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One of the big changes in Model Railroading – reflecting the changes in everything has been the internet. You get to ‘meet’ people who live in distant places and interact. So. Here’s some links to podcasts that I have been on .. and – interacting. |
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History of the Lugoff, Camden and Northern Railroad page. This is a work-in-progress but I think I will have the Lugoff, Camden and Northern Railroad come into existence around 1935 with the acquisition of the portions of the North Western Railroad from Camden up through North Carolina with a connection to the On30 Deep River Railroad which is represented by my layout. I was thinking that a short length of standard gauge track with a crossing tower would work for that – but – the question then comes up .. why if you have a standard gauge/narrow gauge intersection would you bother loading the narrow gauge hoppers? More on that in a bit …
The model railroad has little connection with reality (much like myself) other then the names as the terrain I portray is nothing like that which is actually here. I’m actually making progress in figuring out where the line is located! So far, the terrain is mountainous and – for the moment has very little vegetation. It is set in the late 1930′s / early 1940′s time period .. again .. I haven’t focused in on a specific date (yet). As I said, it started as two On30 modules. I decided at an early stage to design the railroad around some coke ovens. Normally a coke oven bank would consist of hundreds of ovens since they were built mostly to support steel mills. My little bank of sixteen ovens (in my imaginary universe) are made to support local commercial use such as foundries. There is one siding for the ovens and a bit of water a bridge crosses (the Caddo Creek). There is currently a pump-house and a small dam. The siding is On30 .. amazingly representing 30″ track .. not 24″ or 36″. My story is that the owners started off as an aggregate company and owned a mine in South America served by a 30″ gauge line. When the mine ran out the company shipped the locos and equipment back to the US for use in moving aggregates – and in the small section I am portraying, coke. I am currently calling this line the Deep River Railroad (DRRR). This is named after the coal area of North Carolina existing along the Deep River. What I find amusing is that I haven’t any standard gauge (LCNRR) at all on my layout .. with On30 according to the above should be the Deep River Railroad – DRRR. To be correct .. I need to change the page title and logo to reflect that! Up above, there is an even smaller gauge track – On18 (HVCC – Hill Valley Coke Company). This is N gauge mechanisms running on HOn30 track. This actually works out to around a 17″ gauge but it is ‘nominal’ to refer to it as 18″. The line runs off the layout to a coal mine and delivers (well .. will deliver) raw coal to a coal bin on the right side of the layout. From there it will pass through a coal breaker then to a washery where the coal and shale will be separate. The washed coke will be moved via a conveyor to a coal tipple located above one end of the coke ovens. On top of the coke ovens a larry track will pass under the coke tipple so that the larry can run to each oven and charge it with a load of coal. |
This blog is place for me to talk about my model railroading. My On30 layout stared as two modules that I called the Lugoff and Camden Railroad. I just happen to live in Lugoff, South Carolina with Camden only two miles away. The concept has evolved since then. Currently there is the LC&NRR – Let’s try putting up interesting things I find on the net here on the home page. There are always cool videos floating around.
| Turbine Gate Mechanism |
| I was playing with Sketchup this morning and made this short vid showing the gate mechanism. I also uploadedd it (the mesh not the video) to Shapeways for a ‘trial run’ and was successful! Hooray for me! |
Ed, I’d like to send you a couple pictures of a pair of Plymouth locomotives that belong to my brother to see if you could dimension them in SketchUp. I’m still working on that but haven’t gotten to that part yet and yes, I bought a dummies book but am on vacation so it’s still hard to find time! Let me know how I can do that if you’d be interested or just let me struggle with it and I’ll find the time eventually. Shawn thought you might be willing to do this as we are working on an article about these engines.
Sure. Would love to do that. The only thing I need in addition .. is at least one measurement that we know from the photo. A wheel, a window width .. whatever. Once the thing is in Sketchup I can then scale everything off the known measurement. No biggie .. I can always find something to scale off of .. but thought I would mention that ‘just in case’ you had a ‘known’ dimension.
I think I will create a ‘Sketchup’ page
I recently bought an old Marx Company train set with a bridge. I don’t have it at the house to look at model # and I am not into trains per say. Right now I am immersed in learning French, so, I would like to pass it on. Is there a market for such? My untrained (pardon the pun) eye would rate it on the 1 – 10 scale as 6 or 7.
Like anything else it really depends on the rarity of the thing. You need to identify the set first .. here’s a link
http://reviews.ebay.com/Marx-Trains-The-Toy-King-Louis-Marx_W0QQugidZ10000000004057543
I have two of my locomotive’s I’ve been practicing weathering on, but my account to RailroadLineForum’s is acting up on me and I can’t retrieve it! You might remember me as Cattle Creek Railroad. Would you be gracious enough to help me find a place to post the photo’s?
Cody – sure, I remember you. You need to register first so I have a username to work with – the ability to post to the page needs that first. When you do that send me the username and what you want the Modeler’s page name to be. You can do that via the contact tab at the top of the page. I added instructions to the ‘Posting to your Page‘.
I saw you at the Train Show. I was very impressed. Like I said I have seen how to make scenery online before. But never what you showed me. Thanks great job! Right now I’m in the process of building my layout. I’m still just getting the track together. The price of Fastack isn’t cheap. Its going to take me a few Train Shows to gather up the track I need. Then the fun starts (Oh Joy LOL) when I start building scenery. Since seeing what you do and how you do it. Makes scenery making just a little easier. Most of all, I think it looks more realistic than what I have seen online.
Well thanks Mike. In the past I used rock molds but once I found that I could get good results with things like foam and plaster that kind of took second (or third) place. I just got back from WalMart – had to pick up a couple of items .. and while walking around found myself wishing I lived closer to a Michaels. I want to do some relatively minor modifications to my layout but found myself wishing I had access to some Sculptamold. I had seen some formulas for ‘Ground Goop’ and wanted to try it. Thing is .. I am NOT going to make a 30mi round trip just for that .. I’ll stick with the tried but true paper towels and plaster.
Hope everyone is doing fine , no problems here in WV.
Mark
weathering ideas for track taken by christine
black-white same pic
Hello Edward,
I am interested in purchasing 36 of your bridge shoes for an On30 layout.
Can you please advise if this is possible?
best regards
Geoff Potter
Wamberal NSW Australia
Geoff,
Certainly. I will reply via email shortly (trying to wake up here on a cold November morning. Working on my first cup of coffee)
Ed
Ok. Put up an array of 40 ea. Note that the shipping is $6.50 so you would be paying around $1 each. I think these might do well printed in WSF instead of FUD. Give me a bit and I’ll do that.
Ok. Re-designed for WSF
http://www.shapeways.com/model/786782/sw-shoe-wsf-36ea.html?li=productBox-search