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Seven Locks & Earl RR

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Seven Locks & Earl RR
Posted by altterrain on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 12:29 AM

The Seven Locks & Earl RR is a work project I have been working on. I have been rebuilding some of the stone walls, leveling and ballasting, redigging grades (one was about 6%), building building kits (Piko & Pola), staging and lighting them and setting out all the little folks. I also built wood and stone portals to run under "deck mountain". Tonight, I helped out with a photo shoot for a "lawyers and their hobbies" story for the magazine "Legal Times".

The layout is a big double loop with two additional point loops. It is all RCS battery power. The layout also features a few EagleWing bridges.

The track plan -

 

The West End (Seven Locks) -

 

The town of Seven Locks - 

I put together the station (repainted), shop, general store, and gas station 

 

I also put together these tractor and wagon kits. I wired the tractor headlights into the landscape lights used for the buildings. The headlights are LEDs with the help of a bridge rectifier and 1K ohm resistor.

 

Center Bridge 

 

Service area (I put together the coaling station)

 

 

East End

 

Far Point Loop (the future location of the town of Earl)

 

 

-Brian 

 

 

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Posted by ttrigg on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 10:49 AM
 altterrain wrote:

The Seven Locks & Earl RR is a work project I have been working on. ... I helped out with a photo shoot for a "lawyers and their hobbies" story for the magazine "Legal Times".

-Brian 

Work project?  Does that mean that you are being PAID by someone else to have FUN????????? Where do I sign up??

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Posted by altterrain on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 11:37 AM

Part of it was fun, like putting together the kits. Others were not, like redigging the grade under the deck when it was a muggy 90 degrees with no breeze Dead [xx(].

-Brian 

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Posted by Camaro1967 on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 12:23 PM

Excellent "work" Brian.  Are you are becoming the east coast version of Rick the RR guy?  This is looking very good.

Paul

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 12:29 PM
 Camaro1967 wrote:

Excellent "work" Brian.  Are you are becoming the east coast version of Rick the RR guy?  This is looking very good.

Paul

Dam, that is a nasty sayn, next Alt will be on eBay tryn to get jobs Laugh [(-D]

Really Alt, not sure I could do it for another unless they where helping. But pay is good too Whistling [:-^]

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Posted by SNOWSHOE on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 3:22 PM
Nice work Brian. 
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Posted by g. gage on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 11:31 PM
Great job Brian; looks like some on line car storage could be developed under the deck, I hate hauling rolling stock back and forth.

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