What's New on the PRR Panhandle 2.0?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Updated 9/4/2018:

Today, I completed 10 bridge shoes for use on the Ohio River bridge.

Not going to darn them some socks?

[G3750]

Updated 9/4/2018:

Today, I completed 10 bridge shoes for use on the Ohio River bridge.

Not going to darn them some socks?

Don't quit your day job, Rufus.

No socks, but I am going to make them some pedestals.

By the way, has there ever been a peel-n-stick product that really worked? I'm having a devil of a time with the Chooch Large Cut Stone sheets. They are curling up at the edges. I have resorted to using E-6000 and weighting or clamping them. What a PITA!

George

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Updated 9/4/2018:

Today, I completed 10 bridge shoes for use on the Ohio River bridge.

Not going to darn them some socks?

Don't quit your day job, Rufus.

Too late - retired!

No socks, but I am going to make them some pedestals.

So you can look up their skirts?

By the way, has there ever been a peel-n-stick product that really worked? I'm having a devil of a time with the Chooch Large Cut Stone sheets. They are curling up at the edges. I have resorted to using E-6000 and weighting or clamping them. What a PITA!

I'm not that there has been - peel-n-stick windows in kits and then the shingles or other roofing materials. Seems they all do just as you describe eventually. Laser cutters love the stuff for their kits, too. Bigger worry is when the peel-n-stick adhesive dries out and everything falls apart.

[G3750]

Updated 9/5/2018:

Quite awhile ago, I had decided on dimmable 4100K LED light bulbs for both the workshop and the trainroom. I placed the order for them about 10 days ago. I hadn't heard from the supplier so I called them. Turns out they had misfiled the order under some horrid (not the usual) butchering of my name. Eventually, they found the order. Turns out it was short as well. I'm expecting to pick up the full order next week.

The battle with the peel & stick stone facing continues. Today I managed to get one of the faces of the arch covered. Copious amounts of E-6000 were required. Here are two photos - the first showing the weighted facing and the second showing the finished facing.

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I also examined the LEDs for the pier navigation lights. The leads are long enough to get through the piers. I will extend them once they are sticking out the bottom. The photo shows (top) one of the lights in its test fitting. At the bottom is the Evans Design LED I am using.

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George

[healey36]

Does the water-surface go down prior to the bridge pier placement? I can't recall what the proposed material solution is for the river for 2.0...

[G3750]

Does the water-surface go down prior to the bridge pier placement? I can't recall what the proposed material solution is for the river for 2.0...

That's a great question, Paul.

Panhandle 1.0 used a painted surface covered by a sheet of tempered glass to represent the Ohio.

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That glass is too narrow to cover the more prototypical width of the river in this version. I don't know anything about Envirotex, except that it pours on. This is probably an area I need to research before doing anything permanent with the bridge piers.

Thank you for the catch!

George

[G3750]

Hey! Do think I should do this?

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George

[rogruth]

That would be quite an attraction for the Steubenville-Weirton area.
Louisville, Kentucky wouldn't like it since they have the Falls of the Ohio
now and they are much smaller.

[G3750]

That would be quite an attraction for the Steubenville-Weirton area.

Yes, yes it would!

Think of all the tacky souvenirs that could be sold!

George

[rogruth]

That would be quite an attraction for the Steubenville-Weirton area.

Yes, yes it would!

Think of all the tacky souvenirs that could be sold!

George

You could get a head start since it's your idea.

[G3750]

That would be quite an attraction for the Steubenville-Weirton area.

Yes, yes it would!

Think of all the tacky souvenirs that could be sold!

George

You could get a head start since it's your idea.

I think the Environmental Impact statement is going to be a bit of a problem. You think?

All that downstream devastation, wiping Follansbee, Steubenville, even Martins Ferry off the map with the ensuing tsunami.

George

[rogruth]

Hmmmm. Might be a good idea.

[J. S. Bach]

Hmmmm. Might be a good idea.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

All that downstream devastation, wiping Follansbee, Steubenville, even Martins Ferry off the map with the ensuing tsunami.

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
In any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

George, You have a spectacular bridge there. IMO, the more you "flesh-out" its environment and surroundings, the more fun you are going to have making it all wonderful, and the more you are going to be happy with the results and with the bridge itself, as time goes forward. Pull out all the stops, and wig-out on this project, sir. It's well worth it, for sure.
Murph