Layout tour
Pokey Progress: Onward & Upward - Jan '15
Having completed the staging deck on my new layout it was time to tackle the two lower helices that raise trains up to the main deck level. Here's a photo account, along with a few comments...
The base of the helix is made up of 5/8" plywood to provide a sturdy foundation for everything above. The board across the middle with old cork roadbed on it is a temporary brace to keep the L-girder bench work square and will be removed once the helix is completed.
Progress Update #4
20 January 2015 Update - Over the last couple of months, I have been getting ready for the construction (electrical and track laying) of the main and third levels of the N-scale ATSF Paradigm Division.
Tribute to the Railroad Hobby Show Module
2015 marks my 20th year as an exhibitor at the Railroad Hobby Show. This show, which is presented by the Amherst Railway Society, is held each January in West Springfield, MA.
January 2015 update on the Colorado Front Range railroad
Here is an update on the the layout. Little on wiring, Train runs 112 feet of the mainline, and the new spline work through Palmer Lake. so sit back and enjoy the video.
Mike Deverell
Twelve Months of Layout Updates (Kind Of)
So over those twelve months (which is about to become seventeen, or more) there’s probably been less than two weeks or so of actual work, in three different stretches, but I did manage to get some things accomplished during that time.
Good News Bad News
First the good news. Right now I'm in the process of building helices at both ends of the staging yard for my N&W Pokey District layout. (I'll update you on the helix construction in a later post.) Since building a helix takes some time to do, while waiting for glue joints to dry, I managed to get the staging yard on the new layout completely wired.
ALASKA RAILROAD
I LOVE these new Bowser C430's with the sound, so being that none of the boys up here have any ALCO experience, I had to dip the hook in the water....Maybe if the Alaska Railroad had purchased 425's & 430's instead of EMD, Alco would have been in better shape.....this is what they may have looked like....
Article idea; Modular layout tour
So here's some thinking around the edge of the box that I just came up with in the last 24 hours. What if a MRH reporter was to do a layout tour/interview but with the Run Chief of a modular layout at an exhibition show such as NTS, Amherst, Timonium or one of the other large shows?
Miller's K&LE
Great article by Tom Patterson on John MIller's layout. Am glad to have enjoyed operating it in the past, and look in great anticipation in doing so on the upcoming new layout.
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