I haven't had much time to work on the layout due to and unfortunate turn of events.

A friend wanted a turnout for his new module, code 70, 2922mm radius (115'') for the main as well for the diverging track, Y-style.

Well, I've made a AutoCAD drawing and prepared the ties, 4 1/2 hours later: here you're:

And he wanted an "under the ties" throwbar.

Wolfgang

There is so much going on at the Perry shops!

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I've got two railroads, ten blogs and 5 projects going...the NCI operating club and a baby on the way.  Work is getting in the way of my hobby again!

It's been a while since I posted anything on my RGS RR and NowI'n working on some ballast I have made from soil and ballast fron the actually RGS in Colorado. Here are a few photos of a mocked up area on my RR:

Here a short movie I made during the operating session these weekend.

Markus

I've recently joined an operating group, the North County Interchange Operating Group and Friday 2/19 was the first time they were at my house for the Friday night work session.  Most of the guys are in the building stage, so we've yet to do any actual operating.  One of the guys, Bob Wheeler brought along his camera and tripod to shoot some pictures and the shot below is my favorite.   Besides taking pictures we also starting the early planning of the expansion of the railroad into a 15-1/2' x 29-1/2' unfinished area of my basment.  Th

Here's some recent news story summaries that show MRH is riding a coming technology wave ...

I am not new to this forum but I do not post much.

My layout was at a point where I could run the engines and I was starting to play with operations.  I then discovered that I was having trouble with switches and even some flex track that could float in and out of guage.  So, I decided to rip it out and start over - again!  This time I want to make sure I do not make some of the same mistakes and I decided to go with hand laid track work.

Mon Feb. 1

Let me start this out bluntly:  I'm a dummy.  I made an incredibly elementary mistake in the design and construction of my layout that I'm shocked I did not pick up on until just this past week.  While I've only been seriously involved in the hobby for the past two years, a rule of thumb I've heard used quite a bit is that any yard that is at 50% capacity is actually 100% full.  For whatever reason I chose to completely ignore applying that rule to my layout design.  And I did it at my own peril.

First post, just to see if anyone actually reads this....

OK, some content just so I don't look like a pathetic attention-seeker. Here's a Mail Pouch barn we found down a rural highway in eastern Kentucky, back in August:

A little Googling informs me that there are still quite a few of these around -- but not in my part of the world (southern Ontario) and this is the first one I've seen in the wild (as opposed to pictures of a model on someone's layout).