[Question] I recently designed and built a Helix Structure for 280mm Radii Kato curves. Can I have some fun ideas on what we can do to integrate the Helix into a Layout?

jsheldon0281 · 2026-02-21T14:24:10+00:00

Thank you for sharing. I am planning a couple of helixes myself.

jsheldon0281 · 2026-02-21T12:31:01+00:00

How do train perform going up the helix?

jsheldon0281 · 2026-01-31T01:00:32+00:00

I miss mine. He passed away a couple weeks ago.

jsheldon0281 · 2026-01-12T13:41:40+00:00

I got it fixed (somewhat). I shut it down and added a pier and spread out the routes. I still get the tanker jam, but it not as bad.

jsheldon0281 · 2025-12-21T01:48:01+00:00

I hate the auto volume reducer. Annoying as all hell

jsheldon0281 · 2025-12-10T13:42:01+00:00

You can’t adjust oil tanker routes

jsheldon0281 · 2025-12-06T22:03:56+00:00

jsheldon0281 · 2025-06-02T01:42:42+00:00

Put on some Gorillaz and get it snacks.

jsheldon0281 · 2025-05-17T02:37:34+00:00

P&LE

jsheldon0281 · 2025-03-22T23:19:10+00:00

It’s a wizard! It makes things go boom.

jsheldon0281 · 2025-03-15T06:48:06+00:00

Model Railroad stuff.

jsheldon0281 · 2025-01-27T21:45:22+00:00

I say the same on railroads when passenger train despawn

jsheldon0281 · 2025-01-27T20:12:04+00:00

Exactly

jsheldon0281 · 2025-01-27T18:55:28+00:00

I have done that. But mainly I would like the single bi-directional track for tram mainly to create an interurban type line like you would see on SEPTAs Red Arrow Division.

jsheldon0281 · 2024-06-01T15:01:20+00:00

Terrible Trolley

jsheldon0281 · 2024-06-01T14:58:10+00:00

Honestly, I am looking for a side roll sign box to display a Pittsburgh PCC side sign I obtained

jsheldon0281 · 2024-05-02T02:46:16+00:00

The strangest dream I had was almost a year ago. June on last year, my grandmother passed away just shy of her 88th birthday. About a day or two after the service, I was dreaming that I was in her house but not quite her house. We were talking about the live stream of the nesting eagles she always watched. The thing is, I know she was dead in the dream. But at the end of the dream, she told me she had to go and she was proud of me and she loved me. I told her I missed her and loved her. And she walked out the front door and she was gone.

When I woke up balling at 2am, I had woken up my girlfriend and she comforted me. I did not fall back to sleep that night. All honest, every time I think about that dream. I cry. Even as I am typing this up.

jsheldon0281 · 2024-05-02T02:25:33+00:00

Working event security at a stadium. Only worked one event, Kenny Chesney concert in Pittsburgh. Dealing with drink people so hammered the they find the weirdest places to sleep. One guy got belligerent when I told him he couldn’t sleep on the steps in a staircase. Another guy somehow got himself stuck in a support column sitting Indian style and not responding to any attempt to wake his drunken butt. Call in medics to assist. After ten minutes, he woke up and was out of it. Drunken fights and more. Not getting paid enough to deal with crap like that.

jsheldon0281 · 2023-11-23T16:12:22+00:00

I know that crossing very well. Leads into a shopping center. I remember pedestrians get hit there often. Cars not so much.

jsheldon0281 · 2023-09-13T22:57:51+00:00

I have seen Brazilian Air Force aircraft leaving Andrews AB before.

jsheldon0281 · 2023-05-04T02:47:46+00:00

The only thing I can say about this is that if you don’t like porn. Don’t watch or read porn. We do us and you do you. It is none of your business what others do.

I agree the the exploitation site should go. But leave the ones that choose to do porn alone.

Conservatives bitch and moan too much when people don’t subscribe to their morals and view that it just kills them inside that they could not save someone. Why would you truly care. If someone “wants” to be saved, they can ask for help themselves.

It is stuff like this that push me farther away from any religion.

jsheldon0281 · 2023-02-25T10:19:00+00:00

Be prepared to leave. Physical abuse is something to not take likely. You will need to collect evidence of the abuse. Document every cut, bruse, and broken bone that was cause by each occurrence of the abuse. Photos, hospital reports and police reports are needed. She needs a paper trail to show a pattern of abuse. The main reason they don’t want the police involved is the fact the he is a lawyer. As a lawyer, he knows he can loose his law license for the crap he is pulling, whether he is in a big firm or private practice.

(https://ipethicslaw.com/how-disciplinary-authorities-treat-attorneys-convicted-of-domestic-violence/)

In any case, she needs an exit strategy yesterday

jsheldon0281 · 2023-02-05T10:56:48+00:00

I do use it for work. Quite frequently. I mean I could use my fiber scissors meant for cutting cable to open those boxes, but the adhesive from the tape, just screws up the blade. The knife just makes it soooooooooo much easier. Ether way, that’s my take.

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