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West Allen Street. HO scale switching layout on a budget.
WEST ALLEN STREET (ATSF)
West Allen Street is a minimum space HO scale micro layout, built to see if an operationally interesting model railroad can be built on a small budget.
The layout is based on a small, urban freight spur somewhere in the United States. The idea of big things in small spaces is the key theme, with vertical space being used as well as the square footage on the ground.
Florida Midland Railroad's Bartow Airport Industrial Park
After spending a couple of days recording Florida Midland Railroad operations at Bartow Airport Industrial Park, I've been playing around with the idea of having go at reproducing it in HO scale as a freemo module. This is what I've come up with,
It will be extended by 4 feet on the right hand side, which will hold the loco spur
Aug 2015 Act I - Pete Smith's Loon Lake Railway
The Loon Lake Railway & Navigation Company is a railroad that could have been. Pete Smith and his friends have been working on this Sn3 beauty for over 16 years. Watch it now on TrainMasters TV ....
Horseshoe & Cottonwood Update #3
As usual I'm too busy building the layout to blog about it! Some new stuff this week:
Starting to rough out Lubkin Canyon and the tunnel that gets the railroad into the canyon. The standard gauge to Mojave runs off the edge of the layout at bottom right. The elevated line on the inside of the canyon is one of the switchback handles. More:
Soo Line Latta Subdivision
I model the Latta Subdivision of the Soo Line in southern Indiana in the early 1990s. Seriously, the Soo Line served southern Indiana? Yes, it actually did after it took over the Milwaukee. During that time it had about a train a day of bridge traffic to the Norfolk Southern in Louisville, but its bread and butter was hauling coal from multiple loadouts up and down the line. The Latta sub was isolated from the rest of the Soo Line since it used the ex C&EI from Terre Haute to Chicago and the ex Monon from Bedford to Louisville.
Dinosaurs Do Exist!
To All: Dinosaurs do exist (at least on our model railroads). Photo by Lawrence Eggering. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout
A layout visit with Tom Dill
Charlie Comstock hosted a rare Saturday daytime op session on the BC&SJ yesterday, and I got to be the Redland Yardmaster for both tricks. I only took one photo (Charlie took a lot more), and that with my smartphone:
Layout Update: July 2015 - Main/Third Level DCC Testing Results
I finally completed the wiring for the 4th power district on the main level/third level. This is the track that runs from Michaelson Jct. (aka Ottawa Jct., KS) both to the West Helix and on the branch line that runs over the top of the West Helix to the third level that has the cities of Michaelson (aka Ottawa, KS) and then to Elizabeth City, OK (aka Tulsa, OK).
Photo post test
Scene from Waterbury CT on the New Haven RR circa 1947.
Photo test..
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Photo by Harry Lang 1947.
It worked!
Is there a particular size / resolution / pixel that the photo needs to start out at in order to upload it? I tried to upload some secions of my layout and it wouldn't take. I shot them at 12 Megapixels. I am guessing that is too large to upload?
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