Scenery - Structures

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Using Poly Fiber with Ground Foam for landscape

Sat, 2012-07-21 11:24 — rickwade

I did not come up with this idea, but saw it on another model railroader's layout and loved the way it looked.  Since Bruce emailed me and asked me what I used to cover the hillside I thought I would share with others in case someone else finds it useful.

I start with some black poly fiber material which you can get from one of MRH's sponsors, Micro-Mark at:

The Upper Spine

Sat, 2012-07-21 04:08 — AzBaja

The lower deck is built of what I call the backbone of the layout 3 4x1 with plywood sandwiched in between them.  The Backbone is the anchor for the peninsula.  The spine sits directly above the Backbone. 

The Upper spine is a 6" x 10' long section of wood that sits on top of Oak Uprights.  Every thing is tied together with Metal - T that will have lag bolts running thought the web of the spine.

HO scale material to use for highway road bed

Fri, 2012-07-20 13:43 — EDHO0744

I am working on my highway and byways for HO scale layout.  What materials are being used for the final roadbed ?

 

I have an old Boys Life from 1958 using 3/16 Upson board, but this is not available anymore.

 

Any suggestions would be helpful

thanks

 

 

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Gradient for Vehicle Roadway Bridge

Wed, 2012-07-18 14:22 — JC Shall

I'm looking at various ideas for creating a view barrier for a track going into a staging area, and one idea I've got is to use a roadway overpass over the track, with the track curving behind the bridge structure after it passes below the bridge.

My question is, what are typical gradients used for road bridges?  A little more info: the bridge will be in an early 60s era layout, the road will be two lane concrete leading out of the business district of a small town, and I'd like the grade to be as steep as realistically possible.

Adventures in Shop Tooling: The Laser Cutter

Sun, 2012-07-15 04:32 — Benny

And so I have realized it would be well to separate the old blog from this new blog...

How to Build a Manual Turntable

Fri, 2012-07-13 22:08 — M.C. Fujiwara

Here's a "How To" on how I built a custom N scale 8" manual turntable.

I posted this as part of my Free-moN Staging Yard construction thread, but thought it'd be good to establish as its own thread for comments, search and archiving purposes.

Fruit Stand

Thu, 2012-07-12 06:12 — ferroequinologist1

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COMPLETED - MRH Forum Challenge - Bridge Scene

Wed, 2012-07-11 13:04 — wp8thsub

I challenged myself to make some progress finishing a scene.  I now have quite a bit of scenery complete only to the point where the plaster is in and painted, but it will be nice to get someplace DONE or at least much closer to it.

I thought of finishing the area around two bridges on my mainline, which would also require completing a fairly sizable portion of the backdrop.  I decided instead to work on two trestles in the bottom of Cedar Creek canyon, which will require 3-D scenery only.

Here's the location:


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