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Philip
Fireman
USA
3096 Posts |
 Posted - 12/31/2018 : 11:04:19 AM
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Sometimes pondering is the best medicine. Just checked out the entire thread. Nice progress Mike!
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Michael Hohn
Fireman
USA
6117 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 11:54:59 AM
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Thanks guys!
Bernd, I’m hoping to do a little winter as the layout progresses. As for the RS-3 . . .
Jim, I’m glad you agree. So far I like the change and might go back to replace the Caboose throws. By the way, your thoughts are worth a lot more than 2 cents.
Frank, by the time I received your message I had rewired a loco. Meanwhile my coffee got cold.
Carl, thank you for stopping by.
Philip, working as a plumber’s helper once, I noticed he spent significant time thinking through the next step. It taught me to slow down rather than rush in. Glad you enjoyed my thread.
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OK Hogger
Crew Chief
867 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 12:05:44 PM
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Mike:
I shore like that "coffee sippin'" pic.
Agree: Sipping coffee and looking at the current project often gins better ways of doing things. Such an approach is oft used by me with track plans.
Next pic:
Can SOMEONE tell me WHAT in the name of Heaven a DIESEL is doing camouflaged among those cars in that last picture????
I feel so violated.
 [:-clown]
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Bernd
Fireman
USA
3545 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 1:40:14 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by OK Hogger
Next pic:
Can SOMEONE tell me WHAT in the name of Heaven a DIESEL is doing camouflaged among those cars in that last picture????
I feel so violated.
[:-clown]
Andre
VAPOR WARE. It really isn't there. You only think you see it there because we talked about a couple of posts back. 
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Michael Hohn
Fireman
USA
6117 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 4:42:14 PM
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I wanted to see what it felt like to channel “Andre, the two era layout guy” for a while.
Actually, if you hadn’t seen my earlier photos would you have found anything discordant about the one with the diesel?
What if I decided to go modern? What would I have to change structure-wise? Starting at one end of my layout:
Rural town—
Two story house: keep. Still standing; in fact a model of my own house.
Guffy general store: many still standing.
Second store: same story
Barn: many still around.
Yeast factory: would need to have cupola removed and roofing changed.
City scene—
Engine house: remove
Shops: remove
Old houses and small store: keep
Depot: keep: based on one still standing in NYS
Factory: modify some
Coal trestle: a goner
Meat packers: building is still standing but now apartments. New version but same footprint.
Lumberyard: move to rural end of layout
Barn: also move to rural town
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David J Buchholz
Crew Chief
908 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 5:22:50 PM
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Bernd
Fireman
USA
3545 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 6:18:27 PM
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Originally posted by David J Buchholz
If its Auburn, it needs a prison overlooking the railroad.
And the Alco Engine plant since Mike has an Alco engine. The Alco 251 engine was built in Auburn, which means Mike needs a DL420 (C420) and two GE X3341s 3 foot narrow gauge for the White Pass & Yukon Route. And this one is right up Mike's alley. Auburn produced the 12-cylinder 251A engines which were test in a pair of FA2 & FB2 Lehigh Valley units. So Mike you have good reason to have those Alco's on your "future" layout.
In case you wonder where I got the info from: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/ALCO_251
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Michael Hohn
Fireman
USA
6117 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 6:35:33 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by David J Buchholz
If its Auburn, it needs a prison overlooking the railroad.
Dave
The prison would be in the background of my Auburn for sure, but the Owasco Outlet and factories would be immediately to the north, between the area I’m modeling and the prison.
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Michael Hohn
Fireman
USA
6117 Posts |
Posted - 12/31/2018 : 6:40:09 PM
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quote:
Originally posted by Bernd
quote:
Originally posted by David J Buchholz
If its Auburn, it needs a prison overlooking the railroad.
And the Alco Engine plant since Mike has an Alco engine. The Alco 251 engine was built in Auburn, which means Mike needs a DL420 (C420) and two GE X3341s 3 foot narrow gauge for the White Pass & Yukon Route. And this one is right up Mike's alley. Auburn produced the 12-cylinder 251A engines which were test in a pair of FA2 & FB2 Lehigh Valley units. So Mike you have good reason to have those Alco's on your "future" layout.
In case you wonder where I got the info from: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/ALCO_251
Bernd
Good point. In fact I believe the Alco plant was immediately to the west of the area I’m modeling. I like the old Alco’s. They remind me of my smoking days as a student.
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RyanAK
Engine Wiper
USA
302 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2019 : 09:26:33 AM
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| Two-eras is an interesting concept, especially for mid-sized industrial or mill towns from the late 19th century. If stretching to the modern era, often the downtown and major industrial buildings haven't gone away but have been re-purposed. "Revitalized" or "gentrified". And the railroad has moved to the edges of town where modern rail-served industry has the space to sprawl their spartan PEMB complexes. Rather than being an important fixture in the very fabric of the community, the trains quietly move around the perimeter, quietly going about their business, quietly trying not to disturb the new, 'evolved' sensibilities of the town. A switcher and a couple of covered hoppers momentarily stops traffic while they scoot off to the drywall plant that was built a few years ago on Bill Maybee's farm. And then the gates lift. And the cars continue their shuffle... |
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OK Hogger
Crew Chief
867 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2019 : 10:58:39 AM
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Mike:
I went back and reviewed the pages previous in this thread of yours in regard to the provocative Alco pic and can't find a connection? What am I missing? Are you considering dual era or something?
I'm sure dual era isn't a panacea for everyone, but it might be the saving grace for me and TOC19.
More on that later in my "Update" thread.
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Michael Hohn
Fireman
USA
6117 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2019 : 11:49:18 AM
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Originally posted by OK Hogger
Mike:
I went back and reviewed the pages previous in this thread of yours in regard to the provocative Alco pic and can't find a connection? What am I missing? Are you considering dual era or something?
I'm sure dual era isn't a panacea for everyone, but it might be the saving grace for me and TOC19.
More on that later in my "Update" thread.
Andre
Andre,
Near the top of the previous page I mentioned that I’d installed a decoder in an MDC RS-3, to which Bernd responded. I thought it would be an interesting and fun exercise to put some of my 20th century equipment on my layout, testing out the dual eras idea.
I have this equipment to run on our club layout; it is usually in boxes at home. I have a pretty wide interest in railroads and modeling, but I’m deeply entrenched in New York State 1880’s for my home modeling and West Virginia 1950’s at the club.
No, I don’t plan to do a dual era layout; you can be the pioneer.
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OK Hogger
Crew Chief
867 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2019 : 2:08:35 PM
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Ah, I got it, now. I was trying to find more than the "I’ve done that before on an MDC RS-3" reference.
Nice that you have two outlets: Your home layout for your TOC19 fetish, and the club for the 1950s.
No such luxury here. It's one or the other, or both on the same.
Don't think I will be a pioneer of the dual era concept (I believe others have gone before me), but I will certainly know more about its feasibility in, say, a year or two.
All fer now.
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deemery
Fireman
USA
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Posted - 01/03/2019 : 5:33:24 PM
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I want a (1st gen) diesel to test wiring and then run the track cleaning car on my layout. I'm surprised at all the classics that are no longer being made, SW1500, RS-1/RS-2, etc.
If I were going to do serious dual-era, I'd do 1890s and 1870s, and have a set of 4-4-0s painted in those great 1870 schemes that John Ott documents so well. http://www.ottgalleries.com/Prints.html
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Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to) |
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OK Hogger
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Projects in Progress on the Southern Central RR