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  1. Bill Nelson

    Rivarossi Loco's

    a video of DG CC & W RR #16 on the Clarksville Model Railroads old layout. #16 is a Riverossi 3 truck heisler. Cosmetically it has a stack taken from an AHM J W Bowker, which I believe was a Pocher product, but it used some parts that were identical to...
  2. Bill Nelson

    Rivarossi Loco's

    Riverossi locomotives have been prominent on my RR since the beginning. I don't have good records going back that far, but My #2 had always been a Genoa. I had quite a few AHM J W Bowkwers on my roster at time, and have pieces in my project box. the...
  3. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    looking really good. I'd prefer a lot more separation between the river and the track , but am vary aware of the construction methods that make that quite difficult, but this is going to be pretty never the less. I still have serious planners block...
  4. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    Looking really good , I have been doing very little , have been building a laser cur store / gas station, but with no real plans, it's hard to focus down on anything. I should probably be doing overhauls on all my smallest power, to prep them for a...
  5. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    I saw Cascade closed up do to some family issues , do you have enough homabed to finish up?
  6. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    It is looking really good ,
  7. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    Tom, the Berghausen-Shoemaker Sawmill, on my RR, is built directly on top of it's foamcore mockup. I was going to do a board by boaed build, but decided to plank the inside and outside of the mockup instead. good thing I did, cause 30 years...
  8. Bill Nelson

    Oldies but Goodies. The Old Stuff.

    I'm still here. was posting photos off my phone, and that no longer works. could find no maximum size file info after the platform change, so a lot of error and trial to get my camera settings to work. also been preparing for retirement and a...
  9. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Back from Christmas Break at the Houston Bungalow, have the house most of the way set up while not in the middle of a forest, like our farmhouse, this one has a spectacular live oak tree. the RR will be in the workshop and the garage, leaving...
  10. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    how are you liking the peco track on homabed? I find it ythe next best thing to hand laying.
  11. Bill Nelson

    old time stuff in N, any of it worthwhile?

    anybody home. am fixing to move to the big city, and have less space. the wife has sugested I do something completely different, and the only thing I can think of that would be entertaining is old time stuff. any 4-4-0s and 2-6-0s in N that run...
  12. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    Like the scenery work. like Bigfoot too, have measurements on my Texas space, but my photos are on the phone, and too big to post on Zealot, maybe I'll take my camera next trip sadly the Texas space is not Texas sized. the layout room really needs...
  13. Bill Nelson

    On3 locomotive engine shops

    We have a 40’s bungalow in the Garden Oaks neighborhood in Houston. There is a 11x 18 workshop off the garage that has AC. Thinking of using half that space for the RR, with a long run along the walls of the garage on shelves.
  14. Bill Nelson

    The Blue Ridge Stemwinder in On30

    I'm liking the way this is looking! isn't homabed wonderful stuff. I've not liked the diea of mounting track directly on foam, but homabed on foam will probably give much beter support.
  15. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    I am studying options for the new house in Houston TX. Jennifer has suggested that I put a layout in one stall of the garage, leaving enough room for a car in the other, but Being able to use the second stall area when a car is parked in there, and using the workshop as a combination...
  16. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    In the old days, the maximum file size was clearly stated. When files would no longer load from the phone, and camera settings that loaded for years no longer would load, I could find no information about maximum file size, and it took a couple weeks of experimentation to come up with settings...
  17. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Got a measurement of the craft room off the two car garage on the Houston house. It is. 11.5 X 19, so it is just a tad narrower and a tad shorter than my current RR. I might be able to build something using either Crooked Creek as a beginning down one wall, or It might be possible...
  18. Bill Nelson

    Eastern Tn logging on the DG CC & W RR 1928

    Going to be wanting to pick DR. Toms brain soon, picked up some epoxy to do the river in Harlow. Am going to make a dam using aluminum flashing, which I will screw to the plywood under the Masonite under the river, perhaps sailing the flashing with white glue, I’ll need to test the epoxy...
  19. Bill Nelson

    On3 locomotive engine shops

    on spring break, been at the lake, and likely will go back this weekend, if the weather is good. made some progress on the boxcar roof, and the ore doors on the second ore car. I sanded the roof to smooth it out a little, the milled wood roof was...