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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub.: Cool & Comfortable Friday
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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub. An inside look at the planning, construction, and operation of my 10x12 double deck HO scale model railroad set in current day Mid-Michigan. Friday, August 7, 2015. Cool and Comfortable Friday. Well it's another scorcher here in Texas, but maybe these pictures representing a comfortable / clear sky day in early summer Mid-Michigan will make you feel a bit of relief. You can almost feel that breeze off Saginaw Bay! Closeup of MCIS EMD GP40-2. Cool and Comfortable Friday.
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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub.: April 2015
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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub. An inside look at the planning, construction, and operation of my 10x12 double deck HO scale model railroad set in current day Mid-Michigan. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Original room 2009 before layout. M-PHBA-10 pulling through the west end of Bay Yard to double over inbound tracks. A good portion of this train including power will symbol as the M-BAMC-10 and continue to Mackinaw City (West Staging). Rich at the controls of M-PHBA-10 doubling over at Bay Yard. After abou...
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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub.: December 2014
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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub. An inside look at the planning, construction, and operation of my 10x12 double deck HO scale model railroad set in current day Mid-Michigan. Wednesday, December 31, 2014. Good Bye 2014 / Hello 2015. From a model railroad perspective alot of progress has been made on the layout, modeler friendships created, kept the blog pretty well updated, and began sharing my layout with others through informal operating sessions. Here's to the new year! Saturday, December 27, 2014.
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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub.: June 2015
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Michigan Interstate St. Clair Sub. An inside look at the planning, construction, and operation of my 10x12 double deck HO scale model railroad set in current day Mid-Michigan. Sunday, June 28, 2015. Layout How To #02 - Sound Decoder Install. As in most learned skills it takes practice to get better and this is my fifth Soundtraxx install so I am getting there, as each install is unique in its own way. Lets walk step by step on how I brought these two second generation EMDs to life. Following the manufact...
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Rice's Rails: DCC control
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The sometimes convoluted process of designing, building, and operating my model railroad(s). Saturday, January 24, 2015. Bottom line: I went to my friendly local hobby shop and ordered a new SB5 and a new cab04pr. They arrived yesterday. Today I set the new system up. Top to bottom - power supply, SB5, EB3. Shaved 1/16" off side of power plug. It's nice to have a permanently wired up system in place, with a radio throttle. I think the SB5 was the perfect choice. Posted by Ken Rice. Ground throws, test ops.
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Rice's Rails: February 2015
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The sometimes convoluted process of designing, building, and operating my model railroad(s). Sunday, February 1, 2015. Car routing for the Palmer Industrial. Despite my intention to ignore the problem of car routing and paper work for the time being, it has been hard to avoid getting distracted by it as I continue to experiment with operating on the track that's laid so far. Today I decided to put a good temporary solution in place to stop the distractions. A fan or direct sneeze would probably be bad.
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Rice's Rails: April 2011
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The sometimes convoluted process of designing, building, and operating my model railroad(s). Monday, April 25, 2011. The No-Name Industrial Park. Trackplan for the No-Name Industrial Park. The room is almost exactly 21 feet on each side. For perspective, that's 1008 feet in O scale. I got the idea for a switching service operating the park from SMS Rail Lines. You can see it in the satellite view on google maps. As soon as I read Jack's description of the operation at the plant, I knew it would be much m...
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Rice's Rails: Bigger Distractions
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The sometimes convoluted process of designing, building, and operating my model railroad(s). Tuesday, January 6, 2015. As I noted back in my post at the end of 2011 Aeronautical Distractions. I had some time off over the holidays and had planned to spend it finishing up my newest and largest airplane ( a 60" wingspan Extreme Flight Edge. Over the course of a few days I managed to get past what had been the stumbling block in early 2012 (point jumpers) and actually get some track down on the runaround sid...
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Rice's Rails: Wiring, first test run on the Palmer Industrial Park
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The sometimes convoluted process of designing, building, and operating my model railroad(s). Sunday, January 11, 2015. Wiring, first test run on the Palmer Industrial Park. Today I ran the bus wire, connected the feeders to it, fixed a screw up on a turnout, and did a bunch of track cleaning and test running. I'm pretty pleased, and eager to get the track going on the other side of the layout. Scotchlok 905, with #14 bus and #22 feeder. 905s installed on the layout. Ugly feeder to fix screw up. I want to...
