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Posted by Canondale61 on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 8:34 PM

Hey Allen

Just looking thru the forums and was thinking of you and wanted to wish you and yours a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Take care and update us once and awhile on how your doing.

God Bless

Kevin

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Posted by Canondale61 on Friday, December 7, 2007 8:08 PM

Allan

Glad to hear from you, sorry to hear your walking program is on hold. Really hope the physical therapist can help.

Take care Kevin

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, December 7, 2007 10:55 AM
 Canondale61 wrote:

Bump 

Hey Allan have not heard from you in awhile how are you doing? Hope your walking program is helping. Take care stop by the Elliots dinner for a cup of coffee and some apple pie.

Kevin

Thanks for the concern and good wishes. The walking program is on hold - not enough energy for simple walks right now.  Seems like the cancer will not allow me any recovery; even from the heart attack weakness.  I do have a physical therapist stopping by to help though.

Thanks for the good wishes.

 

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Posted by Canondale61 on Sunday, December 2, 2007 8:32 PM

Bump 

Hey Allan have not heard from you in awhile how are you doing? Hope your walking program is helping. Take care stop by the Elliots dinner for a cup of coffee and some apple pie.

Kevin

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Posted by Canondale61 on Saturday, November 10, 2007 8:31 PM

Alan Good luck with the walking program. We are all pulling for you.

Kevin

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, November 10, 2007 5:22 AM
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Sorry to hear of your setback, hopefully you will continue to improve and get back to your layout soon.  Good luck with the new layout.

 

John

Thanks for the support from all of you guys.  I am starting a walking program to get some of my strength and stamina back.

 

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Posted by jjbmish on Friday, November 9, 2007 3:55 PM

Sorry to hear of your setback, hopefully you will continue to improve and get back to your layout soon.  Good luck with the new layout.

 

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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Friday, November 9, 2007 3:35 PM

Hope you are feeling better, Alan.  I hope that I can have the grace and strength that you've shown if I am ever in your position.  I really look forward to seeing your layout.

 

Jeff But it's a dry heat!

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Posted by Canondale61 on Friday, November 9, 2007 2:50 PM

Sorry to hear of your latest setback. Glad to hear you are doing better. Rest up I miss your weekly updates.

Take care

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, November 9, 2007 10:26 AM
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Have not heard from you for awhile Alan how are you doing. How about S.B. Junction daughters initials.

Kevin

One step forward - three steps backwards.

Spent the entire last weekend in the hospital getting a stent put in my completely blocked right coronary artery.  Looks like everything will be OK.  I was weak from the last series of "problems" and now have trouble just walking 50 feet.

Back to the recovery mode though.  I keep trying.

 

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Posted by Canondale61 on Thursday, November 8, 2007 8:22 PM

Have not heard from you for awhile Alan how are you doing. How about S.B. Junction daughters initials.

Kevin

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 10:50 AM

If you're doing Colorado, German names are not as inappropriate as you might think. After all, there are quite a few German immigrants who have made it big in Colorado.  One who comes to mind is a guy by the name of Adolph Coors...

Also, there are places such as Walsenburg in CO...  Bierbaum may not be so out of place.

Nevertheless, you can probably find some good names in the ol' atlas for southern Colorado.  You may be able to combine a few.

If you're doing the area around Alamosa, you may want to go with Spanish names related to flat or to the foothills.  Hills translate to "Colinas," so that might be a good name.

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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Friday, October 26, 2007 9:46 AM

I thought that you had probably considered a passing track, but sometimes the obvious is missed.  I was going to suggest using a kid's name, but didn't know if you had any.  I like Suzi's Junction.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 26, 2007 8:45 AM
 Vail and Southwestern RR wrote:
 Alan_B wrote:
 Vail and Southwestern RR wrote:

Well, he has a UP and an SF loco, so that narrows it down a bit.  I'm thinking Spanish, but I haven't thought what, maybe Tortilla Flats.  A little bit of a play on words, or maybe I'm just hungry....

 

Let's shoot for southern Colorado; both operated there.  Time period is 1970.

How about the plywood track plan? Any comment (including looks OK ) is acceptable.

