On the wife's tablet this mornin, arrg who types like this. David, had to Google what code 83 was..... okay, does seem to be very important for realism and yes I think you are right, I do seem to have a need to want my layout to be as real as possible. I guess from some older mags they are saying code 100 is too thick. I'll go for 83 then. The only thing that Crosses my mind is that I may be joining the Amherst club here in MA because they operate by each modeler making sectional tracks when they get together? I need to find out what they use. Very good point and one I will need to investigate in, thank you so much for upping my knowledge a bit more David. So cool.
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What is Jeffries dinner?
Greetings. Lotsa great photos on here lately, someday I hope to show some of my own - gonna take me a while to get there though!
L5/S1 disc is 90% recovered, complete healing took ~3 weeks the last time I had this done. Still holed-up in my workshop on my kitbashing project. Some of you asked for photos, so here is a link to a prototype photo of the caboose I want to replicate. It's the windowless one in the foreground. They used these on way freights switching in really bad neighborhoods.
http://rr-fallenflags.org/bo/bo-c1979abp.jpg
I'll post photos of the build process as soon as I find time to upload them from my cell phone.
Hi Flo & Francine, How are you two ladies tonignt? Things seem fairly busy here at Jeffreys' Dinner, I hope the tips are good? I think I like a bowl of hot chilli and some coffee. Thanks, oh yes sprinkle on some of the Colby & Jack cheese if you would.
The weather here in Central Calif., was rather warm today but has cooled down tonight with a bit of moisture. I'm supposed to get a storm come through tomorrow evening and for the next few days too.
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No work on the layout last night. Spent the evening in town at the cigar lounge talking about motorcycle trips and my planned trip for this summer.
Another slow day ahead of me today.
Going to take the two grandsons to the train show at Chantilly this weekend. They're both excited to go.
Hello peeps! Suns up and does not look like snow today. Our roofs may be at an issue tho. David, thank you for you pic/text of the differant codes, I did not know about this. Thats what's fun about this hobby, learning stuff after all when it comes down to it, to quote Steve Jobs, "the journey is the reward", see you all laterGood evening Rail Placers & Spike Drivers,
Hi Flo & Francine, How are you two ladies tonignt? Things seem fairly busy here at Jeffreys' Dinner, I hope the tips are good? I think I like a bowl of hot chilli and some coffee. Thanks, oh yes sprinkle on some of the Colby & Jack cheese if you would.
The weather here in Central Calif., was rather warm today but has cooled down tonight with a bit of moisture. I'm supposed to get a storm come through tomorrow evening and for the next few days too.
Tony: Your very correct that scale model railroading is meant to duplicate what the railroads we are modeling used during a certain time period to attempt to capture their look and feel. HO rail/track comes in various sizes or codes which generally signify the height of the rail from their web base to the top of the rail head so the code 83 I mentioned that I felt would probably be correct for the time period and equipment you want to run on your layout is .083 thousands in height. Rail also comes in code 70 and 55 as well.
This shot on my layout shows the difference between code 55, Railcraft Rail - now Micro Engineering, rail in the foreground with the Virginia & Truckee Ventilated Reefer on the front siding, the main line directly behind it in code 70 and code 55 on the raised siding beyond it with the Old Time Climax Loco and standard gauge flat car in front of it with a narrow gauge log car on it . You can also match-up/join two different sizes of rail fairly simply, just keep the inner surface of the rail head pretty much in line as well as the rail head. The expensive part of creating your track work will be buying switches which are available in the same codes as the rail.
The Amherst club I believe hand lays their track like I do and thehy probably make their own switches too like I do. They may even have jigs for making various switches which speeds things up considerably. If they do build their own switches, which I'm almost certain they do you can learn to do that which will save you a considerable amount of money and offer a lot more flexibility in designing and constructing your layout track work.
Ken: This coffee shop, we are in/at fictitiously, is indeed Jeffreys' Dinner. Jeffrey was from the Cherokee Tribe and his given name was Running Bear.
When I joined it was known as Flo's Coffee Shop and these were the two ladies who Bill Tidler, a former member used to post on here as the two waitresses of the place. If you've noticed in most of my posts I always refer to Flo, the tall Blonde to my thinking and Francine i what I named the dark haired lady as she reminded me of a lady named Francine I used to work with many years back.
Hope you all have a good day today.
Johnny - Go for it, that train has DCC and sound, and amazing details as well. For 135 bucks I would have bought that in an instant and I have been looking at locos for a while. The only thing I am going to afford at the moment maybe a model and some supplies at best, but will only be planning and researching stuff and really I just re-started in trains a month ago! We had a major financial issue happen and are grateful we can even just make our bills.Good morning, everyone. I'll have a couple of jelly doughnuts and big cup of regular, thanks. It's 28 and sunny here in SW MO - heading for 66 today - a 40 degree swing in a 12-hour period!?! NOAA says 70's or upper 60's for the next 6 days! In February?????
Lots of posts yesterday - took me a while to catch up.
Terry - that twin sister NYCentral steamer you gave the ebay link to - that's the part of the country I'm modeling (New England and New York) - Hmmmm - to bid on it or not? Hmmm.
Curt - Yes, update photos are coming soon. Mostly I'm waiting for a shipment from MBKlein - my three LHS's didn't have a turnout I need, and without it my track laying is stopped. BTW, nice photos of your layout.
Garry - Yours is another of those WS S&Ls - lots of the guys seem to have them in their layouts. Looks nice. I'm thinking of going that way for us.
Just another day at work for me. Looking forward to the weekend and getting something done on the layout.
See ya later. Have a good day, everyone.
Johnny
Louis - I just know that you are "chomping at the bits" for the Youth League again this year. Don't be too rough on them though!