Building "Clearwater Industries"

[shortliner]

Thomas - that works very well indeed!
Jack

[Rscott417]

Looks very convincing, great work.

[clearwater]

Time to install some street lights ...







Regards Thomas

[Tyson Rayles]

The lighting looks great!

[clearwater]

Thank you Mike!

I spent the last days in ballasting the tracks and designing
the module for my "John Deere dealer" which will be called "Highland Tractor Company",
refering to a prototype I found in Florida.

The street is now further away from the dock. The curve has received a wider radius and
looks now more realistic. In the curve I placed a branch to a dead end street at the dock.
Here I will place the harbor diner.





Regards Thomas

[clearwater]

A few weeks ago we had our annual meeting from our FREMO group
in Mutschelbach (Southwest Germany).
Clearwater Industries was involved and did a good job.
More pictures will follow, this one is an appetizer!




Regards Thomas

[clearwater]

It took a little time to watch all the photos I shot, I do apologize for any inconvenience.
Here are some pics of Clearwater Industries beeing used in a FREMO session on may 2012:

The meeting itself
(Clearwater Industries is about in the middle of the pic above the tables behind the modules with the backdrop):



Entering Clearwater Industries with a small train:


Hardy watching Josef while operating in Clearwater Industries:


What a contradiction:
Josef an Alaska Railroad fan operates a SW1200 from UP in a Clearwater - Florida - GREAT!
We are large minded in the Southwest!


Sentry Industries received a new automatically opening door.
A yellow rotating warning light indicates that the door is moving:


Operating Sentry Industries:


Serving OCP (Ordinary Concrete Tubes) with box cars - we run a session in the past up to 1970:


Regards Thomas

P.S.: next time I will post a link from our FREMO meeting with all photos.
As a webmaster at http://www.fremo-net.eu/145.html?&L=0 I will have to post
a report of our meeting - stay tuned!

[sailormatlac]

Wow! Impressive modular layouts, how many attended the meeting?

It's nice to see all those modular layouts interacting together!

Matt

[Trucklover]

Thomas, you have a nice looking layout! I like your very well detailed scratch built structures!

One question, what did you use to make the concrete pipe bundles?

[fast car]

Thomas,

Where did you find your palm trees? Your layout is impressive. I especially like the lighting.

Larry

[clearwater]

Wow! Impressive modular layouts, how many attended the meeting?

It's nice to see all those modular layouts interacting together!

Matt

Hi Matt,

we are a group of about 15 members - the hard kernel. On friday and saturday we had about 10 guests
supporting us in running trains and switching cars. Guests are always invited by members of our group
or interested other FREMO members from other groups (FREMO has about 1300 members in Europe).
Our meetings are not public, we want to play in a familiar private atmosphere in FREMO.

@Josh I used grey plastic tubes, cut them, milled a small rim at one side and paninted it with tar black color.
I glued them together with CA and put them on a socket of 3*3mm pine rod. Some are bound with
a small black wire.

@Larry I bought the palm trees directly form a Chinese who offered them on German ebay.
I think he will sent them to the US too!

@all thanks for your interest and plaudit.

Regards Thomas

[clearwater]

Hi,

I am back - not that I was away but I was not in the mood to post anything for a while.
Clearwater is still alive and is still and smoothly growing.

let us reminisce a little bit. Next thing to introduce would be "Di Salvo" which I declared
to become an Italian Furniture Dealer - I liked the idea!

Thomas

[ak-milw]

Modeling looks great, nice boxcar in the last picture!

[shortliner]

Thomas - nice to see you back - You've been away too long - don't be a stranger! Clearwater has been missed.

[railbuilderdhd]

Hi Thomas

I'm currently working on adding servo controlled switches. I wanted to know what was used for controlling. I want to know if you have found a way to use DCC to control the boards.

Thanks for any information.

Dave

Just finished reading through this thread. Fantastic work. Thank you for sharing with us.

thank you tetters!

With changing the turnouts all pushrods became obsolete because of the new positions
from frogs and tougues.
I had to decide between new pushrods or something completely new:
My friend Hardy inspired me to go a different way: (you should know he is an electronics engineer)
I learned how to program a micro controller to serve a servo instead of using a pushrod!
That took me several month - I think that I am a little familiar to these new interesting helpers
right now but it was a big effort to learn it!





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Regards Thomas

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