Layout design
Suggestions for a Coal mine track plan
HI Folks:
I am working on track planning, and tonight the topic is my coal mine scene. As you can see from the attached picture, I have an area about 8 - 9 feet long (the total area is 10 feet) by about 1 foot wide, this area is elevated about 3 inches above the main part of the table.
I model in N scale, and will be running modern equipment, and trains about 6 - 10 cars long (or maybe longer depending on how yard and scaling projects turn out as I continue to plan.
Bushwick Terminal
Prototype: Bushwick, NY - New York & Atlantic Railway
Era: ca. 2007
Scale: HO
Size: 11'-6" x 17"
Track: Peco code 83
Turnouts: #8
Control: Lenz DCC
Critique...PLEASE!
I have posted this on my Facebook page with lots of good feedback from some very prolific modelers so I am asking more for critique here.
Background: I have never built a full size layout. I now have a nice space to build a decent size layout without it being too overbearing. Throughout the years I have purchased and built, destroyed, and rebuilt modules for fun. So this will be built with the TOMA approach...kinda...
Accessing Layout Center with a Chair
I am having trouble with my swing bridge I use to access the center of my layout holding a consistent height. I suspect this has to do with the varying humidity more then anything else.
So I am considering raising my layout by about a foot and then using a desk chair to roll from the outside to the inside. It would be high enough so I wouldn't have to duck. I would put a couple of those plastic floor mats down that have spikes on one side to hold them in place on carpet.
Conrail Industrial Spur in 1/87
I will keep the introduction short on this blog.
I have spent a large amount of time in the hobby collecting and not doing much with what I have purchased. I have also started many layouts that never got much past bench work. Guilty of many of the sins of our hobby I have in a sense watched a decade now fly by with little more then totes full of what amounts to wasted time and money.
So what am I going to do about it, follow along a short build blog as I basically put up or shut up when it comes to model trains.
HO Railroad that MORPHS!! (apologies to Linn Wescott)
I have been kind of quiet being as I have been dealing with working at a new job, trying to get a house ready to sell, and finally getting a new place lined up to move into in September. One thing I was looking for in a new house was a location I could have work space and layout. I have thought long and hard about what I want to do with my new space as both a work space and HO scale layout.
#1 Work Bench
Stone Arch Viaduct / Bridge
Stone Arch Viaduct / Bridge
I've included both names as I have seen folks address them with either name. I think what I am trying to create is principally a viaduct, but yesterday I inserted a bridge in a portion of it. I did it in a straight track portion, so I could alternately allow for it to be included in the final trackwork, or perhaps not.
Plan Ideas
Hi guys, after being an armchair modeler for over a decade, I have finally secured a room in the house for my layout. I have attached a plan (I hope). I am not very good with computers sorry.
The size is 20Ft (6.1m) x 13Ft (4m). It's a bit of an odd shaped room, but it is what it is.
Relaxing the Prototype
Wow - Long time, no post (here, anyway). I'm going to try to keep this MRH blog a bit more updated. I can't believe that the last post here was last February(!) But - work/life/etc. Interestingly, I can pick up about where I left off . . .
Given the previous discussion about the (relative) futility of true Prototype Modeling (and thanks again to all of you that weighed in), you probably won't be surprised that I decided to relax things - just a little - due in no small part to the influx of a number of beautiful structures, some fitting with my specific prototype and many not.
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