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And Rule One appears in there somewhere as well: "Because it's MY Railroad. That's why!" I thoroughly enjoyed the visit, am now stoked to head home and make Actual Progress and am trying to figure out ways to do so before Life intervenes yet again.... Keep the inspirational photos coming! Pete in Michigan but not right now Edited by - Orionvp17 on 06/25/2017 9:51:59 PM Country: USA | Posts: 5785 ed k Fireman Posted - 06/25/2017 :  10:26:14 PM     Wow! Even In N. H., it's got to be fairly hot. I would not consider doing that in Florida. My buddy Carl Laskey live up your way. Great country. I am from Pa.. ed Country: USA | Posts: 1091 BurleyJim Fireman Premium Member Posted - 06/25/2017 :  10:51:22 PM     James, the trackwork looks great! The search for the correct color cinders is interesting. I wonder if there is a regional aspect with cinders. As a kid in Chicago, the Chicago Alderman used to do the neighborhood a favor and have cinders delivered to the alleys to cover the dirt and mud. Those cinders were almost coffee ground colored. The elementary school playground would receive the same cinders. None of that sissy chopped up tire stuff for us! I think the cinders came from the coal fired power plants and they had a glass like texture to them. Jim Country: USA | Posts: 2961 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 06/25/2017 :  11:10:54 PM       Thanks, Jim & Pete. Ed, Friday was fairly hot but Seashore needed track work. Thursday I'd helped make hay: driving the baler, unloading, catching bales in the wagon. I deal with heat pretty well. I expect my layout to be on the 2017 Tour de Chooch, the Saturday after Thanksgiving, if Carl or other friends of yours are interested. Jim, industrial cinders around here would be mostly VA and PA bituminous, with anthracite from small-medium building heat. In Chicago, I expect most of the coal came from IL, IN and KY mines, which I recall as being having more ash, sulfur etc. I know lignite is also known as 'brown coal' but not where coal from this basin lies in the overall range of coals. Country: USA | Posts: 5446 Tyson Rayles Moderator Premium Member Posted - 06/26/2017 :  07:27:34 AM     Nice progress! Mike as far as "I'm with Mark; the train room is a refuge from the heat during the height of summer." that's true I guess for those of you lucky enough to have a summer. Here in southwestern NC it's 47 this morning with a high today of 65 and only getting slightly warmer over the next week. Mike Country: USA | Posts: 12615 Dutchman Administrator Premium Member Posted - 06/26/2017 :  08:20:52 AM     James, I really like the look of your ballasted track. Very nice work. Bruce Modeling the railroads of the Jersey Highlands in HO and the logging railroads of Pennsylvania in HOn3 Country: USA | Posts: 30415 tloc Fireman Premium Member Posted - 06/26/2017 :  08:42:35 AM     quote: Originally posted by BurleyJim The search for the correct color cinders is interesting. I wonder if there is a regional aspect with cinders. As a kid in Chicago, the Chicago Alderman used to do the neighborhood a favor and have cinders delivered to the alleys to cover the dirt and mud. Those cinders were almost coffee ground colored. The elementary school playground would receive the same cinders. None of that sissy chopped up tire stuff for us! I think the cinders came from the coal fired power plants and they had a glass like texture to them. Jim And they were sharp and embedded deeply. I still can show the scars. The good old days TomO Country: USA | Posts: 1710 deemery Fireman Premium Member Posted - 06/26/2017 :  08:55:24 AM     In Pittsburgh, they used to use crushed slag instead of sand on the streets, until that was outlawed because of the water pollution that caused. I remember getting some of those in my knees, probably toxic there, too. Oh well, I'm not dead yet! (Anyone else remember seeing asbestos insulation in his school's boiler room? We were sent there to clean erasers.) dave Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to) Country: USA | Posts: 6730 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 06/26/2017 :  9:53:28 PM       Thanks, Mike & Bruce. Dave, I've seen plenty of asbestos insulation on furnaces, pipes and elsewhere. I've also seen weird tannery wastes poured out at the smoldering dump, biggish rivers running odd colors and a day when you could only see 5 blocks down Alameda from LAUPT in the smog. Don't miss any of it. Country: USA | Posts: 5446 ed k Fireman Posted - 06/27/2017 :  12:36:31 AM     Dave, I'm 74, and I remember the asbestos. But I was not sent to the boiler room to clean erasers. ed Country: USA | Posts: 1091 deemery Fireman Premium Member Posted - 06/27/2017 :  10:32:15 AM     quote: Originally posted by ed k Dave, I'm 74, and I remember the asbestos. But I was not sent to the boiler room to clean erasers. ed I guess we know who was and was not naughty :-) :-) dave Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to) Country: USA | Posts: 6730 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 08/09/2017 :  11:36:35 PM       Fairpoint, my ISP, just got gobbled up by Consolidated Communications. The name sounds like a modern-day Monopoly spot...Monday my connection was down, so I called and went through the tests they wanted, to no avail. 50 hours later they got a tech to my house. Who knew the territory and the plant: after 5 minutes of phone fiddling, drove 2 miles down the road and power-cycled a box. All fixed by less than 15 minutes of actual effort. So while the internet couldn't gobble up too much of my time, I worked on the Pond St. spur: Happily, I'd made extra slide switch brackets and acrylic connector blocks last run, so it was just assembling parts. I will have to buy an acorn nut to make the knob, but otherwise it's working. And of course I had to do a ceremonial 'first switch'. Despite having the net as a distraction, I'm determined to start roadbed for the City RR spur before month's end. Country: USA | Posts: 5446 wvrr Fireman Posted - 08/10/2017 :  10:47:37 AM       It is always interesting to see all the variations of the slide switch manual controls for turnouts. That looks pretty cool with the acrylic connector. Chuck Country: | Posts: 6331 LynnB Fireman Premium Member Posted - 08/10/2017 :  11:08:39 AM     Hi James , lots of interesting progress since my last look see, good inspiration for my new layout which went to a grounding halt when it looked like nice riding weather was about to arrive here in Northern Ontario, seems like its been rain every second day since. Country: Canada | Posts: 2360 jbvb Fireman Premium Member Posted - 09/02/2017 :  08:49:54 AM       Thanks, Lynn and Chuck. The acrylic block has 2-56 tapped holes for the adjusting screws. In between trolley operations, harvesting grain and tending my orchard, I've made some progress on the City RR side of the Downtown Newburyport peninsula: The 2nd module's carpentry is finished except for one piece of hardboard fascia. Building the roadbed out of 1.25" pine lattice stock is much easier with a good miter saw handy. I will have a tricky job laying out the westerly turnout on the runaround to maximize length, but I hope to start tracklaying next week. 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