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Lance, thank you very much for your advice. You are right, the ballast and the soils will be very important. Unfortunately most of the materials you mentioned are not easily available for me here in Germany. If you can’t order it from Walthers, it is getting difficult. So I am trying to get the...

Lance, thank you very much for your very kind compliments. Coming from you, it really means a lot to me. I was actually thinking of getting in touch with you once I would have something good enough to be presented and thank you for the inspiration and help to get started your site gave me. But...

Tetters, you are absolutely crazy to want to change your wonderful trackwork before it is even finished, but the harbor and the barge are a wonderful idea – I would do it :thumb:. To stretch the upper left side is a good idea too. But instead of just drawing plans for the tracks, did you try to...

I’ve just found this thread, but at least I did not miss it completely. All I can say is WOW. Absolut fantastic job!!!!! :thumb:

… and I have the chance to build some more structures and it will take longer to finish the layout. Although I did not really think of an expansion when I drew the trackplan, these two tracks ending at the front of the layout really ask for being extended :mrgreen::cool:. But unfortunately with...

Thank you all for your very kind comments :wave:. To tell the truth, every time I am aiming at one of my engines with my airbrush, I have a very big lump in my throat :oops::mrgreen: and it is always a great relief when it is done and I did not ruin the engine :cool:. Colton, thanks, good to...

Deano, I never knew you that you could get infected with a cold over the internet, but now that I read that you are having a cold it feels like I am getting one myself sign1. Your dinner train will be extremely beautiful and the CPA16-4 looks like the perfect engine to pull it. BTW I have never...

Josh, Packers, Scott, Tetters, and Deano, thanks! Glad you like it, shows that I did not ruin it :oops:. Sure thing, Tetters. After I removed the shell from the chassis and masked off the windows, I carefully airbrushed a VERY thin coat of heavily diluted light gray (almost white) to remove...

Just one more F unit.

Did not get much done on the layout the last few days, but I weathered my CSX Geep and played around with the LokProgrammer to get the best sound possible. Though the sound file is from the 645 12 cylinder engine, the decoder now sounds very much like the GP38-2s I heard on Youtube (as close as...

Colton modeler, thanks for your kind words. I hope I can come close with my modeling to what you find down there in Florida. Gus, I appreciate your confidence in me, but I am still wondering myself what wonders we will see....:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:

Tetters, I don’t know what type of air horn CP really used on their GP9s but the horn on your model looks like a Leslie 3 chime air horn. Here is a site with information and pictures on diesel air horns: http://atsf.railfan.net/airhorns/ . Unfortunately LokSound does not offer a 567 with a...

Tetters, the prototype of my GP38-2 has a 645-16 engine and your GP9s have 567-16 engines (not turbo charged), so that you’ll need a different decoder. Have a look at the ESU page to find the item-# for the right LokSound 3.5 decoder ( http://www.esu.eu/index.php?id=339 ). edit..... #72428 is...

Josh, it is quite simple. The metal plates are all 2 mm (.080") thick. The metal plate that is screwed to the extension (that’s the part on the left in the pics in the previous post) is one foot long. It fits exactly between the plates that are screwed to the layout. To make it easier to plug...

Tetters, to install a speaker in a high nose Geep might be a bit easier, because you can cut the frame on both sides of the truck. I could not put the speaker any further to the front because of the front windows.

:wave7: Congrats Josh!!!!:wave7: You are one of the guys who really keep the forum going!

Scott, thank you for your kind words. I really liked making those hydrocal buildings as it is totally different to working with styrene. Unfortunately there is only one more building on my layout that I will make out of hydrocal. The structure in the upper right corner is too thin to be made of...

As I mentioned before, both engines that I will run on the layout are equipped with LokSound decoders. Installing a (sound) decoder in the Stewart VO1000 is really a plug and play installation in the meaning of the word. You just have to plug the decoder in, that’s it. In this thread is a short...

Josh, Packers, I am glad you too think that my hydrocal buildings look like concrete. So it was worth spending a lot of time building them. Wayne, I simply chose the best looking shoeboxes I could find to model :mrgreen::p.

After I had finished drawing the trackplan, I was not sure if I would really like to build the layout, because most of the structures along the tracks in Miami look more or less like shoeboxes with some holes in them. Could be a bit boring to scratch build these structures. So before I even got...