Georgetown & Allen Mountain Railroad: Barnesville

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Thu, 2012-05-03 17:24 — michaelrose55

Personal journal (editorial or commentary)

I have started to install roadbed on the Barnesville peninsula. Barnesville is the east end of the railroad. The town is named after my good friend Walter Barnes.

I'm embedding magnetic reed sensors in the roadbed in case I ever want to run some kind of automatic operation.

I could save the old Barnesville passenger station from my old layout. Still needs a lot of work to complete it!

Michael

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Finished trestle and some rocks

Thu, 2012-07-26 16:17 — michaelrose55

I finished the trestle and installed it:

Trestle on the N scale Georgetown & Allen Mountain Railroad

As I like to do different things so the hobby doesn't get too boring I tried out some rocks around the one tunnel portal. Still needs all the coloring...

Michael

The Georgetown & Allen Mountain Railroad

Trestle scene

Thu, 2012-07-26 16:19 — michaelrose55

I have been working on the trestle scene and installed another short tunnel on the left side to act as a view block.

Michael

The Georgetown & Allen Mountain Railroad

Looks great, Michael!

Fri, 2012-07-27 07:01 — rickwade

Michael,

Your view block and trestle look great!

Rick

The Richlawn Railroad Website - Featuring the L&N in HO / MRH Blog / MRM #123

Mt. 22: 37- 40

The sheer size of your layout combined with the mountains and the fact it is N scale is going to provide that feeling of train traveling a great distance that other layouts cannot capture. Even long trains on your layout will not detract from the feeling. No loco in one town caboose in the other on your layout!

You must be giddy. I would be.

Alan

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When I was a kid... no wait, I still do that. HO, 28x32, double deck, 1969, RailPro

Size

Fri, 2012-07-27 16:04 — michaelrose55

The sheer size of your layout combined with the mountains and the fact it is N scale is going to provide that feeling of train traveling a great distance that other layouts cannot capture. Even long trains on your layout will not detract from the feeling. No loco in one town caboose in the other on your layout!

That's why I stick to N scale even now as I'm getting older. Last week I had doubts and unpacked a HO train, placed it on a piece of flex track that I positioned on existing roadbed of my N scale 2 track main. I'm using a 30 to 36" radius for my visible main line so the radius was acceptable for HO.

Then I stepped back, walked to the other end of my layout room. From there I could see that trestle scene as well as the HO train and to me, the bigger train looked like a toy. So I boxed the HO train back up, apologized to the N scale doodlebug and went back to making rocks for my mountains!