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A fairly old photo of my N&S sandhouse from the archives recently appeared.? For some years it just sat there and I've been known to move things around, so I mull over things for a long time.? However I did put down some spilled sand a few months ago as we often see that around sand facilities.? Spilled sand isn't valuable so it's not like coal that gets picked up by crew or 'neighbors' who can use it.?

So the result is what happened, but I really don't like the result! With that in mind and like the TV program--What would you do! comes to mind.? Help me here--all suggestions are welcome.?

Bob Werre

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My Granddaughter thought this might be a stash house for my cocaine business or for a future snow storm!
Bob

A fairly old photo of my N&S sandhouse from the archives recently appeared.? For some years it just sat there and I've been known to move things around, so I mull over things for a long time.? However I did put down some spilled sand a few months ago as we often see that around sand facilities.? Spilled sand isn't valuable so it's not like coal that gets picked up by crew or 'neighbors' who can use it.?

So the result is what happened, but I really don't like the result! With that in mind and like the TV program--What would you do! comes to mind.? Help me here--all suggestions are welcome.?

Bob Werre
 

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I have managed to scare up the two, attached images of the NS Sandhouse in Norfolk, VA.? Looks like this is, indeed, the prototype for the model.
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John D
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NS Sandhouse- Norfolk, VA (2).jpg

 

Bob,
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Was your kit put out by LVM or one of the others who offered this kit?
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John D
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On 12/17/2024 5:25 PM EST Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
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A fairly old photo of my N&S sandhouse from the archives recently appeared.? For some years it just sat there and I've been known to move things around, so I mull over things for a long time.? However I did put down some spilled sand a few months ago as we often see that around sand facilities.? Spilled sand isn't valuable so it's not like coal that gets picked up by crew or 'neighbors' who can use it.?

So the result is what happened, but I really don't like the result! With that in mind and like the TV program--What would you do! comes to mind.? Help me here--all suggestions are welcome.?

Bob Werre
 

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On 12/17/24 6:53 PM, John Degnan via groups.io wrote:
Bob,
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I was able to pick it up from a former club member who helped put out the kit--Potomac club I believe, so it's an original.? I added roofing paper, some weathering and other repairs--I've owned it for 20+ years and it was old before then.

Bob

Was your kit put out by LVM or one of the others who offered this kit?
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John D
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On 12/17/2024 5:25 PM EST Bob Werre <bob@...> wrote:
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A fairly old photo of my N&S sandhouse from the archives recently appeared.? For some years it just sat there and I've been known to move things around, so I mull over things for a long time.? However I did put down some spilled sand a few months ago as we often see that around sand facilities.? Spilled sand isn't valuable so it's not like coal that gets picked up by crew or 'neighbors' who can use it.?

So the result is what happened, but I really don't like the result! With that in mind and like the TV program--What would you do! comes to mind.? Help me here--all suggestions are welcome.?

Bob Werre
 

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Bob,

I don’t like using the commercial “sand”: it looks too much like snow. I have used a tan or buff N scale ballast which looks less garish.

Roger Nulton

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob Werre
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 2:26 PM
To: S-Scale <[email protected]>
Subject: [S-Scale] Sandhouse

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A fairly old photo of my N&S sandhouse from the archives recently appeared.? For some years it just sat there and I've been known to move things around, so I mull over things for a long time.? However I did put down some spilled sand a few months ago as we often see that around sand facilities.? Spilled sand isn't valuable so it's not like coal that gets picked up by crew or 'neighbors' who can use it.?

So the result is what happened, but I really don't like the result! With that in mind and like the TV program--What would you do! comes to mind.? Help me here--all suggestions are welcome.?

Bob Werre
 

...your trees are really nice as well...
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Mark in Oregon
 

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Okay two suggestions basically indicating the same thing as I had thought!? So I had already chiseled out most of the sand.? Because it's very fine it's all over.? However under the white sand, I did find a grayish sand also, which is what Roger is suggesting.? I think I'll try some less-white then selectively sprinkled with a darker color.? Real sand is the correct color but is too coarse.? So I might not glue it down yet--going back to "mulling it over".? And I'll then take Bill's advice with using less of it too.? Part of that problem is that we're looking down on the scene, where in the 1:1 world we normally would be looking across at the scene.? That angle changes the perspective.? That is also proven by the scenes that John D. sent me--face it, that little structure is really a 'nothing' in a full rail terminal scene.?

I have a scene shot in Huron South Dakota of the former CNW, later DM&E, then ??.? They utilized a? tankcar stood on end, so it's footprint was probably 10' but as I recall it had a fairly tall pile of spillage--which is great for the crews to keep in the trunk of there cars--for sanding snowy roads and traction on solid ice too??

I'll be sending a creative thought award to you guys--no money, but you also made me smile!

Bob Werre
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Bob,

I don’t like using the commercial “sand”: it looks too much like snow. I have used a tan or buff N scale ballast which looks less garish.

Roger Nulton

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob Werre
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 2:26 PM
To: S-Scale <[email protected]>
Subject: [S-Scale] Sandhouse

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A fairly old photo of my N&S sandhouse from the archives recently appeared.? For some years it just sat there and I've been known to move things around, so I mull over things for a long time.? However I did put down some spilled sand a few months ago as we often see that around sand facilities.? Spilled sand isn't valuable so it's not like coal that gets picked up by crew or 'neighbors' who can use it.?

So the result is what happened, but I really don't like the result! With that in mind and like the TV program--What would you do! comes to mind.? Help me here--all suggestions are welcome.?

Bob Werre
 

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CPR bought the DM&E; around this time of year they run a Christmas train around the upper Midwest.? I believe Huron, and its engine facilities, was the functional end of the "Alco Line."


Jace Kahn


From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Bob Werre <bob@...>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 10:09 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [S-Scale] Sandhouse
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Okay two suggestions basically indicating the same thing as I had thought!? So I had already chiseled out most of the sand.? Because it's very fine it's all over.? However under the white sand, I did find a grayish sand also, which is what Roger is suggesting.? I think I'll try some less-white then selectively sprinkled with a darker color.? Real sand is the correct color but is too coarse.? So I might not glue it down yet--going back to "mulling it over".? And I'll then take Bill's advice with using less of it too.? Part of that problem is that we're looking down on the scene, where in the 1:1 world we normally would be looking across at the scene.? That angle changes the perspective.? That is also proven by the scenes that John D. sent me--face it, that little structure is really a 'nothing' in a full rail terminal scene.?

I have a scene shot in Huron South Dakota of the former CNW, later DM&E, then ??.? They utilized a? tankcar stood on end, so it's footprint was probably 10' but as I recall it had a fairly tall pile of spillage--which is great for the crews to keep in the trunk of there cars--for sanding snowy roads and traction on solid ice too??

I'll be sending a creative thought award to you guys--no money, but you also made me smile!

Bob Werre
PhotoTraxx


Bob,

I don’t like using the commercial “sand”: it looks too much like snow. I have used a tan or buff N scale ballast which looks less garish.

Roger Nulton

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob Werre
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2024 2:26 PM
To: S-Scale <[email protected]>
Subject: [S-Scale] Sandhouse

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A fairly old photo of my N&S sandhouse from the archives recently appeared.? For some years it just sat there and I've been known to move things around, so I mull over things for a long time.? However I did put down some spilled sand a few months ago as we often see that around sand facilities.? Spilled sand isn't valuable so it's not like coal that gets picked up by crew or 'neighbors' who can use it.?

So the result is what happened, but I really don't like the result! With that in mind and like the TV program--What would you do! comes to mind.? Help me here--all suggestions are welcome.?

Bob Werre

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