Hi Mike,
have been to your club layout a number of times. It looks like everybody worked quite hard on finishing some more scenery. Really like the layout, the detail and the people. Looking forward to the open house on November 11, 2007. Learn something new every time I go there.
Glad you put your web site http://www.yorkrailwaymodellers.info/ into your reply in this thread.
Frank
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0-6-0 wrote:Hello here is my dads layout still work in progress but is still fun
Hello here is my dads layout still work in progress but is still fun
You need to sit down with your dad and have a serious talk. For a layout under construction that room is w-a-a-a-y too clean.
Tom
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An aerial view at the 25th anniversary of the FREMO
This was one of four gyms! Only one big European layout in this hall.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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If only my garage was this big!
That's funny about the ceiling fans. I was up on a ladder taking a picture for this thread and got whacked on the head too. Apparently us model railroaders aren't too good with situational awareness.
Bill, that's not a layout, that's an empire. Does that whole building belong to the club? How many members do you have? Just from what I can see in the picture, the layout looks exceptionally well detailed for a club layout.
Here is an aerial shot of my club's layout in which we are in the October issue of RMC.
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"Some photos are blurry as i was balancing on the arm of the couch"
I hope not too many people were injured trying to get these aerial shots!
I'm not posting pictures because I can't get high enough/far enough away to get more than about 20% in any given shot -- not that the layout's that big (it's 8' x 20' with a 2' x 7' staging yard entension), it's the room that's too small!
UP2CSX wrote: Printer wrote:Mike,I may be missing something in the pic, I can see how you would move a train from either inner loop to outer, or outer to inner loop, depending on the direction of travel, but how do they get back to the "other" track?Just wondering. I like the layout though.ScootSimple, you just back the train through a trailing point turnout and then you're back on the other oval. Probably another crossover on the other side of the line would be easier though.
Printer wrote:Mike,I may be missing something in the pic, I can see how you would move a train from either inner loop to outer, or outer to inner loop, depending on the direction of travel, but how do they get back to the "other" track?Just wondering. I like the layout though.Scoot
Simple, you just back the train through a trailing point turnout and then you're back on the other oval. Probably another crossover on the other side of the line would be easier though.
My N-scale layout is 33 1/2" X 49"
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UP2CSX wrote:Holy Cow, Bob, is that your personal layout or a club? That's some mighty impressive layout work there. I showed it to my wife and now she's thankful for my dinky little layout.
Jim, it's my club's layout. The section in the pic is any about 1/2 of the planned finished layout.
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
Couldn't get any more altitude for this one. Was already up to the 12 ft ceiling.
msowsun wrote:Here is my 4x8 layout at home for me and my 2 sons:Mike Sowsun
Here is my 4x8 layout at home for me and my 2 sons:
Mike Sowsun
LilBeckett, that looks like a pretty good start for a learning model. I'll be interested to see how that mountain comes out.
Terry, those are a great overview of your layout. Now you need to get a tripod so we can see it all clearly. I'm especially interested in what the bridges look like without the blur. I like the looks of Thurmond. Now, if you can find a way to make it look overcast and everything black from soot and coal dust, you'll have it.
Note to self : When taking aerial photos turn off ceiling fan !
Going around the layout clockwise
Some photos are blurry as i was balancing on the arm of the couch
South Side Jct.
Loup Creek Coal Company
Mt Hope and the Kanawa Valley Co-op Power Company upper left
tracks go thru Mountain to the mine for a loads in emptys out operation
south end of Mt Hope
Gauley River Bridges
Thurmond coaling tower and engine house
Thurmond Main Buildings
LilBeckett88 wrote: Here is my pretty straight forward layout. I'm mostly using this layout as learning aid.
Here is my pretty straight forward layout. I'm mostly using this layout as learning aid.
Kevin,
Here is Larry's updated 3rd PlanIt design.
The layout size is 13' x 13.5'. Visible mainline curves are 28"r, and 2 curves in the tunnels are 24"r. Mainline is flat and most of the grades are 3%, with some 6% up to the log landings.
Sue
Anything is possible if you do not know what you are talking about.
Oh, no, it's another Mike
Anyway, for Mike Sowsun, that 4x8 looks like ther perfect layout for you and the kids to work on. Nothing too complicated but lots of running room. Now get those boys to work on the roads and that lake. The club layout is very impressive. How many members do you have? Looks like it much be a bunch to build and maintain a layout that large. The sceniced parts look really good for a club layout. The club I belonged to was also had a huge layout and everyone was so exhausted from laying track and getting in all the moutains and other scenery that we just plopped some buildins down, painted in some roads, callled it a day. That was suposed to get upgraded but never did in the five years I was with the club. Every time someone was ready to work on the town scenes, something else broke on the layout and we had to work on that. Cripes, just keeping the tracks clean was almost a full-time job.
That's odd - I don't recall laying any track in the desert
No, Mike I'm sorry but I hadn't heard of that.
Mike
Modelling the UK in 00, and New England - MEC, B&M, D&H and Guilford - in H0
Mike,
I remember seeing something, on Discovery or the History Channel, about a mining operation out in the desert there. The condition of the track limited speed to about 15 MPH and the trip took over eight hours at that speed.
The operator at one end would start the locomotives and jump off. At the other end of the line, another operator would climb on and stop the train.
Do you know if they're still doing this?
"Wasn't there an iron ore operation that used to run huge trains pulled by Alco 630's or something like that?"
Yes Jim - both BHP and Hammersley Iron ran Alcos. BHP had at least one Alco M-636, although I'm no authority.
Also I've learned that Mt Newman mining had 2 F7As that were in service until 1971. One of those has been restored to mainline standard.
And here is the layout at the club I belong to in Toronto, Ontario, Canada:
http://www.yorkrailwaymodellers.info/
I've heard our modern GE and EMD locos described as machine shops on wheels and I think that's pretty accurate. I do like the classic style of an F or E units, even early GP's by comparison. There's not much left in industrial design now except utility.
IIRC, both EMD and Alco has Australian subsidiaries. I know I've seen some double ended units that looked very similar to F-7's. I think Alco stayed on as a player in Austrailia long after it wen kaput here. Wasn't there an iron ore operation that used to run huge trains pulled by Alco 630's or something like that?
Jim - you're more up to date on the UK scene than I am Thanks for posting that info.
I can only really comment on Queensland rail which is narrow guage and therefore a bit hard to come by for the modeller. Our stuff seems to be a bit of a cross between UK and US. You don't see much if any 4 axle stock these days. Our modern locos aren't too exciting to look at, they're like long boxes on wheels to me, but the earlier ones were nice and some had the rounded hood a bit like a much smaller version of your F7s.
Cheers