Running Bear's Coffee Shop LXXII


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Good evening y'all. Rain's about over and the temperature is on the way back down. There is concern about rapid icing overnight.

Garry: Your back shop crew did a fine job restoring the floor model to service.

Been running the new RDC back and forth to break it in. Nice but a tad noisy. Almost sounds like I remember the real ones, detail is great.

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The Rapido model is in the foreground, the B&O RDCs in the background are Life Like Proto 1000 models. The Rapido has full interior detail, interior lighting, fine scale exterior detail and under body detail. The DC version can be upgraded to DCC, it takes a 21 pin decoder. The light board is under the exhaust dome, I think.
The unit is powered by two very small motors and drive shafts, very much like the prototype. The motors are housed under the floor, in the diesel engine boxes under the car body, just like the prototype. Also just like the Budd Prototype, pulling trailers, voids the warranty. :rolleyes: The car came with a sheet of decals to change the numbers or add logos of the T, in Boston, Metro North or LIRR in NYC. Also a small bag containing replacement windshield wipers and other small parts.
The headlight is directional, as are the red markers. The number boards are constantly lit.

I have a companion RDC2 pre-ordered, with DCC and Sound, so I will be getting a silent decoder for this one in the future. Right now, it's a perfect one car train. The B&O cars will be reworked, repainted and re-lettered for my Chester & Delaware River, a Reading subsidiary in real life.
 
ACL-CSX said:
Good evening y'all. Been trying to not float away all day. Don't know how much rain we got, but it was a lot. Thankfully, it didn't deter my local mail carrier from delivering my new diner today. I am very pleased with it. Since it has a full interior, I will only have to add a few details in the kitchen area. I will have to permanently mount the trucks so I can do away with the 2 columns that hold the screws for the trucks. Painting will be a challenge, as well as figuring out the best way to light it, but I'm looking forward to getting it assembled and mounted to a piece of track.
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Jesse
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Here is a product by DCCConcepts.com in Western Australia for diners. Hornby do some of their parlor coaches with interiors like this. You could contact them to find out what is involved.

https://www.dccconcepts.com/product/working-table-lamps-lamps-and-settings-pullman/
 
migalyto said:
Willie,

Thanks for the photos, your backdrop looks great! Looks like my Home Depot stocks plenty of this. A couple more questions.......When you attach with the drywall screws, do you counter sink them slightly? Also did you paint right on the sheathing, or did you primer it? Sorry, one more.....Did you just spackle the seams, or do you tape it like drywall to hide them?
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Mike - I did not drill countersink holes, the screws self-countersink themselves. They will go all of the way through if you're not careful. I painted the sheathing directly, thickly. In some cases I had to touch it up with a second coat. I have actually done nothing with the seams, yet. Many of the joints are not really visible after painting, the few that are will get spackle and repaint later on. In many cases, foreground scenery actually provides a bit of a viewblock.

Willie
 
Good Morning All. 29° and mostly clear, going up to 60° later today, maybe 70° tomorrow. Then we see another cold snap with 40° high predicted for Saturday and Sunday. Today would have been my late fathers 89th birthday, I got the train bug from him. Grocery/beer trek coming up this morning. That kills three hours or more since I'll be stopping by the barbershop on this trip. That will provide a psychological boost to the weight loss attempt I am having. I plan on planting onions in the garden this afternoon; I'm a bit behind my normal schedule for this, but life sometimes interferes! The ground moisture hasn't been right due to the drought, and I had to soak the planting bed earlier this week to make it ready. Probably should deal with firewood today or tomorrow as well. Full day ahead.
Big day in the train shed yesterday. I completed the benchwork for the upper level except for a 5' long removable "stoop-under" section across the entry. I completed a 16" x 16' section along the south wall that will contain a main line, passing siding and four (maybe five) staging tracks. The "stoop-under" will be 57" above the floor and will allow continuous running on the upper level. It will carry the main and the passing siding over to existing connections on the east wall. The staging will be double-ended and the shortest track should be able to hold 26 cars/engines. Adding icing so to speak, I also glued down 9' of cork roadbed. Time permitting, I will complete the roadbed for the main and siding, and start on the track later today. There is already a 16" x 11' section along that south wall with the turnouts and beginnings of all of these tracks presently installed, although the main and siding are the only ones fastened and powered. The number of staging tracks ultimately depends on how crowded I want it to look. Plans are murky at present, as I have also allowed the room to make it a classification yard instead of a staging yard. There's plenty of room for a curved yard lead on the existing end. I already have an engine servicing facility on the other end of the "stoop-under". Decisions, decisions, decisions!:)

