Layout design
Track Plan Progress
As some of you are aware I enlisted the help of Byron Henderson of Layout Vision to critique my track plan before I begin building. Having no former experience building a model railroad I wanted a well trained eye to look over what I had designed in hopes that serious design blunders would be found before track hits roadbed.
Bare Naked 8X3 N Scale 3 - Gold Spike Day
One spur to be added later. Except for the crossover on servos,all turnouts are manual. Atlas #7 with Caboose Industries on the lower and ME#6 direct point throw on the upper. I still have some track glitches to smooth out and wheel and coupler conversions and then perhaps some scenery.
Bare Naked 8X3 N Scale 2
March 2010 - The platform - recycled from my S scale layout. Graphic on wall is panorama from S scale - not suitable for N scale.
Sept 2010 - lower level complete - 2% grade started
Bare Naked 8X3 N Scale 1
I have waited to post this until I knew the layout was going to work. I have been workin gon it for about a year and today was the first full circuit of the track under loco power - forward and reverse
Hat River Coal & Navigation Co.
This is my first blog post here, so give me a minute and I'll set the stage a little. I was born and raised in Alberta, Canada, but have lived and worked in Newfoundland and Labrador for the last 8 or 9 years.
Hat River Railroad
I've got a layout in my mind that I will be translating into reality as soon as I can.
P&PRR - modular n shelf layout
Hello, all. New to this forum, though I've been enjoying the magazine very much for the past couple years. Got so wrapped up in the magazine, didn't even think to look around the website and at the forums! D'oh!
Putting it all together
Hi Folks,
I was wondering how different people approach putting scenes together on there railroads.
You have your track plan, you have your era and local, and you have your railroad of choice.
I can see the industry, and the supporting trackwork needed to operate it.
But the challenge for me is not the track or the industries it is trying to plan a scene so the it looks realistic, and plausable, and everything looks like it belongs where it is located.
22 Stories Up - Module 2
A continuation to the story following my progress of the Central Vermont RR's Barre Branch layout's construction.
Turning
Can somebody help a rather puzzled Englishman new to this ...
I'm trying to plan my layout .. and one of the things I want is a logging branchline .. I've visualised the loco coming down behind the logging trucks as I've heard that's what they do and then running them on to a line for the log dump .. what I'm struggling to work out is how to turn the loco round ( without a turntable) so that it can back on to the trucks to take them back up the mountain.
I'm sure there is probably a simple solution but despite lots of doodles I haven't seen it yet ..
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