ACTRR Major changes to take place

Not likely but he will get to do lots of work before that. We will also be documenting a door layout build for the SNMNS Club.
Thanks , Mike

 

Ahhhh , the power of suggestion.
Put a link up here if you like George.
Mike

 

I have a link to mine in my signature below...but I dont think anyone knows its there....LOL

 

Thanks George , I did not realize it was there but am now subbed.
Mike

 

In a few weeks i will try and visit you and see the new layout. May give me some new ideas!!

 

We would love that.
Mike

 

This MR railroad project was being published near the time I was building a home layout. I actually saw the layout
at a railroad show in Minneapolis-St. Paul. I used many ideas from this project including scratch building the mine and kitbashing the power plant.
I did not use the track plan because I had a large enough basement to create five modules each 8 feet long; two were 4 feet wide and the other three were
2 feet wide. Resulting in a 24 foot dog bone.

 

Thanks Roger , that sounds pretty cool.
Mike

 

Just to chime in here, I am following along and it must be great having Gavin involved. My kids never showed much interest for MRRing. I built a small layout for my one and he liked it for awhile but then lost interest.

I have been making minor track changes to my layout but nothing on the scale you are doing Mike. I did have to remove some ballast and reused it after the track realignment (weird, huh.).

Anyway, will keep watching.

Doug

 

Neat Mike, and that you and Gavin get to do that together. NICE!! I'll be watching & thanks for sharing

 

Maybe you have it covered already, but Gavin should be wearing a pair of safety glasses:

 

I agree, Gavin should wear safety glasses for protection of his eyes. Lack of safety glasses is all too common; check every home improvement show and TV and note how few use eye protection.

 

I did not think backing out existing screws with low speed would require them.
Thanks anyway, Mike

 

OK OK this was not intended to be a safety class.

 

Please don't take offense at the above comments. They were made because we're concerned, not to be critical of you.
I think you'd agree that in no way was it obvious from the photo that the drill was running in reverse and at low speed.
Consider this as a serendipitous teaching moment.
It would have been so much easier to just sit back and say nothing.
As they say, "no good deed goes unpunished."

 

Hows the renovation/expansion/change going Mike?

 

Gavin and I finally had some train room time and I got some more work done on phase 1 of the three part layout rehab.



Mike

 

Ahhhhhh...the perils of hidden track. Thats why this old man dont have any....

The loop is looking good Mike. Cant wait to see it finished

 

Yes , It is a pain but doubles the run length and storage of made up trains. I guess I will have to fix it!