Archive for August, 2009
Housing Crisis on the Garden Railway
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Well, maybe housing is not a crisis, but it’s a big problem in the China Section. Imagine you’re on the Paris to Peking Railway. You rattle your way out of Paris, heading towards China. You pass through the Ukraine…you know because there are two buildings there [Read More]
Electrical Joy Hits the Garden Railway
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Be gone, o Darkness! Stay back, ye night! The wizardry of electrical lights has come to the Ukraine! Okay, so I have to admit I had two really big surprises on this streetlight project; the first was when I nearly electrocuted myself, the second came when I actually shot [Read More]
Terror Stalks the Garden Railway, Take 4
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, e Progress is coming along nicely on the locomotive conversion. I have the cab windows blocked in with sheet styrene. I have the forward windows cut and the left windows marked for cutting. “So,” coughs the CEO of the Paris to Peking Railway, “how are [Read More]
Model Windows Pose Challenge on the Garden Railway
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All right, now, enough birthday talk, back to work. Just so you know, there weren’t any pictures with yesterday’s post for two reasons; my wife is terribly camera shy, and I made the post from my Blackberry. Just like President Obama! I had designed, and my [Read More]
Birthday Bash Beleaguers Railway Reporting
You know how I’m always raving about my wife. It’s because she’s a wonderful, terrific woman. She’s warm and sensitive and funny, and utterly, blindingly brilliant. Well, today is her birthday. Yes, she’s turned twenty-nine…again. She [Read More]
Europeanization of the Bachmann Not-So-Big-Hauler
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I have to apologize for that title. I am a man of few jokes, but I make them fairly often. I’m not supposed to be writing on Saturday, as it is the second of my two days off, but when the moment strikes, what the hey? Let’s see, a little housekeeping are in order: a [Read More]
A Choice of Colors on the Garden Railway
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Just to be clear, I don’t normally do this. Friday and Saturday nights are my nights off from working on the railroad in order to allow the overtaxed mind to rest. That and I might just want to go to the movies instead of write an article. I did that last week…took the [Read More]
Plumbing Causes Delay in Garden Railway Reporting
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Now, my wife is a wonderful, beautiful, and brilliant woman. She really is brilliant, with a Master’s Degree in Russian literature. And my kids are very smart and kind of look like me, which I take as a sign that they really are mine. I point all this out as evidence of [Read More]
Europeanification of the Garden Railway
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Europeanification. It’s a word. Go ahead, look it up. I’ll wait. It’s not? You, my friend, must have a cheap dictionary! As you know, the Bachmann Big Hauler 4-6-0 is now a Bachmann Not-So-Big Hauler 4-4-0. It’s lost its glitzy green hue, instead wearing a coat of [Read More]
Modifying the Garden Railway Bachmann
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Now that we’ve settled this scale issue, I reckon I can finish up the conversion of the Bachmann 4-6-0 locomotive. As you’ll recall, may plan was to upscale it from 1/20.3 to 1/18. The upscaling included shortening the wheelbase to handle my ultra-tight railway curves [Read More]
