Looking good Paul. Seeing how the track is laid coming into the yard, I have an idea about the area at the lower left of the second photo. There's a couple of possibilities there. Gary.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Gats: Looking good Paul. Seeing how the track is laid coming into the yard, I have an idea about the area at the lower left of the second photo. There's a couple of possibilities there. Gary.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Oh-oh! More alterations Paul It is looking very good, and will be a superb railroad when up and running. Keep showing us the progress pics.
Paul, Looks FANTASTIC! I like the yard being in front of the main. I like mains that aren't always in the forground. Please keep the updates coming. Ya'll are giving me motivation to spend more time on mine. Pauls 5,8, 10 hour blocks of time make me jealous. I'm lucky with an hour a day! Scot
Thanks for the comments guys, I hope to spend all day Friday and Saturday working on the layout I suppose I'm lucky to have an understanding family. I want to get the whole mainline completed so I can start running trains again. Once I get started I find it difficult to stop.
Today (Saturday) I spent the whole day cutting and mounting all the MDF for the top loop section. At this rate the mainline should be operating by Tuesday if all goes well. Just one problem the small bridge that goes over the yard and the one GATs has volunteered to do is now over a metre (3 feet) in length hehehe. Oh well looks like Gary and I will be off to the hobby shop to buy some styrene. Actually the bridge will make the layout look fantastic, at this stage I'm edging towards a girder style bridge or one similar to Alans road bridge but double main line track. I should be able to post some pics mid week
LOOKIN GOOD! (I want to build a layout like that, but seeing how I am 15 3/4 and the only space I get is my room, I would have to do away with my bed to fit even a small layout in. Who needs a bed any way......
Paull. It keeps looking better and better. Craig. When you get to Watash and my age a bed looks mighty good.
<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Telegrapher: Craig. When you get to Watash and my age a bed looks mighty good.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I'd still take a layout!
Craig, when I was 15-7/8 we moved to where my room was too small for the layout we already had, so dad ok'd me to use "Bull Dog" picture hooks in the sheetrock wall and fasten a 1x6 like a shelf. The whole thing could be lifted off if need be. I mounted a maineline, two switches and a siding. My power supply sat on the floor with a lamp cord running up to the shelf where the DPDT reversing switch and a rheostat was mounted on the front for easy reach. I ran this (HO) until I graduated from High School and joined the Marines. You could have even more track. I did a lot of switching cars around. After all, it was better than looking at an engine and wishing it could run, I RAN IT! Go for it man!!
Craig, that may be worth a try! Almost like a modular layout, on one wall! Shelf brackets and a flat, wide board for the benchwork; simple, and easy! Plus, it gives you more time to lay track, and run the trains! Or detail your impeccable locos.
That sounds pretty cool Watash! Actually, I do have a layout/mainline of soarts. My room is 11' X 11' and I have N Scale track running right above the doorway all around the room. We we used 3"X3/4" oak boards for the track to rest on, and these are held up by 2" wide peices of oak molding. The molding has a dry wall screw in the middle of it to ancor it in the wall (and the stud behind it). The long boards the track is fastened to are conected by brass strips, with a hole on either end for a screw. The corners are simply 45 dagree angles with a pretty complex cut. The track is all Kato unitrack (you can see it so who cares what it is) and there is one Kato bridge (spanning a gap that was made on purpose) and on siding that is a wall long. I run trains up to around 26" sometimes, well over 70 cars. I often run DPU or mid train helpers. Now, this may sound like a lot of fun, but running trains through scenery is more fun (I do have a section with a tunnel and another section where the track weaves in and out of pine trees.....looks VERY realistic as these are nice pine trees). Enough typing! I have trains to run!!....
Hey Craig, do you stand on stilts to see the trains? HA! I tried standing on a chair, but forgot and stepped off! I'll bet the diesel horns keeps your mom awake at night! Just kiddin old Buddy! I'm relieved to know you have a chance to run something. That is the important thing, so you can enjoy it.
Craig. Why don't you take a couple of pictures and post them on train board for old times sake. Then when (if) you start a new layout you can compare at later times.
My plan is to post some pics here real soon. I think you guys would actually be surprised, the trains are very easy to see, and in some parts the track buts right up against the edge (the track work is good....if it wasn't, I would have a LOT of broken cars!).
Another big day working on the layout today. I completed the mainline loop and we even had a golden spike ceremony. My wife got to hammer the final spike before the first train ran on the new section. It is great to have trains running again. I also wired 3 new blocks to the control panel and installed one of the points motors into the new through yard. Within the next week I hope to finish alterations to the existing control panel. Hopefully I will be able to post pics next week
Well done Paul You have got the basic work on the extension done in very good time! Any pics of the golden spike ceremony?
