Promised Train Pictures

[Texasmark]

lets see if I can upload these files. I have 6 pictures of questionable quality but clear enough to get the idea. May take a couple of posting to get all 6 installed. Well there are 2 more but this is enough to give you an idea. I started with plastic models and filled up a wall, 5 shelves 8' long with planes, boats, and military vehicles and such and ran out of room. Then I got the idea to do the N scale train layouts. Then went to powered model air planes. Then I went to picture puzzles and after several stacks of those, I'm still revisiting old puzzles on rainy or cold days like today. I could clean house........yeah I could.......but I live alone in my old age and if it gets to bothering me I clean it up.....besides every time I clean things up, out of plain site, I forget where I put this and that. On things in my shop, If I have something to put up, what I do is ask myself where would I look for that object. The answer is where I put it and it works.

Good luck with your "non farm related" bad weather days.

Note: If you click on the first picture, wait for 30 seconds or so.....it takes time for all 5 pictures to load before it shows you them very much enlarged.

 

[kentucky gardener]

nice!! huge layout. n scale is a good scale because is so small. too small for my pig paws I found out the other day.

I'll stick to ho scale

 

[1948CaseVAI]

That is a very, very nice layout! I built in N scale in college so I am aware of the challenges and now that I have lost most of the feeling in my fingers I cannot imagine it. But I also enjoy your other hobbies like the models, although I went for tractors and construction equipment mostly, and puzzles. Great job!! Thank you for posting!

 

[Texasmark]

nice!! huge layout. n scale is a good scale because is so small. too small for my pig paws I found out the other day.

I'll stick to ho scale

I selected N scale when I decided to try trains because it was smaller and as you can see I could get more in a smaller space. As I said before, my biggest problem with this size was buying some used rolling stock and trying to make a train out of it and having to get all the connections the same.....especially when the replacements came unassembled.

 

[jon f mn]

Excellent pic and super nice layout! Tha is for the pics. Ignore my request for extra pics on your other post, I hadn't seen this one yet.

 

[4wdtom]

lets see if I can upload these files. I have 6 pictures of questionable quality but clear enough to get the idea. May take a couple of posting to get all 6 installed. Well there are 2 more but this is enough to give you an idea. I started with plastic models and filled up a wall, 5 shelves 8' long with planes, boats, and military vehicles and such and ran out of room. Then I got the idea to do the N scale train layouts. Then went to powered model air planes. Then I went to picture puzzles and after several stacks of those, I'm still revisiting old puzzles on rainy or cold days like today. I could clean house........yeah I could.......but I live alone in my old age and if it gets to bothering me I clean it up.....besides every time I clean things up, out of plain site, I forget where I put this and that. On things in my shop, If I have something to put up, what I do is ask myself where would I look for that object. The answer is where I put it and it works.

Good luck with your "non farm related" bad weather days.

Note: If you click on the first picture, wait for 30 seconds or so.....it takes time for all 5 pictures to load before it shows you them very much enlarged.

Nice work, an interesting hobby!

 

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[Texasmark]

Excellent pic and super nice layout! Tha is for the pics. Ignore my request for extra pics on your other post, I hadn't seen this one yet.

Thank you sir.

 

[Texasmark]

Nice work, an interesting hobby!

Thank you sir.

 

[SweetFeet]

lets see if I can upload these files. I have 6 pictures of questionable quality but clear enough to get the idea. May take a couple of posting to get all 6 installed. Well there are 2 more but this is enough to give you an idea. I started with plastic models and filled up a wall, 5 shelves 8' long with planes, boats, and military vehicles and such and ran out of room. Then I got the idea to do the N scale train layouts. Then went to powered model air planes. Then I went to picture puzzles and after several stacks of those, I'm still revisiting old puzzles on rainy or cold days like today. I could clean house........yeah I could.......but I live alone in my old age and if it gets to bothering me I clean it up.....besides every time I clean things up, out of plain site, I forget where I put this and that. On things in my shop, If I have something to put up, what I do is ask myself where would I look for that object. The answer is where I put it and it works.

Good luck with your "non farm related" bad weather days.

Note: If you click on the first picture, wait for 30 seconds or so.....it takes time for all 5 pictures to load before it shows you them very much enlarged.

Very cool!

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

lets see if I can upload these files. I have 6 pictures of questionable quality but clear enough to get the idea. May take a couple of posting to get all 6 installed. Well there are 2 more but this is enough to give you an idea. I started with plastic models and filled up a wall, 5 shelves 8' long with planes, boats, and military vehicles and such and ran out of room. Then I got the idea to do the N scale train layouts. Then went to powered model air planes. Then I went to picture puzzles and after several stacks of those, I'm still revisiting old puzzles on rainy or cold days like today. I could clean house........yeah I could.......but I live alone in my old age and if it gets to bothering me I clean it up.....besides every time I clean things up, out of plain site, I forget where I put this and that. On things in my shop, If I have something to put up, what I do is ask myself where would I look for that object. The answer is where I put it and it works.

Good luck with your "non farm related" bad weather days.

Note: If you click on the first picture, wait for 30 seconds or so.....it takes time for all 5 pictures to load before it shows you them very much enlarged.

You need to tell the fellas at the GFC elevator that covered hoppers don't need to be tipped like a boxcar. The hole is on the bottom, not the side!

