*Warning: This is another Geek Feel Good thread* Well it's been a while for me. I haven't really been posting much here or really doing anything with the layout. Today I decided that instead of just looking at the layout, it was time to clean all the crap off the layout. How do so many non train related items end up clogging up my layout so easily? After clean up I ran some trains. Ok, the train consisted of two unmatched roadname diesels, my only DCC units, pushing a Roco track cleaner car. You know what, It was really cool. I like to watch diesels run. I had a blast! There's nothing really special about my layout. It's just a pair of ovals a reverse loop a yard and some spurs. Really simple. It's more like one of those layouts from the old Kalmbach books or from Student Forum in MR from the 70's. I would even venture to say it's a toy train set. I really really like it. Yeah, I love seeing some of the really awesome layouts on here. Flash Blackman, Hemi, John Widmar, just to name a few. (Yes hemi you have achieved model railroad godhood with your layout. ) But Darnit! I really love my layout! I wish I had a camera so I could show it off some more in all it's unsceniced glory. Do you like your layout too?
I like it better, now that scenery is going up. Finally! I appreciate the comments, they are very kind. I don't feel the Secret Places Sub is to that level, as there are much better model RR's represented here on TB, and also around the world. I love my railroad. I could have built BIG; really wanted to, and hated to have to size it down considerably, but the railroad is better for it. I'll be able to see the layout to some level of completion that a monster basement-sized layout would doubtfully see. While big layouts and lots of running room are fun, they cost a fortune to build, and scenic. This way, I can move it when the need arises. The level of compression is high, but I hope I can get the flavor of the rugged area I model. So far, the scenery is coming together nicely, and with scenic separation, the smaller size of the layout will not be as apparent. Besides, without a helicopter, it is impossible to see more than a couple tunnels at once, except in a few key areas. The scenery is more vertical than I'd like, but with some scenic trickery, I should be able to make it look realistic. Mike Danneman's Moffat Road is a big inspiration to my layout, and his scenery is mere few inches deep in spots, yet looks to be a couple feet deep. :tb-biggrin:
I like mine too! I don't do much blogging or responding to the threads but I really enjoy reading what others are doing in the hobby (n scale especially). My home layout is pretty fab, at least that's a prejudiced opinion. You can see it at http://members.aol.com/TRAINSAREI/index.html I also have a 12 steel mill module featured in the latest N-Scale Railroader. Like you all, I really love this hobby!!
Welcome to Trainboard! I especially enjoyed your steel mill modules. Amazing! I'm from Youngstown, OH originally, and my grandfather was a steelmaker. I remember as a kid riding by the mills in the valley, along I-680. They were impressive then, but all gone now.
Welcome to Trainboard! I picked up the most recent NSR, did my standard flip-through, saw your steel mill, and on that alone decided to buy it. I also later found that our very own Paul Cassar (aka Colonel) had an article. I have been studying your steel mill with a keen eye since I belong to an N scale club, too, and I have been trying to think of how I can integrate my ideas with a red, yellow, and blue line. In my latest approach, I am taking an historic track plan and pretending that it was never yanked out but that it was updated and expanded. I am, like you, putting most of the industries behind the blue line, and I am taking a few liberties since, in the prototype, most of the tracks were long ago ripped out and most of the industries went kaput or moved away. I wanted to ask you if that thing that looks like a Plymouth industrial locomotive is indeed a Plymouth or is it something else. If it is, who made it? Adam
Adam, I am not sure what a Plymouth Industrial Loco is, so I don't know which loco you are referring to. Could you be a little more specific? Thanks. Steve Now it's 30 minutes later and yes indeed there are 2 plymouth engines. The one at the slag pit is an MDT Plymouth made recently by Bachmann. The other one pulling the torpedo car out of Blast Furnace #2 is an older Arnold.
I _finally_ love my layout. It is within the realm of "doable". This is something I can bring to fruition. Interesting how yours and mine have the same description... As for non-train clutter - I think it is one of the gods of railroading...that does that. Do you have a track plan? I'll be happy to do one up in Paint for you. PS: Boston vs Denver...Hmm,
I may have to check out Bachmann's newer Plymouth. I tried out a used one at my LHS and it sounded like an old electric razor filled up with pea gravel. It was awful. Thanks, Adam
Starting to like mine... Great thread. It sounds to me like you had fun running your "MOW" train there, Geeky, and that's what it's all about! I am actually starting to "like" my layout. I was skeptical, but it seems like everything is coming together pretty nicely...mostly due to a lot of dumb luck, but I'll take it. I still have a long way to go though.
At this stage, yes, I like my layout, too. Even though it's bereft of scenery, has a small pile of spare change and some pens and my name badge on one side (all from work), it is wired & running- at leasy the oval and passing sidings are. I've yet to lay spurs or figure out where the paper mill is going to sit, but yep, as long as I can run trains, I'm a happy guy.
Yeah, Boston and Denver. Well, I was sort of excited at having a chance to maybe score a ticket, but the whole thing was the biggest debacle. Lots of rockies fans pissed off. GO SOX!!! (I wouldn't have said that before trying to deal with the whole ticket thing online, from home franchise fan to boston fan. I hope rockies get crushed.)
I really like my layout--five years of pretty hard work by Jeanne and me. I like this one so much because it is bone simple, a great big loop with lots of operating possibilities when I want to. When we are running six trains, they are about a hundred feet apart, so I felt no need for crossovers.
Howdy, I like yours also. Mine isn't much, I'm fairly new at this, but it surely is fun. I like looking at others work, reading their questions - at least some - planning our family layout and collecting the parts.
I had just as much fun on my 2 x 6 logging railroad 25 years ago. Two trains chugging around a double loop, one going up and down the switchbacks on Beercan Mountain and switching the three-track yard.
If last night was any indication of what the series will be like then there's no "verses" about it. Hopefully it'll get better. I have no horse in this race so would like to see it go 7 with the decisive play made in the 15th inning! YEAH! trainsarei Love the mill! Great work! No wonder you haven't been posting here. You've been workin' on your railroad!
