I wonder who will clean the track once it is finished?

Scenery construction is underway.  Follow along as the Great Basin takes shape.

UPDATES:

03/15/2012: Rockwork completed around the steel trestle scene.  See page 4.

03/16/2012: Color applied to the rocks.  See page 5.

To All: About 15 years ago I made a 50ft.Dept of Agriculture Weighting Inspection Car. I am still using it on the E. St. Louis Rail Group layout. See Attachment in Recent Posts.

Click on link to Rock Ridge Page on Web site to see 30 still shots with description of this project.  http://www.grandepacificmodelrr.org/html/_rock_ridge_pictures.html

If you want to know please ask.  

Welcome to my new adventure. After many years of inactivity, a friend asked my help in dismantling his 24'x16' layout which has spurred me into creating it a new home. The problem is that I don't really have a space quite like his and wouldn't have designed a railway like his (nor really want one like that).

My space is similar in size but in plan only. The end walls slope from 4' height up to 11' at the center. The overall size is the same but to the exterior of the walls so everything is shorter and narrower.

Finished up most of the scenery between Hickman Road and Millard Lumber on my IAIS Grimes Line layout.  This is a heavily wooded area on the prototype and I wanted to best simulate the tree tunnel found along the line.

Best,
James

I am in the process of rebuilding my N-scale layout in a dedicated out-building (interior space 15'3" x 24'11").  The out-building is heated and air conditioned.  The layout was previously in a large room in my house but had to be torn down to make room for family (kids & grandkids).  That layout was an N-scale version of Bruce Chubb's original Sunset Valley but with an ATSF flair.  The concept for the new layout is blending some of my old one with some of CHuck Hitchcock's previous ATSF Argentine Division but in a freelanced fashion.

I've done it: the benchwork is complete and 65 lights have been installed. Now I can start cutting plywood. We will see whether my track plan survives the contact with reality.

To All: Photo of Monsanto company, click attachment image number.

To All: Monsanto company was a major industry in E. St. Louis in the 1960's. It was a producer of herbicides, animal hormones and agricultural seeds. I scratch built the silos and hopper loader for this industry. I have to add another siding and office building to the site. This industry is located next to the PRR's Rose Lake Yd in Terra Haute, Indiana on the E. St. Louis Rail Group layout. To see photo, click Monsanto title in above post then click attachment image number.