2019 Narrow Gauge Layout Tour - Sacramento, CA

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Well that's a good start for tonight - I have many more pictures of Jack's layout to post and then 9 more layouts that I visited.

[Dennis Bourey]

A master of another Hobby .........Dennis

[sdrees]

I just tried the link to the Toyman Video on the Narrow Gauge Convention and it worked for me

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I just tried the link to the Toyman Video on the Narrow Gauge Convention and it worked for me

Steve


I tried again and found it.  I think I got too aggressive with the skip the adds button.

[sdrees]

I have a program called ad remover and it is great.  No Ads!

[bparrish]

John......

I got a solo visit to Jack's railroad many years ago.  It is a great railroad.  He has made a lot of changes since I saw his railroad.  It is my visit with him that I made the weathering move to chalks with no sealer.

The story is......... we had been operating for well over an hour and we were talking about his weathering.  He announced that he does not use a sealer. I asked how he keeps the chalk from going away when the cars are handled.  "No one touches my cars!"  he stated.   He has a specific way of handling them from the trucks and hardly brushes against the body of the car.


Then I thought about it for a moment........ we had not had a single derailment in way more than a hour of steady operations.  OK................. that alone impressed me.

Upon returning home I started on experimenting with various chalks and settled in on some Bragdon but mostly artists pastels and shave them into small jars with an  x-acto blade.   I applied the chalks with a soft dusting brush.  I also discovered that after a time of warming and cooling of the rolling stock in regular room temperature shifts, the chalks get pulled into the paint and become pretty stable.   Thanx Jack.............. you go me off of high center.

see ya
Bob

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John......

I got a solo visit to Jack's railroad many years ago.  It is a great railroad.  He has made a lot of changes since I saw his railroad.  It is my visit with him that I made the weathering move to chalks with no sealer.

The story is......... we had been operating for well over an hour and we were talking about his weathering.  He announced that he does not use a sealer. I asked how he keeps the chalk from going away when the cars are handled.  "No one touches my cars!"  he stated.   He has a specific way of handling them from the trucks and hardly brushes against the body of the car.


Then I thought about it for a moment........ we had not had a single derailment in way more than a hour of steady operations.  OK................. that alone impressed me.

Upon returning home I started on experimenting with various chalks and settled in on some Bragdon but mostly artists pastels and shave them into small jars with an  x-acto blade.   I applied the chalks with a soft dusting brush.  I also discovered that after a time of warming and cooling of the rolling stock in regular room temperature shifts, the chalks get pulled into the paint and become pretty stable.   Thanx Jack.............. you go me off of high center.

see ya
Bob

Bob


Thank you for the story of your visit to Jack's layout.  I sure enjoyed my visit.  I have a lot more pictures to share.

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