I'm pleased to report that we installed 3 (or possibly 4) industrial-sized dehumidifiers over this past summer; as a result, it was the driest summer on the layout on record. The larger problem now is that the insulation on the heating and cooling water pipes set into the ceiling is starting to fail.
We have also completed the steel mill at Port Henry, and work in Vergennes and on the Addison Branch is continuing. We are also rebuilding the bridge on the causeway to improve its appearance (not the truss part, just the bottom).
John Wallace
RPI Architecture 2014
Pres. RMRRS
yeah, its crazy how much John knows about everything. And you're right, i have only shown a part of the layout, lol. Its crazy how big it is.
its just a shame that the school treats them like crap. The layout room is actually pretty bad... it was cool down there last time, but it still felt like a sauna. Theres even a giant crack down the mountain on part of the Red Rocks area. The school won't get them any dehumidifiers or anything to help keep it under control, and they would have to have like 10 regular home ones going 24/7 to even help, which isn't exactly an ideal situation.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
And heres more.
Fort Ticonderoga:
Million-Dollar Beach in Lake George:
End of Million-Dollar Beach/beginning of marble causeway across Lake Champlain:
causeway trestle:
Turntable gearing close-up:
Inside the control room for the NEB&W, where all the DCC boosters and power stuff is located
and thats it for this installment. I'll be taking more pictures next time I'm up there, and I'll get some better shots of the whole area that I ignored this time, from Proctor to Summit and the whole Saratoga/Rutland Yard/Troy area.
yeah, right!! Everything is handlaid. The turnouts are either completely scratchbuilt or done using the Precision Scale Producs frogs and points. Its code 83 mainline, 70 sidings/yard, 55 spurs (and Addison Branch).
The layout is HO.
Unfortunately, I couldn't run my first train John switched the power on and all the DCC booster things, but everything stayed red; no green lights signaling everything was OK. He said wiring is not his forte, and that he had no idea how to trouble-shoot the thing. Its been way humid, so he figured some gaps closed up (which is weird, considering they make their gaps WIDE to accomodate the crappy layout room conditions they have there; their stuff actually expands and contracts a lot). The weird thing is that the layout has 4 separate power districts, so its weird that every one of them would be shorted out.
more pics coming soon
Dan
AntonioFP45 wrote: It's looking really good, Greg.As always, I have to ask: How were those clouds "done"? Hand painted? Airbrushed? Wallpaper?
It's looking really good, Greg.
As always, I have to ask: How were those clouds "done"? Hand painted? Airbrushed? Wallpaper?
I actually don't know; I'll ask though. I'd imagine they were handpainted, but I really don't know.
And now heres a bunch of pics to make up for the blurry ones I had last time of Red Rocks on the D&H.
Here we have State Line Tunnel in Vermont
And now to wrap things up (while John wasn't looking... hehe)
That'll probably do it for today. I don't know if I'll get time to put the rest up later; this is a little more than half. Theres some areas I didn't photograph last night, but I'll get more of them later. I basically ignored the whole lower-left of the layout, if you're looking at the trackplan (Saratoga, Cohoes, Troy, South Troy, etc).
Hope you enjoy these pictures as much as I enjoyed taking them. It really is a great inspiration walking around this layout; its just freakin' huge! And theres so much track, and so many cars, and so many TREES!
"I like my Pullman Standards & Budds in Stainless Steel flavors, thank you!"
Haha, so last night was my first "club meeting" for the NEB&W. Not really a meeting, seeing as its summer, but John Nehrich and I just kinda hung out and talked about stuff; he gave me some projects to take home and work on. I got a few cars to weather, and he gave me a scrap piece of homasote and a few pieces of weathered ME code 55 rail to practice scratchbuilding turnout frogs with, because the new Addison Branch uses only code 55 and none of the turnouts are actually done yet.
Anyway, the first pictures here are of the under-construction Addison Branch of the Rutland RR.
This picture is of the beginning of the Addison Branch. The track coming towards you crosses a lift-out bridge that is only put in when running the branch.
Now here we have a cool thing: they made a roll-out section of the layout, because they're working on a blast furnace (i think), which isn't yet built, so they made this area able to be rolled out so that they can install it and detail the scene easier. You can see the open area in the picture above.
Aisle view with Burlington/Chateaugay on the right and Port Henry into Vergennes on the left.
The next pictures are at the end of the aisle, where Chateaugay comes around and begins its entrance into Port Henry.
That'll do it for now. Coming up next: Port Henry's crazy ore dock trestles! Didn't want to overload your systems all at once, haha. Plus I need to go eat my super dank Subway Chicken and Bacon Ranch on Italian with provologne sub before work ;)