Thanks El Bob-O! You're capturing the varigated "yard scrubble" look pretty good. It sort of reminds me of our yard at Fort Smith.
Most of us model our yards a bit too "pristine"... yours is taking shape to look pretty dumpy. That's a good thing! In our FS yard, you'll see dirt, some weeds/grass, frac sand piles, coal piles, mason sand piles, chunks of rotted ties, cement spillage, a broke knuckle pin, etc, etc. Basically, whatever we haul in hoppers/open tops ends up in the yard, along with a mox-nix assortment of small railroad junk. Andre Ming ----- Original Message ----- From: shabbona_rr To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 1:03 AM Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Sacrilege And Shabbona Bob Andre, et. al. I just uploaded some more photos of the ballast at the Mooar Yard yard throat http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/photos/album/1775582643/pic/255984613/view?picmode=&mode=tn&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc Basically, they show how I disguised the gaps in the ties where I widened Atlas #6 switches for S scale, not only with .010" x .125 styrene strip, but also by filling them with ballast. Bob Nicholson ________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <laming@...> wrote: > > Thanks for the additional info, Bob! > > Looking good. Glad you're still enjoying your trains after all these years. > > Yup, I know those ankle twisters well. I detest large ballast. > > I am going to try to remember to pack along something in which I can bring home a sample of the "stuff" that I mentioned. I have a sneaking suspicion it will be too coarse, but... we'll see. There's a couple places that loads coal here regionally. In the drier months, the trucks coming into/out of those places pound the spillage into powder. I may have to try to "harvest" some of that, too. > > In the past I was pleased by the results of grinding and sifting real dirt from my target region (at the time) to obtain a look I was happy with on the dirt roads/etc. Sifted the pulverised dirt through pieces of the wife's discarded pantyhose. The process worked good and the results were effective... but quite dusty during the sifting process! > > Speaking of railroading: > > Edit: Never mind. What was to follow was dealing with a recent prototype experience and was getting lengthy. > > Andre Ming > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links
