Alloway Junction

Making Trees

2009-02-14T15:41:00.000-08:00

Some of you maybe firmilar with Super Tress. Well about a year and a half ago i had some extra trees left over from my layout. I sold them on the OGR Forum, I had so many emails that i decided to start making them and selling them. I did about 700-800 before i finally got to buisy with other things and had to stop. I actually had to turn people down. I was selling them for 1.50 each with noch leaves and 1.25 with ground foam. I did them in all kinds of shades of green and some in fall colors. I am going to start doing this again. So if you like the trees that you see on my layout and would like some please email me at grswrestler@aol.com I have a minimum order of 10 trees. Here are some trees i made for someone else.

Ross Custom Switches

2009-01-29T13:38:00.000-08:00

I was recently contacted by RCS (Ross Custom Switches) and they wanted to use one of my pictures of my weathered track on there webpage. Here is the link to the website. http://www.rossswitches.com/products/products.html

New Milk cars

2009-01-29T13:13:00.000-08:00

I have bought a lot of milk cars since the last time i posted. I made a video of all of them being pulled behind the Decapod. It can be seen here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37I1rxPlic0 I also made one of the Blue Comet set that can be seen here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFXkWKtKU34 I have been working on a mountain for an empty corner so stay posted for another update any day now.

More Milk cars

2008-11-01T12:33:00.000-07:00

I have bought some more milk cars over the past couple of months. Here are some pictures. I am still looking for the 2 TCA cars and a few others. I have a New Haven and NYC that are not pictured becasue i couldn't get a good shot of them on the shelf. If you have a milk car that isn't pictured and you want to sell it for a reasonable price then please email me at e07little@aim.com

So far i havn't had to pay more then $35 each except for the 2 LCCA cars because they arn't easy to find. I also picked up a "Buy War Bonds" railking caboose and an orange one. These are really nice for railking products i think i might get one in CNJ or maybe Leigh Valley if i can find them.

New engines

2008-07-26T14:17:00.000-07:00

Sorry i havn't had an update in a while. There are a lot of things that have gone on since my last update. One of them is for my 16th birthday my grandpop got me a K-line C&O Allegheny with TMCC. And i bought a few other engines since then. One of them is a MTH Leigh Valley Camelback with ps2 and a MTH GG-1 with ps2. I picked up both of these off of the OGR forum for under $150. I also had a K-line A-5 with a whistle and i bought one with TMCC off OGR for $175 and sold the one with the whistle for 135. So i pretty much upgraded it for $40. I have aslo started collecting Lionel Milk cars so far i only have 3. But I have a Hoods, Farifield Farms, and a Bordens on the way and I found a NYC and Dairymens at affordable prices. I also found the 2 rare LCCA cars for decent prices but i have yet to make a decision on them since they are so much diffrent from the rest. Here are some pictures of the engines and milk cars. Stay Posted for another update.

First PS2 engine

2008-02-28T14:31:00.001-08:00

I got my first PS2 engine the other day, it's great i can't stop playing with it. It is a MTH Railking Decapod. When i was first looking at buying DCS i had no idea that the sounds where this good. Now i am glad i bought it. Heres some pictures.

Weathered freaight cars

2008-02-28T14:21:00.000-08:00

I started weathering a few freight cars this week. I finally bought an airbrush its a passache VLS double action brush. I like the double action brush because i think you have more control then you would over a single action brush. I think the Rock Island car looks the best. To do these all i did was verly lightly spray the cat starting from the trucks moving slowly up with dirt. Then i sprayed the trucks and couplers with rust. In the future i want use some of my grimy black. I thought the process was going to be alot harder then it is. It takes me about 10 minutes to do a car. Heres some pictures of my first few cars. I plan to do more soon so i will keep you posted when i do some more cars.

Weathering

2008-02-22T13:46:00.000-08:00

I decided i was going to take the plunge into weathering. So the first thing to get the treatment was the track. I found some ZIG painty pens that i used. I am about 3/4 done. I used the clay colored marker. They go on fast and easy only one coat needed. When i finish that I'm going to start weathering my buildings, rolling stock, and if i build up enough courage an engine or two. I just bought an airbrush on ebay and some paints from hobbylinc that arrived today so as soon as the airbrush gets here i will practice a little bit then when i weather my first car i will post pictures here. I think everything has turned out pretty good so far hopefully the rest of the weathering turns out that way as well.

