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Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to let all of you know that NELUG is planning on doing a Train
Layout for the folks at the Wenham Museum at 132 Main St. Wenham MA.
http://www.wenhammuseum.org.
The show is happening next weekend from January 17th - 19th.
This is going to be a special train layout for us. We've decided to do a snow
theme. 8' x 16' of the train layout is now covered in white brick and plates.
If you're in the area, please swing by and take a look.
Jonathan
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This coming weekend, November 8th & 9th, NELUG will be
kicking off our train show season with a display at the Greenberg Train and Toy
Show in Hartford, CT. For details, see the
Greenberg Train and Toys Show
site. If you’re in the area, please stop by and introduce yourself.
If you can’t make it to Hartford, we’ll also be displaying in Wilmington, MA the
weekend of November 22nd & 23rd, at the Shriner’s Auditorium. Again, feel free
to stop by and chat.
-Elroy
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NELUG to show at Hooksett, NH Lion's Club Train Show
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NELUG will be showing a small train layout at the Hooksett, NH Lion’s Club Model
Train Show this weekend, on Sunday, April 20 at the Hooksett Cawley Middle
School in Hooksett, New Hampshire. Doors are open from 10am to 3pm. Admission
is $4 or adults, $1 for children 6-12, and free for children under 6.
The layout will include a small town, carnival, and farmlands, as well as
various rolling stock, steam and diesel locomotives, and general NELUG goodness.
If you’re in the area, please drop by and see us.
-Elroy
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I’m slowly adding to my collection of vintage Rutland locos and cars. The
latest is a Rutland gondola, based on an old photo found
here, and an n-scale version pictured
here.
NELUG
Gallery
The sides of the gondola are built from bricks laying on their sides, with some
SNOT to work in the slopes. I attempted to build the car as low to the ground
as I could, similar to the prototype.
The bed of the car is made up of 1x4 tiles on plates. The plates rest on 1x6
plates, on their sides, which span between the two sides. Unfortunately I
haven’t figured out the trick to photographing black, so some of the build
details are obscured.
I haven’t tested this on a track yet, but it looks nice displayed behind my
Rutland RS3.
-Elroy
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After working out how to build the Rutland boxcar, I decided to work on one of
the Rutland’s diesel locomotives to pull it. An RS-3 looked like a nice
challenge, and Rutland owned a few of them.
I tried to capture the most distinctive characteristics of an RS3. Mainly, the
curved body, and the blocky trucks. The front truck of this model is brick
built, and the motor is brick decorated. The trucks are a bit fragile, and I
haven’t had a chance to run my rainbow-colored test model on a track yet, so I
don’t know how much run time I’ll get out of them.
The windows needed a built solution as well. My original model used 1x2x2
windows, but I found that they don’t come in green, so the cab had to be
rebuilt.
A prototype photo is at
http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?photo=2007051000383328843.jpg for
comparison.
-Elroy
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