Layout design
needing help with scenery...
Hey guys I'm pretty much new I've ben buying trains for a very long time but I'm just now doing my first layout...... and I'm building an around the room layout. Nothing major just a double main around the room. The back track however is elevated, well I didn't think of it at the time I wasn't thinking of doing scenery so I didn't make My shelf wide enough for what I wanted so my shelf is only 5 inches wide. So from the back track to the first which is the outside is almost straight down.
More Z Scale stuff
More updates
I have been working on two jobs here at home. One is the layout and the other is my truck. I have the truck running but need to finish the paint and the side steps yet. also have to find some lower seat pedestals. Getting there for sure.
Things got built
It's been a while since the last update and I actually got to build something. However, my building efforts didn't quite follow my original plans.
An Exercise in Selective Compression
One of the rural towns along the area I would like to model is Hartland, Wisconsin. I really like the track schematic as seen here:
I did a full scale mock-up of this keeping the proportions as close as possible to the picture above:
My Next Layout
I was planing my next layout to be all abandoned R-O-W ......no finicky track work, no wiring, no DCC issues, no signaling, no DCC/Sound installs.........it`s a cheap way to model a RR with out having a need for skills or a lot of money.......the No-Track system
Dennis Blank Jr
A Railroad in a container
My wife and I are considering building a new house. Not just any house, but one built out of used shipping containers. As part of the negotiation I am holding out for a complete 40' container as model railroad room.
A container is essentially a 40' x 8' space, roughly 8' high
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