Until I can get working on a layout again I've been working on a few small projects. One of which is an ore boat that will eventually go alongside my ore dock. I'm scratchbuilding the model out of styrene and basing the model off of the Joseph L Block, a ship that frequently visits the ports that ill be modeling. In HO scale the model would be almost 11 inches wide by over 10 feet long, so I'm gonna use a little selective compression and make my model 8x75 inches. Here are some pictures of the start that I have so far.

IMG_2749 by Kevin Krey, on Flickr

IMG_2750 by Kevin Krey, on Flickr

IMG_2754 by Kevin Krey, on Flickr

Sometimes I have too much free time and too many spare parts1 This is G gauge and is used on a push button layout for the kids down at the museum. The cab is from a LGB Porter, the drive is out of a LGB self propelled tender, the boiler is from a Lionel 0-27 tank car. The cowcatcher was scratchbuilt by Rob Watson a friend who also works at the museum. The other things like the smoke stack, steam whistle, air horns, muffler, exhaust pipe and other details are from the junk box or scratched. It runs very well but because it's used on a push button layout it has to be DC and does not have sound. We call it a stesiel !

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WOW, been a long time since I started this thread, hope I don't step on anyones toes doing this

Got a shot of one of the last CNW Dash 9's unpatched rolling through UP's Rock Valley Sub

The brand new HO Rapido GMD-1 with stripes and ditch lights uses none standard configuration for the ditch lights.
They are connected via AUX 5 and AUX 6 of the brand new Loksound decoder (Product ID 86 or better). Those lines are not specified in the Loksound 4.0 documentation and use none documented pins in the 21 plugs.
That was a harsh surprise for me. I ordered the DC version to be used with a Tsunami 2 sound decoder. Everything was great just the ditch lights can not be switched on.

I am forced to use a humming ESU decoder if I want to have operational ditch lights. That makes me really upset.

Hello everyone---I recently purchased a brass locomotive from an estate sale and noticed brown spots on both the locomotive and tender.I visited Doctor Wayne today to get his opinion on this issue.I am intending to have this locomotive painted but there was some concern whether these spots may affect the paint later if they're not removed.Has anyone encounterd a similar situation and if so,I would appreciate any feedback.

I'd like to purchase a camera, on account of I'm clumsy and have managed to break every one I've owned thus far. I would like another fairly cheap one, because, well I'm pretty sure I know what will end up happening to it. I'd say I'll use it 1/3 of the time for train related photos and videos both real and the model railroad. Then anther 1/3 for photos/videos of my four wheeling trips, and lastly before after pictures of jobs I do. I haven't looked at cameras in a long time and was hoping someone here could point me in the right direction.

New additions to the Leetown Division.Local rail-fanners have noticed some new power recently including S2A #3547,N4A #2659 and Central Vermont T3A #705

Hi all,

I've had a retina problem with my left eye since June 11. Long story short, I've now had 4-5 laser surgeries since then and one other procedure. Each time, the doctors thought they'd fixed the problem but it kept worsening and my retina was actually detaching. So, two days ago, I had full day surgery on this eye and the doctors have assured me that the retina is now back in its correct position and well-lasered in. I now have a large gas bubble in my eye which will last 2 months -- it's intended to keep holding and pushing the retina back into place. I won't be able to drive for about two weeks.

Neighbours and friends have been great in terms of driving me around, but I thought I'd try Uber so I can be a little more independent. Has anyone -- especially those living in Canada and in the Toronto area -- used Uber and have any feedback? I've signed up and gone to their website but it seems really expensive, i.e. $10-15 to just go a few miles and around $20-25 to go about 5-10 miles.

Please note that I'm not at all Uber and taxi savvy, as the last time I used a taxi of any sort was in 2012! I'm so used to driving myself around.

I've had to take a lot of time off work during July, so this has given me a bit more time to work on my N scale layout.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Rob

Well it's been a few years I think since I've really posted and man has it been a busy few years. I purchased my first house and my layout is still back at the old place, after over a year since I've touched it I've gotten the itch to do something with trains again unfortunately there's no room to have a layout yet at my new place. So I brought some stuff home to build a small diorama and maybe try my hand at weathering some of my cars and locos in the meantime. I guess this post is mostly to say hi again and that I'd like to see lots of pictures because this site is my new source of fulfilling my model railroad needs!

Oh and I should probably point out that I purchased a house along some railroad tracks!

Fellow members,
I want to propose a change to Blue. I want linking to photos posted off site banned. Here is why. Go back through the threads and you will see that we no longer can see the progress of Ebbet's field that TeeJay had worked so hard to post, and now he is gone, We can no longer see most of Running Bears photos, We can't see CNnutbars photos, nor Deano's photos, which makes the archives of Blue more or lest severely depleted. I am sure there are many more posts that have been given the photobucket badge. The only pictures that were lost that were directly posted were due to a crash during an update and that problem has been corrected. If somehow the number of pictures for one post could be increased from 5 this would be fine with me. A few minutes posting to make a post permanent is worthwhile isn't it. I am not so sure it isn't just as fast to upload direct, all that needs to be done is to resize the pictures, and there are free programs that do that and you can keep the original size.
No one has control over the off site hosting. Once you get hooked on a site for your pictures what is to stop them from asking for a $400 extortion fee?
Charlie