Got to ask. Who creates the intro and other music you use to get no copyright issues ?

Marc

It's all prepaid stock footage from iStock, and prepaid royalty music. It's all over the web and available at great prices.

Copyright would prevent it.. but I was thinking the other day that the old General Cinemas opening with the 2D line art movie camera rolling and that light snare and cymbal rythm music going with words like "No smoking", "dont eat your neightbor's popcorn", etc streaming from the lens, but with a train coming out of the lens instead..

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=392...

Ahh.. the 70s..

Chris

 I wish I could I could try my hand to the Dillard turn.  

Thanks,  Very Good

Looks great, love the look of the modern grade crossing signs and the trestle.

The Dole Turn, aka The Fruit Loop (which actually goes to Dillard) is probably the toughest switching job on the layout. Not only do you have to deal with multiple spurs & sidings to drop cars on, but in some cases where you put the car on the siding makes a difference as well. You are also dealing with a lot of cars, both incoming and outgoing. Additionally, you may have traffic passing you on the main - and since Dillard is the base of a triangle formed by it, Cottage Grove and Roseburg Yard... and it's in the entrance to boot, you've got all the foot traffic on the layout passing behind you.

I was watching RFD Network and they had an episode of Trains and Locomotives with the Cascade Line on it (as the UP) and like Joe talks about in the movie last week, I always thought the SP ran from Northern California to Eugene through Roseburg. I never knew about the Cascade line until recently. I went to Bend, OR last year and couldn't figure out what the line from Klamath Falls North was. Duh - Cascade Line. When I was a kid my family went to Cottage Grove, OR in the late-60's and loved watching what Joe has reproduced in reality. Long Live Animal House.

That line through Bend is actually the BNSF Oregon Trunk line, which meets up with the Cascade Line somewhere south of Bend. The other end of the Oregon Trunk is the Wishram bridge across the Columbia,  east of The Dalles. It's not unique in having a wye in the middle of the bridge (resulting in the bridge having a Y shape), but it's one of the first I knew about.

.......the best way to get home from work on a monday, hugg the mrs., cuddle the dogg, getting upstairs and firing up the pc,  just sit back and watch, enjoy and forget about every thing...........

Thank you for those chilling out afther work mondays so far....

Hi

Since your model railroad is in Oregon I thought I'd throw this out, I used to work for Loram Maintenance of way  several years back. When I started out they sent me to Green River Utah from there we started grinding to Salt Lake. We got there by Christmas and took 2 weeks off, on returning to work we highballed to Bend Oregon and started grinding towards Texas at 8 miles an hour, it took a while, I wanted to add that traveling by rail you see different and better unspoiled country than any other way, I believe it was through Kalmath Falls that was the best. we crossed over five different parts of the lake, at one point we were si high up that when I took photos all you could see were clouds.

 I'm proud to say that I did get to work for a railroad and it was the best job I ever had, If been a model railroader since I was 10 and now I'm 45 and starting my second layout, because of space issues I'm going n scale I freelance so I can model anything that I desire, and one daY I wish to have a layout that resembles what I've seen in Oregon

Great Layout, Chet