What do you think your model railroad is lacking???

[Anonymous]

Hi guys! I am still in the process of constructing Phase I of my CSXSD (CSX Southern Division) layout, and i would like to obtain some additional knowledge before i drive the first spike. Please feel free to state your layout's lackings.[8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D][8D]

[darkstar974]

what my model railroad is lacking right now is a layout, it is all boxed up sitting in storage oh well maybe someday it will be up and running.

Dark

[jwmurrayjr]

Staging.

[Anonymous]

I am pretty much still an armchair modeler, and the most exciting development on the "layout" is when the MR comes in the mail. My layout will feature as many as fou phases, each beginning after the last one is up an running. In the future, i hope to post pictures of the layout as it is in progress.

[Anonymous]

Umm...well uhhhh.....benchwork, still in the process of finishing an unfisnished basement area to house it in a semi-clean enviroment.

[AggroJones]

More space for wider curves.

[Eriediamond]

My model railroad is lacking--- well, a railroad!! I have motive power and rolling stock, but still negotiating right of way space and funds from the vice president (wife). [(-D][(-D]

[willy6]

Pieces of green 6" long papers with pictures of Lincoln, Grant, Hamilton and Washington on them.

[Anonymous]

I agree with SteamerFan. My layout will be in a "room" in an unfinished basement. There will hopefully be some sort of drywall or drywall substitute on the walls. I share the future home of Phase III with the furnace, and the future site of Phase II with low ceilings, but i will (eventually) conceal it with black paint or something else. Phase I is basically a free-standing portion, with about a five-foot section on the wall. My layout when completed will span across one wall of the basement (23') and extend in one place out to 14 feet. It is a peninsula-type design. I have spent about 90hrs combined time trackplanning. I will need to work out a few details, but Phase I is almost ready to be built. Check back with me, i will eventually create a post that will have pictures of my progress. Happy trails.

Are you a CSX fan???


P.S. if you can see the CSX logo above, please post a post saying the word "yes". All i see is a large box with a red X in it.

[claycts]

The biggest thing is I never like the plan I just finished. Using CAD to design is GOOD and BAD. Good is you can run the trains before your build BAD is you run the trains and find out what is LACKING. In my case I DO not have a GOOD yard and want a CITYSCAPE with an elevated line. I got it NOW i am lacking a logical traffic flow for the terminal and yard.
PS one day I will stop designing and start building!

[Anonymous]

I'm lacking wider curves, it sometimes makes me cringe to see those autoracks go around an 11" radius. Also I'm actually lacking the rest of my layout because I need to get the plywood bought.

[Javern]

money...got to find a way to increase revenue so I can complete it.

[dragenrider]

Motivation-- for the CEO to get off his hiney and start his expansion instead of staring at all his spare room! [:-^]

[egmurphy]

Space. I'm limited to a 3' x 6'-8" door.

Of course that leads to lacking wider curves, staging, and more space for scenery.


Regards

Ed

[grayfox1119]

Time, my wife has a bottomless pit " honey do" jar list.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by csxguy
...Please feel free to state your layout's lackings...

Until today, that would've been: a climate-controlled layout enclosure. But I finally installed a decent heat pump in my garage, so what I am sorely lacking at the moment is:

QUOTE: Originally posted by willy6
Pieces of green 6" long papers with pictures of Lincoln, Grant, Hamilton and Washington on them...

[jwar]

Need more of Ken Larsens wallpaper, legal right of way to go through my neighbors garage!!! , as I cant drill a hole in the wall to get my main into the next room, the tolet is in the way.

[Anonymous]

Room to run. That will come in the future. A 2 x 8 is all I can do at moment, I know of two layouts where I may run trains I hope to add more later this year.

[Anonymous]

we move to much, so i never get time, but this next move we are staying for good, so i plan on having an complete layout done by winter 2007!!

[CP5415]

Scenery, finished track work, a painted AMD103 for Amtrak usage.

I'll stop there!

Gordon

[simon1966]

Details.......

I am reasonably happy with my plan and the way it runs. I have been scenicing section by section, but feel that the layout is lacking in some way. As I look at pictures of the great layouts, I realize that I need to put more into my scenes to make them look more real.

[fec153]

everything except trains and track.
Flip

[Anonymous]

I am lacking i excuses to delay rebuilding. The Wife even told me to get to it as she is looking forward to helping(gulp). My two daughters are excited that I dissmantled the old layout and put wallboard up in the garage for a larger more finished looking layout.

Not that I have the money for a giant layout but, over the last 17 years I have a fair size collection of N scale stuff.

My old layout lacked staging and a perminet backdrop which made my original layout really stand out. I hate having hidden( dificult to get to ) staging, but I WILL settle on a plan and build it. Period. The family was imressed as to how fast I was working on the garage refinishing as I have to have trains running.

Never have an excuse to keep yourself from having even a small layout to run trains. Be it switching or a loop.

[twhite]

well, two things I can think of right now, towns and staging. I'll probably have the staging problem solved by this Spring or early Summer when I negotiate the other side of the garage for about eight feet, but when I planned the Yuba River Sub, I just didn't incorporate towns into the idea. Really dumb--I mean there has to be SOMETHING for that yard and those spurs to serve, right? As it is now, I have to imagine the towns, so theoretically, when I'm working the Deer Creek Yard, i'm standing right in the middle of Deer Creek (like Godzilla). Also, I'm modeling the northern Sierra Nevada mountains of California, so where's the mining and lumbering industries? Well, they're in my head, right along with those towns, I'm afraid.
But I'm sure having fun running the trains!
Tom [:P][:P][:P]