 

I think it looks good.  I assume the turnout angles and track spacing are right.  The only thing I would consider would be adding a passing track, maybe across the back, in case you wanted a clockwise train and a counterclockwise train.  Or even two in the same direction.

Town name: Alan's Mesa

(or maybe your last name?)

 

Thanks.  The pencil line layout was done with actual turnouts in place and the spacing is correct.   No room for a passing track. The narrow part is 8" in order to keep me from hitting my head in case I sit up in bed.  I figure that by the time that I start really operating this layout that a little switching will be enough to keep me happy.  I am using the whole open wall section so that I can have a long loop to let me just watch a train run.

Thanks for the name suggestion; still not it though.  My German last name would be out of place ( Bierbaum).

Since it will be operated as a junction (Santa Fe switcher and UP road engine); I may just call it Suzi's Junction (My daughter is nicknamed Suzi).

 

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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Friday, October 26, 2007 1:36 AM
 Alan_B wrote:
 Vail and Southwestern RR wrote:

Well, he has a UP and an SF loco, so that narrows it down a bit.  I'm thinking Spanish, but I haven't thought what, maybe Tortilla Flats.  A little bit of a play on words, or maybe I'm just hungry....

 

Let's shoot for southern Colorado; both operated there.  Time period is 1970.

How about the plywood track plan? Any comment (including looks OK ) is acceptable.

 

I think it looks good.  I assume the turnout angles and track spacing are right.  The only thing I would consider would be adding a passing track, maybe across the back, in case you wanted a clockwise train and a counterclockwise train.  Or even two in the same direction.

Town name: Alan's Mesa

(or maybe your last name?)

 

Jeff But it's a dry heat!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:39 PM
 Vail and Southwestern RR wrote:

Well, he has a UP and an SF loco, so that narrows it down a bit.  I'm thinking Spanish, but I haven't thought what, maybe Tortilla Flats.  A little bit of a play on words, or maybe I'm just hungry....

 

Let's shoot for southern Colorado; both operated there.  Time period is 1970.

How about the plywood track plan? Any comment (including looks OK ) is acceptable.

 

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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:53 PM

Well, he has a UP and an SF loco, so that narrows it down a bit.  I'm thinking Spanish, but I haven't thought what, maybe Tortilla Flats.  A little bit of a play on words, or maybe I'm just hungry....

 

Jeff But it's a dry heat!

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Posted by Dave Vollmer on Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:13 PM

Okay, Alan, I may have missed it...

...but have you chosen a general locale for this layout?  Town names are often very regional.  New England names, for example, have names like "Lyndon Center" or "Crawford Notch."  In Virginia all the couty seats have the name "Court House" in them, like "Spotsylvania Court House."  Many towns in the upper Midwest have German names like "Minster, OH," and so on.

Tell me where you envision your layout being, and I can help you come up with a name.  I'll be out of town this weekend, but I'll check in next week.

Keeo up the good work!

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 6:20 PM

 Vail and Southwestern RR wrote:
Probably not Singletown, either, huh?  Big Smile [:D]

Nope Cool [8D]

I have laid out the track on the plywood.  can't seem to get a decent picture though.  I traced over the pencil lines with PSP and added some text.  The track is the narrow lines.  The plywood will be cut about where the heavy black line is.  The bottom panel goes to the right of the top panel ( 2 -8' sections combined into one 16' layout).  Both panels will have 1.5" added to the top as shown (back of layout against the wall).  The back track will have a 1 to 1.5% up and down grade for visual separation from the rest of the layout.  Direction of travel is counter-clockwise on the outer loop.

Sorry for the poor quality; however, this is the only track plan that I have.

 

 

Tracks from top to bottom:

continuous run loop

3 track classification yard - yard lead to right

caboose track

2 industrial tracks - buildings will be here

continuous run loop

Please comment on the track plan before I make any cuts or lay any track.  Thanks

 

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Posted by Vail and Southwestern RR on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 11:15 PM
Probably not Singletown, either, huh?  Big Smile [:D]

Jeff But it's a dry heat!

