Model Railroad Podcast

Model Railcast Show #87
Mon, Nov 23, 2009
Posted by: Ryan Andersen

Show #87 - Modeling from Sanborn Maps and Images

 Crew Lounge

  • Updates and News
  • RPO - show 86 feedback
 Round House
  • Internet, as if you didn't know, has hidden treasures. :o)
  • Ryan asks Craig Bisgeier for his help on how to model a round house
    • Quick Sandbord review and what Ryan found to model
    • Details on how to go about modeling this unique round house
    • Part 2 - more details on model the scene and selective compression

 

... more photos discussed on show 87.

 That's a Wrap
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  • Pioneer content: part 3 of Ryan and Craig's conversation on the LMRR round house.
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Length: 2 hours 

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Posted by: schul4 on Mon, Nov 23 2009    
Great show! Sanborn maps are really pretty helpful.
Posted by: mikemcnh MRCS Pioneer on Mon, Nov 23 2009     home.comcast.net/~mikemcnh
Enjoyed the show and glad you liked my voicemail.....but...you forgot
to include the voicemail audio in the podcast file!
Posted by: ricky4208 MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Nov 24 2009     tsmrr.blogspot.com
Ryan,

maybe it's me but when I try to download the third part of the show in the pioneer section I always get the message "Sorry, the page you are looking for is no longer available."

Did I do something wrong?

Ricky4208
Posted by: bobcatt MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Nov 24 2009     bobcatts2bits.blogspot.com/
Got that error too. Both mp3 and m4a versions. Good show, though.

That roundhouse is going to be a really interesting build project.
Posted by: Ryman MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Nov 24 2009     www.modelrailcast.com/
My bad. I uploaded the files to the wrong dir, I will fix it tonight
Posted by: mikemcnh MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Nov 24 2009     home.comcast.net/~mikemcnh
Enjoyed the show and glad you liked my voicemail.....but...you forgot
to include the voicemail audio in the podcast file!
Posted by: RobHinkle MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Nov 24 2009    
A very interesting show, one of the aspects of model railroading that have always intrigued me is the historical research part of it.

Here's some quick details about the roundhouse as taken from The Railroad and the City: A Technological and Urbanistic History of Cincinnati.

The first terminal facilities in the Cincinnati area were built in Pendleton, somewhat east of the city limit at the time, in 1843-46. They included a semicircular enginehouse properly de­ signed with classical pilasters in the mode of the Greek Revival, a freighthouse, a shop building, and a passenger depot, the last of which appears in the only surviving print to have westward- facing track openings and hence to require backing of loaded trains in and out of the enclosure. All these structures were of brick and timber construction, and the two-track passenger station was built according to the customary practice of the time of in­corporating the track and platform area within the station building, so that waiting room, ticket offices, and other passenger facilities lay along the outer platforms. T o and from this primitive depot the company operated a single passenger train in each direction, one leaving Cincinnati at 9:00 A. M. , and the other arriving on the return trip at 10:15 A. M. , the journey requiring four and one-half hours to Xenia and five and one-half to Springfield

By 1848 the company had enlarged the repair facilities at Pendleton to include car, machine, and blacksmith shops, replaced the existing freight station with two new depots divided between inbound and outbound freight, added a small office building, and constructed a new passenger station at East Front and Kilgore streets, some three miles closer to the business center of the city but still at a discouraging distance for horse-drawn vehicles
Posted by: RL4Sound MRCS Pioneer on Wed, Nov 25 2009    
Cool stuff. That is NOT why i listen to the show. It's the information that I learn, that is important.
Posted by: ricky4208 MRCS Pioneer on Thu, Nov 26 2009     tsmrr.blogspot.com
Nice show Ryan and Craig.

I liked the part 3 also. It's always fun to listen to more "relaxed" conversation between you guys.

To be honest, this show wasn't one of my favorite even if I could get some interesting hints and tips here and there.

I'd like to know more about the new stuff Craig, Duncan and Jeff are working on for turnouts servos.

Keep the good work.

Ricky4208
Posted by: DashCZ MRCS Pioneer on Tue, Dec 1 2009    
Thanks for the Show Ryan and Craig.

That roundhouse is going to make one very interesting model when you are complete. From the "photo"-like drawing, it looks like it ought to sit in Washington DC when they built the capital building.

Chris
 
 
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