Model Railroad Thread

lornyk5 wrote:

@ Ishie, I will make one in 09 and upload it

@ Pete, My girls love Thomas to, and I also enjoy watching the older ones, as I was telling Ish at 4am on chat, he rolls his eyes when he goes around the track, kids love it. Still need to get Annie and Clarabel for my little friend to pull though...

Lorin

That would be cool Lorin ... I could the buildings in gmax to match those on your table as well, if you like!!

Ishie

BTW. I'll be on later in chat guys -- wify is busy so need to watch the baby!!

Just sent you a bunch of photos of my roundhouse Ish, here a sample for the forum....






Lorin

That's perfect Lorin ....
The roundhouse will also be in Scorpion Ruins ...

Ishie

Here's a few shots of my old coal mine guys!







I found this old kit in a hobby shop, it was behind a bunch of other kits and literally covered in dust, not to mention missing the assembly instructions, so I winged it

Cheers,

Lorin

PS.It's also lighted and looks very sharp at night!

Lorin, my dearest friend, going to make that mine for sure, but it'll extract mineral rock, instead!!

Ishie

Ishie wrote:

Lorin, my dearest friend, going to make that mine for sure, but it'll extract mineral rock, instead!!

Ishie

I'm glad you can make some use of it, it truly is a interesting structure!

Lorin

Hi Lorin,
Looking good.

Fortunately, in my last house I had tons of room, especially in the attic. So my layout was 24 X 32 feet, with a 4 X 4 empty section towards the centre containing a swivel chair and the controls, electric junction levers, signal controls and of course the loco controls.

I did make one big error when I started constructing the scenery, on the left of the layout was a series of large hills, made of plaster of paris and chicken wire, this contained a long tunnel, about 17 feet in actual length. It looked great, until a train I was running decided to derail right in the middle of it. I couldn't get it out, my hand was too big to go through the portal and besides I couldn't stretch to the opening anyway. I sent in another loco to try and push it out. You guessed it. It got stuck as well, couldn't even reverse it. In the end I had to dismantle the whole range of hills (making a hell of a mess in the process) to get at my train and loco..
I can laugh about it these days, but boy, was I upset at the time. Needless to say all future tunnels had a removable top.
Anyway, the point of that rather long explanation is 'Always have access to your trains'. You never know Lorin, Ish, you might win the state lottery and build one a bit bigger than Berlin's.
Unfortunately, I don't think I'll ever have the room, time, or money to build another beast like that one, but I have been notified in my spam mail that I've won the jackpot in the Californian State Lottery. All they want is $100 to forward it on to me. Not bad seeing that I've never even done that Lottery. . They must think people are s
Oh well, early start tomorrow, its gone midnight here. night all
Pete.

Hi Lorin,

I posted this up to you because I know you are a huge fan of this era ... so, perhaps, you can drop this on someone who might get it for you for Christmas ...

http://shop.history.com/detail.php?p=68570

Ishie

Nice one Ish, might look into that!

Lorin

lornyk5 wrote:

Here's a few shots of my old coal mine guys!







I found this old kit in a hobby shop, it was behind a bunch of other kits and literally covered in dust, not to mention missing the assembly instructions, so I winged it

Cheers,

Lorin

PS.It's also lighted and looks very sharp at night!

Hi Lorin,

Not quite the same --- but here it is ... will be use in Scorpion Ruins, extracting mineral rock!!!





Not finish yet ... it's almost 2am and jsut tire ...

Ishie

Looks really good Ishie, should fit in with your mineral mining just fine!

Lorin

Hi Lorin,

I've made it big since the mining operation will be intensive.

At anytime, if you wish for the source and gmax files let me know .. ok

Ishie

Hi Lorin,

check out this thread at Auran ...

just look at the pictures:

http://forums.auran.com/trainz/showthread.php?t=34334

Ishie

Hi Lorin,

Do you have rolling stocks at home buddy!?

Ishie

Ishie wrote:

Hi Lorin,

Do you have rolling stocks at home buddy!?

Ishie

Yes , If your referring to boxcars, gondolas, pass. cars, etc for my railroad then I do, many different kinds!

Lorin

Hey Lorin,

when you fine he time dear friend, take a few snapshotz of your rolling stock of the left/righ side front and back ... I would like to make the textures so I an us that in paintshed, thsu for Scorpion Ruins, in the future.

I'll drop you the texturss so you may use them if you wish, down the road!!

Ishie

Ishie wrote:

Hey Lorin,

when you fine he time dear friend, take a few snapshotz of your rolling stock of the left/righ side front and back ... I would like to make the textures so I an us that in paintshed, thsu for Scorpion Ruins, in the future.

I'll drop you the texturss so you may use them if you wish, down the road!!

Ishie

Consider it done buddy!

Lorin

Excellent ... forgive my grammer - a bit tire ...

Also forgot to add ... when you take the pictures Lorin please have enough light, basically natural light will do fine .... no rush on this since we got lots more to do with Scorpion ruins.

BTW. I will present this idea in the Scorpion ruin thread but I am thinking we an have a Canadian session call (working title) ... The Canadian Run ... basically a this train ill carry products that are made only Canada and stop and drop off such products in designated areas.. etc Just idea which we can redefine later...

Ishie

Hi Lorin,

Maybe you seen this item I've made a while back:
http://www.auran.com/TRS2004/DLS_viewasset.php?AssetID=67032

Ishie

Hi Ishie,
Not only have I seen that model, I've actually used it in one of my old routes.
Of course, that was a while ago, before our friendship developed so I didn't associate it with you until now.
Nice work Buddie
Catch you later
Pete.

For Lorin ... came across this picture

Ishie

Smokey, just the way I like em!

Lorin

Sometimes I wonder, how can they see in front of them ...

Ishie