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:22 PM
 Canondale61 wrote:

Please keep us posted on your work. I really have missed the story of between a rock and a hardspot rr. Take care.

Kevin

I will keep everyone updated.  As soon as I get the heavy stuff done; I will get back to the BAH RR for as long as I can get to it (at some point, going up and down to the basement will be beyond my physical ability).  Then I will get back to detailing the new N layout.

 pcarrell wrote:

 Alan_B wrote:
I will probably start a new thread; as soon as I can come up with a catchy name for the layout and it's single community (town ?)

How about "Singleton"? Big Smile [:D]

Singleton does not really hit the "that-is-it" button for me - thanks for the try.

 

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Posted by Canondale61 on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 8:15 PM

Please keep us posted on your work. I really have missed the story of between a rock and a hardspot rr. Take care.

Kevin

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Posted by pcarrell on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 3:41 PM

 Alan_B wrote:
I will probably start a new thread; as soon as I can come up with a catchy name for the layout and it's single community (town ?)

How about "Singleton"? Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:46 PM
 jjbmish wrote:

Good Luck with the new layout, based on your previous work, I am planning on seeing it move along very rapidly.  Keep us informed on how it's going!!  Your photo's have been great to watch on your other layout.

 

John

Thanks John for the nice comments.  I bought a sheet of 1/2" ply and a sheet of 3/16" Masonite yesterday for construction.  I am going to lay cork roadbed on the ply and use the Masonite for backdrop and fascia.  Except for the wall side straight run; there will not be any grades.  The back track grade will be about 1.5% and is just to get some visual separation across the narrow center section.

I will start layout of the track centers today and will document the process in case it will help some one else.  Yes, time is short so I will have to hustle along.  I will probably start a new thread; as soon as I can come up with a catchy name for the layout and it's single community (town ?).

 

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Posted by jjbmish on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:22 PM

Good Luck with the new layout, based on your previous work, I am planning on seeing it move along very rapidly.  Keep us informed on how it's going!!  Your photo's have been great to watch on your other layout.

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:54 PM
 Canondale61 wrote:

Have you gone to David V. Pennsy site. He has an N gauge on a door that might interest you.

Kevin

I know about David's door layout.  It is extremely well done and interesting.

I do not have the space for a door sized layout, or even the temporary 30" x 60" loop that I am playing with now.  The present loop is just a quick way to test everything out and break-in the loco's.  It will disappear shortly and give me back the room between my desk chair and the bed.

I do have the room for the shelf layout that I will begin building next week.  I will build the right side ( 8' long ) in my basement shop and just bring it upstairs and install it.  The left side ( 8' ) will be assembled and ready for landscaping when it is brought up.  The final landscaping and detail work (buildings, ect.) will be done in place.  Surface area wise, it will be about 30 sq feet and will fit one wall easily without impacting the use of the room.

Nice of you the think about it though.  Thanks.

 

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Posted by Canondale61 on Saturday, October 20, 2007 9:26 PM

Have you gone to David V. Pennsy site. He has an N gauge on a door that might interest you.

Kevin

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 20, 2007 12:12 PM

 Canondale61 wrote:
Keep us posted with pics of this new empire.
Kevin

I posted this on the general forum; but forgot to post it here.

I have built a simple oval for loco break-in and testing ( 140" of track).  Both loco's now have about 2 hrs each of running.  They both run great from a dead slow crawl to about a scale 80 mph.

For all of you Digitrax Zephyr fans: note that I had to break out the manual to change the loco's address.  I never need the manual for my Prodigy Advance (on the HO layout).  I have been using the Zephyr for months on my workbench with decoder pro (did not want to drag the computer interface upstairs today).

I set the oval up beside the bed on a couple of sawhorses.  All of the other stuff (except the rolling stock ) will end up in my basement shop.

Here is picture of both loco's actually running.

It may be late next week; however, I will document the new layout construction when I get started.  Based on the two loco's; it looks like my time period will be around 1970.

Thanks to all of you for your help.

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Posted by Canondale61 on Saturday, October 20, 2007 4:48 AM
Keep us posted with pics of this new empire.
Kevin

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