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Layout is starting to come along......

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Layout is starting to come along......
Posted by PRRT1MAN on Friday, March 9, 2018 11:09 AM

After 6 years of planning saving, getting basement ready I have made some great progress this winter on the benchwork.  Still need to build walls to  separate halves of the peninsula but  getting there!

  

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Posted by mbinsewi on Friday, March 9, 2018 11:48 AM

Looking good! Thumbs Up  Looks like a big layout.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Friday, March 9, 2018 12:52 PM

That is going to be nice and big. I like how you trimmed the front sides with wood.

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Posted by nealknows on Sunday, March 11, 2018 8:09 AM

How wide are those sections? Looks like a long reach? 

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Posted by selector on Sunday, March 11, 2018 8:35 AM

Nice looking layout so far.  I hope you are enjoying yourself.

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Posted by bearman on Sunday, March 11, 2018 9:00 AM

If there is access to both sides of the penninsula than reach may not necessarily be an issue.

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Sunday, March 11, 2018 12:46 PM

There is accress from each side from the peninsula so reach on one section is a bit long but the vast majority is 30" or less.

 

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Posted by bearman on Sunday, March 11, 2018 1:05 PM

30 inches is stretching it depending on the height of the layout (and your height), but it is probably doable.

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Friday, March 16, 2018 11:15 AM

Here are some more progress phot0s

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Posted by bearman on Friday, March 16, 2018 1:27 PM

Is that vertical fraime going to be a divider?

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Friday, March 16, 2018 1:37 PM

Uh oh.  A sea of evil OSB waferboard.  Surprise 

I use it too and it's been ok. 

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Friday, March 16, 2018 2:05 PM

bearman

Is that vertical fraime going to be a divider?

 

Yes I have 1/4" drywall that I hope to get added this weekend and mold the tube into it so that i do not have a hard corner at the end.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Friday, March 16, 2018 3:35 PM

That's a pretty cool way to handle the end of the divider wall.  Thumbs Up

Is your back drop going to be painted, or a photo-type glued to the drywall?  The reason I ask,  I've filled many of them, in all different sizes, with concrete, and some have a waxy type finish on the outside to protect them from the weather.

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Friday, March 16, 2018 7:55 PM

mbinsewi

That's a pretty cool way to handle the end of the divider wall.  Thumbs Up

Is your back drop going to be painted, or a photo-type glued to the drywall?  The reason I ask,  I've filled many of them, in all different sizes, with concrete, and some have a waxy type finish on the outside to protect them from the weather.

Mike.

 

The concrete tube I bought is just cardboard. I am going to put drywall compound around the whole outside to blend the drywall to the tube then paint the whole backdrop.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Friday, March 16, 2018 10:40 PM

Alright!  sounds like you got this.

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Saturday, March 17, 2018 7:23 PM

More Progress today!

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Posted by tedtedderson on Saturday, March 17, 2018 7:25 PM

Subscribed to thread. Yes

 

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 11:29 AM

Group,

 

It has been awhile but we have made big progress!  The wife is beyound a man's dream!  She painted all the clouds... I just did the dark blue.

 

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Posted by ATSFGuy on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:17 PM

Looks good so far, what era are you modeling? Any favorite roadnames?

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:39 PM

ATSFGuy

Looks good so far, what era are you modeling? Any favorite roadnames?

 

  Thanks, This is going to be transition era, I am modeling specifically the Pennsy line of the E&P branch. It is named Erie to Pittiburgh but in reality only went from Erie to New Castle PA.  My Grandfather was a track walker for the PRR and I live in the area of the old roadbed... :-( Wish it was still running.

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Posted by ROBERT PETRICK on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:52 PM

ATSFGuy

Looks good so far, what era are you modeling? Any favorite roadnames?

Let's see . . . PRR T1 . . . hmmm . . . I'm guessing he's an SP fan, second gen diesel.

Robert

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Posted by mbinsewi on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 2:12 PM

Lookin good Sam! She's doing a nice job on the clouds. Thumbs Up

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Posted by rrinker on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 4:57 PM

ROBERT PETRICK

 

 
ATSFGuy

Looks good so far, what era are you modeling? Any favorite roadnames?

 

 

Let's see . . . PRR T1 . . . hmmm . . . I'm guessing he's an SP fan, second gen diesel.

Robert

 

 No no, he's a fan of when the PRR leased the BEST T1 - the Reading T1!

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Posted by PRRT1MAN on Wednesday, April 4, 2018 11:25 AM

All the foam is painted a geen for base and I am ready to start cutting the hole for the turntable.

Sam Vastano

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