Piece of cardboard with four pieces of rail, their ends masked and painted brown.
#hobbyStreak 144. Formed and painted the rails for the scale track. #modelRailway #modelRailroad
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A look around the amazing @modelrailscotland.bsky.social 60th Anniversary show in Glasgow this weekend
#modelrailscotland #modelrailway #modelrail #modelrailroad #scotland #glasgow #scalemodel #scalemodelling
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqP2...
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3 locomotives pull Herbie and the Nautilus through some orange groves on an N-scale model railroad
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With the lights working I turned my attention to the consist - thank you to @tachyoneddy.bsky.social for pointing me in the right direction. With CVs 21 and 22 set correctly its now working as it should. #hoscale #modelrailway #modeltrains #187scale #bsmrguk #modelrailroad #railwaymodelling
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After last night's frustration with the SD40-2 consist I sat down today and took my time. The issue with the lights on 8256 was easy - it had bulbs despite being DCC ready. LEDs swapped from the RI donor loco. #hoscale #modelrailway #modeltrains #187scale #bsmrguk #modelrailroad #railwaymodelling
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New way for track one to the left. Also the liftout section has started. Soon i can connect the other side of the last section to the main. #modelrailroad #h0scale
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Inverted HOn3 flat car being airbrushed with Tru-Color CNJ 1940s-50s freight car red with leveling thinner. The leveling part of leveling thinner is a drying retarder that improves paint distribution on plastic and resin parts. It doesn't have much effect on the wooden parts.
Test tracking of the HOn3 Zerolene tank car before it is complete, next to finished standard gauge equipment on dual-gauge track. This shows the small size of narrow gauge equipment.
Broken HOn3 arch bar truck with two segments missing. Next to it is Evergreen strip styrene of dimensions .010 x .040" (0.25 x 1.0 mm).
Repaired, but as-yet not repainted, HOn3 arch bar truck.
Progress on the flat car portion while waiting for delivery of aftermarket tank rail stanchions. Underside painted. One of the arch bar trucks did what they do and broke, but I am able to patch it with some appropriately-sized styrene. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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The ties and some fine sandy ballast for the scale track.
#hobbyStreak 143. Three some sand on the scale track for ballast. It’s a bit lighter than I think we need, but a lot easier to do now than after the rails are on. #modelRailway #modelRailroad
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A rainbow Amtrak locomotive rounds the bend, carrying a couple Surfliner cars on an NTRAK layout
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The pair run well together, but there are no lights or horn. 8909's lights work fine out of consist, but nothing when consisted. Part of the issue is that I have no idea what I'm doing. Control is a Gaugemaster Prodigy Express. #hoscale #modelrailway #modeltrains #187scale #bsmrguk #modelrailroad
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After congratulating myself on the SD40-2 decoder fit, I discovered tonight that it has no lights, and damaged it trying to fix it. The speed matching is good with 8909, bur there are issues. #hoscale #modelrailway #modeltrains #187scale #bsmrguk #modelrailroad #railwaymodelling
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closeup of model railroad track in Z scale (tiny) with fake dire around it. The track is somewhat clean then almost burnt looking in a few spots, where two partially shown curves are joined to a half-shown switch. you can see how cleaning the track shows areas that need attention, like places where you used allegedly conductive paint-goop
closer up of previous showing one railjoint that would be hard to spot as a rail joint except for a very slight gap and one of the 4 track ends meeting is slightly flared or wider (solder that's been filed?)
Whoever suggested odorless mineral spirits for track cleaning, thanks.
Another cleaning tool you need in N or Z is a 🔍 or 🔎👓🔍magnigoogles, although in a pinch a phone with a decent camera + light. Get up close and personal w/ your track (after the mineral spirits dry!) #ModelRailroad #Advice
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Closeup of the scale track’s switch Timbers, with glue evident beneath. Most of the ties are PC board, with an insulating gap sanded into their middle.
#hobbyStreak 142. Glued down the ties I prepared yesterday. #modelRailway #modelRailroad
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HO scale resin tank casting, the channel filled with a liberal quantity of Weld Bond.
HO scale resin tank car with weights added, allowing the Weld Bond to cure.
First, to fill the channel with Weld Bond, then the weights. (They had been test fitted of course.) Now, I need to wait a long time for it to cure. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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HO scale resin casting of a tank car being drilled into with a Dremel burr attachment, outdoors with a rated mask and eye protection.
