There was not much done on the atrium except to discover that one needs a lot more bents to support the atrium properly. This leads to a series of designing questions that tend to be somewhat ignored when in a designing mode. One of them involves physical support of said structure.

Last fall I had completed my modest layout in HO scale and even managed to complete the construction of the train room as an addition to my home but unfortunately I ran out of time before I could put heat in the train room.

Being located in Northern New England means long cold winters up here so trying too enjoy my layout in below freezing weather was out of the question, what’s a hobbyist too do?

Each time I enter my home I must go through the train room and there it sits, a completed layout that has seen very few hours of use before the cold put an end to my fun.

 I want to start a free-mo group here in San Diego county.  It's hard to find folks who would like to participate.

I guess I'll post my request to the discussion forum. . .

Sean

I thought you might enjoy seeing a model from the recent show in Guelph, Ontario. The pics were posted over on HyperScale by Andy.... it's a superb bit of modeling! I copied the pics over to my Photobucket here:     http://tinyurl.com/ango63   as the originals will rapidly get buried on the HyperScale Plasticpics site.

Hi,

For those of you that were curious I have very quickly drawn the plan of the three levels of my Clinchfield themed layout.

My apologies for the drawings but as I said they were drawn very quickly

Pete Williams, Uxbridge, UK

It's 7:20 AM on Tuesday March 10, 2009 and I'm here in my office at school waiting to go to my 8 AM class and I'm thinking about car float design. I've come up with a basic plan for a car float based on a 328 foot deck barge that should be able to hold 15 50 foot boxcars and possibly more. 328 feet of length should be able to hold 17 in my way of thinking which is what the prototype barges held.

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The last time I was busy with my scrap yard at Diamond Valley. Now the fifth segment has got some basic scenery. Time for a video.

 The shed is only a mock up, made of card board.

Wolfgang

I had an extended time off work this last while and was hoping to get a lot done on the railroad, but alas, life had different ideas.  It started out well enough.  I took my son to the model train show here in town last Saturday and we enjoyed that very much, then took the whole family on Sunday.  It was very enjoyable, I only wish I would have brought the camera along and did more of a report on it.  I had planned to give out some CD or DVDs with MRH stuff on it, but never got time to produce them.  I'm thinking I will aim for that at next year's sho

Today is March 8th, 2009 after much consideration and reading Tony Koester latest Book "Designing & Building MULTI-DECK Model Railroads" from cover to cover and back again. I have decided to turn a 185 sq ft room into a 370 sq ft room. Well, sort of a 370sq feet it will be a duel level. The first or lower level will be 46in above the floor. The second level will be 16in above the first and will use a 5ft round Helix 5 layer 2.5% grade in the room next to it. I'm considering this as stage one and using only 1/5 of my basement plus the 5X5 foot Helix in the adjoining room.