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  1. Hey everyone it’s been a long time. Sorry I have not posted in a very long time, went through a rough patch with my health and just didn’t have any drive to do any model railroading, doing a lot better now. Now for the part I hate to tell you guys, Iron horse Rambles is no more. I have decided to move up to a larger scale which now is easier for me to work with. Up until the last day when I dismantled the layout, it worked great. HO/OO scale is awesome to work with outdoors and this is a great community to work with. I sold off most of my HO stuff to help finance my work in O scale outdoors. I would not have undertaken this move if it wasn’t for this wonderful forum giving me the confidence to do smaller scales outdoors. My new layout is on the ground and as usual I am trying new ways of doing roadbed and other stuff but still incorporating other people’s ideas in what I hope will be a new and exciting adventure in outdoor model railroading. If it is okay, I would like to ask for advice of you all from time to time even though I will now be working in the wrong scale. If anyone would like to stop by my new blog, 2 Rail O Scale in The Great Outdoors https://oscaleoutdoors.blogspot.com/ I would love to hear from you. I just started this blog and it is a work in progress. Mick if it is okay I would like to list your site as a Link on my blog. I think some of my ideas will still work for the smaller scales. You all have been great and I would like to hear from you all soon. Robert, aka IronHorseRambles
  2. Tony it was already built up by someone else and rather poorly at that I have been rehabbing it,I probably have about 6 hours total time in it so far, still a very rough piece. I thought about using a couple of that very kit for a kit bashing project. The Sydney kit is very cool. My plan last Sunday for Father's day was to do just that, but again the weather played a factor, instead of rain it was scorching hot day almost a 100 degrees F with high humidity, stayed inside, sigh
  3. I thought I would list some links on a couple of New York Central Union stations to show the flavor of what I am trying to capture with the Bonn Station on my layout. http://gino.cdfw.net/_railpage/TandS/troy.html''>http://gino.cdfw.net/_railpage/TandS/troy.html'>http://gino.cdfw.net/_railpage/TandS/troy.html http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/LostRochester/NYCRR/NYCRR.html''>http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/LostRochester/NYCRR/NYCRR.html'>http://www.libraryweb.org/rochimag/architecture/LostRochester/NYCRR/NYCRR.html Best Regards
  4. This is how it looks so far, still need to attach the roofs and do a bunch of other repair and other misc. stuff. [image]3532[/image][image]3534[/image] [image]3535[/image] Tomorrow is Father’s day and weather permitting I am hoping to set the station out on the layout take pictures and run some trains. Take Care Everyone.
  5. I had to remove all the windows and take sections of the building apart to try and straighten the platforms out, still a long way to go but it's looking better [image]3523[/image][image]3524[/image] The picture to the right shows where I had to repair a missing chunk of stairs with styrene. [image]3526[/image][image]3525[/image] Next Post: looking a lot better
  6. Hello all, here is some before pictures of my very sad looking Bonn station that I purchased very cheap on evilbay. I wanted a big Union Style station for the layout and thought I could Americanize the Bonn station enough to make a passing example. [image]3519[/image] [image]3518[/image] [image]3517[/image] [image]3516[/image] None of the platforms matched up, glue and paint everywhere and it is only half a building, but will work nicely as a prop for my layout until I get a chance build something for it. [image]3515[/image] [image]3514[/image] [image]3513[/image] Next Post Plat forms straightened.
  7. Tony looking forward to seeing the full train running, looking good.
  8. Doublecee your pictures are very nice and I love your locomotives.
  9. I am with Tony that small creek with the water flowing looks awesome! Looks to me like there is going to be a whole lot of family fun in the near future. Best Regards
  10. Hello all here is a few pics of the layout with all that rain we have been enjoying. [image]3520[/image] [image]3521[/image] [image]3522[/image] My next post will be on my Bonn Station project otherwise known as How to turn a sows ear into a purse. Best Regards
  11. Tony there is no issues with the snow. The problem is due to the poor workmanship of a roofing contractor that put new roofing on the house two years ago due to hail damage, they messed up the flashing where the roof meets the soffit, unbeknownst to me water was leaking under the roofing and rotted the back porch plywood it started to leak with all the rain we have had and that's when I discovered the mess. I wanted to do the roof myself in the first place but the insurance company wouldn't let me. I try and do everything myself, it seems whenever I have someone else do a job it is never done right! Very Nice Tony Have a good weekend!
