SCRATCH BUILD ON A BUDGET

this is one of my scratch builds. it is not prototypical because i decided to build it as a 2 story stucture.most of the industries are single story concrete tip ups. it's my railroad..right????? the wall are constructed of different thickness styrene in 2 sections ( upper & lower) if you go back on a couple of my vids, you will see the mock up as a single story structure. i wanted something a bit taller. enjoy the slide show
your comments, subs & questions are always wecome
thanks for watching

vinny...aka...bnsf6951

this is a short vid on what progrees & upgrades i have made over the past month or so. the peavine uses a ton of 4 axel units for the local switching, so i need to get a few more. going with digitrax was my best move ever. it should be fun to run the layout from my phone or pc
sorry for the super fast panning i did, i forgot that some of you reqested that i slow the panning down.
enjoy the vid .....thanks for watching
vinny...aka...bnsf6951

SLIDE SHOW..NEW ADDITIONS TO MY LAYOUT

hu, 2013-01-10 06:20 — bnsf6951

• Scenery - Structures

hello every one...these are some pics of the latest addition to my layout.they were made for my "Phoenix Plastics" industry by Elvin Howland of layout concepts ( layoutconcepts@yahoo.com) i have contracted Elvin to do all the tanks on my layout. to date, Elvin has made 50+ tanks for me & i am very happy & pleased with the outcome. Elvin also scratch builds structures.
the second addition are the trees. these trees are native to the phoenix area, they are called "Palos Verde" they were custom made for me by Bob Lacey of Longshadows (trains56@yahoo.com) at this point, Bob has made about 50 trees for me. he will be doing more for me in the future. if you need trees give Bob a shout out
thanks for watching.
vinny

 

this is a short slide show of my visit to fertizona. my partner for the day was paul schaus. he is here visiting his family & me.this was our last stop of the day. this would have been videoed but, the battery in my camera went dead. pics in this slide show were taken by paul....more text in the slide show
thanks for watching
vinny..aka..bnsf6951

to all.. here the video clips from the second part of my rail fanning day. the battery in my camera was going low so these clips are cut short. it seems like all the are doing is going back & forth but there are several moves going on. we were not allowed on "Cal gases" property so i couldn't' get the spotting of the cars in the complex.
by the end of the day the crew moved more than 100 cars
enjoy the vid

vinny

A DAY AT MOBEST YARD..PHX. AZ.

this was a special rail fanning trip. a friend of mine came down from toronto canada to visit his family. he also models the "Peavine Sub" so i took him around rail fanning the Peavine
our first stop was Mobest yard in phx. az

vinny
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Tue, 2012-12-18 23:02 — bnsf6951

to every one..this is a short slide show of what i have been up to in the past 2 weeks. i have started this section about 7 months ago & i am finally getting to it.
Smith Pipe & Steel was one on BNSF's biggest customers up to about 3-4 years ago.when i went down to this industry, i asked the ladies at the front desk, why don't they have rail service anymore. they weren't' quit sure who made the decision , but it was ruled that, rail service crossing n.19 ave at this location was dangerous. ???????. they also told me that it cost alot more to ship & receive by truck. i have decided to go back a few years and give them back their rail service
enjoy the slide show & as always comment & questions are welcome
vinny