Chet - I too rely more on my "Weather Rock" than any professional weather guesser. Mine just doesn't do the wind as it is stationary. Wind wasn't a factor as I did construction yesterday, as the train shed provided an excellent windbreak.
Sherrel -
Easier to cut, paint, drill holes, and bend than Masonite - plus it is much lighter in weight.
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Correct on all counts.
Garry - Nice work on the floor model.
Jesse - Nice looking diner. Those pictures remind me of why I don't model in "N" scale. Too small for my eyes and hands.:D
Joe - That's a nice looking RDC that you have there.
Toot - That's a great Calliope video. That fellow does some fantastic work. Your other video looks really interesting, but I do not have 90 spare minutes! Watched part of it though.

Everybody have an awesome day.

Willie
 
Good morning everyone. 22 and clear here in SW MO, hitting low 50s later. Beautiful day on tap, tomorrow too. then the bottom drops out (again) with weekend lows in the teens and an ice-and-snow event predicted for the weekend. Sigh - - when will this end? I've had enough of winter. Thankfully I've got a mug of mocha and a chocolate doughnut to dunk in it, so - - - here goes!!

Toot - that is a great video of the calliope. So there's a fellow who builds those from scratch?!?! Wow. Excellent workmanship! Thanks for posting the longer video on trains. I'll get time later to watch, but it looks interesting.
Willie - thanks for the further info on how you use the plywood as base for background scenery. that's helpful.

No real news from the train room. Finished work on taxes last night and did some fine-tuning on Vic's Barbershop.

Have a good day everyone.
 
Good morning all. Starting the day off at 42 degrees with light winds. Just heard a forecast calling for rain changing to snow and temps dropping into the teens. Will have to check with my weather rock for a more in depth forecast.

Jesse - Like the dining car. You'll probably go cross eyed painting the interior. I believe that the posts retaining the trucks is also weight for the car. You may want to try to figure some way to add weight if you do remove them. A small nut could probably do the job of retaining the trucks. There is probably some lighting kit available that can be adapted to light the interior. Way too small for my old eyes.

Garry - Another outstanding photo. Sweet. Looks pretty good after it bout with gravity.

Ken D&J - Thanks for replying about the mishap at the crossing. I did enjoy the time you spent recording the meets at the crossing. That's quite an interesting feature. I'm sure that the inattentive operator that cut the train in half took a bunch of crap all day long. Keeps operators on their toes.

Willie - Good information of the backdrop material. I'm sure it could help a lot of us. You sound like you are making a lot of progress on your layout. Waiting for some photos.

Ray - That calliope video is really neat. What a scene to add to a railroad. A lot of time and effort went int that. Also enjoy the old British movie. Interesting.

Joe - Nice RDC's. It's wasy to pick out the extremely well detailed Rapido version. Making me want to rethink not getting one.

Here's a rail picture for today.

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Later
 
Checking In Rail Benders!
37 degrees going to 86 for a high! Looking at the weather map - I do not think there is a cloud showing anywhere in the State! That's a 49 degree swing from the present .... forgot to check what the actual low last night was?

