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Posted by RI Jim on Monday, March 15, 2004 6:50 PM
Tried several times to post a picture here but haven't gotten the hang of it yet. In the meantime, you can see pics of my layout on my website: http://www.msnusers.com/MYTRAINLAYOUT . Enjoy.
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Posted by MartyE on Monday, March 15, 2004 6:58 PM
I bet the nice bright clean room makes a worls of difference in running and being in the train room.

Looks great Craig. I'd love to have some nice shelves like that!

Trying to update my avatar since 2020 Laugh

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Posted by Craignor on Monday, March 15, 2004 6:59 PM
Folks,

I just discovered a cool feature of this forum...put you cursor on one of my pics and click it...it gets enlarged...thats cool.

I tried it with others...some do and some do not. Its is probably because I loaded a pic that was 600x400 pixels, and the forum resized it to half of that. But its cool to have the option of enlarging and getting a closer view on some of these pics.[8D]
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Posted by Craignor on Monday, March 15, 2004 7:14 PM
Marty,

Thanks.[:)]

Yes...the new finished basement room makes a world of difference compared to the dungeon it was before.

Now, I have heat, a powder room (I call it the Doghouse...hehehe), recessed cans with dimmers, 2 recessed banks of flourescents on a seperate circuit with a on/off switch, wall to wall carpet, a storage room for our junk, a drop ceiling, and its clean down there to boot.

We took a lot of junk to good will when preparing for the job. Its unbelievabe how much junk one acquires, and why we keep it.

The layout is much quieter now.

The racks are great...they are Railrax, $16 per 6 feet, they were easy to put up. The racks are nice because they show the trains off, and are somewhat unobtrusive in doing so.

I want to get some railroad related art for some of the walls, and a couple more bar stools, and I will be pretty much done.

There are some open spots on the layout that I left open on purpose. I will fill these with either scratch built buildings or buildings I see that catch my eye.

The main problem I am having now is that both of my boys, 2 and 7, want a consist of their choosing running at one time...I only have two loops. So, Daddy does most of his runnng after bedtime. I should have made three loops!

Oh well. These are good problems to have I suppose.[:)]

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Posted by superwarp1 on Monday, March 15, 2004 7:50 PM


test test did this work?
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 15, 2004 8:35 PM
craignor, using Netscape it's a left click, but anyway, thanks for reporting this "hidden feature".[8D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 15, 2004 8:41 PM
big boy, (how) are you going to "hide" the helix?

I hope to build one in a year or two, under the table leading to additional on-line storage.


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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 15, 2004 9:58 PM
I know is late but since this is the first one of these (I think) I have to get in on it. JIM
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Posted by Craignor on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:01 AM
Thanks Rick,

Of course you are correct. My bad![:D]

Good to see you over here. The more I explore this website, the more I like it!
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 8:44 AM
Craignor, I really like your layout, it has a classic look as if it could have been in a 1950s Lionel Catalog. JIM
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Posted by spankybird on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 9:53 AM
Hi Rick H.

Oh what great memories of Euclid Beach Park.
tom

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Posted by spankybird on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:26 AM
Hi Craig,

I got the building of the shelves down pat by now. It helps with a radial saw and buying good lumber. It takes about 6 hours for each section.








I call this “The not so round house”

tom

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Posted by cnw1995 on Tuesday, March 16, 2004 11:51 AM
Wow, you did a nice job with those shelves.

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Posted by pennsy_fan on Friday, April 16, 2004 11:41 PM
I like the photos on this topic, so I thought I'd post to bring this back to the front page to give the newbies a view,( and make it easier to find[:)]
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Posted by spankybird on Saturday, April 17, 2004 8:02 AM
Hi Penney_Fan,

Because of the amount of pictures being posted, we have been doing a new thread each week with that Sundays date. If its all on one posting, it would take way to long to load with dial up.

Please join the fun with posting some pics. We normally will have the thread call something like ‘Sunday Photo Fun 4-18-04’.

I have already made my pics for posting.



tom

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