Last friday night I held the very first op session on my layout. The purpose of this session was to test the layout, but we ended up having a lot of fun!
Below is a shot, and here is the rest of the op session report:
http://www.sp-coastline.com/2008/09/first-operating-session.html
Larry
http://www.youtube.com/user/ClinchValleySD40
http://www.flickr.com/photos/52481330@N05/
http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/showgallery.php/cat/500/page/1/ppuser/8745/sl/c
Dude!!! You're nuts! This is awesome. You need to start posting more here so people know about this layout of yours you've got going!
Great freakin' work man. I knew you were young, from your pictures, but wasn't expecting 31 lol. When did you start this? And I see that you list "Internet" as your occupation. You must make a killing to be able to afford all that space and then all the stuff you've done in it, haha.
I really wanna see more of your weathering work, I really really like it. The 2 examples you showed inspired by Model trains Weathered are AWESOME.
DeadheadGreg wrote:Dude!!! You're nuts! This is awesome. You need to start posting more here so people know about this layout of yours you've got going!Great freakin' work man. I knew you were young, from your pictures, but wasn't expecting 31 lol. When did you start this?
Great freakin' work man. I knew you were young, from your pictures, but wasn't expecting 31 lol. When did you start this?
Hey, thanks for the kind words dude! I started planning this layout in June 2006, construction started in December 2006.
DeadheadGreg wrote:And I see that you list "Internet" as your occupation. You must make a killing to be able to afford all that space and then all the stuff you've done in it, haha.
I zipped it, it uses only few TeraBytes of my basement :)
Actually I am a UNIX/Linux sysadmin, but most of the people don't know what that means...
DeadheadGreg wrote:I really wanna see more of your weathering work, I really really like it. The 2 examples you showed inspired by Model trains Weathered are AWESOME.
Thanks! Far from being comparable to the MTW super works, but I am pretty happy with them. I have some more weathered cars coming, so stay tuned!
denny99 wrote: DeadheadGreg wrote:And I see that you list "Internet" as your occupation. You must make a killing to be able to afford all that space and then all the stuff you've done in it, haha.I zipped it, it uses only fre TeraBytes of my basement :)
I zipped it, it uses only fre TeraBytes of my basement :)
Zipping it, now why didn't I think of that for my layout, if I could just get a higher compression ratio for the space I'm using... That was great, thanks for the geek chuckle
In all seriousness though, excellent work, your layout looks fantastic.
Modeling the fictional B&M Dowe, NH branch in the early 50's.
denny99 wrote: Actually I am a UNIX/Linux sysadmin, but most of the people don't know what that means...
actually, the only reason I DO know what that means is because when I was a sophmore in high school, one of my Jr. friends was already a WHIZ at Linux. I didn't get it... but thats why he's the sysadmin/IT guy at Lafarge Cement, which apparently is next to the largest rail yard in the USA right now? (Selkirk, NY)
DeadheadGreg wrote:actually, the only reason I DO know what that means is because when I was a sophmore in high school, one of my Jr. friends was already a WHIZ at Linux. I didn't get it... but thats why he's the sysadmin/IT guy at Lafarge Cement, which apparently is next to the largest rail yard in the USA right now? (Selkirk, NY)
Hey, how cool is that? I'm jealous, I want to be a sysadmin for company close to a yard, too :)
Perhaps you'd like to see some more pics and read a short report of another op session on the SP Coast Line:
http://www.sp-coastline.com/2008/10/september-27th-op-session.html