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ET&WNC Stoney Creek branch
I'm modeling the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina in On30 (yes, using Bachmann locomotives). Knowing I'd never be able to do true justice to the real railroad, I 'protolanced' a fictional branch line up Stoney Creek, which in real life is just East of Elizabethton, TN. My parents grew up there.
The layout takes place in 1943 (when both my parents were about 7 years old) and pretty much fills a small (11X10) room.
This installment covers construction:
Great Works weekend
A great weekend of work. The crew has finished up the last of the bench work with fascia going up in the last areas. Cabinets being finished with doors hung and painted.
TT scale US layout
B&M SHOWING in HO on CMRRClub's modular layout. Depicting the B&M from Manchester to White River JCT
The Concord Model Railroad Club is having it's 29th Annual show this coming Sunday, August 17th, 2014.
The Concord Model Railroad Club http://www.trainweb.org/cmrc/ has a permanent location in Penacook NH, just north of Concord NH
First blog on the MRH site
Did a video today on the work I have done on my layout in the last month. It discusses the lower level in detail and the small expansion I did on the upper level.
As always, check out my main blog at: www.virginiamidlandrr.blogspot.com
Update on new layout after watching end of the line
After watching Trainmasters TV March 2014 act two and a possibility of a move, I evaluated my current layout Colorado and Coyote Creek. And on May 29, 2014 I began tearing down the layout. Since then I have had two other gentlemen join my crew and we now have a four-man crew working to build the new layout.
I would like to share with Model Railroad Hobbyist members the work that we have accomplished in the last two months. Here is a short video on my update for August 3, 2014.
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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Dallas & Western HO Model Railroad
A great railroad with more space than owner knows what to do with. I am sure this will change over time.
A middle school model railroad
I'm a middle school math teacher. This last year I began to use model railroading as a vehicle for engaging my students with fun, interesting and educational activities that have vivid connections to meaningful real-world themes.
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