MTH DCS

2008-01-05T21:21:00.000-08:00

Well I finaly bought a control system. Only not the one I thought I would end up buying. I bought the DCS system from MTH. The main reason i bought it is because with the new DCS 4.0 upgrade coming out i can get almost all of the features out of a tmcc engine. And i can run TMCC in command mode as well as PS2 engines. As of right now I do not own a PS2 engine but from what I hear the TMCC steam sounds are better and the PS2 diesel sounds are better so I am looking forward to being able to runing both. I plan to get a PS2 engine very soon probably within the next couple of weeks. When i get one i will post it on hear.

New addition to alloway junction!

2007-12-22T19:39:00.000-08:00

This is the newest addition to the alloway junction it was my christmas present. It will probably be upgraded to tmcc this summer. It is a nice looking engine the only thing wrong with it is that it's a noisy runner and the sounds aren't very good compared to todays standards. But that was late 80's early 90's technology. Here are a few pictures.

Mountain almost done

2007-12-22T13:29:00.001-08:00

The only thing left to do on the mountain is put up the stone wall between the track and the mountain edge. Here are some progress shots.

Building a mountain

2007-12-02T18:40:00.000-08:00

I have been building a mountain over the past few days i thought the back of the layout looked a little boring so i ripped out a sidding that i never used and built this mountain. Here are some pictures of it so far. I will keep you updated on my progress. I always wanted to build a mountain but never wanted to deal with the problems people have with there big engines hitting the portals. Until i found a man on the OGR Fourm "Gizmo" who offered to build me

some oversozed portals. They are 11" wide from inside to inside so i don't think i will have any problems in

the future.

New Backdrops

2007-12-02T18:31:00.000-08:00

I bought 3 backdrops from scenery express at York and finally got around to putting them up a week ago. They are in order mountain #1,#2#1. Here are some pictures of the recent upgrade on the alloway junction.

Finished Coal Mine Area

2007-10-25T16:06:00.000-07:00

I recently finished the coal mine area here are a few shots of it. The first shot shows and overhead view of the coaling area. The second shot shows a trackside view of it. The coal car in this picture is very big making the coal mine look out of scale even thought it is to scale. The coal car is a premier car I picked up at york for $20. At that price I couldn't say no.

Finished Retaining Wall

2007-10-25T16:01:00.001-07:00

There are a few shots of my finished retaining wall. It was been lightly weathered with a little stain and topped off with a few woodland scenics foliage pieces for vines. Overall i am very happy with the outcome of this project. It was inexpensive and the final product looks realistic.

New retaing wall

2007-08-23T18:00:00.000-07:00

Here is a new retaing wall i am building out of 1/2 inch pieces of balsa wood. After this i will weather it and add some vines and other vegitation to it to make it look more realistic.

2007-08-10T08:43:00.000-07:00

This is a shot od the passenger terminal that is made up of 3 atlas termianals. You can see the gap in the top left corner. This shot was taken from a popup section. Some of the scales and lugage has been purchased and some cam with the terminals.

This is the only unfinished area of the layout this is the 2 track coal mine with a 1 track storage area. This will be finished soon and i will post pictures when it is. In the background you can see the station that matched the terminal above.

Some shots of the alloway junction today

2007-08-08T08:05:00.000-07:00

Here is a shot of a k-line ABA f-7 rounding the 0-54 curve. This is a conventional engine that was given to me by my grandfather. I Run in conventional for now anyway. This will probably be one of the engines i upgrade when i switch over to tmcc.

On the right is a shot of a mth blue comet filling up with water at the water tower. On the right you can see the control pannel.

Here is the small 2 track passenger terminal. On the left you can see the engine house and

the patch of trees behind it.

The alloway junction 1 year ago

2007-08-07T20:18:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Alloway Junction

2007-08-07T20:01:00.000-07:00

I will be posting the status and updates of my o scale 3 rail model railroad here from now on. Thank you for viewing this.

This is my 9x11 layout. DOne by me a 15 year old kid. The roadnames are a little bit of everything. I am trying to get more prr stuff becasue around 50 years ago it actually ran across the street from me in my small one stop light town.