That elevator is a Heljan kt & has been around for a long time. The dies for it have passed through a few hands by now & I don't recall who currently makes it. That red Walthers elevator has been around for a while, too. I have a couple of those in HO & had the Heljan kit in N at one point. The silos still resurface, from time to time. The remnant track from the N scale layout is getting repurposed into 2' gauge track on my HO layout, for the electric narrow gauge tunnel railroad. It will be loosely modeled after the one in Chicago.

Mike

 

[Janicholson]

Love the layout and rolling stock. Yummy! The P-38s are cool (my favorite WW2 plane). The Mustang in the back yard could use some space on the tarmack. Jim

 

[38 Sears Roebuck]

Nice layout. Way too small for my big hands to work with. I collect and operate "0" gage trains. Specially Lionel and some "S" gage American Flyer.

 

[Texasmark]

Very cool!

Thank you mam.

 

[560Dennis]

Nice work

 

[Texasmark]

Nice layout. Way too small for my big hands to work with. I collect and operate "0" gage trains. Specially Lionel and some "S" gage American Flyer.

I still have the Lionel plastic top ("not all steel" later vintage than the 4x6x4 steamers) 3 rail engine from my little train set when I was a kid...had about 3 cars and a caboose with about 10' of track. I guess it was classified as an O scale. I would get it out every once in awhile set it up on the floor in my room. Play with it for maybe an hour for a couple of days and back in the closet it went.

 

[Texasmark]

Nice work

Thank you sir.

 

[Fixingfarmer]

Looks like a lot of fun and you can run a bunch at once! That gave me some good ideas as winter begins I figure its time to set something up. I like the racetrack style and kept one moving even when I was working on mine as a kid or even if the tv got turned on to watch a game or something. I abhor switching that doesn't bring me much joy. and takes up space growing up in the country when you saw a train it was flying past at 60 or more till it hit the passing siding by our east 80 which was next to the rock island main line. I was thinking one track not an oval more built into the wall and then coming back around but maybe I could do 2 not really connected except at a siding...we all have to dream and its a wonderful place for it.

 

[Texasmark]

I have one or two sidings on the town layout and have switches for that.....switches for diverting a train to a siding, not uncoupling cars on a moving train. I found that switching was problematic for me too so I have just one area with switching and seldom switch. One of the problems was the curved wire that hangs down from the coupler made to open when passing over an electro-magnetic disconnect when the operator presses a button. When going over a fixed crossing, like the center section of a figure 8 layout, half the time the wire hangs up on the cross rails. Since I don't have, nor wanted the disconnect switch, I just cut the wire off.....solves that problem.

Since I had to have 15" radius curves for the EMD 9As and B on the NOLA train, it's limited to the outside rail since the engines and cars are so long. On the GP 30, 35, and 40s, with the shorter wheelbase, and less than half the HP of the BNSF 4400 current production big movers, they can haul the shorter freight cars and run on much smaller radius curves so they get the inside lanes. The big haulers just mentioned can run on the track just inside the widest but they are too long for the inner curves.

 

[Texasmark]

You need to tell the fellas at the GFC elevator that covered hoppers don't need to be tipped like a boxcar. The hole is on the bottom, not the side!

That elevator is a Heljan kt & has been around for a long time. The dies for it have passed through a few hands by now & I don't recall who currently makes it. That red Walthers elevator has been around for a while, too. I have a couple of those in HO & had the Heljan kit in N at one point. The silos still resurface, from time to time. The remnant track from the N scale layout is getting repurposed into 2' gauge track on my HO layout, for the electric narrow gauge tunnel railroad. It will be loosely modeled after the one in Chicago.

Mike

While I was stationed in Altus, Ok., I had time on my hands when off duty. When the wheat harvest guys arrived, the crews that start down south and wind up somewhere up north, they put board (dimension lumber for framing) and card board coverings over open doors in box cars. Then they 3/4 filled the boxcars with wheat nearby to where the wheat is harvested.

The silos in Altus had sidings with these boxcars piled up waiting to be emptied. The hand brake was released and with a special long handled tool....basically a pry bar, one would slip the tip under a wheel and get the next car rolling over to the ground mounted dump receiver (pit). Once in position, the covering would be removed and the wheat in that area would fall into the pit. The 2/3 rest of it, toward both ends of the car required a person to crawl up the piles dragging a clutch operated board with handles and an attached cable on the other side. The cable reel was timed at something like 30 seconds after one stopped pulling out cable as he climbed the pile and the reel would start taking in cable pulling the board toward the openings.

You were behind the board ( 3'x4' as I recall) helping to ensure that it stayed buried in the wheat on the way down. Get to the bottom and crawl back up the pile etc. etc.

In another area they had the drive through for grain trucks with a floor grate, probably as you are mentioning where bottom dump haulers just opened the doors under the trucks, the grain fell out they closed the gates as they were driving off. Smaller farmers just had bobtail grain trucks with a board covering the rear opening which was removed and there was a plate upon which the driver had positioned the front tires that raised the front of the truck dumping all the grain out.

Between that and cleaning toxic chemicals off crop dusting airplanes, I kept myself busy. I'm surprised that I am still here at 84, currently have no problems needing medical attention, have only one prescription to take....10 mg Lisinopril to keep my blood pressure from creeping up and apparently got off Scott free from medical problems associated with my cleaning those crop dusting airplanes.....with no real user protection devices like are available today.