Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label construction. Show all posts
Monday, March 8, 2010

Confessions of a scenery wimp

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I admit it. I'm deathly afraid of doing scenery. There, I said it. Layouts 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , and 5 had no real scenery. Oh, I built a few ...
Monday, February 22, 2010

George Washington's birthday

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Lots of little things have happened since the last post on progress . I made a trip to Caboose Hobbies last Tuesday, on the way to Denver ai...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Monday, Monday

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Did manage to clear my work desk of half-finished projects, as I'd hoped. The last one was finishing up the BNSF decoder install. The ...
Sunday, February 14, 2010

Best Laid Plans ....

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -- Thomas Edison Of course Edison was describing his attempts to inv...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

Goals for weekend and beyond

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My main goal for this weekend is to give scenic treatment (i.e. track paint and ballast) for one short section of track on the main layout. ...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

In the (Wednesday) Evening

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With trains running there is some definite momentum. Fixed three more items from the problem log today and made progress on the never-ending...

Grainy Concrete

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More progress. One of the goals of the week was to address three of the issues on the problem log. Already two are done. The new DT402D (two...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Tuesday Afternoon

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Another post title based on a song title . But the real purpose of this post is a progress update. Item #1 from this week's task list is...
Monday, February 8, 2010

And when the Trains come marching in ...

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The title is a punny reference to the latest Super Bowl winners. It was a fun game. I was making progress on the layout at the start but by ...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

In the year 2525

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The title has absolutely zero relevance to anything, except that today I snapped the 2,525th picture on the digital camera I got in 2005 and...
Sunday, January 31, 2010

One problem fixed

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The feeder wire problem from yesterday has been fixed. This took a while -- eventually I admitted that I couldn't reach the original loc...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

Saturday Night

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It's Saturday night and I've finished all the tasks that I targeted for completion by end of day Sunday . The power cabinet shelves ...
Friday, January 29, 2010

DCC order

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As I noted earlier , I had an email conversation Thursday with Mike Gleaton at Charleston Digital Trains and got some good advice on the pow...

Fun, fun, fun

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Quick update. First news: we're adding a few more trains and running them. This shows my son adding some cars last night: I've also...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

The trains they are a-runnin'

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Yep, the goal of getting trains running again on Saturday was met. Here is my daughter Laura at the controls of the new Bachmann DDA40X on ...
Thursday, January 21, 2010

Lower tier wiring near completion

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Turns out there were 26 pairs of feeder wires needed for the remaining lower tier, including 5 on the Auto-Reverse track. By last night I...
Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Lower tier finished less wiring

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Today I anchored the north side of the lower tier alcove bridge, then put down the rest of the track: If I have time I'll start on the w...
Monday, January 18, 2010

Lower tier switches in place

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More track laying today, I now have completed the lower tier staging through the remaining switches: The various boxes lying on the track ar...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

A Productive Weekend

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After finishing up the middle tier staging yesterday I got a lot done today on the lower tier: Progress today included: measuring and cuttin...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

Addendum to Atlas Switch Prep Procedure

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Last spring I wrote a post on how I prepare Atlas code 80 #6 switches for use in staging. As I was finishing up the middle tier I ran out of...