Trying out some new lighting. A double strip of florescent's. The fixture itself will be covered by the 2nd deck. It's pretty bright. But it also makes the details pop out more.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Thursday, December 29, 2011
Ore Dock Development
It's been a while since I've been active on here as well as on the layout. Too much real life to deal with... : - (
But alas, I have started to work on the Ore dock. I've never claimed to understand or even be good at track laying and when I first built the elevated track line that runs across part of the city and to the ore dock itself it I've never put any track onto it. I love the way ore docks look, but was disappointed to find that there isn't and hasn't been one made in N-scale. (Like many things!) I'm not adventurous enough to try the stick building process so I needed to come up with some sort cool looking support structure below it. I suppose I could have bought more of the Imagine that elevated line kits and used those, but I already used 10 of those kits for the run up to the dock and they just don't have the structural dynamics I was looking for. Then I looked at the Kato truss bridges, flipped one upside down and walla! That's the type of trussing I was looking for. Attach those to some gator foam core board and I just might be on to something here!
But alas, I have started to work on the Ore dock. I've never claimed to understand or even be good at track laying and when I first built the elevated track line that runs across part of the city and to the ore dock itself it I've never put any track onto it. I love the way ore docks look, but was disappointed to find that there isn't and hasn't been one made in N-scale. (Like many things!) I'm not adventurous enough to try the stick building process so I needed to come up with some sort cool looking support structure below it. I suppose I could have bought more of the Imagine that elevated line kits and used those, but I already used 10 of those kits for the run up to the dock and they just don't have the structural dynamics I was looking for. Then I looked at the Kato truss bridges, flipped one upside down and walla! That's the type of trussing I was looking for. Attach those to some gator foam core board and I just might be on to something here!
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| Looking down the existing elevated line to the ore dock Note the lack of track on it! : - ( |
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| A look from the opposite direction. You can see the edge of the gator board and 2 different colored Kato bridges. |
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| A view of the west side of the dock. I'll need to fill the gaps between the Kato bridges. It will take 4 single truss Bridges to complete the dock understructure. |
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| A view from the east side of the dock. Don't look too close at the dusty water, with the cat footprints on it. I haven't decided if I'm going to make the dock dump from both sides or only from one. I'm not sure how realistic that will or will not be. |
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| Here's one last view looking to the north. I will cover about 1/3 of the dock with corregated sheets and then make some ore dumping chutes. I was also going to fashion some type of a crank wheel that in theory would have been hooked onto the ore cars with a cable and as they got dumped they would then get pulled onto the east side track so an empty load of cars could get pulled away from the dock. |
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