Mention of double slips in the Marklin C track thread got me to thinking. Which produces questions......... Is tha a doubleslip in the Ness Street yard image in the group header?? Are there other popular small layout plans with double slips? I'm sitting on a nice little HOstd double slip that did yeoman service on the now greatly modified layout my kids played with. I'm thinking ahead about puting it to use on a small layout that will be entirely a wharf scene. Linear, light weight and easy to srore high on a wall on simple shelf brackets. Ed Weldon
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Re: Ideas for Marklin C-track mini or micro layouts?
Wow! That was... quick... to say the least! And amazing too! In fact, beautiful inspiration! You are a much better man than I. ;-)?
When I do begin, I guess I'll have to document my work too...?
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Re: Ideas for Marklin C-track mini or micro layouts?
Hi there,
I already had in mind to build an Inglenook micro layout?with C tracks.??After reading the last week posts I made the decision to start it.? Please visit my blog for more details.? Regards, Eric
On ?Thursday?, ?July? ?05?, ?2018? ?03?:?45?:?25? ?PM, jonglass@... [small-layout-design] wrote:
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Thank you very much for that! I especially like the Inglenook with the double-slip. Normally I would avoid something like that, but here, it just struck my fancy! Thanks! A good beginning... hopefully more ideas--thank goodness for Google Translate. I hadn't thought of looking for German language sites.
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Central Coast RR Festival - Show Your Railroad
Do you have an operating model railroad? Why not share it
with others? Read on.
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The Central Coast Railroad Festival returns this year to California's San Luis Obispo
and northern San Barbara Counties
on October 5-7 (Friday-Sunday).
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As in past years I will organize a tour of model railroads
and garden railroads. Last year we had twenty-eight railroads on the tour.
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If you have an
operating railroad I would like you to consider participating in the tour.
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Participating in a layout tour is a great way to share your
work and meet your fellow model and garden railroaders. You¡¯ve probably worked
hard on your railroad so you might as well get some recognition from people who
will appreciate your efforts.
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We are only asking railroad owners to be open for four or
more hours on one day. Additional days and hours are at the owner¡¯s option,
including "early bird" showings on Thursday, October 4. And we are
asking owners in Santa Maria and areas south of Santa Maria to be open
only on Sunday.
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All you need to do is operate your trains. I will do all the
planning and publicity, as I have done for fifty-six previously tours since
2006, including seven previous tours for the Central Coast Railroad Festival.
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This will be a free, self-guided tour. No buses will be
used.
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If you have any questions before committing to the tour,
please ask. In any event, please contact me OFF LIST in the next several weeks if you are interested so we can add
your railroad to the tour. Once you have been added to the tour I will contact
you in August to set your days and hours.
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And if you know someone who has an operating railroad,
please share this message with them.
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Thank you.
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Bob Chaparro
Moderator
Model Railroads of Southern California
/g/ModelRailroadsofSoCalif
Layout Tour Coordinator-2018 Central Coast
RR Festival
Hemet, CA
chiefbobbb@...
[chiefbobbb AT verizon DOT net]
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Festival Website:
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P.S.: I have been trusted to
organize and manage layout tours for a number of organizations. These include:
2008 National Model Railroad
Association National Convention
2008 Santa Fe Railway Historical & Modeling
Society National Convention
26th Annual Sn3 Symposium
2013 National Narrow Gauge
Convention
Central Coast
Railroad Festival (7 Times)
Pacific Coast
Region/NMRA
Pacific Southwest Region/NMRA (3
Times)
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I am a life member of the NMRA and
have served in a number of elected and volunteer position for Pacific Southwest
Region/NMRA as well as heading the development of the NMRA on-line Model
Railroad Directory Project.
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Progress on Traction Layout
Here're some construction photos of?my new O hi-rail portable layout using Super Streets track--the larger section is 2x4' with mock-ups of a segment of the mile-long Superior Viaduct in Cleveland and the Schmulbach Brewery in Wheeling; the smaller bolt-on 16x36" extension makes for a folded dogbone for continuous running with an industrial switchback and some manual switches just to keep you on your toes.? The frame is box girder aluminum stock with a Homosote overlay.? It should be sweet once the track and scenery are done and the street and bridge catenary are up...the trolleys are a big hit with the grandkids!
John McGarrity, Charleston WV
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Re: Ideas for Marklin C-track mini or micro layouts?
