To Selector for his outstanding pic in the model loco contest!

NANTAHALA TRIBUNE

SUNDAY MARCH 15th 2009


This just in:

The Nantahla Midland Railroad just reported the untimely death of it’s beloved station master I.M. Dunn.
It seemed the track crew had just finished ballasting the track in front of the newly built depot when a long black plastic tube dropped from the sky and proceeded down the track. It was accompanied by a loud humming sound according to wittnesses. When it approached the depot Mr. Dunn was apparently standing too close to the edge of the platform and was sucked up into this mysterious tube. Then just as fast as the tube appeared in the sky it was gone! Mike Goad the CEO of the railroad and ever mindful of the bottom line said at $10 for a 6 pack of these guys this was a serious blow to our bank account in these already troubled times. The NM is now accepting applications for Mr. Dunn’s old job at the depot Mon. thru Fri. from 9 am to 5 pm. Services for Mr. Dunn won’t be held as he is only a LPB after all.

how would one go about posting a text on here ?
Jim

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Anybody heard from him?
There are many interesting track plans there. My layout in the house is based on one of them.

Loren

Hi all. I want to add sound and dcc control to my mp15ac. Is the locsound a good / best choice for this?Any thoughts, feed back would help .Thanks Roger

For those of you that may vaguely recall my layout over at Zealot ( <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112916">http://www.zealot.com/forum/showthread.php?t=112916</a><!-- m --> ), I bring news. She's no more.



Times change, the family has been getting bigger and the dining room wasn't. Last week, I finally made the decision to break it down into two pieces and move it out to the garage where I can finish demolition. Soooo, in parting sorrow, I leave you with some before and afters.

Hi guys, i just read Ralph's new Engine Roster Thread in the Blog section, but i noticed you cannot post a comment about it.

Ralph i really like your engines you have posted so far

But how do i post a comment about your roster?

For some reason all of my pics stopped showing so I copied the whole post and did it again below. Thanks for looking! :)

Ralph

Is it possible? Currently Active Users viewing on Index Page..

Here's a little thread showing a few things I did to enhance this neat little car.

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The above image shows a few of the upgrades. I'm not all that happy with the color match, so I'll be applying either a wash of a different color to add more magenta to the brown on the underframe and truck sideframes, or mixing up a new color and painting over what's there. The color is straight 'Brown Iron Oxide' from Delta.

Look closely at the center of the underframe and you'll see a small screw. MDC conveniently provides a starting dimple in the plastic body for drilling a hole through the car 'floor' into the underframe. Okay, actually it's just a dimple left over from the casting process, but hey, it sure is handy. I drilled and tapped the underframe for a 2-56 screw. This is to make a better connection between the body and frame and it allows me to file off the little mounting nubs on the underframe and fill the gaping holes on the lower side sills of the body.

Ahead will be adding new wire stirrup steps and hopefully a coupler lift bar on each end. I'll also be painting the wheel faces and weathering the trucks and lower body. Not sure how far I want to go in ding-ing up the rails and interior. Here's a tip for making upgrades to any piece of rolling stock.

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I do this to keep track of all the ideas I might have. I may not use all of them (like I probably won't add any more brake rigging/detail as I can't find any good prototype pics showing such detail and the car won't suffer without it) but it's easy to find them on the inside of the box lid. Not shown is also a blotch of paint with 'Delta Brown Iron Oxide' written next to it as a reference. I wasn't ready to work on the car at that time, but I did play around with matching the paint color.

I'll work on it again later this week, perhaps. Either that or the grade crossing tower scratchbuild.

Here's the url as I can't seem to figure out how to make the words above into a link:

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Galen