The traveling Grande Valley Railway (Onandaga Sub) - Printable Version

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Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Tyson Rayles - 08-12-2013

Track nails? I always use white glue and a mist of warm water later will free it up if I want to redo anything. I do use the foam over the plywood also. Your progress look good Catt.

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Catt - 08-15-2013

While I am typing this my BQ23-7 is running loops on the new layout.It runs fine through the passing siding which probaly should be longer (but after all it is a shortline).More pics over the weekend.

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Southern Tuxedo - 08-17-2013

Catt,

How about a close-up of the BQ23-7. I assume that it is a Shapeways cab on an Atlas body? How do you plan to paint it?

Popcornbeer
Mark

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Catt - 08-17-2013

Mark, this is the only closeup pic I have.The cab is indeed a Shapeways product.Once I have her done she will be in the burgandy and gray scheme of my Grande Valley Railway.Shev is a long ways from done.Pic was taken on my home layout.

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Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Southern Tuxedo - 08-17-2013

Catt,

That looks very nice and I can't wait to see it completed. I really like these unusual locomotives and it is great to see options that are becoming available in other scales.

Mark

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Catt - 08-17-2013

I believe there is a HO version of the cab now.I may be checking that later this year.

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Southern Tuxedo - 08-17-2013

Catt Wrote:I believe there is a HO version of the cab now.I may be checking that later this year.
From Shapeways? I looked but didn't see it.

Mark

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Tyson Rayles - 08-18-2013

Wow, I thought the CF's were ugly but that has them beat hands down! Glad I like the earlier locos, these newer ones (pretty much anything after the 70's) just don't have the styling I like.

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Southern Tuxedo - 08-18-2013

Mike,
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and please don't start picking on the CF7's as I love them too, along with the high hood Southern GP30's.
790_smiley_picking_a_fight

Kidding of course... 357
Mark

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Catt - 08-18-2013

Mark,don't mind Mike .He's just jealous because we love the ugly step childs of the model railroading hobby. :mrgreen:

I went to Shapeways last night,put HO scale in the search engine and got 6,600 results.Did you know that N,Nn3/30,O,S,T,TT,and Z are all HO scale ? Me either after 150 pages I quit looking for the HO BQ cab. Wallbang

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Tyson Rayles - 08-18-2013

However I do like the BL-2. Eek

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Catt - 08-22-2013

Progress pic showing what I have done so far,ignore the mess behind the layout that thing will probably never get done.Track in front of retaining wall goes down to a two track staging yard which is going to be a seperate (plug-n-play) part of the layout.

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Here is a pic showing the start of the staging yard.When built this will bolt to the layout right where that T pin is in the upper pic.Since I need more track to extend one of my sidings I will probably expand the yard from it's current 32" to 38" which should be a big enough yard for a layout this size.

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Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Catt - 08-23-2013

Quote:From Shapeways? I looked but didn't see it.

Mark,
keep checking this Shapeways page,as Alexander is in the process of designing the HO version of the cab but at the moment life is getting in the way.http://www.shapeways.com/shops/boxcarmodels

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Southern Tuxedo - 08-25-2013

Thanks Catt. I will keep checking there to see when it becomes available.

Mark

Re: The traveling Grande Valley Railway - Catt - 08-26-2013

Here is the first scratchbuilt buildings going on the layout.The brown buildingon the corner behind is the next project. I swiped the brown building off the big layout to see if the style would work there and the wife liked it so much I am going to replicate it for that spot.It may be a different colour but it will be there.

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