Scenery - Structures
Richlawn RR V2 - 1st "new" building on the layout - Palmer Asbestos
As a boy growing up in St Matthews, Ky (East of Louisville) I drove past Palmer Asbestos during the 1950's and 60's dozens of times. The building is memorable to me because of it's large smoke stack with "PALMER" lettered on it vertically. I'm going to ROUGHLY model this on my layout by kitbashing Walther's "Gas Plant". Notice that I said roughly....and that's because I am only going to do enough to satisfy my fuzzy memory of the building and it will be severely compressed because of my small available real estate.
Car Wash on the Trenton Subdivision in N Scale
VIA Rail's, Kokanee Park passes through the Car Wash Area in VIA's Maintenance Shop, on my Trenton Subdivision in N Scale.
I have always wanted a Passenger Yard on the layout. Setting up passenger trains, shop area and an opportunity to display unique rolling stock and engines in VIA Rail Service, provides another level of modeling and operations.
The C T central
After looking at all the other posts on here I decided to start my own blog. Attached are pics of my coffee table central n scale layout. It started with a 3 by 3 coffee table from a yard sale. I think its an IKEA model but I'm not sure. It measures 37 inches square and the layout itself is 36 inches square. 1/2 pink foam was glued and svrewed to the table top. As there are no turnouts or grades I cut risers for each progressively taller loop from extra foam. The roadbed is also pink foam joined at the seams with foil tape.
Introducing the Here N There RR
I guess it's time to introduce mu N scale RR under construction. It goes from "Up Here" to "Down There" It/s in a 9' X 12' room. The equipment will be mostly from the North East. It will be bi-level around the wall shelf type.
First I built the helix / nolex.
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Safety First on the Trenton Subdivision in N Scale
All railroads strive to reduce accidents and injuries, so reflecting this mandate on my layout is an opportunity to create a small diorama within the layout.
Roof trusses
In the near future I'll be kitbashing the Walter's "Gas Plant" into Palmer Abestos. I believe it will possible to see through the window up to the underside of the flat roof and I'd like to have roof trusses to add realism. I could scratch build some, but I wondering if trusses are available as a detail item from a supplier. I've searched and haven't found any. I could tap my friend Michael to laser cut some for me, but I would have to sketch them up which would take me longer than building them myself. Any help will be appreciated.
Richlawn RR V2 - new source for FREE tree armatures (for me...and maybe you?)
**** UPDATED 8-16-14 - Today I harvested about 30 gallons (6 five gallon buckets full) of crepe myrtle branches from our community trees - and yes, it was O.K. for me to do so. I just did the rough prep on a 5 gallon bucket full and temporarily stuck them in my benchtop to let them dry. You can see the picture of my hour's worth of work near the bottom of this thread.
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