Failed on the car smog check yesterday. Didn't have a ride in order to leave it there. Spousal Unit spent most of day NOT moving!
Her leg is about to the point of being useless. She is awaiting appointment setup with a specialist. Doctor she saw a couple days ago thinks it may be her back causing it rather than her knee - with the pain going down her leg he thinks that it may be something akind to a pinched nerve? X-ray's did not show any problems with her knee.

MARK .. If you are around? Cool test on us by coping the same post three days in a row. Willie is sharp - he caught it. I can't remember what the post was about that is above this one AND I read each and every one!

CURT - I did not comment, but I think your tower looks GREAT! Really like the shingles! Just dont send Bruce any leftover shingles - he has had enough of his own?
 
Toot - I'll check that out. Thank you.

Willie - Thank you. Yes. I'm learning the difficulty of my chosen scale, but it's deal with tiny or wait another who knows how long until I have the space for HO. Not happening. I wanna run trains. Lol

Chet - You're probably right. But I'm going to try anyway. Good thing about the weight is it's a non-issue. This car will never be part of a consist. Once it goes through the process of being converted, it'll be permanently affixed to a section of track. That's why I couldn't bring myself to go through with the conversion on the circus car. I am sacrificing this car to an eternity as a piece of scenery. Lol

Jesse
 
Jesse - Mine will also probably just ending up sitting on a siding also. I have always like the heavy weight passenger cars and have no idea of where or why I got this B&O dining car, but I do like it.

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It will be set out on a siding just to the left of the dome car. I have started a small building that will sit at the rear of the car for customers to enter che car. I already have a sign on a building to direct customers to "The Dining Car" restaurant. You can barely see the end of the car sticking out behind the building.

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montanan said:
Jesse - Mine will also probably just ending up sitting on a siding also. I have always like the heavy weight passenger cars and have no idea of where or why I got this B&O dining car, but I do like it.

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It will be set out on a siding just to the left of the dome car. I have started a small building that will sit at the rear of the car for customers to enter che car. I already have a sign on a building to direct customers to "The Dining Car" restaurant. You can barely see the end of the car sticking out behind the building.

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Looks good. Since I don't have a place for mine yet, I haven't decided how to set it up. Or what to call it. But it'll come with time. Spring is coming and I'm hoping to be too busy growing my small irrigation company to have much time for model railroading until winter. Then MAYBE I'll have the money for it. Lol

Jesse
 
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Ken D&J - Thanks for replying about the mishap at the crossing. I did enjoy the time you spent recording the meets at the crossing. That's quite an interesting feature. I'm sure that the inattentive operator that cut the train in half took a bunch of crap all day long. Keeps operators on their toes.
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Yeah, should have restricted him to Bright Boy duty for the rest of the day. :cool:
 
Afternoon All,

Our home internet is still out but I'm using my phone as a WiFi Hotspot. I finished my project yesterday except for the outside chimney (brick work in shipment). The grand kids will be staying over on Saturday.

Toot- The video is amazing.

VA Ken- WOW. How long is the layout all together?

Louis- Nothing wrong with grilling like that.

Willie- Looking good. The progress continues, that's a good thing.

Chet- Nice layout pictures. I also like the rock and rail shot.

Sherrel- Thank you. Could your wife's issue be Sciatica?

Joe- It sounds like a really nice RDC.

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I hope everyone has a good night.
 
CURT --
Could your wife's issue be Sciatica?
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Yes, I am fairly sure that it may be? ... Do you have a quick cure, or shall I just look for the gun?

BTW - Details of your tower are outstanding!
 
ACL-CSX, Oops, I forgot you are doing N scale, those tables and lamps are HO, sorry 'bout that.

That British Rail movie has only been put up on YouTube recently, I've only watched 15 mins of it myself, but at least if you have a Y/tube account and watch it on there directly, you can come back to it and continue from where you left off. Something for a lazy half hour.
 
I have officially been invited to show the little ones how model trains work at my daughter's school. It is going to be a part of their project they are working on.

Justin
 
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