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Walk Through Lift Gate
I am interested in finding a good plan on how to make a simple walk through lift gate for operators to easily pass between the inside and outside of a layout.
Warren A Evans
Covington, Louisiana
NMRA / NASG
water
Hey Gang!
What's the best way to model deep water?..I want to make the water for my GB&W Fox River Crossing and would like it to be over 1" thick. I was looking at Envirotex light and multi pours.Is there anything better out there?
Also will the material attack the pink foam river edges?
thanks Paul B
San Dieago Passenger Station in N Scale
To All: Many years ago I built this San Diego Passenger Station for a customer in Japan. He sent me blueprints from 1914, that were 7 feet long, to accurately build it!. It is completely scratch built and I made a special box to ship it in, as even in N Scale it is 4 feet long!

Columbia River Crossing - N scale shelf layout
Finally I have made some headway on the layout! I got the last filler module glued and screwed together last night. I drilled a largish hole for the wiring to pass thru the endplates and got all the modules bolted together. They still need to be shimmed and then screwed to the shelf brackets.

Power Supply Run Length Limit?
I must make a decision where to mount a Digitrax PS2012 power supply so I can route 120v to the correct location. The plan is to use two boosters each centered in the middle of their respective buss runs to keep the buss length below the maximum 50' Digitrax recommends. The single PS2012 will power both boosters. I would like to mount the power supply 20-30 wire run feet from either booster. The run from power supply to boosters goes up to the ceiling, through the joists, and drops at the booster location. This creates the run lengths shown.
Scratchbuilt Grain Elevator
This elevator was originally built for one of my modules as part of a portable layout group that has since gone dormant. I'm revising my home layout so I'm going to try to work it into the new trackplan.
More roadbed work on the G&AM
I have added risers to the subroadbed I cut out yesterday. Now it starts to look more like a railroad.

Ophir trestle remains on the RGS
Finally updating my own website, but rediscovering some amazing photography. Read below for more...
http://rgsrr.blogspot.com/2012/03/amazing-photos-from-ophir-loops.html
Narrow gauge yard on my Collier bluffs and poker flats layout.
While 90% standard gauge my layout does feature a NG branch. Mostly because some of my freinds GAVE me the equipment and track to get started. Heres a shot of the yard.
Dwarf Signal
I have designed and produced a O scale, scale-sized (1/48) B&O CPL dwarf signal, built from the plans of the General Railway Signal Type VA dwarf. Here's a picture of the painted signal:
You can find the details on my blog here:
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