The rebuilding of my Southern Cali layout after the 'big earthquake.' **Pictures inside**

[Anonymous]

I will provide new pictures to this by tomorrow night. Just today I did a handful of stuff. I am now currently in the development stage of my lift up, drop down, or lift out bridge soon to be built. I have devise thios plan soon so I can run trains the long way.

[Anonymous]

Hello today Crossracer. They say once you go HO you neverr go back. So give it a try. LOL Anyway yea my walls are a dead giveaway of the age of my home and location also. At least I am not in Florida where basements are virtually non exsistant. I am just blessed to have a basement ya know. I can do what I want without the fiance complaining too much because I am out the way. Hey Bill do me a favor too. When there are FT job openings in your city can you please email me so I may apply if I am feeling up to it.? Thanks

[Anonymous]

BIggie, you ahve to dump that tiny stuff and get into a real mans scale, O scale. LOL Even better get into hi rail. Looks good, i saw the walls and thought, has to be north eastern. My walls look the same. I'm afull time firefighter down here in delaware. Keep up the good work Bill

[Anonymous]

I am strickly HO scale. I love HO scale and will always primarily model that scale. But I have been contemplating building a cute 3x5 N scale layout in this computer room just to do. The city is not all citied up yet. I have to do about four to five more structures in it including a movie theater, Toys R' Us and a police station. And at the backdrop I will be putting the structure front buildings to simulate a bigger city

[Anonymous]

Looks great, i like the city. Are u ho or o scale. Keep it up! Ben

[Anonymous]

Good morning Fellas!! I am on my way out to a cool indoor tag sale with toys hopefully trains. Anyway As you guys know I have cut and spread my layout open exactly 33" wider. I spent a couple of hours last night reconstructing that area and I have before and after pictures. I love the cork roadbed I am using, runs so much quieter and smoother. Here are the pics Let me know what you think.

Just before I separated it all. Click onto to the pictures to see them at regular size.


I added this section with the roadbed notice in the mirror but no track yet


Ok so I added the track now and trains run perfect. Also notice that I used chicken wire for the river to be area. Then I covered it with plaster cloth. Two Sd90MAcs running through nicely


A closer image of this area. If you want details on how I did the blocks underneath and everything let me know.


This is the final work achieved last night. The big changes here is that you notice the blue color sky painted below that new section. Well The cool idea I have is my Programming track will go back to this same area but I will Scenic it up to look realistic too. The program track was always located down that area but hard to see what you were doing and all, but not now. I will also ballastthe track too. Well how am I doing so far. You can notice the big changes with the gap between the two backdrops from the first picture to this last one