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Carl Swanson, editor
MODEL RAILROADER Magazine
Link?
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Carl,
It looks like you added the word "Survey", but it does not work when you click it.
Rich
Alton Junction
Sorry about that!
The link seems to be working again.
Thanks!
Yup, it is working.
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Just submitted mine!
Toy Trains, they are not just an adventure, they are a way of life !
I just submitted mine too! I like this survey because it was short and to the point.
“Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.”
AZ-Flyer@American Flyer Cabinet-top Layout (5'x16'): http://az-flyer.blogspot.com/
On question 4, you needed to add inertia
Just submitted mine.
I agree fife.
The main problem for me is what to call The "Blueboard" Central Division of American Flyer Lines if I cover up the blue board.
Enjoying the World's Greatest Hobby
Northwoods Flyer
The Northwoods Flyer Collection
of
American Flyer Trains
"The Toy For the Boy"
Mr. Swanson,
What finally happens to all these project layouts? Are they sold off?Enquiring minds want to know.
George
Re: Question #4 Just wondering..... If a significant number of folks check off the "cost" box would Kalmbach publish a "Penny-pincher" guide with cost saving ideas? (Could be a 'best seller'!!!)
Hi folks, I posted a couple of pictures of the Patzwald layout last night. They might show up in the near future. I don't know if there is such a thing but I think I am building a high rail toy layout. I love the scenery but love my Lionel operating accessories and Plasticville. I never did fit well in pidgeon holes.
Bob
traindaddy1 Re: Question #4 Just wondering..... If a significant number of folks check off the "cost" box would Kalmbach publish a "Penny-pincher" guide with cost saving ideas? (Could be a 'best seller'!!!)
Hey! That's a good idea! I'd like to see that as a monthly column! Maybe right after the News or Q and A sections? Kent Johnson's had some good ideas for low-budget mods lately, maybe he'd consent to do it?
PS: ...and speaking of monthly, are we ever going to get up to 12?
Just finished the survey, I selected "Retro" as the closest match, but I saw nothing resembling mine, which could be described as "Green painted table". This year I took about 1/2 of the layout, ripped up the Lionel tubular track, replaced it with GarGraves, added ballast, "dirt", grass and a few bushes. So I have a half scenery & half no scenery. Not sure if I am going to do more.
The last question should include the ability to choose more than one reason, or at least an "All of the above" option.
Hello George,
Thanks for your question about our project railroads.
Generally we keep them on hand for several years. They're displayed in a hallway in our office and we haul them to local train shows. Once they've run their course (and train shows can really beat up a railroad!), we either donate them to a railroad club or just salvage what we can for use on future projects.
Carl
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That was one of the fastest, shortest, easiest surveys I've ever taken.
Carl, speaking of Project Layouts, I remember seeing the "Clinchfield" N Scale layout at a train show in Cleveland somewhere around 1980, give or take a year or two. I still have the Kalmbach "Build The Clinchfield" book in my train book collection. If my memory serves me right, it was won in a MR Sweepstakes by someone. I wonder if it is still around?
Cobrabob.
Hi Carl,
I answered the survey, but it really doesn't reflect what my layout looks like. It looks like what model railroads that were pictured in the 1948-1958 issues of MR looked like, since that was the type of layout I dreamed of building when I was a kid.
Sort of a "HI-Rail" using mid '50s techniques and mid 50's ideas about track plans, with a ton of John Allen style details including some of the visual and verbal puns and purposeful anachronisms that Model Railroaders were fond of using in the 1950s.
It suits me, but I'm sure it would not please everyone.
Little Tommy
I wish the survey would have included being able to select more than one answer on question number 4. My layout is toy train style and I would like to see more low cost ideas in how to do better scenery and develop my very crude skills. The club a belong to does small portable layouts that have scenery that ranges from toy train to detailed. Some cna be changed depending on our mood. These portable layouts fit in the back or our vehicles and set up quick to show people how fun O guage trains can be.
Founding member of the All Aboard Fastrackers! See us at: www.allaboardfastrackers.com
Check this out
http://www.pbase.com/atsf_arizona/n_scale_clinchfield_rr
Banks, Proud member of the OTTS TCA 12-67310
I like the idea of a "penny-pincher" column. I am always interested in how I can make something that looks good on the cheap. That's why I build my own structures from scratch.
Good morning all,
Buckeye, belated happy birthday I was unable to get on the forum yesterday.
Still have not solved DCS PS2 problem with bad E-6 engine. Tried everything, nothing works. May get some help from a friend.
Got to run for church this morning.
Later,
Ray
SPMan
To Bob M who wrote the last post, How do you get your plywood to look like it has some texture. I painted a brown earthen tone, and then threw down some grass, but the evenness of the plywood is stil very obvious.
By the way, I just comment, in spite of all the very good articles in CTT, they are reduced to maybe 6 or 7 pics, or 30 or 35 perhaps in a series on a project road. However, you know how a lot of time you try an effect and have to make 5 or six attempts to get it fir correctly and integrated into the scenery--cutting a little of this or that here and there. So you might have 5 or 6 pics of one scenic detail alone, in various stages of progress. Well check out a thread on Model Train Journal called Ongoing Layout Progress by Frank53. He has been building an O gauge tubular track layout, and there are 5 years of pictures and comments (and those of readers) showing the incremental progress on the scenery all over his approx 12 x 12 room filling layout. That is really what I need to know how you get from nothing to SOMETHING!
stuartmit To Bob M who wrote the last post, How do you get your plywood to look like it has some texture. I painted a brown earthen tone, and then threw down some grass, but the evenness of the plywood is stil very obvious. (snip)
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I am not sure if you are referring to my post in this topic, where I mentioned "Green painted table", or the other topic (First attempt at scenery) where I included some pictures. this is the topic: http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/184393.aspx.
The Green painted table has no texture. I bought plywood finished on one side, so it is smooth. The only "grass" I have so far is a small patch of Woodland Scenics Blended Turf, T1349, which I sprinkled over some tan sand. I think I used Elmers white glue & water to make it stick. Later I added a few W-S Bushes Light green FC1645, and I used rubber cement to attach those. The picture in the other topic was taken January 17th. Since then I have not been able to continue working/playing with the trains due to the demands of the worst ever New England winter. The original plain green shows in an older picture in the same topic.
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