Benchwork - Roadbed
Horseshoe & Cottonwood Update #2
This weekend was another whirlwind of construction on the H&C. The second peninsula went in and subroadbed was graded up through the first switchback in Lubkin Canyon.
On the plus side:
I was able to keep the grade down to 2-2.5% which seems to be about it for blackstone HoN3 locos with any decent size consist in tow.
What to keep? What to change?
I am bringing home my mothers 10' by 11' "O" layout. We have the 3/4" plywood table partially set up again. She had foam roadbed right on top of the plywood. I have scraped the plywood but there is still glue, bits of foam... This is 1940's Lionel and it is loud. I would like to cut down on the noise level. I am thinking to cover the whole table with glued down homasote and then worry about roadbed over the top. Any thoughts?
SN&E The baseboard is finished - ready for the next step
I have finished making the baseboards. Today, I fitted some adjustable bolts to the corners of each board. I then set the boards up on my work top in the hobby room and got everything at a matching level. Here you can see it in place.
Train elevator mechanism
I am going to be forced into a 2 level layout when I move. A lot of helix owners now regret the waste of space and some would prefer not to go from level to level at all. Suddenly lifting a train from the lower yard to the upper yard becomes attractive. All sorts of do it yourself ideas when I Googled this site. Then after spending hours of dreaming and thinking and drawing my lift mechanism was finished. It's been hiding behind my TV for 3 years. When I move I will put the TV on the wall and use the TV electric lift to move my trains up and down.
Layout Update: End of June 2015 - Part 3
The staging level had been completed and running for several months and I had been inching along on the main level due to a lot of diversions to my time in the layout building. But now, I have finally been making some progress on getting a major portion of the visible part of the layout in working condition.
Gorre & Daphetid Railroad Sorethroat branchline
Hello,
it's been quite a while since my last post. I continued on my Garve and Ullapool Railway and rebuilt my Leckmelm modules. I also laid the track at Inverlael station and build a small fiddle yard for the branchline that leaves the main line at Inverlael.
But in early spring I constructed a second level above my Garve and Ullapool Railway. There I will built a H0 american layout. loosely based on John Allens Gorre & Daphetid.
Pokey Progress: Upper Deck II
Work continues slowly but surely on the upper deck of my new N&W Pocahontas District layout. Sub-roadbed for the "west" end of the upper deck has been completed. The track plan has been transferred to the layout, and cork roadbed installed.
The photos follow in the next post.
The Trains Return
Today the layout was finally returned to operational status as a single reunited piece, a process that ended up taking three weeks longer than I anticipated, due to real life being significantly busier than expected. But isn't that how this hobby usually works?
Layout Update: Mid June 2015 - Part 2
This video is Part 2 of Layout Update for mid-June 2015. The first part described the track installation and this part shows how the paper plan for DCC electrical installation is translated to the physical layout.
Middle school model RR: school's out for summer
Classes have ended, we had a nice graduation ceremony for the outgoing eighth graders headed off to high school, I’ve finished end-of-term progress reports and I can finally turn my attention to planning for next year.
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