Campbell's, who don't get me wrong made great kits, bought out Timberline and eliminated a lot of the models and castings. I somehow managed to get full cards of the different casstings over the

Yup, I have been there but only for an hour as I just stumbled up on it. Being that I am in Florida it takes quite a drive to get there. I am also a Mason and did go up to the lodge room over the

Dave, it's important to note that South Park City is a museum and not an amusement park. And all of the buildings are original ones from Park County (aka South Park), land of the C&S and Como. It's a

I needed some thin sheet lead for weights and for making coal chutes etc. so I found a leaded roof vent cover in a home constriction site and have been using it for nearly 15 years cutting off chunks

I’ve made both gons and flats with scribed lead sheet for floors. I used it with a Grandt wheel & tie car and some PSC 6500 flats with no problems at all. Just make sure it’s thin enough to do the

Thank you. Your scene is looking nice. It will look cool with the train going through town.

Brian, Where do you source the paper/card structures that you are using for place holder models? Mark Lewis Narrow gauge modeling in N.C.

On the subject of fla car weights... I picked up some 1/32" lead sheet material a year ago with the thought of making subfloors out of it for flat cars. I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

John, Rough it may be but more than accurate in this case. Thank you. Flat cars are challenging. I built three PSC D&RGW 6500's thinking that the side sheets would prevent warping. I was wrong, they

Mark For close approximate metric to imperial conversion, consider 1mm to be 0.040", instead of 0.03937". The result is only 1.6% oversize. This gives 1m ~= 40", or 3m ~= 10'.

Glenn, Thanks for your quick reply and information. Mark Lewis Narrow gauge modeling in N.C.

Bill, I'll be very interested in what your 6k printer can do.

Yes, HO1:87 on both counts. Here's the part design, 63 lines of OpenSCAD code. All the dimensions are actual inches, for an HO scale part. Still need to put in the piping interfaces and the nut-job

The structures remind me a lot of the old TImberlne Scale Models pre Campbell buy out. I have the entire Timberline Kit line that I use as patterns once in a while. I also have their casting which

Glenn, The 168 project is in HO scale, correct? And the print shown is also in 1:87 scale? VERY Impressive!! Mark Lewis Narrow gauge modeling in N.C.

Quite impressive!  I have high hopes for the Anycubic 6K printer I just unboxed a couple of days ago after seeing your results. Bill Lugg

> What’s everyone else working on? Just printed the first part of my D&RG #168 project, a rough version of the compressor. I was particularly worried about how a 4K resin printer would resolve the

Or tungsten welding rod which adds a little more weight. 1.6mm (not sure about the Imperial equivalent) fits between the center sills of RailLine cars. Not cheap and not easy to cut either but an

Boy that wheel and tie car looks great! I have been building some place holder card models for scenery.... -- Brian Kopp Jacksonville, FL

Thanks. I will definitely try the rail. It already seems to have a minor bow