Layout design
GWMS Model Railroad Club
Hi I am sure most of you have seen my past posts on the Model Railroad Club and had a suggestion to combine them all into one so this is where I will move all past posts and future ones so they can be easily found. If anyone has any other suggestions feel free to post them in the comments or PM me thanks again to all of you people who have helped and are following my posts.
Thanks David Calhoun: We Have Scenery
The list of items is slowly increasing thanks to Augusta Track and a MRH local David Calhoun. Below are the images of what he sent for us and the teacher is very thankful. In roughly two weeks I will be scenicing (not sure on spelling) one of the curve modules so we will have an example next year.
Loop around my layout
Here is a video ride around my layout. I used a Go Pro which is a bit wider than a few spots on the layout. A bit of editing to speed up the journey. Enjoy.
Tim
We Now Have Track!!! (School Club Beginnings)
After a short wait I have great news. Over the weekend I received the first donations for our school layout. They are an extremely generous amount of products from Augusta Track creator of a modular track system (website link: http://www.augustatrack.com/)
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The Power Packs and Signs
Laurentian Coated Products
This is my first post. And with it I would like your critiques and suggestions of the track plan I have designed for the new house I just bought.
This layout will be a 12'x12' L shaped switching layout based around 1 industry with a small staging yard on each end.
Laurentian Coated Products is a 292,000 TPY capacity integrated paper mill located in Northeast New York on Lake Champlain close to the Laurentian Mountains of Southern Quebec. Era is contemporary.
Shadow Box and LED Lighting Questions
As I'm learning more about scenery, I can't avoid the importance of lighting with respect to color choices to make a scene look more realistic.
As my model railroad is built in sections to move every couple of years, I've decided to modify my sections into shadow boxes with LED lighting strips to provide a portable, uniform source of light.
I'm not too concerned about what I would call minor variances in light color and the details required for taking good photos. I just want a reasonably realistic looking and uniform light source.
Florida City On FEC 5th District
After the hurricane of 1935 FEC abandoned the Oversea Railroad to Key West. The end of the line was MP 396 just south of Florida City. The whole area south and west of Miami was still fairly rural and a large produce growing area. My HO scale Florida City is based on a track diagram provided by former FEC engineer Richard Beall. I used modelers license and moved Naranja Quarry about 6 miles south and replaced the Farmers Market track. I like rock trains.
Real world measurements for your layout
I've been out several times in the past year taking measurements of the area I'm modeling. Along with the cars and engines and details like signs, tracks, etc., I want the roads and land to be correct too.
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