You ever have one of those "Man i wish i had the camera rolling moments!' ? Well tonight i went over to a friends house to watch him operate his HO scale layout. Things were rolling well untill train #104 a 25 car double stack train led by 3 UP AC4400 sound equiped locos headed into tunnel #1. Unkown to the engineer, Catzilla had taken up refuge inside the tunnel. Well, you want to talk about the shocked out of your mind treatment? This was for sure the most shocking operating expirence of my life!

I have been working on a design for a portable layout that can be either operated by itself or attached to a set of Free-mo modules. The idea is that when I move again I will have a complete layout that i can continue to work and operate on. I will also have the ability to take it to shows as either stand alone display or as an incorporated section of Free-mo.

first time post not sure how to get this out.

I posted a new topic but didn't see it come out.

Anyway here is my partial track plan.  its a modular design.  hoping it has a good amount of operating flexability and will be fun to operate. 

Any feed back would be great

Miguel

I’ve been using Evan Designs "Model Builder" software to make building mock ups to fill in some empty spaces until I get time for serious scratch building.  Thanks to Rick for mentioning this product when he posted his motel scenes.  The following comments show some of them.  

George Booth
Director of Everything, The New Great Western Railway
http://users.frii.com/gbooth/Trains/index.htm 
 

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A couple of weeks ago, I noted on here that I was documenting my assembly line construction of a fleet of ore cars on my blog.  I've made more progress on the cars since then.  The fleet of 16 cars is currently sitting in the paint shop awaiting a coat of primer so that I can assess the quality of some seams and corners. The cars are nowhere near ready for final paint, but I've done quite a bit of work on them.  I've posted the details there.

Planning a layout has always held a certain fascination for me. A number of years ago, I planned an N-scale layout to fill a 12’ x 24’ room. It won a regional NMRA contest, but I never found time to build it. Later, when I helped found an N-Trak, turned permanent, turned N-Trak club, I planned and built several modules and helped with the inception of the permanent layout. Then I drifted from the model railroad world for some thirteen years.

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this is the first of 4 projects i will be building for my Peavine sub. it is located at 2802 w. Virginia ave. phoenix az. there is still a bit more work to do. see the prototype picture. the retaining wall under the front canopy still need to be built. your comments are welcome.

First of all thanks for all the blog traffic from MRH. Second, David K. Smith from Railwire and NZT Products has been helping me with my track plan. HO 2x14' now, Code 83, #4/5 T/outs. Tough to make it all fit. Catch all the action on the blog. You can't have your cake and eat it too on most plans, especially shelf switching layout. 

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