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An impressive waterfall on a club layout in Dearborn, Mi.
I took this shot on one of the layouts on tour in Dearborn during the 25th Narrow Gauge convention in September 2005. Time was limited for us to see too many of the fine layouts open to us, but we did manage to squeeze in a couple. Unfortunatly I can not recall which layout this was! I was a club effort, and I found this waterfall scene to be very well done and photogenic.
Addition of a photoblog!
I enjoy maintaining a blog for the layout, but it is a time consuming process to put together a complete posting. I find I have the urge for a new post every few weeks, but in the meantime it can get a bit stale.
To post a single image does not take all that long, so I thought I would add a “1 picture every few days” to the site, in addition to the regular “big” posts. I will try to update this with 1 picture, every few days.
This picture I took in late August in St. Thomas, Ontario at the annual “Railroad days” at the former shops there. Always an interesting day, especially when they are running their 0-6-0!
My brother Scott liked this image and worked it a bit in Photoshop, I thought it looked pretty good and made a good candidate. He maintains his own photoblog here…. Scott Warris photoblog
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The crew of “No. 9” putting her away at the end of the day
Crossing Canada with Ron
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Ron (my brother) and I standing on the top of a mountain in Southern Alberta, I’m the one on the right freezing.
Actually, its 3480km (2162 miles), a long drive no matter how you measure it.
Why I am driving 3480 km to Kitchener is a bit of a story, which I will get into later. For now, I thought I would post a few images of the trip so far, and later tonight I will post more images and the story behind the drive. Right now, we have to hit the road….
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Getting closer to operation!
Its been quite a while since the last post, I’ve been very busy with the usual stuff, I’ll spare you the excuses….
Getting the section with the dock completed is critical to operation, and I have made a pretty good dent in the trackwork leading up to the dock. I have also designed and built one of the structures for the apron.
The car ferry counterweight structure
Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris
Image copyright 2005 Tim Warris
I drew this up in 3D and cut it out on the laser. All the parts for this were cut on the laser, even the beams. The cross bracing is a single piece, with nail holes added. Before assembling I “enhanced” the wood grain using a razor saw to scribe in the grain lines.
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There will be a walkway added under the door, and a ladder assembly added as well. I think I will use some Tichy plastic walkways that I have on hand for this. It still needs a bit of effort to complete. And I also need to add the movable deck for the apron and the pilings and pier for it as well.
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With the dock glued in place and the switch machines for it added, I started on the trackwork leading onto it. I used all #5 turnouts here, as they seemed to fit the best and will operate fine with the equipment I will be using. I built two of them as close together as possible, to squeeze it all in place. The rest of the ties were laid using our upcoming “TwistTies Crossties”, which are flexible crossties similar to the turnout version. These work great, and really speed up construction.
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The same picture but with the upper turnout in place and all the crossties added. I will add the trackwork leading up to the apron a little later.
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Just need to add some more switch machines and wire it all up and I can put this section into action!
Once this is done I can focus on completing the apron structure and get the water poured.