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Post by healey36 on Aug 30, 2024 13:09:20 GMT
I added the test run to the project list, mostly because I'll need to drag out the N-gauge test loop and clean it up before I can see if the Alco has any life in it. It still has both of its 40-year-old traction tires, so that's a good sign, sort of.
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Post by chipset35 on Aug 31, 2024 17:06:56 GMT
Don't get me started!
Back in 2020, I invaded our dining room and started building an N Scale layout.
Then felt guilty, so I tore it down and replace my O Scale layout with construction of an N Scale layout.
Wasted 2 years only to go back to O Scale.
Some day I might try again if I can only figure out where.
/emote "Looks around house eyeing where it could go".
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Post by healey36 on Aug 31, 2024 18:08:23 GMT
Started with an S-gauge set, switched off to N-gauge in the teen years, than off to prewar O-gauge in my early-forties. I still have most of my old N-gauge stuff, but I just play with it very occasionally on the dining room table. No layout is planned...none...I'm serious...none...
I'm serious...
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Post by Country Joe on Sept 1, 2024 17:38:55 GMT
This billboard is a Bar Mills kit that a friend gave me. He’s an O gauge guy and it’s an N/HO scale model.
I used it on this corner module that I finished a few days ago.
I have one more double straight module to scenic. The Melbourne show is this Saturday so I don’t know if I’ll get the last module done for the show but I’m going to try.
My wife had a doctor appointment in Sebastian which is about halfway between Vero Beach and Melbourne so we drove to the train store where I picked up these.
The 53’ containers are made by Kato and will give a little variety to my double stack train. The trucks are made by Tomix.
That’s it for now.
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Post by healey36 on Sept 1, 2024 17:57:08 GMT
The module certainly looks sharp...much better "scenicking" than anything I did back in the day.
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Post by atsda on Sept 1, 2024 19:04:40 GMT
healey36, resist the temptation. Alfred
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Post by atsda on Sept 1, 2024 19:05:27 GMT
chipset35, good to have a post from you. Keep up the O gauge. Alfred
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Post by atsda on Sept 1, 2024 19:06:47 GMT
Joe, I hope the doctor's appointment was a routine one. Did you finish the module for the show? Was the show only N scale? Alfred
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Post by Country Joe on Sept 1, 2024 20:52:11 GMT
The module certainly looks sharp...much better "scenicking" than anything I did back in the day.
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Post by Country Joe on Sept 1, 2024 21:16:07 GMT
Joe, I hope the doctor's appointment was a routine one. Did you finish the module for the show? Was the show only N scale? Alfred
The last module has track mounted and is painted brown so we can run trains on it. I’m almost finished with a block of 5 stores and have another kit with a block of 4 stores that I will build before the show this Saturday. In the worst case I’ll put the 2 blocks of stores on the module so it won’t be naked.
The show is all scales. There’s always a large modular O gauge layout and either our (Vero Beach Model Railroaders) 4x8 O gauge or N scale T-Trak layout. Sometimes there’s a 4x8 HO layout, another 4x8 O gauge layout, a Z scale layout, and a few others that come and go.
Different vendors sell different scales. One of our members is a vendor. He sells everything from mighty G scale to tiny Z scale.
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Post by Country Joe on Sept 9, 2024 2:44:11 GMT
My friend Jeff and I set up our T-Trak modules (under the umbrella of the Vero Beach Model Railroaders) at the Melbourne, Florida train show yesterday. I shot this 2 minute video showing the whole layout. The layout was very well received and all the comments were positive except for one or two who liked the layout but said that N scale was just too small for them to work with. We had a lot of fun running trains and talking trains with lots of good folks.
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Post by atsda on Sept 11, 2024 16:14:18 GMT
Joe, sounds like a good event. I'm glad your layout was well received. Alfred
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Post by Country Joe on Sept 11, 2024 22:03:53 GMT
Joe, sounds like a good event. I'm glad your layout was well received. Alfred
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Post by Country Joe on Sept 24, 2024 0:30:40 GMT
I picked up these Broadway Limited Imports engines at my local train store Friday along with these 3 flat cars.
The ES44s have DCC and sound. They are different road numbers than my Kato ES44s.
The TTX cars will get truck frame loads made from these kits
while the bulkhead flat will get a pipe load made from coffee stirrers, strip wood and yellow thread as strapping.
I’m almost done with the last T-Trak module. Once it’s done I can get working on my layout and projects like these loads.
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Post by Country Joe on Oct 7, 2024 2:36:29 GMT
I assembled the truck frame kits. I put 6 of them on the 2 60’ flat cars and 4 into 2 52’6” gondolas.
To the best of my knowledge truck or car frame loads are not made in O scale.
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