OK, let’s try posting the video again. Is this new behavior? If you have a video in a post, and you edit it, the video disappears never to be brought back?
Looks great Jim and Daniel is doing a great job on those trestles.
Your post is timely, as I have been playing about with rail made in the 1950s for my mine.
I think there are several posts in the forums for this, the website and the testing forums, ad nauseaum …
Rather than adding more nausea (ha ha) I beg you go there as opposed to derailing your fine thread.
Greg
I’m with you Greg. I’ll try to post a couple of thoughts on one of the website threads. Cheers!
Jim Rowson said:
OK, let’s try posting the video again. Is this new behavior? If you have a video in a post, and you edit it, the video disappears never to be brought back?
Been a while since I posted here. Now that it has stopped raining, and we’ve been through a year of expansion/contraction, it seemed like time to add ballast. I’m starting with some sidings/passing track so I can learn how to do this without screwing up my roundy-rounding.
That’s the mainline on the left, passing track on the right, logging spur on the far right (it is still wet after applying wet-water to set the ballast). I’m using the LOCOmotion Works ballast [link]. I no doubt need to clean up the ballasted tracks a bit before I really use them.
Also fyi: we had a year of some good extremes, up to 107 and down to about 32. I had to add somewhere between 5 and 10 more expansion joints to deal with the 107 heat. So far so good.
Cheers!
Looking good Jim. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Maybe I’ll come and see it the next time I’m visiting my son in Livermore. (https://largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
Joe:
I’d love that. Just PM me and we can work out the details.
Interesting: my daughter lives in Orange Park. Maybe I can come visit you if/when I get out to see her (travel is complex for us, so may not happen for a while). Too bad I didn’t realize this last fall, as we were on an epic road trip and visited my daughter last September.
Cheers!
Wow, the ballast really makes a difference, Jim. Great work.
Love the look of the ballast.
One thing I’ve discovered is that those rocks have the ability to migrate between the points and rail of the turnouts. I have disposable paint brushes that I issue to each operator to knock the rocks back where they belong. I stole the idea fair and square from Dave Goodson, TOC.
There have been mixed results from cemented ballast, mostly seeing chunks as it breaks up in weather cycles.
I think you should take more time during the wetting and keep the tops of the ties free from the cement… the white ties w/no rock look odd to me…
In the 1800s ballast covered the ties between the rails, by the 1920s ballast was below the tie tops.
Good points, Steve & John.