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Shelf onstruction
Anybody build a shelf layout with a 36 in turnaround, a 6 ft shelf. Is it possible without a post support?
Hand laid track process
Hi all,
After initial construction of my fist module I am starting to hand lay my track. You can see the lie of the track in the image below. I have a Fast Tracks Nn3 #5 jig and components to built plenty of track for my Russian narrow gauge TT logging line. See post on my track plan HERE.
Blair Line Sam's Roadhouse on the S&NE
I needed a "seedy" building just outside the gates of the freight yard and Blair Line's Sam's Roadhouse seemed to fit the bill. Their description is:
Quebec and Ontario based Canadian Modular Homelayout
Hello MRH community,
my name is Marc (34) and I'm modeling Parts of the CN, CP and QGRY network in Ontario and Quebec, Canada.
My home layout is modular, so I can attend some FREMO meetings if there's one not too far away.
I'm modeling in N-Scale and our group performs regular ops session with waybills, car cards, dispatcher or callboard (depending on the amount of present operators).
Eastern California V2.0 Update #1
The first weekend of construction has come to a close and benchwork is underway on the new modern layout.
Fun With Flat Cars
People who visit my layout often mistake me for a “serious” model railroader. While I may be enthusiastic, eager, enthralled, happy, engaged and other positive attributes, I am not entirely serious.
I often have fun placing humorous or disconcerting elements in various scenes. As I have said before, I amuse myself sometimes.
Limon Layout building bridges
Started investigating wood Howe Truss bridge kit options for my layout. I looked at kits on the internet and searched the forums, and then I came across Black Bear Scale Models. They offer a template system and then kit packs of wood and other bits to build them. So I figured out cost wise you make an initial template buy then all you had to buy was more wood bundles.
First trains running on the Duluth & Iron Range Lakefront Division!
The track crew (me) has been hard at work putting down handlaid code 55 track. The crew has gotten from Two Harbors to Knife River in the past few days. I've used up my wood ties, and I have another hundred feet or so of mainline that will be laid with ME c55 flex track.
The real Lakefront Division was completed in 1886 as a requirement for the D&IR to satisfy the conditions of the land grant they received from the state. It ran for 26 scenic miles along the north shore of Lake Superior from Duluth to Two Harbors, MN.
Trackwork
Has anyone tried using CV ties as individual ties? I would like to have very wide spacing between the ties for an industrial yard. Even the CV branchline ties aren't spaced out very much. I was thinking of making skeleton track with hand spiked wooden ties and then filling in with CV ties. The wooden ties might need to be shimmed. Tie spacing in yards can be up 30" on center. Ties were spaced closer only under the rail joints.
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