The finished channel that was carved into the underside of the resin HO scale tank model. It is surprisingly cavernous.
Yes, let's drill a channel into the resin tank casting. This was risky, but the old resin is as robust as ever. Routed with the burr attachment of the Dremel tool. Glad I did this as an adult: requires proper safety precautions for resin dust. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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Half-finished HOn3 tank car model next to the number of fishing weights that will be needed to get the car up to NMRA standards: 10 of them.
A silent problem is buried in this model: it is way too light to operate. So it either needs to be a static model, or I need to find a way to weigh it down to the tune of 1.14 more ounces - ten medium fishing weights. Do I have the guts? #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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Before and After pictures of an inverted HO scale flat car. In the before picture, only some brake details are applied and the stake pockets are not there. After, the brake detail is complete and the stake pockets are present. The side of the flat car planks has been straightened.
So, where do I begin? My work was a lot less precise and knowledgeable, but actually holds up surprisingly well. The first order of business was so dig out of some mistakes in the flat car portion. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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I once found a reference to this car being called the White Elephant, but I lost the source and have not managed to refind it. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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Completed models of this prototype are hard to find online, and all erroneously have the tank silver whereas I am virtually certain the tank was white for the Zerolene ad campaign. I have only seen finished models in #OScale or larger, never HOn3. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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It likely carried gasoline or other fuel on the delightful Nevada-California-Oregon Railway (www.ncory.org) in the 1920s-30s. Zerolene was a California brand arising from Standard Oil's antitrust breakup (www.greasemonkeyusa.com/blogs/motoro...). #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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Black and white photograph of the prototype Zerolene tank car on which the model is based.
This car had my interest when I was a kitten: striking livery in a diminutive package. Knowledge of the prototype is mostly not online, but a few clues are here and there on the internet. Here is the only prototype photo of which I am aware. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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Kit contents for a half-built HOn3 Classic Miniatures tank car. A brown resin tank model is laying on a wooden flat car with striking ZEROLENE decals beside; box with remaining parts behind.
Up next on the workbench: revisiting the first "craftsman" kit I ever started: A Classic Miniatures #Zerolene tank car in #NarrowGauge (HOn3), given to me in ~1993; half-completed in 1997. Let's see if I can salvage a 29-year-old project. #ZeroleneBuild #HOScale #ModelRailroad #ModelRailway
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Scale model of a Glasgow tenement block with mural of a bearded man in a wool bunnet hat representing St Mungo tending to a robin
Just home from Model Rail Scotland with 50Gb of footage to edit, and that's just day 1!
@modelrailscotland.bsky.social
#modelrail #modelrailscotland #modelrailway #modelrailroad
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Have and Have Not ~
Playing with #color & #composition, reducing very recognizable images to states of #abstraction, when I finally took note of the #yin/yang message these little trucks were trying to send me.
#ModelRailroad #Oscale #Ogauge #photography #hunger #trucks
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A tubby model railroader shows how long of hunched reach it is to get to the back corner of his double deck layout. Dumbarse shouldn't have designed it to wide and so close to the upper deck.
More destruction on the #modelrailroad layout. I'll be running #modeltrains this year, I hope. But I have to drop to only one level. Two was too much bending, stooping and reaching to be healthy. I ain't getting younger.
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The scale track with pc board ties for most of the length of the switches. There are four wood ties in the middle because I ran out of enthusiasm when I discovered I had two different thicknesses of material!
#hobbyStreak 142. Prepped the switch ties for the scale track. #modelRailway #modelRailroad
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I love the Rock Island loco but I'd doesn't match with anything else I have. I'll probably fit it with a decoder again in the future. Now to pair the CSX locomotives. #hoscale #modelrailway #modeltrains #187scale #bsmrguk #modelrailroad
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So this evening I've taken the Tsunami Econami board out of my Rock Island SD40 and fitted it in the CSX locomotive. The other one has the Econami board as well so hopefully they'll consist quite easily. #hoscale #modelrailway #modeltrains #187scale #bsmrguk #modelrailroad
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HO scale Athearn Ready to Roll SD40-2 in CSX livery
A bit of a side project this evening. I picked up an Athearn Ready to Roll SD40-2 super cheap on Ebay to consist with the one I already have. It's DCC fitted but no sound, and I really want to get them working together. #hoscale #modelrailway #modeltrains #187scale #bsmrguk #modelrailroad
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