Very cool! Great documentation of the project.
That looks great Jon. What a difference.
Yea, it no longer looks unloved and abandoned.
Well done Jon, the color contrast really show this building off. (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
David Maynard said:
Yea, it no longer looks unloved and abandoned.
I agree and I think you just inspired the back story… A long abandoned engine house on the Candlewood Valley Scenic Railway was recently purchased by XYZ Co (to be determined later) who has refurbished it and will utilize it as a __________ (tbd). One thought is car repair, another is freight transfer. Presently in my ops program it is a fuel depot that gets oil tanks and coal hoppers, but that can change with a few keystrokes.
Looks Pissa !
That turned out amazing! Nice work, Jon.
-Kevin.
Jon, that turned out very nice. I’m looking forward to seeing it in place, but it sure looks good now!
Jon Radder said:
I agree and I think you just inspired the back story… A long abandoned engine house on the Candlewood Valley Scenic Railway was recently purchased by XYZ Co (to be determined later) who has refurbished it and will utilize it as a __________ (tbd). One thought is car repair, another is freight transfer. Presently in my ops program it is a fuel depot that gets oil tanks and coal hoppers, but that can change with a few keystrokes.
XYZ Freight Transfer Co. but it’s really a disguised giant meth lab operation. Let me know when it’s fully stocked so I can blow it up!
Coal gasification? Now there is an industry that is seldom modeled.
I’m leaning toward an aluminum recycling processor. I have been saving aluminum sawdust that would make an interesting gondola or hopper load. Industry could get boxcars with cans & scrap to be processed and ship out gondolas of shredded aluminum for processing at a different facility. Dave Marconi doesn’t have an industry on my RR yet - Marconi Recycling & Aluminum Processors
Got the acrylic panels installed with fasteners this evening. Looks like I screwed up the spacing when placing the vinyl on several windows. It’s a pain to take out and re-do, but it is on the “good” side that faces my yard and it really bothers me. I have plenty of extra vinyl cut - just have to take it apart again.
I also cut a scrap of aluminum today that will be lighting fixture attached to the roof trusses with white LED’s pointing up toward the dark inner roof. I’ll need to test that to see how it looks without any reflective surfaces.
Fantastic way to hide a meth lab …I love it!
Here are the pics that should have been included in the post above. Freshly installed acrylic…
That finally brings me to why I started this project in the first place - installing lighting. I failed to take a shot of the LED array I built tonight before I stuffed it up in the rafters. Somewhere around 12 7 year old used LED modules (not anywhere near as bright as current product; but that fits the bill) were attached to a 3" wide strip of .040 aluminum. The strip was then fed up into the rafters with the LED’s pointed up. This diffuses the light and tones down the brightness even more. Here is a very poor hand-held night photo with the array powered by an 11V battery pack…
Now that is building lighting.
Nice, I can imagine it sitting there in ths snow and dark of Winter. Very cool!
THAT brings it to life!..(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-wink.gif)
That’s nice Jon, kind of looks like fluorescent lighting
Nice job, Jon… It looks Booooootiful… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)
David Maynard said:
Yea, as I recall from my cow tipping youth, cows aren’t all that graceful.
I did cow tipping, some 43 years ago. Had mad cow guilt ever since. But now that I know others did it, I feel so released!
Jon, I’m just reading your thread. WONDERFUL job! I was all ready to sign up for modeling your star bolts, but then I read you didn’t need them.
But great work regardless, so carry on Sir!
===>Cliffy