What's New on the PRR Panhandle 2.0?

[G3750]

Hi George, I think how you got that entrance arch feature to be so consistent and visible from the outside is going to work very, very well when it is all in-place and surrounded by a landscape etc. It looks realistic already.
Murph

Thanks Frank! I do plan to put some brush and overgrowth in front of the arch. In fact, the real arch has a lot of growth in front of it. So much so, that I didn't realize the arch is actually blocked up!

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Whoopsie!

George

[G3750]

Hi George, I think how you got that entrance arch feature to be so consistent and visible from the outside is going to work very, very well when it is all in-place and surrounded by a landscape etc. It looks realistic already.
Murph

Thanks, this photo is a rough approximation of what I want to do. I want to join the face of the arch with the vault by using a ring of stones. On the face, they will look like a "rim" at the edge of the vault. Inside the vault, I want to line up stone ends to match the "rim". I will have to cut individual blocks and match seams. I hope this description makes sense.

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If I can pull it off, it will be the most precise piece of modeling I've ever done.

George

[rogruth]

George,
I understand but I think the underside of the arch blocks are running the wrong way as shown.
I think from front to back not bottom up and over the arch. It will need to be pieced in.
Not one nice curve.

[G3750]

George,
I understand but I think the underside of the arch blocks are running the wrong way as shown.
I think from front to back not bottom up and over the arch. It will need to be pieced in.
Not one nice curve.

Yeah, like I feared, I didn't describe this very well. Here's a real example of my artistic skills.

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Here's what I hope the arch's "rim" will look like.

Inside the vault, I will mate the rim to the pieces running the wrong way. On the face of the arch, I will cut the underlying facing to match the rim. Anyway, that's the plan, however dimwitted.

George

[robert.]

Have you ever tried to make your block walls from foam board. Once you remove the foil backing it is easy to scribe blocks into it.

[G3750]

Have you ever tried to make your block walls from foam board. Once you remove the foil backing it is easy to scribe blocks into it.

Foam board? I need a better idea of what that is.

George

[robert.]

It's a tinfoil backed foam sheet. Peel off the tinfoil and go to town carving. Later on i'll post some links of things made from it.

[robert.]

You could spend a day here looking around.
https://davidneat.wordpress.com/styrofoam/
kapa-line foamboard. https://davidneat.wordpress.com/materia ... foamboard/

[G3750]

You could spend a day here looking around.
https://davidneat.wordpress.com/styrofoam/
kapa-line foamboard. https://davidneat.wordpress.com/materia ... foamboard/

Wow, that stuff and the maker's skills are impressive!

George

[G3750]

Updated 4/9/2018:

Here's what's been going on:

• Lumber for the Staging Area arrived last Wednesday, but it's been a little too cold to work in the garage.
• I created a pedestal for the bridge shoes on the base of the Stone Arch. It's a beveled piece of wood that I painted.
• I've created an electrical wiring plan that includes the 7 new districts, their assigned power sources, and track feeder pairs (87).
• All 33 switches have been allocated among 3 switch buses (DZ-2001's) - 8, 13, and 12 respectively. These bus lengths are well within the maximum distance permitted by the specification.
• I identified the number and placement of signals (9 DZ-1060s PRR 7-light position signals, and 2 MTH PRR signal bridges) on the plan.
• Picked up needed several tools, including a crimper, small gauge wire stripper, and digital caliper.
• Finalized items that I'm selling at York next week.

Rufus - see you at the 2-Rail show in Strasburg on SATURDAY!

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus - see you at the 2-Rail show in Strasburg on Friday!

It's on Saturday

[G3750]

Rufus - see you at the 2-Rail show in Strasburg on Friday!

It's on Saturday

I knew that.

I'm driving into Central PA to visit a friend on Friday.

George

[healey36]

[*]Finalized items that I'm selling at York next week.[/list]

Where are you going to be at York? I might see you over there.

Healey

[G3750]

[*]Finalized items that I'm selling at York next week.[/list]

Where are you going to be at York? I might see you over there.

Healey

OMG, I'll be all over.

However, I am planning a minute of silence at Murph's old booth in Orange Hall.

I will be in front of the Orange Hall 30 minutes before opening (11:30 AM) on Thursday. I'm delivering some items people have purchased.

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I will be in front of the Orange Hall 30 minutes before opening (11:30 AM) on Thursday. I'm delivering some items people have purchased.

He will be wearing a blue & grey hound's tooth suit with vest, and a light blue shirt with French cuffs, brown shoes, blue socks, and a black Homberg. He will be holding 3 balloons in his left hand. Approach him from his left and ask, "Have the swallows returned to Capistrano?". If he replies, "No, but I have a hamster in my pocket.", then you have located George.