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Good Things to Come
Some Background
So it's now mid April and my fiance and I have been living in our house a solid month now - time for an update. For those of you who may have read my previous blog entry back in January, I was amidst the initial planning stages of a freelanced regional railroad I had named the BRE. Well, now I'm switching things up a bit. . .
Sharing trains and our layouts with our children.
When my wife and I purchased our home for our growing family in early 2005, I already knew what I was going to do with the basement. So after moving in and replacing the roof the following year. I was ready to start building my layout; The Metro Belt & Terminal RR, designed by Dan Murdock and featured in the "Beer City Bunch" magazine of April 2001. I had chosen a prototype (no prize for the winning guess)!
The Train Room, More photos from the GS&M Layout
Checking for bench work height with old portable layout (Was from and old railroad plan book). Your looking at a 2 foot wide section over a 1 foot wide section. You can also see the reach problem with the 2 foot wide section.
Limbo - a cure Grandpa Sam's place is done!
*** Update - Since somebody marked Kevin's entire posting as spam and it disappeared and Joe is busy getting the July's magazine ready I've edited this post to include a picture of Grandpa Sam's place on Kevin's layout. There is a picture below and the link to the blog to see more pictures.
The link to see the blog of this project is here:
How much junk do I have!!
Moving form N to HO is causing a lot of space issues in my 10x13 foot spare bedroom. They are issues I can solve but ones that are really keeping me from doing what I want which is moving forward on the new HO pike. I'm amazed at the amount of "junk" I have. The biggest issue so far has been cleaning off my so called work table. I say so called because rarely did any work ever get done on it. It became the piling place for all my stuff. I could not have used it to build a model kit if I'd wanted to.
Slowly but surely
When I can fight through a recent spate of dizzy spells, I've been slowly but surely making progress on building the benchwork for my new HO venture as well as acquiring parts pieces and rolling stock for it. I'm taking a little break from the benchwork to write this. So far besides bench lumber, I've acquired WS foam roadbed, some Atlas code 83 flex and and some Peco turnouts that I'll need. Also today I purchased from Micro Mark a Bachmann 2-6-0 Mogul with DCC plus sound and a bulk pack of six Tichy undec forty foot boxcars.
Give them a throttle!
Give them a throttle! Who, why the visitors to your layout, of course. Now I know that some of you might be wincing right now thinking of some "newbee" running your multi-thousand dollar brass steam locomotive off of the tracks and onto the floor, so hear me out.
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