James River Branch: News Archive

Website News Archive: July 2011

25 July 2011

Yet another new clinic has been added to the series on Rokuhan switches. This one shows how to convert the switch from power routing to non-power routing, or power everywhere. It also shows how to completely disassemble a Rokuhan switch, if needed. The clinic features over two dozen big, clear macro photos to make the process easy to comprehend.

20 July 2011

I received an interesting request this evening: someone wanted to know if I had a Rokuhan version of the James River Branch track plan. Given that all of the visible track on the JRB is handlaid, with "eyeballed" curves, that's a bit of a challenge. Here are two ways to adapt the plan.

16 July 2011

I've had several requests for more details on the process of notching Rokuhan track to fit their switches, so I've added a new clinic showing three different methods.

6 July 2011

After an embarrassingly long absence, I've returned to pay a bit of attention to the sadly neglected James River Branch. However, I didn't do any modeling; I re-photographed the N Scale Layout in Z Scale for a new YouTube video. So many people have pestered me for better images of this thing that I finally took some time out to do it. I had to remove it from the hobby shop first, so it wasn't a trivial chore. But now that it's done, hopefully folks will be happy that they get to see it larger than life, down to the molecule, and in HD, no less. Enjoy!