April 2024 - November 2024


Accomplishments:
Structure Builds:
  • built ITLA Olympia Tool and Die as "Weyland-Yutani Corp"
  • built Jordan 1923 Mack tank truck
  • built Muir Models Suds Bros. Brewery kit as "Decker Lubricants"

Rolling Stock work:

  • re-furbished E&H box car
  • assembled vintage ALP plug-door box car
  • upgraded Bachmann G&D bobber caboose; replaced steel weight with lead, changed to Kadee couplers
  • Thomas and Toby locomotive rework; added TCS T4-LED decoders, Kadee couplers
  • fixed up the NMRA 50th Anniversary car (painted floor, Kadee trucks/couplers, lead weight)
  • fixed up NMRA 25th Anniversary car (Kadee #4 couplers and wheelsets, added brake wheel, cleaned)

Scenery work:

  • ballasted wharf back track
  • built front sea wall

Miscellaneous:

  • purchased/installed an SPROG DCC decoder programmer
  • wrote first and second drafts of an "Operators Manual" to prepare for OP sessions
  • painted/installed semaphore signals for tunnel "bypass" using old DCC decoders at address 9983
Railfan Photos





Structure Builds


 ITLA Olympia Tool and Die as "Weyland-Yutani Corp"








Jordan 1923 Mack tank truck


Muir Models Suds Bros. Brewery kit as "Decker Lubricants"




Rolling Stock


re-furbished E&H box car


vintage ALP plug-door box car


NMRA 50th Anniversary car


NMRA 25th Anniversary car


Thomas

Installed a TCS T4-LED decoder and a Kadee #5 on the rear.


Toby

Installed a TCS T4-LED decoder and a Kadees on the front and rear.

Scenery Work

ballasted wharf back track



front sea wall

Miscellaneous

Semaphore signals for tunnel "bypass", west end

There is also a "Fusee" in the track, run of the decoder using the firebox flicker setting


Semaphore signals for tunnel "bypass", east end