This week has been very productive. I opened by glueing down a good portion of the upper level roadbed with Woodland Scenics foam risers (2" with an underlay of 1" foam sheets.) I also finished the basic construction of the 3 flatcars I was working on. I narrowed 3 Gilbert/ AF 40' flats to TT Scale. Two had the pockets still on, one did not. There are 14 stake pockets and they make a good representation in TT. You just have to square them off with a file. I built new underframes for those two and used an shortened Train Minature box car frame for the 3rd one. I used some Grandt Stake pockets I had laying around from some undetermined HOn3 project. (Rule 1 of TT; Buy it when you see it!) The first two received Widened Kadee 726's and the third TT Scale rollerbearing trucks.
I received my decals for wheel dots and ACI labels this week (A must have for the seventies!) and decaled a Christoph car and a Gold Coast Boxcar. I also added some Consolidated Lube Stencils from an N Scale Conrail Boxcar set.
Tonight I built a short 50' thru girder bridge from an Atlas HO base and Central Valley girders. The girders are a bit smaller than the Atlas and work fine for TT scale. The Testors Liquid cement didn't hold so I used some Zap-A-Gap to finish the job. Well back to the foam...
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