New Project - TOFC/Team Track Loading Ramp

Not sure I have given this post the correct name, but I wanted to have a TOFC unload/load ramp and a loading ramp for a team track on the layout. For the last couple months I have been researching these type of ramps and decided on a combination TOFC/Team track loading ramp.

After three attempts at a design and test cutting on the laser and test assembly, below is the results of yesterday and today assembly.

Sorry about the light reflection from the plate glass I was assembling on.

Below, I have placed it were it will be located once finished

Next is to paint this portion and then laser cut the platform/ramp decks.

New ART Reefers for the Layout

Finished the first two of twelve Intermountain Railway ART Reefer kits today.

These reefer kits are more challenging than the box cars. I destroy the roof on the first car, it attaches differently and since (and so far all) the roof(s) are warp  that I have inspected. I have obtain spare parts to correct my damage.

More to come....

More New Box Cars for the Layout

Got another kit completed and received another RTR car from a online vendor

New Box Cars for the Layout

I pick up some Intermountain 40' Box Cars for the layout. Four I pickup this weekend at a train show, one off of E-bay and had a couple I had in the draw that need work.

Build four of the five kits and finish/repair another one that I got that was incomplete by someone else.