Structures are an on-going concern on the CR&N.  I am using a combination of scratch-built and what seem to be mostly DPM buildings, along with some Walthers backdrop buildings.

 This is the Soylent Corp.  It is the biggest shipper on the line, and takes boxcars, covered hoppers, and tank cars.  The building itself is made of foamcore with photocopied walls from another building glued on.

While searching for etched wind deflectors/mirrors for the SP E-units, I found www.kvmodels.com located in NJ. They offer a large and varied selection of etched stainless steel parts for N and HO scales. The web site has a store and you can pay by credit card or use Pay Pal. They also are on eBay as KV Models. Lastly, the owner, Scott, is an honest to goodness real locomotive engineer plying the rails daily between western NJ and Manhattan.

The guys brought some beautifully detailed and weathered models to the layout.  Here are some highlights.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmaBYCMU9ZY

To create my benchwork, I used 3/4 inch birch plywood. 

I cut 22 inch "C" shaped pieces, and then notched them for cross pieces.  My cross pieces are also 3/4 inch plywood cut into 1.5 inch wide strips 56 inches long.  Wood glue and brads hold everything together.  The upper and lower shelves are 1/4 inch pine plywood, held down with sheetrock screws.  I glued 1 inch foam to the lower shelf.

This is my first post on my Coeur d'Alene Railway and Navigation (CR&N) layout, currently under construction in sunny West Texas.  The layout (see attached plan) is 9 feet by 4.5 feet on two 18 inch shelves.  I built the benchwork from 3/4 birch plywood and mounted it to the walls in my train room.  I used 1 inch foam over 1.4 inch plywood for my decking.  All the track is down, and most is ballasted.  I have got some basic scenery roughed in, and have building low profile buildings for industries.

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Here’s an update as of today on my Hitop expansion. Where my siding was at the left edge of the original layout I have removed all the buildings from”Allied Chemical”, cleaned the area, and put down a green blend ground cover as a base. I’ll add static grass or coarse ground cover, then plant a row of trees along the edge. The siding is now the new main.

Here is part three on Building with a Laser.

Hope you find it helpful.

Mike

It’s now time to fish or cut bait.  One of the reasons it took me so long to get started is I didn’t know whether to start with a flat table top and use Woodland Scenics (WS) incline/decline risers or do what John Allen did and use an L-girder type of construction.  A third method was to start with a flat table top and do a Cookie Cutter (CC) approach.  Here is a picture of my table top where you can see that I used a 1/4 scale picture with 12 inch squares to draw the plan on the bench.  As I mentioned in my first blog, I liked the idea of a flat table top fo

Hi! :) I was playing around with  kit of figures from Noch and ended up with a nice action kayaking scene. Guess what? I made a video tutorial showing how the scene was set up. Enjoy!