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Prairie Chief's Modeling Blog: ATSF 1656. A Westside story of a labor of love.
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Prairie Chief's Modeling Blog. Sunday, November 6, 2016. ATSF 1656. A Westside story of a labor of love. Engineers side of 1656. As far as brass engines go, 1656 is not the rarest piece I have, nor is it the most expensive, nor the first I ever bought. It does however hold a bit of sentimentality for me, I loved the turtleback tender and general looks of the engine. However it also is a love and hate piece because of the year plus of "fun" I had with this engine to get it running well. While the decoder ...
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale: The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada layout gets started
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale. Thursday, March 13, 2014. The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada layout gets started. The lower level will be hand-laid using Micro Engineering Code 55 rail with some Atlas Code 55 rerailers used in hard to reach areas. The yard will be six tracks and will have a coal hopper servicing shop. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Diego, CA. View my complete profile. Layout Location: San Diego, CA. Layout Size: 8’ x 7’ L-shape. San Diego Society of N Scale.
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale: June 2015
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale. Thursday, June 4, 2015. Well, it's been a long while since I've done any work on the layout. I have mostly been focused on working on the Pacific Desert Lines layout of the San Diego Society of N Scale at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum. I've also been doing work converting quite a few of my rolling stock to Z scale couplers and installing Loksound decoders in my locomotives. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). San Diego, CA. View my complete profile. 3 week...
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale. Monday, April 21, 2014. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Diego, CA. View my complete profile. Layout Location: San Diego, CA. Layout Size: 8’ x 7’ L-shape. Location Modeled: Loose rendition of CP’s line from Golden, British Columbia to Rocanville, Saskatchewan. Control System: NCE PowerCab w/ SB5 booster. Tie Laying Continues I have continued to lay down. San Diego Society of N Scale. Pacific Western Rail Systems. Des Plaines River Crossing Part II.
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale: Yard Work Progressing
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale. Monday, June 2, 2014. Work in the yard at Golden, British Columbia continues to progress. Quite a bit of rail has been laid down and 9 switches have been laid, including the main yard ladder. I now have five yard tracks and the main in place and ready to be connected to the switches that will lead the tracks to the helix. Here are pictures of the progress to date. January 4, 2015 at 3:31 PM. Nice work Kelli, is that all hand laid track? San Diego, CA.
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale: June 2014
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale. Monday, June 2, 2014. Work in the yard at Golden, British Columbia continues to progress. Quite a bit of rail has been laid down and 9 switches have been laid, including the main yard ladder. I now have five yard tracks and the main in place and ready to be connected to the switches that will lead the tracks to the helix. Here are pictures of the progress to date. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). San Diego, CA. View my complete profile. Grain Elevator Complex...
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale: April 2014
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale. Monday, April 21, 2014. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). San Diego, CA. View my complete profile. Layout Location: San Diego, CA. Layout Size: 8’ x 7’ L-shape. Location Modeled: Loose rendition of CP’s line from Golden, British Columbia to Rocanville, Saskatchewan. Control System: NCE PowerCab w/ SB5 booster. Tie Laying Continues I have continued to lay down. San Diego Society of N Scale. Pacific Western Rail Systems. Models and Kitbashes by NightOwlModeler.
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale: Getting Ready to Play In the Golden Yard
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The Canadian Pacific in Western Canada in N Scale. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Getting Ready to Play In the Golden Yard. Ties have now been laid for my ladder in the yard. The yard is laid on cork shelf liner from Contact Paper. It is 1/16" high, half of the height of the N scale cork that my main line is set on. Being Contact shelf liner, it has an adhesive backing, but I also added wood glue to really hold it down. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). San Diego, CA. View my complete profile. Grain Elevator...
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Prairie Chief's Modeling Blog: November 2016
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Prairie Chief's Modeling Blog. Sunday, November 6, 2016. ATSF 1656. A Westside story of a labor of love. Engineers side of 1656. As far as brass engines go, 1656 is not the rarest piece I have, nor is it the most expensive, nor the first I ever bought. It does however hold a bit of sentimentality for me, I loved the turtleback tender and general looks of the engine. However it also is a love and hate piece because of the year plus of "fun" I had with this engine to get it running well. While the decoder ...