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Layout Construction Album

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Layout Construction Album
Posted by wm3798 on Friday, May 9, 2008 8:02 AM

I've taken a million pictures of my layout, including numerous shots of it's initial construction phase.  Thought it might be useful to post a link to the album

Early Construction Photos 

Lee 

Route of the Alpha Jets  www.wmrywesternlines.net

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Posted by jag193 on Friday, May 9, 2008 8:13 AM

Lee,

 Looks like it will be a beauty when it's "finished".  I'll bet it will be fun to operate, as well.

Jim

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Posted by MPRR on Friday, May 9, 2008 8:34 AM

Lee

Looks like your doing something right.. Looks great!! I'll be waiting for you to come to my house and build mine for me. Wink [;)]

Mike

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Posted by SpaceMouse on Friday, May 9, 2008 8:54 AM
Now how about a current layout tour. That's one I'd like to see.

Chip

Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.

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Posted by wm3798 on Friday, May 9, 2008 10:17 AM

Route of the Alpha Jets  www.wmrywesternlines.net

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Posted by HEdward on Friday, May 9, 2008 4:45 PM

Great job on the vids.  I'm petty annoyed at youtube right now.  I was showing top rated vids to my sons all day and they were overall, poor quality.  Some were of well modeled scenes but shot poorly.  Some were of crappy scenes just watching thier toys going round and round.  Those crappy vids all had perfect scores and your great vids, of great scenes(with the understanding that some are not as yet finished) with a respectable sound track and steady camera work, each have 2.5 out of five stars.  I hate rating systems that people can cheat on like that.

Even my mother in law was impressed with your layout. 

Proud to be DD-2itized! 1:1 scale is too unrealistic. Twins are twice as nice!
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Posted by joe-daddy on Friday, May 9, 2008 9:13 PM

Lee,

Really nice worksmanship. Thanks for sharing.  I was surprised to see that it was N Scale.

Good luck and I look forward to seeing the work progress!

 

Joe Daddy 

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Posted by wm3798 on Friday, May 9, 2008 9:50 PM

Well, hopefully you cast a vote or two to fix that!  Thanks for your kind notes.

I'm pondering doing a series that follows a couple of crews during an ops session.  It obviously wouldn't be real time, and a lot of it would have to be staged, but I think it would be interesting to demonstrate some main line meets, local switching and yard work.  The biggest challenge would be to find proto sounds to synchronize with everything.

Lee 

Route of the Alpha Jets  www.wmrywesternlines.net

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Posted by dante on Friday, May 9, 2008 10:31 PM
Very well done!
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Posted by Courage8 on Friday, May 9, 2008 11:04 PM
Very nice videos, Lee!  I periodically visit relatives in Frostburg in Western Maryland, and have a growing weekness for WM territory, like Cumberland and the Mount Savage area.  You've done a beautiful job of capturing the look of the heavily wooded mountains and valleys, and the industrial area such as the paper mill (I have a weekness for those, too; worked at a pulp mill to get through college).  Thanks for showing this - it's inspirational to modellers who have accomplished far less than you have!
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Posted by Courage8 on Friday, May 9, 2008 11:05 PM
(Excuse me; I mean, "weakness!")

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