How many here are going to the Lindsay Train show on April 4-5?
I will be there, but not with the shop.
I will be at the NMRA modellers corner.
I will have the 60cm x 90cm mini layout that normally resides in the shop, going to do some touch ups on it.
Also I will have my latest build for the CVR on hand, I will be taking 2 Cheltenham Stations and bashing them into an L-shaped factory building.
This will be going on the CVR between Forks and Cataract.

If you are coming, please drop by and say hello.

A short time ago I bought a 50’ Roundhouse/Athearn passenger car of Overland series. I would like to make an addition to an existing Virginia & Truckee RR. historic passenger train with a Bachman 4-4-0 and three cars made by Rivarossi. Ok. These models are not the best and not the most detailed models but this train should run as a really historic passenger train while our exhibitions.
I have seen a few pictures of similar trains in the book “History of Virginia & Truckee” picturing all V&T’s passenger cars and one of them #18 is very close to the new model – with the need to modify a good number of details. Look here a picture of the original car. Many years ago this car #18 was rebuilt to a combine however I will use it with the original version as coach as is was built in 1890.

The most remarkable difference is the more modern roof of the original model …





… and there I did make a radically change - the roof ends are cut off.



Preparations for new roof ends ...









… and building the new roof ends step by step from a plywood basic and styrene sheeting.



The roof ends are finished however now I will like to change, replace and add ten or fifteen more parts before I can give the model a new color scheme and lettering for the V&T RR.

Took a small trip last Saturday with my son to check out an old DL&W bridge near our home. I don't know if the bridge has a name or is known by a mile marker # ,but a cool structure none the less. NJ transit has talked about reactivating the line for years now but no real work as of yet.    
All of the pics were from the PA side of the Delaware river looking towards NJ.    
I think the rail passing under the bridge is also DL&W, not sure maybe a Lackawanna fan could clarify this.

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here are a few more pictures i took in new castle this past sunday.


todd

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Hi guys,

I have a question for ya....

I have a few signs for Pillsbury but none for ADM. Im in the process of building the Walthers kit but i cant find my decals that came with the kit. I have some decals from the Red Wing Flour Mill Kits, they have sings for Redwing Milling Company, King Midas Flour, GOLD Medal, Pillsbury, Centennial Mills, Tri-State Milling, Robin Hood Flour, and Trisco Flour

Would any of these work for a Grain Elevator? Which one do you think would be best to be on a Grain Elevator Structure?

here is some CSX action in New Castle,Pa. CSX has a yard there, and saw a lot of action too.



todd

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Hi Guys, following Ralph here and starting a blog on my Engine Roster. Im going to sorta follow my old Engine Roster Thread and post new post for each loco so i can go back and update it once something new has been completed on the model.

I made a cad drawing of the small control panel for my grandsons HO layout. What is a good removable cement to fasten it to an aluminum panel that will not stain the aluminum. I thought of using good old fashioned rubber cement, but not sure if it will stain the aluminum or not. Anybody out there with experience in this sort of thing?

Thanks for any help.

Hi, Due to having been laid off, I will not be using my time share in Pompano Beach, Fla this year. I would like to rent it and so am posing pertinent info here. If anyone is interested in using the unit, please pm me.

It is the week starting 5/9, ending 5/16. It is at the Seaside Beach Club in Pompano Beach. Here is a link to the website for the club.

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Picture 15 shows the bldg my unit is in, on the second floor. Photo 17 shows the pool below the unit, and 18 is the view from the balcony. It is right on the ocean in a quiet section of town. It is part of a three block section where bldgs are no more than 3 stories high, most of Pompano is high rises. I far prefer the more intimate setting. There are about 40 units here, so usually I don't see more than a dozen people poolside, the beach is huge so plenty of space.

The unit is for two people. It includes a small kitchen fairly well equipt, I usually cook most of our meals while there. There are grills available near poolside. You can eat/drink on the beach, just don't litter!

Expect temps from the 70's to high 90's. Ocean temp in high 80's. If you love swimming in the ocean like I do, this is a great place. The water is mostly very calm, occasionally an off shore storm will increase the wave action making things a bit more exciting. There are lots of things to do and places to se, the Everglades are not that far, Fort Lauderdale is about 20 minutes away, (that is where you will fly to) Miami another 20 minutes south. One year I drove down to Key West.

Cost will be $500 Please ask any questions I haven't addressed. Thanks.

Gary

a post in the wahl thread made me remember that i posted a researched ( as i couldn't find and hard facts in the controversy)thread in a brass rail versus nickle sliver in the old forum so here it is whit some updated info this is not to start a argument i hope just some facts. .

After this thread started I did a lot of research on the properties of both brass and nickel silver also known as German silver and come up with a ton of information so I tried to keep it as short as I could. But first the chemical composition of brass is copper and zinc the commonest alloy is 63% copper and 37% zinc nickel silver is copper zinc and nickel the common alloy is 65% copper 18% nickel and 17% zinc the conductivity of each base metal using silver as a rating of 100 copper comes in with a rating of 97.61 zinc at 29.57 nickel at 12.98 so it would stand to reason that nickel silver rail is not as good of a conductor as brass rail but we use such short runs of it that re stance is not factor.now as for the oxides the major component being copper in both brass and nickel silver the common black oxide we get on our track is called cupric oxide its conductive qualities I didn’t find a site that dealt with it(fore all the years of shuddering locos we all can guess on it), but did find that it is a toxic substance(new to me).nickel oxide is also black but being only 18% of the metal in the alloy that it will be found in smaller amounts (which is a good thing as it carries a cancer warning) as to the conductivity qualities if the base metal in of low conductivity of the oxide would stand to reason to be also lower. The zinc oxide is a whitish gray color is not toxic and harmless unless you ingest large amounts of it, but the fumes of zinc are deadly if breathed in confined spaces. The oxides from all three of these metals are used in the electronic industry from what I found mostly in the integrated circuit manufacturing. Also there I a myriad of other compounds that can be formed the such as sulfides which form in locations having sulfur compound fumes in the air .so from all I can find the only advantage to nickel silver track over brass is the appearance and that is why I only buy new track in nickel silver but use brass I have.

update information on this, the first solid state rectifiers were copper oxide, so the black copper oxide on our rails is a rectifier more or less