  12. Hey Tony sorry I did not post sooner, I am having to do roof repairs on my back porch so have not had much time to work on the layout. the big problem I have had is every weekend I am off it rains and rains, I have not been able to start any ballast work yet but hopefully soon, when I do start I will be posting pictures. I did buy recently a very poorly built and cut in half lengthwise Faller Bonn station from evil bay for a very cheap price, every window smeared with glue and paint and the platforms very badly misaligned. Been rehabilitating it to use as a Union Station Backup until I can scratch build one, It has been a fun little project while waiting for the rain to stop. I will post some pictures of it soon, wish I had took pictures of it before I had started on it, it was very bad. That is a very cool train to tick off your wish list, I look forward to the video. Take Care
  13. Hey Griff good to hear from you sorry I didn't post sooner, been snowed under with a ton of domestic stuff I have not been able to do due to the weather. Below are some links that you and everyone else may enjoy on the 1951 flood and how bad it hurt the railroads here in Kansas. http://ks.water.usgs.gov/1951-flood-photo-gallery''>http://ks.water.usgs.gov/1951-flood-photo-gallery'>http://ks.water.usgs.gov/1951-flood-photo-gallery http://ks.water.usgs.gov/historic-floods-of-kansas''>http://ks.water.usgs.gov/historic-floods-of-kansas'>http://ks.water.usgs.gov/historic-floods-of-kansas http://www.rypn.org/briefs/single.php?filename=090222200907.txt''>http://www.rypn.org/briefs/single.php?filename=090222200907.txt'>http://www.rypn.org/briefs/single.php?filename=090222200907.txt . I thought about the UV so when I was building the trees I sprayed them with a coat of UV resistant clear, also the adhesive I used to stick the foam on to the armatures was for outdoor use. It will be awhile before I plan to trust the test methods with the trees on the layout, but I am getting ready to use the foam roadbed, and ballast on the layout in a few weeks when I have everything caught up around the house. I know what you mean about being to busy, I hope to have more progress photos soon. I hope you will be able to get back at it real soon. Take Care
  14. Hello everyone from a very soggy Kansas. I have not been able to do anything since my last post we have had over 8 inches of rain with more on the way possibly in the next few days, just in time for my ^%@#* weekend off. Toni every thing is looking good can't wait to see video of trains running. The rain should be outta here by next week I hope, then will have some progress to show. Take Care All
  15. Okay everyone the last thing I was wanting to talk about is what I am doing to the surface of my foam board bench work. As you may recall I originally had rolled roofing on top of the foam but started to have problems with the rolled roofing buckling under the track due to temperature fluctuations. I had thought I could let the sections rolled roofing float on top of the bench work but boy was I wrong, you have to thoroughly glue it down and when it is done properly it works great. I decided to go a different route and pulled off all the roofing and let the track set on the foam board directly until I could decide what to do next. The direction I decided to go is to paint the foam board with latex paint with a heavy dose of silica sand mixed in for a heavy base coat on the foam board, my test panel has worked out great with this coating. The color of the paint I went with is called seal skin, I thought it looked close to a dirt color and with the rough texture the road bed sticks to it very well as well as well as the ballast and if I do have an issue with it, it should be easy to touchup. With the color and texture of the paint it should be very simple to blend in ground cover and other scenic stuff. [image]3452[/image] [image]3451[/image] [image]3450[/image] [image]3449[/image] Next post will be about future plans and any progress I might achieve before my next post. Now if it will stop *&%$#@!!! raining for a few days when I am off work. Take Care
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