FiveFlat: Don't make it too complicated. Sometimes it's better to have less track . That way you'll have room for scenery. Stay cool and run steam.....
Steve, Thanks for all the time and labor! I guess I can't really call it "my" track plan anymore then huh? I'll have to go back and take a close look at your layout. Did it really come out looking like it?
HEY! I recognize your trackplan! It's the big brother to mine!!!! I had to go look at yours since you said that. I guess mine does look alot like yours. Yours really does look good! nice long trains. I'm already planning for my BIG layout I'm gonna do. Yours looks so complicated for a newbie like me right now, I'm glad I'm starting small...
Five Flat - It _is_ your plan. I just smoothed out the edges. Call it _yours_ with pride. I sometimes wish I had started smaller. I'd be done by now. You will likely have lots of scenery up before I have my outside loop going. Here is a lot more on the Grey and Grandure: http://www.windingstream.com/rr/grey_and_grandure.htm That is my personal web site. Enjoy - It's been a pleasure working with you. The "real" credit goes to Linn H. Wescott who desiged the first one: (Heavy black lines added by me). I built this as a teen. [ January 20, 2006, 09:18 PM: Message edited by: Grey One ]
Steve, While looking at your homepage, I ventured a little to the index and saw your resume. I work in a CC as well. Yahoo IM me sometime, I'm 'swsemon' same on AIM I didn't know google had an IM out, I'll look into that one too!
Five Flat - I left you a Yahoo IM. You may need a Google email account to use the Gtalk. If so I can send you (and 90 other of my closes freinds), an invite. I like the Gtalk because is is stripped down. Nothing fancy. Back to the good old days before emoticons. I also like that it does not put your handle beside each contigous post. By the way, I Loved doing this and did not mean to imply you owe me. I just meant to emphsize I would love to see where you go with it. [ January 21, 2006, 12:16 PM: Message edited by: Grey One ]
I am having a problem with my peco switch, and being new, I thought I would simply ask here real quick rather than sit down for a few hours figuring it out. Is there a way around soldering a runner on the underside?
Well, it looks like I got it figured out. I had to actually sit down and hand draw a stinkin' schematic so I can visualize it better (must be the elec. engineer in me). Once I placed the insulated rail joiner just past the switch, I soldered two rail-joiners together via a short piece of wire and connected the two rails you see in the top right of the picture. Now it works great. This is only my second Peco switch on my layout. I really like these now that I have the wiring figured out on them. I mostly like them because it makes that whole siding dead when the feeder switch is on the mainline points. That seems to be real handy when you have multiple locomotives and you are running DC.
I have hit my head on the peco switch of eletrical moronity in my time. lol It's so simple it made me stupid. Once you figure out how it routes power it makes sense though. I feel your pain.
Still not much to look at, but here is yet more progress. I still have my 'mole hill' but it being rethough since I want to make the cut much deeper. That little tunnel you see was me just playing around for my son's sake.
The yard isn't complete because I need to wait till my 15th paycheck to afford 7 more switches. But I think I am ready to try my hand at a little scenery. I'm going to get going on that mountain cutout on the far left side.
Outta turnouts? Time to use chunks of foam and mock up the mountains. My 5 yr old daughter is layout partner so I can relate to doing things for kids. It's all part of the big picture, starting the next generation.
Looks fine- You would be surprised how many people are actually in the planning stage for most of their lives and never even take the first step in actually building a railroad. Question- In one of your shots, you have a bridge in the foreground. You then another track right in back of it. Is the bridge going over water or dry bed? If water, you are going to have a problem with the interior track.
FiveFlat: You've come a long way in a few short weeks. It's looking good. Stay cool and run steam.....
Originally it was going to be a river the bridge crossed, but that was before I ran the 2nd mainline inside. So now it will have to be a road or something. I haven't quite thought that out yet.
FiveFlat: You could solve that problem by slightly elevating that inner track. You have enough room to raise it about an inch. That's the beauty of the stage of track laying you find yourself in. You can still change things. Stay cool and run steam......
I mock things up like that because I've really screwed up and not been able to fit things, mainly structures, So now I set out the obstacles and then lay the track.
Five Flat - Could still be a river or an estuary that ends inside the loop. Could service barges with low clearance. Could be a dry gulch.
