Tuesday, May 10, 2022

HO SCALE DELAIR BRIDGE - A Bridge too far?

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 Our HO scale Free-mo ambitions have grown.  The three section module (considered a single module in Freemo as we only have two Free-mo end ...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

OUT OF COMMISSION FOR A FEW MONTHS, BUT PLENTY O’MODEL RAILROADING WAS DONE

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A surgery, and caring for a seriously ill family member has kept me away from updating for a few months.    I had also been considering swit...
Wednesday, February 2, 2022

PROTO 48 LAYOUT #6 - FASCIA AND BACKDROP

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 Before adding any thing to the roadbed or foam surface of the layout, I wanted to get the backdrop and fascia squared away.  I imagine that...
Sunday, January 30, 2022

TOOLS - CLAMPS

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As a professional woodworker, I’ve found that you never can have enough clamps.  As many as I’ve bought over the years and sit at the ready ...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

MORE HOUSEKEEPING - UPDATED LINKS

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 I added the links section when I first started this page, and probably haven’t updated it since.   About half were dead links, so sorry abo...
Friday, January 7, 2022

PROTO 48 LAYOUT #5 - THE SAWMILL

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 There is still work to be done sanding, priming, and painting the backdrop, prior to installing ties, but I figured it couldn’t hurt to get...
Sunday, January 2, 2022

PROTO 48 LAYOUT #4 - BENCHWORK

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 This layout resides over my workbench at a height of about 55” from floor to railhead.   I wanted all 20’ linear feet of the workbench to b...