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The Pleasant Valley local switches some cars at Willada (Lancaster). They'll soon be back on their way.
A lot of old machines and tools where hidden away in this massive abandonment! Here is a close up of a switch board on one of the machines.
Finally got around to painting this boy. Tan resin is difficult to photograph in natural light, but he is a really nice color!
VIA 202 hard at work switching cars in the yard on the Dartmouth Model Railway Club layout. 202 is a detailed Athearn SW1000. Cars in the scene are Rapido LRCs and Evangeline Park (modernized), Rapido's Glen Fraser lounge, and my model of Panorama 1720.
For decades, Otter Tail Power used one particular style of switch on its system, and one day I happened across an installation with one switch closed and the other one open, so I decided to get this picture showing the two positions of the operating handle. The left one is the 'open' position while the other is the 'closed' position.
I'd imagine it would be a bit of a pain to operate one of these 'KPF' switches during a winter storm... newer switch designs use a rotating lever, where the sequence is simply unlock, raise lever, rotate, lower lever, and lock.
With the KPF switch, as the rod moves up or down by the handle, it operates a crank that swings the movable side of the switch to the corresponding open or closed position.
This switch has long been discontinued, and the company is starting to replace them with newer models as part of ongoing maintenance.
LCOR3J, the CORP Yoncalla Switcher, heads south just past Springfield Junction along the Willamette River on the old SP Siskiyou Line during a rare sunny moment.
♦ Instructions available at BrickVault ♦
Here we are! My very first UCS-style model is finally out, and it's a big one: the mighty Acclamator-class assault ship from Episode II: Attack of the Clones. Made of 5,152 pieces, at 72cm (28,4′′) in length, weighing 3,2kg, it's by far my biggest project to date.
This 100% SNOT build was painstakingly modeled to accurate reference material, from exact profile dimensions to surface detail on top and underneath. The underside was also full of geomertic challenges due to its numerous angles and shapes.
I wanted to include essential functionality like detachable landing gear for landed display, and openable hangar doors with boarding ramps that slide down to reach the ground. The ship also features a removable stand, as well as a hidden handle to make switching display modes easier.
In addition to the "standard" version with Republic markings, I also made a "class-II", all-gray version, which comes with its own instructions and parts list.
The Acclamator is technically one of my oldest projects: the initial version of the design was made right after the Torment in 2021, but I eventually shelved it as I wasn't truly satisfied with it. Since then I had so many requests for this ship that the idea of making a new version progressively grew on me, until I took the plunge in late January 2024.
Starting the new design from scratch, I decided to scale it exactly to Martin Latta's fantastic UCCS (Ultimate Collector Series) Venator, which happens to be in ~1/1000 scale. So I hope my Acclamator will, along with Latta's Venator, form the basis of a bigger 1/1000 scale BrickVault Republic fleet in the future!
► Instructions for the Acclamator are available at BrickVault!
canon eos 40d, 18-55mm is, f6.3@1/80, 800iso; is switched on.
adjusted in digital photo professional by canon, film grain effect and black frame added with photoshop cs3 by adobe.
The Exchange Building, Commercial Road, London.
Formally a telephone exchange, the building was converted to residential usage in 2000.
Finally got around to painting this boy. Tan resin is difficult to photograph in natural light, but he is a really nice color!
The Sealston Switcher is at the top end of the Dahlgren Branch with 33 empty trash cars. The train was formerly known as the Emerald Express when the trainset was comprised of pretty green tub cars that have since been replaced. The train sees daylight only for a short time after going on duty at 6pm, and only during the longer days of the year/
I'd swear this is a new pole except for the fact that Entergy doesn't use black poles anymore and there's no mound at the base. The deadend and switches are new though.
Switch TV
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Fotografía: Felipe Trucco
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Producción: Carlos Castro
With the first car unloaded it's shoved in the clear under the highway overpass and cut off from the rest. This would be repeated for each car once empty to allow for the pieces to be picked up and the car rolled out from underneath. Most of the switch cars have been the red recent rebuilds, this orange one on the other hand has been in this service much longer and has the scars to show it. July 2, 2020.