Layout design
Detroit Terminal Railroad: Highland Park Industrial Track
It's been a very productive couple of days. Once again, I've added a new post over at Motor City Rollercoaster, my blog about modeling a modern day version of the Detroit Terminal Railroad. In this installment, I take a detailed look at the relatively short but operationally challenging Highland Park Industrial Track.
I hope you enjoy it.
Rich
Progress on the Hudson and Hartford
I am finally getting rod of a lot of the junk that is cluttering my bench work and roadbed. it had to be done because I was unable to lay any track on it due to the fact a certain part of my layout had to serve as shipping point for my wife's eBay business and my youngest son's shipping business. It doesn't work amd that is no longer acceptable.
So how am I accomplishing this major chore? It's being moved to another room. So now I will finally get run trains which I haven't been able to do for a couple of years now. It's about time.
Best type of building for layout design/build
I have a basic question on a building for construction of a layout. It is a very basic and maybe simple question. If a person was building an approximately 3000 SF building for a layout, is it better to have a building that is say 150 feet long and 20 feet wide or a building that is 75 feet long and 40 feet wide. It would seem the only reason to have benchwork curving all over in a building is because the building is not long enough to have a long run. It would seem to make sense to have as long a straight run as possible for operations, scenery, etc.
Valances: Hard vs Soft
I was watching the Allen Keller video of Ken McCorry's layout for the umpteenth time the other day when I noticed something unusual - his "valances" appear to be made of cloth!
Originally, I had planned to use hardboard for the valances on my layout, but the more I thought about it, the more I like the idea of cloth valances.
Some of the advantages I see are:
new to mrh any advice for a newbie
need advice on trackwork, what road bed works well i have dc right now to start off with. what is a good dcc system. i have alot of different engines broadway limted n&w 2-6-6-4 paragon is there any problems with these engines? i don't have a layout yet i would like some advice please help. bill
Detroit Terminal Railroad: The Union Branch
It has been quite some time since my last post, but my family and I are now settled in the Chicago area, and life is beginning to get back to normal. I just added a new post on my blog, Motor City Rollercoaster, which chronicles my planning and (eventual) construction of a proto-freelanced modern-day Detroit Terminal Railroad. Please check it out, I hope you enjoy!
Rich
A double deck layout part 1
For those of you who know me, you know that for the last couple of years I have been debating on adding a top deck to my layout. Well, the time has come to move on to the next step and I wanted to share the experience with all of my friends here on MRH. For the last couple of weeks, I have been hard at work finishing up the research and sketching out a few track plans. And I feel that a trip to my local home improvement store will be in the very near future. But there is a twist to this project and I would love to hear your comments on thi
bli n&w 2-6-6-4 paragon is there problems with these?
is there any problems with locomotives? like gears cracking or anything else? might buy more get rid of some of my brass that doesn't run too well. i have been out of the hobby since 2008 had numerous back operations feel better getting back into working on my layout again. any other info would be helpful i'm running dc power. thanks for any help. bill
La Grange gets some track & Tortilla Flats gets surveyed
GS&M crews march on...
After the 1st set of track goes into place a Trio of C-630 pulls a tank train from staging up and out of the main Helix.
You can see how the main works it way out of the Helix and into La Grange. The Alcos are on what will become the A/D tracks for La Grange.
MRH Challenge: El Paso progress
The challenge was thrown down while I was packing up the house for a cross-country move. Everything has arrived in the new Texas home and quite a bit is unpacked. The hobby room has been staked out and I'm contemplating two prototype locations as inspiration for the next layout. Two slogans are beginning to dominate the project; Keep It Simple Stupid, and Keep Moving Forward. I've posted more detail on the room and the prototypes on my blog:
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