As part of my plan to continue work on my Madras Switching Modules I have started in building a few of the structures. I have decided that I will not be making exact matches, but more going for the flavor of the buildings. I will design them I can continue to add detail to them, but at me leisure. The first building I am tackling is the unique elevator the belonged to Clowers Seed.

I will be attempting to build a Milw. Rd diesel tank car in HO scale. I will be kit bashing a Tichy tank car kit. The car was used to fuel locomotive where the was no set tank. Here is a picture of the car from Morning Sun freight car book Vol.1, page 90.






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I am a longtime user of Photobucket and all my photos reside in the Photobucket library. That library is also referred to by all my posting in Big Blue.
Flickr is used in parallel since may years but only to look at others photos. My Flickr account was used as a "read only" account in the past.

Photobucket became over the time a more and more unsatisfactory photo library supplier. They became very slow and handling of my own photos while uploading became very cumbersome due to serious performance problems. Browsing through my photos is virtually impossible as it take minutes to get them on the screen. That makes it very inconvenient to find the right photo to refer to in an append.

I tried Flickr as a replacement today and uploaded lots of my photos to Flickr. I did also to a test posting referring to photos stored in Flickr and it worked great. At this looks Flickr very good to me.

Is there something I must obey or should know before I switch over to Flickr?

ps. I intend to keep the Photobucket account to ensure all the old posts still point to a valid internet address. The account will expire in August 2016.

WPMA-19 makes a pickup of an empty box car at Garden State Paper.

Bruce

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I had gotten a set of decals I have longed for for over 3 years now and no one can seem to make them so heres my question. Is there a soft ware you can purchase and use to duplicate these decals?

Hi!
This is my new project.
The Model Masterpieces D&RG 60' Gallows turntable in HOn3.



I will, also build the Como Roundhouse to complete the scene.
The drive for the turntable will be a step motor with full indexing. It is a system developed by a friend of mine and very fool proof!
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I bought this kit second hand, and it misses the spider gear housing...
I will try to make a new by 3D printing it.

This is a good plan showing how I will do the drive:

(courtesy of Carrie Creek)

I started the build by staining and adding grain to the wood. The stain is Isopropyl alcohol and wiper fluid mixed with vallejo burnt umber and black.



After it dries, I will lightly sand them to remove the fuzz.
More to come soon!

Hi!
This is my new project.
The Model Masterpieces D&RG 60' Gallows turntable in HOn3.



I will, also build the Como Roundhouse to complete the scene.
The drive for the turntable will be a step motor with full indexing. It is a system developed by a friend of mine and very fool proof!
[]

I bought this kit second hand, and it misses the spider gear housing...
I will try to make a new by 3D printing it.

This is a good plan showing how I will do the drive:

(courtesy of Carrie Creek)

I started the build by staining and adding grain to the wood. The stain is Isopropyl alcohol and wiper fluid mixed with vallejo burnt umber and black.



After it dries, I will lightly sand them to remove the fuzz.
More to come soon!

One day I searched around the scrap/junk box for new projects. Modeling funds are tight, and I enjoy turning the junk I have into usable models. I pulled out the tender and shell of an old Bachmann 0-6-0. This was one of the mid-80s versions with the pancake motors and the nylon axle gears that split and went out of quarter after about 5 minutes of running. I remember winning this as a door prize at a train show when I was about 14.

The motor and mechanism are long gone, but I recall that the D&RGW K-27s were built with sloped tenders, as were a few Mexican narrow gauge 2-8-0s. But I also recall photos of a Uintah narrow gauge 2-8-2 with a sloped tender and proportions that resembled the USRA 0-6-0 boiler. Coincidentally, I also became aware that Bachmann makes 42" drivers for their 0-6-0t locomotives...If I could only narrow them for HOn3!!

So here we have the start - a narrowed tender, a custom frame from brass and styrene, a cylinder casting from another junk loco, Modified drivers from Bachmann. So far, so good. Next up is to make side rods and add the NWSL gearbox and see if it actually runs .

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Here is another great collection on line. I searched "pennsylvania railroad" and could spend the winter looking at the pictures on line, and they can be downloaded in high resolution TIFF format. (I had to get rid of quicktime because of a conflict with the tiff downloads, no big loss for me)
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Here is a half of a stero view I downloaded and reworked. The pictures are public domain    
Charlie

Quote:Atlas Model Railroad Co. Agrees to Purchase BLMA Models Inc.

HILLSIDE, New Jersey: Effective immediately, Atlas Model Railroad Co., has agreed to purchase BLMA Models Inc., of Fullerton, California. Founded in 2000, BLMA manufactures quality HO, N, and Z scale rolling stock and accessories. Upon completion of the acquisition, Atlas will own and release all current tooling, inventory, and will continue with production plans outlined by BLMA, prior to the sale.