Thank you very much for that! I especially like the Inglenook with the double-slip. Normally I would avoid something like that, but here, it just struck my fancy! Thanks! A good beginning... hopefully more ideas--thank goodness for Google Translate. I hadn't thought of looking for German language sites.
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Re: Ideas for Marklin C-track mini or micro layouts?
Hello Jon,
there are two examples for inglenooks built with M?rklin
C-track in a German internet forum:
Both were built by the same person and both have variations from the
original inglenook track plan.
Also in the same forum there is a micro layout built with M?rklin
K-track:
Despite the text is written in German, there are many pictures from
the building processes. :-)
The M?rklin C-track, as all M?rklin track systems, has a third
conductur in the middle of the track. But the C-track is very sturdy
and also looks realtively filigree.
Regards,
Dane
I was in Lidl today, and found this
(ignore the Polish, it's the picture that matters):
Needless to say, i paid less than this auction
is selling for (closer to $50USD than the near-$70 of this one)
I bought it on a whim, in part because it struck me as a
reasonable price, but also because it uses DCC of sorts, and the
cars are compatible with my Piko trains...
So, my question is. Does anybody here know of any Marklin
C-track layouts that would make something like an Inglenook, or
somesuch? I could just make a generic Inglenook, but was hoping
for something sliightly more. Also, what does anybody know about
this track system? any experience? TIA
-Jon Glass
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Ideas for Marklin C-track mini or micro layouts?
I was in Lidl today, and found this (ignore the Polish, it's the picture that matters):
Needless to say, i paid less than this auction is selling for (closer to $50USD than the near-$70 of this one)
I bought it on a whim, in part because it struck me as a reasonable price, but also because it uses DCC of sorts, and the cars are compatible with my Piko trains...
So, my question is. Does anybody here know of any Marklin C-track layouts that would make something like an Inglenook, or somesuch? I could just make a generic Inglenook, but was hoping for something sliightly more. Also, what does anybody know about this track system? any experience? TIA
-Jon Glass
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I suspect you are correct. Scary.
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"The problem with Flickr is they have to be public.. Some of the images in the files section are copyright (e.g. scans from magazines)."
Copyright depends on each nation's laws.?? In the USA everything you write, every photo or image you create is copyright automatically by you.? This is the brave new world of the Berne Convention. You may transfer some rights to an online entity when you accept their terms and conditions.? If you attach the appropriate public domain Creative Commons symbol to your work that can effectively remove the copyright.? Trouble with that is you have to figure out how to do that with your image files? or add the right text to your documents.? (I'm still working on all that)
I have this dark suspicion that someday your automatic ownership by copyright will be sufficient reason for online sources to automatically "reject" effectively wiping out your earthly record of most if not all creative things you have accomplished.
Ed Weldon
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JPG is for photos. Try PNG for diagrams, it's cleaner and no bigger files for diagrams.
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Subject: Re: [small-layout-design] Group dead.
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The problem with Flickr is they have to be public.. Some of the images in the files section are copyright (e.g. scans from magazines).
The best solution is to migrate them all to and resize if necessary, Some of the images are probably a lot bigger than they need to be and JPG compression has improved a lot since 2001.
Cheers
David
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The problem with Flickr is they have to be public. Some of the images in the files section are copyright (e.g. scans from magazines).
The best solution is to migrate them all to and resize if necessary, Some of the images are probably a lot bigger than they need to be and JPG compression has improved a lot since 2001.
Cheers David
On 19 June 2018 at 12:24, steve_omant@... [small-layout-design] <small-layout-design@...> wrote:
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My feeling is (if it can be done) is to place the photos and files in a repository of some sort e.g Flicker or similar Then you can link from Groups.io or whatever platform is in current use, the files and photos become future proof.
This way only the discussion/meeting platform requires changing as technology moves on.(this is the current situation with this group)
This is done in online teaching, having gone through a number of platform changes, having the photos and files hosted elsewhere was very handy.
kind regards
Steve (Tasmania, Australia)
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As I have stated before moving this group to is not
without its challenges.? The volume of photos and files exceeds
the space allowed on so some trimming would be required
and setting up a couple of groups on to handle
everything.? Some of this I have started.
The auxiliary file groups would not be a problem to transfer.? If
the owner wants to make the move it can be done.
Bruce Wilson
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Life Member NMRA
Member Scale 7 Group Gauge 0 Guild 7mmNGA
Member Bird Studies Canada Ontario Bird Banding Association
Brereton Field Naturalists' Club Simcoe County Banding Group
Hi
John,
Well
from my experience the entire process is painless.
