Freelance 2015-2

[faraway]

....After that I took one of my Geep 7.s on it with fifties era car, mostly 40 footers and I almost got a short peddle on the same track. I guess this why the early eras are more perfect for a layout as you can have more equipment on it and able to pack more action on it without making it toy like. I am still struggling on the theme of the layout and era, though in my head the track plan is more or less set....

You pick a problem I have never found a solution for. The older areas are much more "space friendly" for most space limited layouts. I am currently running cuts of 6 40' cars plus a boxcab engine and the tracks are still not cramped. The very same tracks look awfully cramped with my loved two Genset and 4 50' cars.

I am glad I found boxcab engines, wooden boxcars, horse drawn wagons and trucks build before 1930 that attract me. This layout theme solved a lot of space problems I fighted unsuccessfully with contemporary layout.

[faraway]

....Woodland advertises it's "Scenic Accents Glue" for that purpose too. I got a small bottle 1.25 fl oz today opened it, look and smelled and felt kidded. They sell ordinary water solvable white glue in in tiny bottles for an unbelievable price

I have to correct me. Scenic Accents Glue looks and smalls like ordinary white glue when opening the little bottle but it is not white glue. It will stay some kind of elastic or rubber like and can be removed easy. It seams to be very suitable for it's intended use of glueing little figures on the layout.
You have to wait at least 12 hours to see the difference to ordinary white glue.

[BR60103]

Faraway: the Scenic Accents is more like rubber cement except that it tends to stick on the surface that it was applied to and dried on.

I was using it for lamps on loco fronts (British style) but some of them didn't have enough stick.

I also found that it was stronger than acryllic paint on styrofoam.

[faraway]

Simple side walks (1.5 mm blue foam) are helpful to form a street



And weathering some of my trucks

[lajry]

Shouldn't be too many nitpicker complaints about your modeling this era because most if not all of them are LONG gone. Great work like always!

[faraway]

Got a gantry crane. It is based on the Faller kit B-164.

[Painkiller]

The transformation has been amazingly fast and you have nailed it with the current changes. That gantry crane is adds a lot of interest to the team track too.

[faraway]

Got some more old trucks today. They got some rattle can, black wash and dry brush treatment.
Three examples to make them a little bit different as Märklin has only two basic types of trucks suitable for my layout. It is amazing how many trucks a small layout can absorb....

[modelsof1900]

Great details! Nice to see your improvements, Reinhard!

[faraway]

Watch out, it's a busy place!

[ratled]

You definitely know how to capture a scene... no matter what the era! As always, thanks for taking us along

ratled

[lajry]

Probably wouldn't take too much to go modern again or (any era in between) just for the halibut. Just change a few signs on the buildings. The industry spots wouldn't change all that much just maybe the kinds of freight cars spotted at them.

[Rscott417]

Coming along nicely. An added operational detail could be mounted RR police officers. NYC used them to escort trains during street running operations to prevent collisions and theft aka West Side Cowboys.
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[faraway]

...mounted RR police officers....

There are some old photos showing freight trains running through a very crowded Manhattan. Must be a hard job for the crew to prevent accidents. Chicago had the same problem until they separated trains and streets. A flagman was very common here in Germany at that time in cities like Berlin or Hamburg to guard the trains to the station.

I read about a plan to have mandatory sound to mimic the sound of a combustion engine for the very silent electric only cars. May be a mounted guard is an alternative

[faraway]

New kid on the block enters revenue service on a sunny Sunday morning