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Balrog21 · December 30, 2012, 10:57:53 AM

yeah, jw, they will be elminated once we get more track in. thanks for the comment!

Balrog21 · December 30, 2012, 10:58:34 AM

thanks M1, we are both looking forward to the new year and workingn on the layout!

Ken G Price · December 30, 2012, 09:56:05 PM

Here are some of my Bachmann N-scale cars and engines.
Right Click on mouse, View Image to enlarge.

rogertra · December 31, 2012, 01:38:11 AM

Quote from: Ken G Price on December 30, 2012, 09:56:05 PM
Here are some of my Bachmann N-scale cars and engines.
Right Click on mouse, View Image to enlarge.

Excellent work Ken.

Balrog21 · December 31, 2012, 10:40:20 AM

Nice job, Ken!
Here also is a little treat for those of you who watched the video of mine, where I talked about the ICG car and locomotive repair yard in my home town in McComb, MS..here is 'part' of the blueprint for the yard..its got even more stuff but my camera wouldn't get it all! Hope you like it!

Ken G Price · December 31, 2012, 05:11:30 PM

Quote from: Balrog21 on December 31, 2012, 10:40:20 AM
Nice job, Ken!
Here also is a little treat for those of you who watched the video of mine, where I talked about the ICG car and locomotive repair yard in my home town in McComb, MS..here is 'part' of the blueprint for the yard..its got even more stuff but my camera wouldn't get it all! Hope you like it!

I have though of doing with a map of an area.

thomas81z · January 03, 2013, 01:38:55 PM

here a local guys layout & thats my MTH 757 B4 i moved to fla,man i miss basements

thomas81z · January 03, 2013, 01:47:22 PM

that my cheyenne yard in the house i had in new hampshire
then my son took it over in 2007 so it got made into guilford/ pan am railway

no steam in sight

thomas81z · January 03, 2013, 01:49:52 PM

a little mishap

thomas81z · January 03, 2013, 02:01:36 PM

another of the yard

Ken G Price · January 03, 2013, 06:11:49 PM

thomas81z, Not only do you tease with one picture, you then add a bunch more nice ones.

What are your future plans for a layout?

thomas81z · January 03, 2013, 08:40:01 PM

THANKS KEN

but i sold the house & tore down the layout

& moved to florida & there are no basements so i have all this articulated steam & they al sit in my apt closet

Balrog21 · January 04, 2013, 09:45:15 AM

that's sad to hear, Thomas... $:-\$

Ken G Price · January 04, 2013, 08:05:13 PM

Quote from: thomas81z on January 03, 2013, 08:40:01 PM
THANKS KEN but i sold the house & tore down the layout & moved to florida & there are no basements so i have all this articulated steam & they al sit in my apt closet

Yes, that is sad

(Since I have never lived in Florida or had a basement. My large shed works better then nothing.)
Seems you need to find a round robin group or a module group. But I'm sure you have thought of all they ways by now. $:-\$

J3a-614 · January 04, 2013, 08:42:05 PM

I'm curious. Thomas--have you considered a skinny shelf layout? In HO you could go to as little as 6 inches in depth, in some cases even less. I was contemplating something like that in my old apartment, even though I never got around to it. I would have been using a 4-4-0, a 4-6-0, and one or two 2-8-0s, set on the Chesapeake & Ohio of course--but representing a branch from around 1918 or so, with wooden freight and passenger cars, the latter painted orange and maroon! Would have been a change of pace from modeling the same road in the 1940s, with the huge steam power it had then!

Crossing doors and the like can be a challenge, but it has been done. You may not be able to have an engine terminal with a roundhouse and turntable, but you can have some respectable main line scenes, even a shallow town with switching activity.

Those who work in N scale may find this is even better for that size.

Alternately, I am doodling some ideas for a "high line" for my living room, one that runs above windows and doors. This would be themed after my wife's favorite road, the Pennsylvania (the C&O being planned for the basement). . .and yes, I have a Bachmann K4s for the passenger service. . .now, let's hope your landlord won't complain too much about the holes for the shelf brackets or whatever you might use to hold up the railroad. . .

Ideas:

http://smallmodelrailroads.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/peshekee-river-railroad-ho-shelf-layout-design/

http://smallmodelrailroads.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/layout_small1.jpg

http://i1192.photobucket.com/albums/aa332/mcfujiwara/Portland%20and%20Pacific%20RailRoad/PPRR-1x16shelf-straightwithcurvedfront-altyard1-4ii11.jpg

Of course, I couldn't mention working in limited areas without recalling the late Carl Arendt, whose website devoted to small railroads is thankfully still being maintained by others.

http://www.carendt.com/

Have fun.

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