HO 80s/90s CSX, NS, & Conrail layout resurrection.

[boatman]

Wont you have a white centre line on the rd ? or in'nt it done an its really comin on I like to see all the ralway line strechin off into the distance with the six line's great stuff
chris

[minitnkr]

Thank you gents. The RR doesn't own a line painter Chris :smiling2:. There will be public roads w/lines. The latest dry fit of industries.




Thoughts? PaulE

[scottie3158]

Paul,
This is really coming together mate.

[JR]

Paul, you might have mentioned before , but what scale is this ?
Here in the UK we have OO and N gauge, well as far as I know:smiling:

[minitnkr]

John, John, John, 1/87 of course. What else? That is HO gauge/scale in the US. HO gauge is 1/72 scale in the UK I think. There is also O gauge which, I think is 1/48 scale. OO gauge relates to the track gauge I think. Don't know the scale. S scale is between O & HO and no longer popular anywhere I'm aware of. N is 1/144 scale I think. There is also TT (teeny tiny), once popular in Europe. This exhausts my thoughts on the subject. PaulE

[JR]

Ha, should have realised that Paul .:smiling::smiling::smiling::smiling3::nerd:
No doubt Paul someone will come along and put the English sizes right. I was a teenager when I had my Hornby 00, in those far off days it was 3 rail !

[boatman]

WELL when I was buyin bits for my railway they had HO an OO written on the packs as I don't think there is a lot of diffence in the sizes an PaulE how do you get on ballastin the points as when I done mine it was a job as the points movin rails kept getting clogged up with ballast even though I had sucked off loose ballast with the mini hover an are your points electrified ? an do you get much wear on the points frog ? as my Hornby points frog wore down quite quick ?
chris

[minitnkr]

Last yard track ballasted w/between rail dump for coarse grain. Also gluing some 'concrete' pads.


PaulE

[minitnkr]

Chris, all my turnouts are Atlas w/some over 40yrs old w/no appreciable wear. Most of the wear on my trackage is from brightboy cleaning. I recently upgraded most of my rolling stock to metal wheelsets so this may change. I think my ballasting process is opposite from yours. I distribute the ballast first, dressing it in detail w/small makeup brushes before adding the PVA/water/alcohol/dishwashing liquid mixture to it, carefully keeping the movable parts clear of both. PaulE

[boatman]

Chris, all my turnouts are Atlas w/some over 40yrs old w/no appreciable wear. Most of the wear on my trackage is from brightboy cleaning. I recently upgraded most of my rolling stock to metal wheelsets so this may change. I think my ballasting process is opposite from yours. I distribute the ballast first, dressing it in detail w/small makeup brushes before adding the PVA/water/alcohol/dishwashing liquid mixture to it, carefully keeping the movable parts clear of both. PaulE

AH well I dint think of that pity I cant roll the clock back 40 yrs so you could tell me as you are right I was doin it wrong oh gawrd well better to lern my mistakes at somtime than never at all aaaaaarrrgggggg an your turn out are what we call points then ?
CHRIS

[minitnkr]

Prolly Chris, turnout, switch, points & other terms to describe moveable track. PaulE

[Allen Dewire]

Afternoon Paul,

Every time I see this, I kick myself in the posterior for selling all of my model RR stuff a few years ago. For clarification, N = 1/160, Z = 1/220 and my collection was TT = 1/120. I purchased all of it in East Berlin in the 80's, basically for dirt cheap prices. A nice diesel 12V DC locomotive ran around $ 2.00 - $ 3.00 with the exchange rate, dollar to east mark. Oh, did I have a mahoosive collection of everything including 20 locos, over 100 pieces of rolling stock, buildings, autos, buses, little people, trees and kms of track, switches and stuff.

I started building a layout twice and got shot down both times. The first in Cali (we moved) and the second here in Bamberg when my youngest was born (lost the 3rd bedroom).

For some reason, I think S was around 1/64 scale IIRC. This is what I have kept as it's a special edition from 1987 and Berlin's 750th Birthday,



The ruler is in centimeters and the train is a Prussian passenger train,



Prost
Allen

[boatman]

Afternoon Paul,

Every time I see this, I kick myself in the posterior for selling all of my model RR stuff a few years ago. For clarification, N = 1/160, Z = 1/220 and my collection was TT = 1/120. I purchased all of it in East Berlin in the 80's, basically for dirt cheap prices. A nice diesel 12V DC locomotive ran around $ 2.00 - $ 3.00 with the exchange rate, dollar to east mark. Oh, did I have a mahoosive collection of everything including 20 locos, over 100 pieces of rolling stock, buildings, autos, buses, little people, trees and kms of track, switches and stuff.

I started building a layout twice and got shot down both times. The first in Cali (we moved) and the second here in Bamberg when my youngest was born (lost the 3rd bedroom).

For some reason, I think S was around 1/64 scale IIRC. This is what I have kept as it's a special edition from 1987 and Berlin's 750th Birthday,

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The ruler is in centimeters and the train is a Prussian passenger train,

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Prost
Allen

COR Allen thats a little bueaty but that's worth a lot of money now

[boatman]

COR Allen thats a little bueaty bet that's worth a lot of money now
chris

[minitnkr]

Thanks for the clarification Allen. Forgot about Z & confused the rest. I was O scale in my youth & HO when I resumed model railroading in CA during the 70s. PaulE