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Regular poster 230 posts avrinnscale Regular poster 230 posts
avrinnscale

Well, three years in and my layout is starting to look like something more than the plywood central!  The layout isn't large: a 12 foot by 40 inch rectangle with a 4-foot staging yard tacked onto one end.  One side is a massive paper mill inspired by the Cascade mill in Berlin, NH, and the other a pretty much freelanced town with a station model of the big station in St. Johnsbury, VT, a transload business, and a siding for a yet-to-be-determined business.  Operationally two railroads rule the iron: the St. Lawrence and Atlantic circa 1992, and a freelanced Androscoggin Valley RR that for now has two GE 44-tonners decked out in Aroostook Valley RR. paint and lettering (but both are AVR).

A peek is attached.

Geof

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Geof Smith

Modeling northern New England in N scale. 
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GNNPNUT Frequent poster 509 posts
GNNPNUT

Very nice work!

With all this talk about smaller layouts on this forum, I'd say this is a great time for this to be posted.  Perhaps it should be featured in MRH? 

N-Scale on top of that, which increases the scale diversity.

Regards,

Jerry

 

GNNPNUT's blog
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MEC Fan Regular poster 199 posts
MEC Fan

More Please

Looks good, 

 

would like to see a lot more of this layout.. 
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Joe S. Active Member 67 posts
Joe S.

Paper Mill

The industry scene is looking very good. I love the size of building in the foreground.

Joe Suarez

A small layout in 1:160 is better than large layout in my head.
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jmt99atsf Super User 754 posts
jmt99atsf

Very Nice

Your work on the scene looks very nice.

John

Modeling the ATSF Paradigm Division in N-Scale 

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Boudreaux Regular poster 319 posts
Boudreaux

Colors

Nice job on color contrast,  trees and background.

Something about that back ground I like.  More info on back ground please.

Boudreaux,  B.C.E.  R.R.

Next chapter in the weather will be garden wet rot....tooo much rain!
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spyder62 Regular poster 186 posts
spyder62

looking good can't wait to

looking good can't wait to see more

rich
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avrinnscale Regular poster 230 posts
avrinnscale

Thanks for the encouragement!

My thanks to all of you for affirming I'm on the right track!  And a special thanks to Model Railroad Hobbyist and the contributing authors for the lessons learned and inspiration they've provided!

Jerry, I'll give some thought to trying to write an article about the layout.

Joe Suarez, that mill complex is a full eight feet long, with the biggest foreground building being about 22 inches.  I used Google Earth photos of the Cascade mill in Berlin, NH as inspiration.  The mill is the last remaining mill in the once-thriving paper industry in Berlin, and was served by the Berlin Mills Railway - but just try to find N scale SW1's nowadays!

Boudreaux, the backdrop is a collage of images from the LARC products CD's, printed onto poster paper, cut out, and glued to a styrene sheet backdrop.  The folks at LARC are great to work with, and helped reverse the image where the shadows fell in ways that didn't make sense (although I might need to move some of the lights to the left side of the mill).

Geof

Geof Smith

Modeling northern New England in N scale. 
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