Went to home depot and got some lumber free to make a 24x45" layout. Got it s in lineglued on and drying. framed with , all manuscrap wood and most of the cork roadbed is glued down and drying. Sunday I'll begin on the track, code 80 Atlas flextrack and turnouts. Will send a picture when I have my track laid. Double loop main line with a cross over, all manual turnouts.
Pieced together my logging/common carrier from various parts I've been tracing from Sanborns, blueprints, and winging it. East Kane is almost prototype RoW, only bent the connecting spur near the loco shed for the sake of aisle width. James City is also very close to proto, except for the left end trail track cardinal directions, and the angle of the spur up to the plant. McKinley is recreated from being there and piecing the history as best I could. Lamont is extrapolated from a very small scale blueprint that showed a huge "Y" surrounding the factory buildings. The spur to Windy City is reverse oriented for space and proximity to layout edge. The other log landing "below" Nansen is fictitious, added for operational and scenic quality. Used Unitrack, for now as that is what I have some of. May switch to Peco C55. Rail height, switch choices, and durability trump tie spacing IMO, yours may be the opposite.
I have been kinda working on a rebuild of the old layout. Have a rough drawing for it. Its 16 inches longer by the 36 inch wide. 36X76. I need to build up the table and then get the foam to that. DW wants me to have the layout up so she can still use the table with the layout there. With the extra i will have a longer ramp up to the logging camp. Also a town around the mill. Also am changing the logging camp around. I just hope this one works out better than before. Right now its just on paper. Shot of drawing below, WD65 ( new handle)
Where are your photos? If on your computer, just attach them via the "Upload a File" button at below right. If on a web site, that can be the whole problem.
I bought two climax kits from Randy G. And want to get the motor and gearbox he lists that will allow slow speeds of 9 mph. I typed in the listed website to buy a couple of motors, but got a lot of stuff not the motor. Has anyone bought this motor? How did you find it? Railnut49.
I'll try that today, for the motor, did you use the gm15 for the part number? Randy is on a business trip but when he gets home has offered to build the chassis part for me. I'd love to build it myself, but failing that, I'll get him to do it for me. Thank you sir.
