lest severely depleted. I am sure there are many more posts that have been given the photobucket badge. The only pictures that were lost that were directly posted were due to a crash during an update and that problem has been corrected. If somehow the number of pictures for one post could be increased from 5 this would be fine with me. A few minutes posting to make a post permanent is worthwhile isn't it. I am not so sure it isn't just as fast to upload direct, all that needs to be done is to resize the pictures, and there are free programs that do that and you can keep the original size.
No one has control over the off site hosting. Once you get hooked on a site for your pictures what is to stop them from asking for a $400 extortion fee?
Charlie

This interesting unit was going west this morning on NS 17N. I think it is Headed for the Illinois Rail Museum. It was Last classed as E33 by Conrail and PC but was built for the Virginian Railway in the 50's as EL-C class. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginian_EL-C">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginian_EL-C</a><!-- m -->     Charlie

Hi everyone---hope this works

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My Conrail dedication does not rest and I need to run some "true blue" engines. The geography of Freelance 2017-2 inspired by the Bronx is fine but the time needs to be changed into the 1980s (I prefer the plain blue scheme without the quality scheme, quality should be in the product and not on the outside ;-). )

Following the usual "Bronx 1980s" standards should that result in a scenery of burned and devastated buildings.
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Wikipedia writes
"the South Bronx was considered one of the most blighted urban areas in the country, with a loss of 60% of the population and 40% of housing units"
But that means there must be some documentation of 60% of the structures still in place!
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It has a lot in common with the area in central Hamburg where I grow up. The mix of buildings and waste land due to destruction is quite similar.

I will certainly need some help from older New Yorkers and ask one or more questions over the time.

My topic for today is swapping street and rail cars. That is the easy beginning.

Working on a small toolhouse that I got from Interaction Enterprises about a year ago.

A few years ago I built their large CPR #3 toolhouse, added an interior and lit it.


This one has no windows and only the double doors. I should be able to knock it off in a couple evenings work.

Even though it is a small kit I'm pretty impressed with the detail that was added to the structure, individual rafters and interior framing.

I started with staining all the walls in a pine stain from Testors model FX.

then I painted the exterior walls and trim with Ceramcoat Barn Red. This is my standard railroad structure color.
The trim is made of a thin resin board (also laser cut)

and the interior framing. This too is a resin board. I didn't paint the interior framing so I can see the contrast.

Under the bridge


At the warehouse