My railroad: Building a car float apron
Вставка
- Опубліковано 16 вер 2016
- Kit-bashing the Walthers "car float apron".
Modifications include:
* Rebuilding the bridge deck to fit a curved approach.
* Modifying for a for a two-track barge.
* Slicing one of the jetties in half because of a benchwork joint.
* Extra detailing on the gantry.
* Adjustable lift wire tensioning. - Розваги
Fantastic as always. Great modifications.
looks great, nice modding to make it fit your layout and changing it from the usual "square/straight deal", I think the curved tracks on to it looks sweet.
Great build looks great cheers Robert
Thouroghly enjoyed the video, the layout looks really good, very good recovery on the misaligned track, well done!
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I enjoyed building it too.
Great work. Thanks for posting.
hi Peter.. that was an awesome video.. the apron is outstanding... 2 thumbs up.. thanks for sharing.. vinny
Thanks for the compliments.
Now I just need the car float to go with it. Unlike the apron, the float will be entirely scratchbuilt (I spent much of the weekend working on masters for the detail parts, and poured the mold a few minutes ago).
nice work sir!
Super.. I have a couple of older kits to use as the headhouse and have a number of slides from the LV in NJ and their float operations to help guide me along.. Really like your work and thoughts...
Looks like you had your hands full. But you adapted nicely. Good on ya
Super job. You could just tack a couple pieces of flex track to a scrap of board as a temporary float. Anyway, the layout is really shaping up nicely.
I already thought of that but decided against it. More than likely the float will be built before the next operating session (I have almost 4 weeks).
Great video as always but two dumb questions. 1: Why would you cut that one full jetty just because you have a joint in your plywood base?
2: You are a stickler for detail (which adds great detail to your layout) - why didn’t you add a safety cage around the hoist house ladder?
No, they're not dumb at all.
1) The layout has to be movable because I hope one day to be able to move to a larger basement so it needs to come apart in sections. One such section joint runs right under the float apron. The deck unclips and the gantry can be lifted off. It just rests there, held down by six large nuts hidden in the balance weights. By cutting the one jetty and installing it in two pieces the sections can still be separated.
2) The apron would have been built long before there was any need for safety cages - pre OSHA. This gives me the opportunity to build some ladders with safety cages and some without for a little variety.
mpeterll - Ok sounds valid. Just a word of advise however, moving a layout is never easy, even if it was planned to be taken apart. Been through two moves, one mine, one a friends. Neither one turned out as planned and they were much smaller than yours and the initial layouts were planned to be able to be taken up and out of the basement.
In any case, just the way you had things set up, I had wondered if parts of it were meant to be part of a display that you see often at shows were members bring a four foot section each to assemble one very large display run. Thus your plan for it be disassembled should probably work. Good luck when ever it happens.
mpeterll - Thanks for your reply.
I've built fully portable layouts before (layouts designed to be set up at shows on a regular basis). This certainly doesn't fit into that category though. I figure on a few weeks to get it set up again and repair any minor damage from the move, so I'll still be way ahead of having to start again with a new layout.
0:30 It's called a car float because the cars just have to float. Seems legit, no construction needed.
That sounds legit. Provided they displace their own weight, they will float.