Comments on: Coolest Stuff I Have Worked With In A While http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:12:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: steve-o http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22134 steve-o Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:35:22 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22134 You are, by far, the most productive person I (feel like I) know. Impressive. You are, by far, the most productive person I (feel like I) know.

Impressive.

]]> By: feeblemind http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22088 feeblemind Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:06:08 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22088 I forgot to comment on the pics. Your modeling is quite good. Looking forward to seeing pics of your new efforts. I forgot to comment on the pics. Your modeling is quite good. Looking forward to seeing pics of your new efforts.

]]> By: feeblemind http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22087 feeblemind Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:01:55 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22087 Handlaid track is definitely the only way to go. Properly laid it is much more reliable than commercial track. Having said that, I would think hand laying track in N scale would be very challenging. Hand laying code 55 rail is about like trying to lay string, and I shudder to think about building the switches. I always thought N scale was more for the younger guys. At my age, I am having enough trouble seeing the fine detail in HO. Re Rod Stewart: Funny you should mention him. I just inherited my late brother-in-law's railroad magazines and stumbled across that article in an old MR a few weeks ago. I was truly surprised. I never expected him to be a model railroader, especially modeling US prototypes. Handlaid track is definitely the only way to go. Properly laid it is much more reliable than commercial track. Having said that, I would think hand laying track in N scale would be very challenging. Hand laying code 55 rail is about like trying to lay string, and I shudder to think about building the switches. I always thought N scale was more for the younger guys. At my age, I am having enough trouble seeing the fine detail in HO. Re Rod Stewart: Funny you should mention him. I just inherited my late brother-in-law’s railroad magazines and stumbled across that article in an old MR a few weeks ago. I was truly surprised. I never expected him to be a model railroader, especially modeling US prototypes.

]]> By: Kyle Bennett http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22084 Kyle Bennett Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:25:24 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22084 Dude, I'm jealous. Back in high school I laid out an N-scale switching yard from .080 nickel-silver rail (didn't have the confidence to use true to scale .055 and file the wheel flanges down...) and individual ties soaked in actual creosote. Made all the turnouts myself, including filing the points. Installed the Kadee couplers.... Then I moved out of my parent's house, and haven't had the time or space since. Every time I see something like this, I so much want to get back to it. Dude, I’m jealous. Back in high school I laid out an N-scale switching yard from .080 nickel-silver rail (didn’t have the confidence to use true to scale .055 and file the wheel flanges down…) and individual ties soaked in actual creosote. Made all the turnouts myself, including filing the points. Installed the Kadee couplers…. Then I moved out of my parent’s house, and haven’t had the time or space since. Every time I see something like this, I so much want to get back to it.

]]> By: Dan Maloney http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22083 Dan Maloney Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:50:20 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22083 Bring it on!! I, for one, would love to see your in-progress photos! I have an N-Scale project that I've been planning and collecting stuff to build for several years. Unfortunately, pro-troop activism took up all of my spare time. Still looking for new tips/techniques though to squirrel away for when I finally do have time. I hadn't heard about this electro-luminescent wire before, for example, which interests me on several levels, both for modeling and activism. Neon "Hands Off Healthcare" signs and the like would definitely be attention grabbers! Dan Bring it on!!

I, for one, would love to see your in-progress photos!
I have an N-Scale project that I’ve been planning and collecting stuff to build for several years.
Unfortunately, pro-troop activism took up all of my spare time.
Still looking for new tips/techniques though to squirrel away for when I finally do have time.

I hadn’t heard about this electro-luminescent wire before, for example, which interests me on several levels, both for modeling and activism. Neon “Hands Off Healthcare” signs and the like would definitely be attention grabbers!

Dan

]]> By: Phil in Sonoma http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22081 Phil in Sonoma Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:37:14 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22081 In around 1973, making me 16 if that's the correct year, my youthful, ernest letter to John Allen (whose address I obtained from a phonebook at the public library) netted, by return mail, a grudging invitation to Monterey. I went with my father. Walking down the narrow staircase and into that barely describable world unto itself, much of which I had committed to memory through compulsive study of Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman, was tantamount to having an out of body experience, especially when I found myself standing in the canyon where the mountains famously went down to the floor. Mr Allen flipped some switches and one or two trains chugged around while the lights automatically dimmed and brightened over the course of an HO-scaled 24-hour day. The locomotives were so exquisitely detailed you could see illumination from their fireboxes. They moved as if against the real inertia from cast iron, water and coal. I also remember how the house --- long since destroyed by fire and replaced --- had a glorious view of Monterey Bay. This whole Rod Stewart thing is astounding, by the way --- corroborated in Wikipedia in a paragraph that includes this hilarious line: "..his passion for the hobby has been blamed for contributing to the end of his second marriage." In around 1973, making me 16 if that’s the correct year, my youthful, ernest letter to John Allen (whose address I obtained from a phonebook at the public library) netted, by return mail, a grudging invitation to Monterey. I went with my father. Walking down the narrow staircase and into that barely describable world unto itself, much of which I had committed to memory through compulsive study of Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman, was tantamount to having an out of body experience, especially when I found myself standing in the canyon where the mountains famously went down to the floor. Mr Allen flipped some switches and one or two trains chugged around while the lights automatically dimmed and brightened over the course of an HO-scaled 24-hour day. The locomotives were so exquisitely detailed you could see illumination from their fireboxes. They moved as if against the real inertia from cast iron, water and coal.

I also remember how the house — long since destroyed by fire and replaced — had a glorious view of Monterey Bay.

This whole Rod Stewart thing is astounding, by the way — corroborated in Wikipedia in a paragraph that includes this hilarious line: “..his passion for the hobby has been blamed for contributing to the end of his second marriage.”

]]> By: Michael http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22076 Michael Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:49:31 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22076 I guess I was wrong. I checked Websters. Geek: 1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake 2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked 3 : an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity 1 and 2 don't fly, but 3 looks like it fits. I guess I was wrong. I checked Websters. Geek:

1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disliked
3 : an enthusiast or expert especially in a technological field or activity

1 and 2 don’t fly, but 3 looks like it fits.

]]> By: ScottH http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22075 ScottH Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:25:30 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22075 If you're going to hand lay track take a look at this: http://www.handlaidtrack.com/n.php Make sure you click on the link to his CNJ Bronx Terminal layout. If you’re going to hand lay track take a look at this:

http://www.handlaidtrack.com/n.php

Make sure you click on the link to his CNJ Bronx Terminal layout.

]]> By: Sol http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22070 Sol Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:03:54 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22070 Michael, I think hand-laying N-scale rail is definitely 100% geeky. But it's an awesome kind of geeky, and I would certainly love to see it be a regular subject on this blog. I saw an article on the very first Gorre and Daphetid layout a couple of years ago, and it very nearly single-handedly got me back into the hobby... Michael, I think hand-laying N-scale rail is definitely 100% geeky. But it’s an awesome kind of geeky, and I would certainly love to see it be a regular subject on this blog.

I saw an article on the very first Gorre and Daphetid layout a couple of years ago, and it very nearly single-handedly got me back into the hobby…

]]> By: Mesa Econoguy http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2009/08/coolest-stuff-i-have-worked-with-in-a-while.html/comment-page-1#comment-22065 Mesa Econoguy Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:49:28 +0000 http://www.coyoteblog.com/?p=8703#comment-22065 Rod got a liquor license for the bar next to the L. MacAllister Storage Warehouse. Now <i>that’s</i> attention to detail! Rod got a liquor license for the bar next to the L. MacAllister Storage Warehouse. Now that’s attention to detail!

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