Welcome back to my design Blog focusing on staging.  As finishing off the space for the layout is progressing, I have been improving the design.  Recently, I move the peninsula to open up the room a little.  I also decided to not bring the staging area across the doorway in to the room.  The major design change is that instead of through staging, not I have stub end staging.  However, I wanted to maintain the ability of continuous running, so the staging tracks are now on a wye.

This is the most recent addion to the infrastructure of the Ghost River Rwy. A scratchbuilt trestle over the Ghost River gorge. The wood is cut to scale. I mainly used fir and cedar. The footings still need to be made and the water poured, but the threstle is otherwise finished. I deliberately placed some crossmembers between the bents, and the railing around the fire platform, on angles to give the trestle an aged look. Had lots of fun building the trestle.

 So I have decided to add a floor to part of my layout that is giving me (well actually others that are vertically challenged) some issues during operating sessions. My questions is quite simple and maybe some of you out there that have the "mushrooms' growing in the basement could chime in. I want to know what is the best way to build a floor on existing concrete. I only need 10" in elevation to make everyone happy but I have to run the flooring around the end of one peninsula for a total run of approx 35'

Thank you 

Neil

Hi All,

Well I'd thought I would start another blog post on the track laying & scenery construction for the J&L Railway.  I have started the top deck track laying over the past few weeks so that I can get some track down and also start running some trains and really get stuck into getting some of the railroad down.

This is what my cat thinks of today...

however, hopefully everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday.

Christmas Eve and Trains-Merry Christmas to all.

I would like to know which evergreens would be suitable for a West Virginia+Virginia scene. Any advice or help you fellas can give much appreciated.

Let me introduce you to Daisy, she is a railfan, (a better looking one than I am!), she travels the country, or countries shooting train vids, true she is really only a 3D computer graphics model, but she is my creation, for those who mess around with 3D modeling and computer graphics, and you use either DAZ Studio or Poser, you can get her .pz2 morph file for Victoria 4.2 at sharecg.com.

You were kind enough to point out my previous attempts at track planning resulted in disaster. For this I thank you. I have been trying to get continuous loop out of my head and instead focus on 1 trip through the layout. All the while maintaining the 3 locales and their proto track arrangement.

Am I getting closer to something workable in this attachment?

Thank you for your time and Merry Christmas to all.

Here's the latest project to be installed on the Washington Northern. Ocean Harvest Seafoods got it's old billboard style signage on the rooftop. The sign was scratchbuilt using dimensional styrene, parts from the scrapbox, and some menu board letters purchased on Ebay. I attempted to weather the sign to represent it as having been in place for decades. Typically, these types of signs would have had illumnated letters, but I couldn't come up with a feasible way of accomplishing that. Curious if anybody has any ideas of how that might have been possible?