Strangely, with everything going on, I was a very productive model railroader. It’s easier to just list what I’ve been up to:
- Proto:48 layout - installed most of wood ties. Designing crossover track assembly in Fusion360. There are none commercially available for Code 125 rail. The plan is to print in resin. The design is for several different sub assemblies that will be glued to metal rail segments, while also acting to gauge the track, and insulate the rails from each other.
- Free-Mo - Yes, you heard that right. I’m back in the Free-mo world. We (Jimmy) are building three 2x6 modules. They will serve as Jimmy’s home, basement layout, between shows. There will be posts on this. Our theme is modern era, South Philadelphia. Mostly scratchbuilt prototype, or prototypical structures.
- HO Structures - related to Free-mo, I’m back building in HO scale. Mostly scratchbuilding, with some commercial parts, or components. Lot’s of digital fabrication to augment this building. Laser cut building parts, and 3d printed details. First up - trash to rail metal warehouse type building - a brick food warehouse - and a corn syrup plant.
- O Structures - Scratchbuilding a freight house, based on an Erie prototype that was located in Manhattan (Not the huge four story one). Also, finishing up some parts for the Tidewater Grain Elevator. All these models will end up on the Cherry Valley MR Club O Scale 2 Rail Layout.
- HO Freight Cars - I pulled out some of my circa 1980s “modern” era freight cars for the Free-mo layout, and have started weathering, and “modernizing” them with patch jobs, rust, and heavy weathering.
- O Freight Cars - In the design/preliminary phase of a Norfolk and Western G72,73,74 gondola.
Updates to begin again soon.
Jim
