NY&A ISL

[Painkiller]

The street views are awesome. Looks like the real thing allready!

[newhaven48]

Your layout is coming along very nicely and I am jealous that I do not have all the ground cover that you do. I live in the central part of California where it all farming with a climate that is hot and very dry. Dust gets everywhere and I can clean the layout and/or the house once a day and I still have dirt/dust problems. I may not add much ground cover or ballast as I vacuum very often. I was having problems with dirty track and DCC and sound so I have added a current keeper by Soundtraxx and the problem with drop outs has gone away. Maybe that would help your running problem.
Al

[Rscott417]

Working nights really takes any motivation out of modeling, but it's my last week so hopefully I can get back into it. I gave the tracks a good cleaning and installed sergent couplers on 2 mp15s. I recorded a video of NYA 159 & 156 crossing Morgan Ave.
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[Rscott417]

Just a few updates and minor changes. I bought a P2K LIRR Gp38-2 so I decided to make this a split era layout. So when I run the NY&A engines it'll be present day and when I run the LIRR engines it'll be around 1996 about a year before NYA took over freight operations. Since deciding that I realized having Montebello Foods won't work since its a new modern building, so in it's place will be Bass Oil. Bass Oil is an actual customer of NYA but on the opposite side of Morgan Avenue but I didn't want to have any sidings on the removable extension so it will be inside of "Bushwick Terminal". I'd like to find out if they were a customer back when LIRR switched the freight sidings on the Bushwick Branch or else i'll just make it a 2 car spot of boxcars for a customer to be determined. I also finished a nonrail served refrigerated building, I added plastic weather curtains in the dock doorway, I just have to finish up the roof.

[Rscott417]

I've been thinking about what I'm going to do about the backdrop at the end of the terminal. I put together this ex-rail served building with the freight door closed up with cinder blocks. I think I'll have a chain link fence twice the height of the one in the picture and try to imitate privacy hedges. I'm also going to try to use styrene for the team track lot,

[Twist]

Hi there,
nice idea....maybe some kind of photobackdrop behind the fence and some trees in the foreground....but anyway it´s a good idea for ending the track on the wall....keep it going,

Cheers,Chris

[Rscott417]

Hi there,
nice idea....maybe some kind of photobackdrop behind the fence and some trees in the foreground....but anyway it´s a good idea for ending the track on the wall....keep it going,

Cheers,Chris

Thanks Chris. I had been thinking of using a photo backdrop there and since it would be kings material on the other side of the fence I thought I could use this picture.

I would probably cut off everything from the top of the shipping containers to the bottom of the image with the top of the fence.

[faraway]

I've been thinking about what I'm going to do about the backdrop at the end of the terminal. .....

How about the real thing? e.g. Morgan Ave looking eastward. I understood you are a local and can take photos right?

[Rscott417]

Reinhard that street view is in the opposite direction of the terminal and is actually my removable extension. The siding in the street view image is bass oil. I didn't want to have a siding on the extension so I placed this siding in the terminal instead. Here's a picture that represents that street view.

Here's a picture facing "west"


And an overview picture

[faraway]

I see, that is the wrong direction. How about photos taken left hand from the very end of the Bogart street? You have the big advantage to model a local prototype with (somehow limited) access. May be the extreme friendly people of Brooklyn permit a photo from their premises?


A more abstract but typical structure for that block might be the front of the Hittleman brewery from Buckwick Pl. The tall and wide brick building would be a great background.

ps. We have here a cultural difference. Trespassing is forbidden here too but you would not expect more then some rude words as long as it is not an airport etc. I understood and learned from my US hosts in Vernon that trespassing is something serious in the US.

[Engfanuk]

Nice work. From the prototype photos I can see you are getting the feel just right.

[Rscott417]

Reinhard I have definitely thought of going over there to take some pictures, probably on a Sunday where not a lot of the surrounding warehouses would be open. I've thought about using the gate on bogart since it's not secured at all. I've learned that most people don't actually care enough to say anything, when I take videos of NYNJ Rail people just look for a second and keep going on their way. Maybe this Sunday on my way home from work I'll stop over there and check it out.

Nice work. From the prototype photos I can see you are getting the feel just right.

Thank you, trying as best I can to get it close.

[Canadian Atlantic Railway]

I just read through your thread and am impressed with what you have accomplished so far. I have a couple of questions though.

Who makes the trailer beside the covered hopper? Looks like a similar model that I need for cement service.

Working nights really takes any motivation out of modeling, but it's my last week so hopefully I can get back into it. I gave the tracks a good cleaning and installed sergent couplers on 2 mp15s. I recorded a video of NYA 159 & 156 crossing Morgan Ave.
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Nice to see the ISL in action

I also finished a nonrail served refrigerated building, I added plastic weather curtains in the dock doorway, I just have to finish up the roof.

How did you make the curtain? Scribbled styrene?

[Rscott417]

Thanks for the compliments Stephen. The trailer is a resin kit and to complete it you would need a 40' container chassis, it ended up being pretty expensive. Another member here posted this website with a bunch of different types of bulk trailers <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shapeways.com/shops/miniature_models">http://www.shapeways.com/shops/miniature_models</a><!-- m -->
The weather curtain is a plastic overhead projector sheet that I got at staples

[Canadian Atlantic Railway]

Thanks for the compliments Stephen. The trailer is a resin kit and to complete it you would need a 40' container chassis, it ended up being pretty expensive. Another member here posted this website with a bunch of different types of bulk trailers <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.shapeways.com/shops/miniature_models">http://www.shapeways.com/shops/miniature_models</a><!-- m -->
The weather curtain is a plastic overhead projector sheet that I got at staples

I was looking at those trailers on Shapeways. Nice but pricey but then one would probably do me. I have a frozen food distributor planned for my ISL and I will pick up a sheet. Thanks!