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Ma & Pa RR 1943: Mitzel Coal Trestle ready to take deliveries..
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Saturday, August 8, 2015. Mitzel Coal Trestle ready to take deliveries. After my last post I continued working on the Mitzel Coal trestle deck and I installed it after shaving down and painting the foam. I also sprinkled a little bit of black sanded grout around it. The picture below shows the finished trestle. Does it look convincing? August 11, 2015 at 11:41 AM. August 18, 2015 at 12:55 AM. Thanks for the feedback, its always appreciated. :). August 21, 2015 at 7:57 AM. Where is this Wednesday #18.
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: January 2015
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Friday, January 2, 2015. First Prototype Structure Appears on the Layout. The first structure to be built for the railroad made it's first appearance on the layout, albeit just to be test fitted before the final touches are put on it. It's a card stock photo building built out of textures from Clever Models and 140lb paper card stock reinforcement. TH Knisely covered coal trestle. Notice the vegetation growing around the bottom of the trestle. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). NJ, United States. The Calm Befor...
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: Where is this Wednesday #15
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015. Where is this Wednesday #15. Photo of #61 from my personal collection. BTW, this is one of the half dozen or so pictures I'm using to build my model of #61. :). Thanks again to Dick Bradley for not only allowing me to use his photo, but also for providing the answer for last week's Where is this Wednesday. And no Art, it isn't Little Gunpowder Bridge. :) Check the comment section from last week's post to see the answer. June 18, 2015 at 8:15 PM. June 24, 2015 at 10:48 AM. MODELI...
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: October 2014
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Thursday, October 23, 2014. NJ LD Sig and RPM Meet this weekend. Check out the website for details:. Http:/ www.hansmanns.org/ld-op-nj/index.htm. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). NJ LD Sig and RPM Meet this weekend. NJ, United States. Pastry Chef and teacher of Culinary Arts/Baking and Pastry. View my complete profile. US Military Railroad- Virginia 1863. Borax Extension Benchwork Nearly Done. Elgin Car Shops - Custom Model Assembly and Finishing. 16 turnouts for Aylmer. Port of New York Railroad. Grain to Ex...
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: March 2015
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Saturday, March 28, 2015. The answer to the "Where is this Wednesday #3" is downtown Yoe PA, The picture by Art Kuperstein, shows the old hotel, and the station would have stood right across the street from it. The station was razed in 1978. Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Where is this Wednesday #3. Photo by Art Kuperstein. Saturday, March 21, 2015. York B Yard Scale. One of the tracks in my B Yard is a gauntlet scale track, just like the one that existed there. You can see how I built mine here:. Using the ...
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: July 2015
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Wednesday, July 29, 2015. Slacking off. Not really. It's been a few weeks from the last post and I've decided to suspend Where is This Wednesday for a little while, till I can come up with some more interesting pictures. This is my 1979 Honda CX500C. It's a bike I remember seeing in magazines while in High School and I always had wanted to get one. It was in great shape when I bought it and I've been stripping off added on parts and cleaning chrome, replacing missing parts etc. I've also worked on some s...
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: June 2015
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015. Where is this Wednesday #16. Looks like a parade! Last weeks answer was provided by Dick Bradley, not Dick Foley who is another friend of mine, who knows a lot about the Reading, but virtually nothing about the Ma and Pa. The answer is Baltimore, and it looked like 61 was next to the roundhouse. My apologies to Dick Bradley for my mix up. Friday, June 19, 2015. The next video shows how long the KA2 keeps the sound going after the engine is lifted from the rails. For providing th...
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else." - Yogi Berra. One of the things that was pointed out to me by Jim and Galen during the impromptu shake down session was the need to either label industry sidings, or have schematics somewhere to show where they were located. I had been thinking on and off about how I was going to tackle this and with operations probably starting sooner than later, I put my mind to it and came up with my solution. I was ...
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: Wednesday Progress report..
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015. This past week I worked on a few projects: One that had been on the back burner, fixing the separating roofs on my two F&C Ma and Pa RPOs, the other was to build the top decking of the coal trestle for Mitzel Coal after thinking about how it would look for operators standing looking down at the scene. I removed the track and roadbed from the trestle site. I parked a coal hopper up there to see how it looked. :). I'm pretty happy with what I was able to accomplish this week.
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Ma & Pa RR 1943: November 2014
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014. It's Curtains for you Rocky, curtains. Ever give one of those gifts that give back to you? Boy do I love that girl. ;). My Sweetheart working on the layout skirting with her new sewing machine. :). As you can see the skirts came out nice. I'm very happy how neat the layout space looks now with the skirting up. All the clutter underneath the layout is now out of sight. :). Wednesday, November 5, 2014. NJ LD/OP and RPM Meet a Success! There is a lot more information and pictures...