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third section 3 : My cat was determined to "help" with my wiring map. I was determined to use this 1:1 diagram to get neater, more organized wiring ru
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Sculptamold 3: ... and it worked great! After this is painted and landscaped, the structure won't look like it's just sitting on top of the ground. Wh
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Mar Apr 2013 7 ... While Frisco engineers fiddle with the position of the station and platform, railroad officers and VIPs enjoy the comfort of their
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Tunnel Jan 20144 - The walls and portal are in place, left for the adhesive to set up over night. I'll use some vines and additional weathering later
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Section 3 wiring 2 : My favorite trick of the day : 1) After drilling the holes down through the layout, insert coffee stir straws. 2) Run the feeder
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third section 4 : I'm preparing to solder a wire to the bottom of the frog on this Walthers by Shinohara #8 right-hand turnout. Even though it's a DCC
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benchwork 1 : I'm using a modified version of Woodland Scenics' "Mod-U-Rail" system for my benchwork. Here, you can see the heavy items weighing down
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benchwork 2 : This morning, I went out to the garage to begin disassembling this corner unit so I could move it to the basement. I was in for a surpri
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benchwork 3: Surprise! It turns out that there is more than one type of Liquid Nails for Projects. I wasn't paying attention, and I did NOT pick up th
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benchwork 4 : So, I switched to what I had on-hand: yellow wood glue. Fortunately, the nearly-dry Liquid Nails matches up with the furrows created in
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benchwork 5 : So, the foam and wood underlayment are inverted and on the garage floor while the yellow glue sets up. The five blocks are used to align
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benchwork 6 : My modifications to the Mod-U-Rail stand are as follows: 1) I cut longer legs (48") to raise the layout closer to eye level; 2) I used t
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benchwork 8 : This is the front side of the stand, which is screwed and glued. It connects to the straight sides with bolts. I'm sure I could have sav
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Sculptamold 1: When the foil was peeled back, I had results I would call acceptable. My plan is to make Lightweight Hydrocal castings of prominent roc
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SBS test 1 The engineer is creeping past the clearance point, but it's only for a signal demonstration. Any second now, the track occupancy circuit w
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SBS test 2 Frisco #100, an Athearn Genesis GP15-1, splits the signals. My layout has been in a "holding pattern" until today, as I needed to sort out
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depot bricks 4 - The center platform is in. Some additional paint touchup, weathering, and landscaping around it will improve the look. The parking lo
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depot bricks 3 - A Frisco cement hopper stands by, ready to contribute building materials to the project.
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Mar Apr 2013 6 "Citation" is leading a short special train to test the station platform height and distance from the railhead. In an unusual twist,
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Mar Apr 2013 5 ... I decided to use my larger depot, the Walthers City Station Kit (933-2904). It's more impressive than my original plan, the Golden
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Gluing down the pink foam for section 4. Having learned my lesson with the wrong kind of Liquid Nails last time, I used some leftover DAP silicone cau
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Catzilla inspects the track work on section 3 (lower level).
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Here's the track plan, made using Empire Express 2.0.1 for Mac OS X. I guess it's an "island" layout, with the middle open (so, it's a donut?!). The s
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third section 5 : These tracks will be "underground" after the upper level is added. But that will come much later.
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third section 6 : This corner section transitions the "level" track from two to three tracks. The black paint is over some Sculpt-a-Mold filling in a
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Sculptamold 2: During my search for tips on using this product, I found another neat technique: After applying Sculptamold to a vertical surface to si
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Sculptamold 6: Preparing to do a little terrain creation using Amaco Sculptamold. This is a new product for me, so I'm having fun experimenting with i
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This device is what makes the signal system work, but was also one of my big hurdles. It handles all the signal logic, and it uses changes in track vo
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depot bricks 2 - Looking down on the paper template to check size and shape.
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depot bricks 1 - Making a graph paper template for cutting the styrene brick sheet for the center passenger platform.
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Mar Apr 2013 4 ... The holes I cut for future Tortoise installation look awful, but they won't be seen. This way, I have some "wiggle room." The Frog
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Mar Apr 2013 3 ... Drilling and tapping are still "experimental" for me. Here, I've got the Frog Juicer lead ready. For now, the wire will just hang u
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Mar Apr 2013 2 ... I position the turnouts first, then overlay flex-track and use pins to hold everything in place. I'm not figuring real curve easeme
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Mar Apr 2013 1 ... Drawing the track layout for section 4 (lower level). These storage / staging tracks won't be seen, but they'll also be a little to
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End of track - for the moment. The three tracks in the foreground are the "lover level" tracks just past the tunnel portal. Later, they'll be beneath
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Sunday, section 4 arrives in the basement. Instead of a "Plywood Pacific," it's more of a "Pinksylvania Railroad.â€
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