| 9-5 1:00:50 | ejshelton | Hi Mike and Thom |
| 9-5 1:00:44 | rvn2001 | yup |
| 9-5 1:00:29 | GNFan |
So you could say you are north of the thunderstorms.  |
| 9-5 0:59:50 | rvn2001 | I remembered that you would not be in chat. |
| 9-5 0:59:26 | rvn2001 | It's been raining here off-and-on all day. Severe thunderstorms to the southwest of the St. Louis area. I'm northwest of the St. Louis area. |
| 9-5 0:58:47 | GNFan | I was at a train show in Kelso, WA this weekend, thus my absence from chat. |
| 9-5 0:58:12 | GNFan |
Sunny and 63 here, getting up to 80  Friday and Saturday. |
| 9-5 0:57:39 | rvn2001 | How are you this prevening? |
| 9-5 0:57:17 | rvn2001 | Hi Mike. |
| 9-5 0:57:09 | GNFan | Hi, Thom. |
| 5-5 18:07:22 | rvn2001 | Bye Ellen. I'm going to go make sure that my trains are are still running. Z y'all later. |
| 5-5 18:06:41 | ejshelton | Must be time for me to go as well.....ZU all |
| 5-5 18:06:16 | ejshelton | ZU John |
| 5-5 18:06:15 | rvn2001 | Bye, John. |
| 5-5 18:06:09 | soccrdad30 | I will post a few pics of the updated bridge module |
| 5-5 18:05:54 | soccrdad30 | well, time for me to go. have a good day all! |
| 5-5 18:03:59 | soccrdad30 | I agree Ellen, and don't care if I fail |
| 5-5 18:03:23 | ejshelton | Always good to try something new |
| 5-5 18:03:16 | soccrdad30 | my dad gave me like 6 or 7 of the rock molds |
| 5-5 18:01:47 | soccrdad30 | I want to try that with this stuff |
| 5-5 18:01:30 | soccrdad30 | this is not paper mache, it is almost like silly putty. |
| 5-5 18:01:25 | rvn2001 | I pressed a thin layer into rock molds and let it dry. |
| 5-5 18:00:43 | rvn2001 | That looks like the Mu-Clay that I used. It was like a pre-mixed paper mache` |
| 5-5 17:59:58 | soccrdad30 | once you form it, you have to let it dry for 24 hours |
| 5-5 17:59:31 | soccrdad30 | make the banks then glue them to the module |
| 5-5 17:58:55 | soccrdad30 | I will use this material for the banks too |
| 5-5 17:58:27 | soccrdad30 | I have tried it on several things. it is easy to work with and dries very light. When it dries, I painted it brown, then sealed it before applying grass or other ground features |
| 5-5 17:56:57 | soccrdad30 | Thom, last year I bought some of this from Hobby Lobby - «link» |
| 5-5 17:56:16 | soccrdad30 | hello hello |
| 5-5 17:55:18 | jim29t | Hello all |
| 5-5 17:51:47 | soccrdad30 | Hello Jim |
| 5-5 17:51:44 | ejshelton | Hi Jim |
| 5-5 17:51:34 | rvn2001 | Hi Jim. |
| 5-5 17:50:08 | soccrdad30 | my banks wont be that way, they will just be banks for the module |
| 5-5 17:48:05 | rvn2001 | The banks of mine are on the ends to make sure that the mainlines are positioned correctly. |
| 5-5 17:46:38 | soccrdad30 | I was thinking of adding some banks too. Maybe to one of the front sides. |
| 5-5 17:46:01 | soccrdad30 | very understandable |
| 5-5 17:45:40 | ejshelton | Its not an easily portable module.....but it is really nice |
| 5-5 17:44:10 | rvn2001 | The river and banks are part of the module. It's heavy because of the extra-strong construction. |
| 5-5 17:43:41 | soccrdad30 | I would like to add lite, but not sure how yet. I need to get the module to connect to another module first and make sure the bridge is stablized |
| 5-5 17:41:54 | soccrdad30 | sounds very similar |
| 5-5 17:41:12 | rvn2001 | I made the top and sides of the bridges on my river module removable for access. |
| 5-5 17:39:40 | soccrdad30 | and will connect the module train tracks to the adjoining train track modules |
| 5-5 17:38:51 | soccrdad30 | Then the second section is the actual bridge that sits on the 5 piers |
| 5-5 17:38:24 | rvn2001 | You could build a ladder type support under the whole thing. |
| 5-5 17:38:17 | soccrdad30 | I will have two sections of this module. Section one is the foam base board with the piers glued on to hold the position of the train tracks. |
| 5-5 17:36:31 | soccrdad30 | there is room for those |
| 5-5 17:34:45 | rvn2001 | You could attach some Plastruct or Evergreen Styrene "I" beams to the bottom to stiffen it up. |
| 5-5 17:34:08 | soccrdad30 | I had to assemble them together |
| 5-5 17:32:49 | soccrdad30 | the guy basically made 3 8" bridges with no support |
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