Large Scale Central

Doh!

General Discussion
#1

My new stone cabin model, designed to hide a wiring junction, sites pretty close to the track. But my steamer cleared it with plenty of room to spare, and I thought it would be fine. Then today, I ran the 45-ton dismal. Bam! Almost knocked the cabin over the cliff. Doh!!

Shouldn’t be too difficult to correct. Moving it out a half inch further from the track will do. I just need to alter the stone and mortar foundation.

BTW, I’m finally getting the trestle built for the mining tram that will go out to the Cliffside Mine. It’s not finished yet already it improves the appearance of the mine a 100%, by making it look accessible and not so isolated on the cliff.

#2

That 45 Tonner’s best use is as a rolling clearance gauge :smiley: If it gets by, most anything else will. Glad you suffered no damage.

#3
Jon Radder said:
That 45 Tonner's best use is as a rolling clearance gauge :D If it gets by, most anything else will. Glad you suffered no damage.
An other clearance checker is a Bachmann K, or any other K at 1:20.3! So far I have not had a problem on the SVRR!

Paul

#4

True Paul, but when you smash lineside details with a K it’s likely to cause you great anguish and lots of cash to fix. At $70 each, Dizzies are expendable. Or at least more so than K’s :smiley:

#5

Always good to have something relatively expendable for track testing. :slight_smile:

When in HO I had an Athearn rubber band powered diesel. Top speed in excess of 200 scale miles per hour. Any new track passed inspection with a full speed run of the Kamikaze diesel. hehe! Of course my railroad was all steam era so any diesel was expendable.

#6

Well, I got the stone cabin repositioned today, and touched up the minor scrapes. Looks good as new. Also finished the trestle for the Gn15 mining tram. All it needs it the track and a few minor details.

Now I need to put some film in the camera and start getting pics of all this new stuff!

#7

My Mallet doing what it does best at Golding’s:

(http://www.outsidetrains.com/mls/kvryNov07a.jpg)

#8

Many structures have had to be repainted because of age, maintenance and mishapes. Nothing but part of the process.

#9

Don’t run SD70 either unless you want to clean the right of way of about anything near curves. Later RJD

#10

I have something like this

(http://www.nmra.org/beginner/images/gauge.gif)

Mine is made of smokey acrylic and scaled 1:20. It doesn’t have the flangeway or wheel clearances, just the general outline. It’s great for making sure stuff doesn’t get too close to the track.

#11

Me too, but mine is just a piece of luan plywood. I think I traced your Acrylic one year at York.

(http://lsc.cvsry.com/Bridge-640-007.JPG)

But the 45 tonner is still more fun :smiley:

#12

Yeah, but you don’t feel nearly as bad when that clearance gauge falls to the floor…

#13

True, but it still works as a gauge. A little shorter, but no thinner :o