Everything
stays the same and the user does not have to do anything.
Very
little effort is required by the owner of the group either.
Groups.io
do all the hard work and transfer all the files.
The
users get an email stating that the group will be moving and
once moved another email to say that it has now moved..
The
user can then log on and all the emails are sent to whatever
email address was used by Yahoo
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It¡¯s
all in the hands of the owner.
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Cheers
Chris
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I see the Sld2 files group has arrived over at the Groups.io system.
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Re: New file uploaded to small-layout-design
OH MY! TINY! only 36k -- and as Ed noted, "fuzzy" -- it safely could
be TRIPLED in size (or resolution?) giving MUCH greater useful
viewing.
Russell Warzyn
RURAL W. Tenn (only 1st yr OUT of dial-up internet
into DSL with {TA DAH) whole 0.8mbps down.
And as new Old-Fa ... Old-Codger JUST starting
n-scale shelf layout (once "new room" finished;
IT still insulation with wires hanging from boxes)
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Re: Selling a sort-of-small layout
Tom I for one would like to see the photo sequence you mentioned.
Bill Uffelman?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:00 AM, thomasknapp@... [small-layout-design] wrote:
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Ed, We also use these printed backdrops on our modular Nn3 layout. They are a little too bright as they come from Walthers, so we lightly overspray them with Testor¡¯s Modern Desert Sand military camouflage paint. Then cut them out and glue them to a back drop board which has been pre-painted a standard blue we use for sky. The backdrops need to be viewed at eye level for best effect. We set our modular layout up at 54-56¡±. The ¡±dirt¡± on my layout is Synkoloid Spackle pre-tinted with dry pigments. (I have a photo-sequence showing how I do this if you are interested.) No plaster was used on the layout, and no ¡°real¡± dirt or ground foam to simulate dirt. ¡°Tumble weeds¡± are pieces of Scotch-Brite pad punched out with a hole punch and lightly rolled and teased between the fingers and then sprayed with more of the Testor¡¯s Modern Desert Sand spray paint. Tom K. ? ? From: small-layout-design@...
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To: small-layout-design@...
Subject: [small-layout-design] Re: Selling a sort-of-small layout ? ? Tom K --- I'm not a potential customer; just want to? comment on the
nice work you've done.?? Your images are useful to me since my current
effort in HOn3 has a similar theme.? So I'm especially interested in the
general appearance and coloration of your scenery and also the way
you've used what looks like the well known Walthers printed backdrops.?
.... Ed Weldon (Los Gatos Summit, CA)
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Re: Selling a sort-of-small layout
Ed, We also use these printed backdrops on our modular Nn3 layout. They are a little too bright as they come from Walthers, so we lightly overspray them with Testor¡¯s Modern Desert Sand military camouflage paint. Then cut them out and glue them to a back drop board which has been pre-painted a standard blue we use for sky. The backdrops need to be viewed at eye level for best effect. We set our modular layout up at 54-56¡±. The ¡±dirt¡± on my layout is Synkoloid Spackle pre-tinted with dry pigments. (I have a photo-sequence showing how I do this if you are interested.) No plaster was used on the layout, and no ¡°real¡± dirt or ground foam to simulate dirt. ¡°Tumble weeds¡± are pieces of Scotch-Brite pad punched out with a hole punch and lightly rolled and teased between the fingers and then sprayed with more of the Testor¡¯s Modern Desert Sand spray paint. Tom K. ? ?
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From: small-layout-design@... Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2018 10:06 PM To: small-layout-design@... Subject: [small-layout-design] Re: Selling a sort-of-small layout ? ? Tom K --- I'm not a potential customer; just want to? comment on the
nice work you've done.?? Your images are useful to me since my current
effort in HOn3 has a similar theme.? So I'm especially interested in the
general appearance and coloration of your scenery and also the way
you've used what looks like the well known Walthers printed backdrops.?
.... Ed Weldon (Los Gatos Summit, CA)
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Re: New file uploaded to small-layout-design
OK - It worked as a file.? I made a first trial and decided to reduce the file size.? If you guys want one with better resolution I'll replace it.? Looks like it will print the way it is on the fuzzy size. This is a track plan that I may never live to build but If I can't do it maybe someone else might.? If that's the case I'll add the fictional story and my concept for building as text in the file.
Ed Weldon
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David Bromage
cityslickerfarmhand
Thomas Knapp